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Don't leave your belongings unattended ☝️

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Marie: "Captain, why don’t you spend more time with the crew?"

Hawkins: "We’re not friends for it to be a necessity. Well...with most of them, anyway. I consider it my duty to give them a break from my presence."

Marie: "Don’t you ever get curious?"

Hawkins: "I enjoy silence, Marie. Sometimes I prefer being alone."

Marie: "O-oh, I see…"

Hawkins after a pause: "Besides, they sing weird songs when they’re drunk. I honestly have no idea how I’m supposed to react to that."

Marie: "You don’t have to! Just join in and sing with them!"

Hawkins gives her a sharp glance, then looks away: "Absolutely not."

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Meanwhile, the songs he's talking about:

° 📼 video from: Carter Vail (YouTube)

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So! Imagine Hawkins as a mysterious librarian who knows all secrets and gossips. She appears silently behind you and vanishes just as quickly. And if you break the library rules? It’s best not to find out what might happen next...

° 📼 inspiration video from: College Life (YouTube)

let’s all pretend no one noticed the absence of number 5. It’ll come out later, thank you 🤧

° 6/12 ❤️

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Garland

° little gift for you: @nozomimi01

° my name is

Marie: "It's becoming increasingly obvious. I can deny it no longer... I am small."

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° 3/12 ❤️

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Gift

° for you: @armiliadawn

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° Number 2 wasn't taken either, so here’s the joy of my heart – little Basil and Marie

And a gentle reminder: if anyone wants to participate, slots 11 and 12 are still open. Info is in the pinned post 👉👈

2/12

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Snowman cat

° Alright, here we go!

Since some Advent Calendar slots were left unfilled, I went ahead and filled them in myself 😌💕

1/12

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Mistletoe

° little gift for you: @auryborealis

° a matter of perspective

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Marie, with genuine enthusiasm, places a newspaper in front of Hawkins: "Captain, I’ve found something to keep me busy for the next couple of days while we’re resting on this island! A nanny job!"

Basil, slowly frowning, picks up the newspaper and starts reading: "It says here… a giant drake is looking for a nanny for the weekend to take care of his ducklings? Is this a joke?"

Marie: "What’s so strange about it? Ducks are parents too! And his ducklings are still so tiny."

Basil: "And why are you telling me this?"

Marie: "Because you’re going to help me. You can transform into a straw creature. You’d make a perfect nest..."

Basil: "Stop, no. Don’t even try to continue this thought."

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° Reels from: ryanwalter86 (Instagram)

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° silly sketches time 🤧

Bella: Captain, it seems like our experimental potion isn’t quite working right on Faust.

Basil: What do you mean?

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Meanwhile Faust:

° 📼 video from: Ho salt (YouTube)

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Basil: So…when exactly will he get back to normal?

Bella: Oh, in about…fifteen minutes…hours…maybe a few days?

Basil: /sighs wearily/

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Bella and Donna (original characters) are ship’s doctors and herbalists in Hawkins’s crew. Some kind of "witchy duo." They specialize in potions, brews, and other curative concoctions.

So sometimes the results of their experiments with new concoctions can be a bit unpredictable - not overly so, but still enough to keep things interesting.

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° for you: @imveryyellow

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° question

I absolutely love creating small artworks on characters' everyday/routine situations. But I come up with so many ideas that I'm not sure I'll be able to bring them all to life - especially since my inspiration constantly jumps from one idea to the next 🤧

So, I thought: why not share some of these concepts in a script format? These are the ones I might not have time to develop in detail, but I still really want to share. I might add a small sketch, but the main idea would be in text form 🤔

Maybe someday I'll come back to these and create something more detailed when inspiration strikes. What do you think?

"Goddess on the mountain top

Burning like a silver flame

The summit of beauty and love"

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° second character belongs to the user with this nickname: -<{M.C.Nowell!}>-

aminoID: one-piece

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Thinking about this thing

I have to add: that the male version of Marie would absolutely have a thing for tall and strong women

0% judgment

100% understanding

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° for you: @cherrybombgigi

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Aisling: I thought you knew how to climb trees.

Brendan: I do. Smaller ones.

Aisling: Yeah. Like bushes.

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I'm always intrigued by thinking about the potential dynamic between Marie and Basil in their childhood.

And when I think about it, they somewhat remind me of Aisling and Brendan from The Secret of Kells.

A young version of Marie would be restless, brave, and always pulling the quiet and slightly reclusive Basil into new adventures without hesitation.

However, the irony of fate is that, over time, under the pressure of her family, Marie's bright spirit was broken, and her former courage turned into shyness and insecurity, while Basil, on the other hand, grew into a confident and composed leader.

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° video from 📼 : Samuel Dennis III (YouTube)

° "movie" night (part 1)

Your guesses

What will happen next?

Interesting fact about Marie: One of her hobbies is embroidery. Although it didn’t become her true passion, it is deeply rooted in her family’s culture. Given Marie's background and medieval-like structure of her home island, embroidery was a part of the education of girls from aristocratic families.

Even though it became more of a routine habit for her, embroidery still gives her a sense of calm.

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"This is an ancient shell that my mother gave me a long time ago.

Hold it to your ear and listen carefully... You will hear the song of the sea."

° for you: @frillsinadress 🐚

As soon as I read that your character had a seal zoan, I imagined her as selkie, inspired by Song of the Sea 🤧

° 📼 video from: Carnaby (YouTube)

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for you: @loganwritesprobably

Thank you so much for the opportunity to work with your character 👉👈💕

I planned to finish this series of experimental artworks by September, and I'm really happy with the result!

If you're interested, you can find more details about each piece in separate posts. For now, here’s the whole series together!

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I haven't posted this here yet??

Time to fix that!

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I present to you - Wanderer Jack and his companion, the backpack-magpie Esther (she's literally a backpack with Devil Fruit's powers)

+ a few facts

🍀° Jack says of himself that he is not a pirate, not an adventurer, not a bounty hunter. Just simply a stranger who travels from island to island.

🍀° He is willing to listen to people's problems 24/7 to help everyone around him feel better (even if you've only known him for a few minutes). However, he never talks about himself. People think of him as a harmless and friendly weirdo.

🍀° He can be annoying with his endless calmness in situations of any degree.

🍀° Distinguishing features: burn marks on his hands, tattoo on his chest.