(Theodore and Noah already had a pretty close father-son relationship before everything happened. Noah and Melanie were thinking of adopting him along with another child by the name of Lily.)
Giving birth to a zombie is extremely traumatic to your body. The pregnancies are difficult, the birth is violent due to the feral nature of zombies in their natural state, and they receive next to no medical aid. It’s why so many zombies are raised by single fathers, why those who are lucky enough to still have their mom around are usually only children. To survive one pregnancy is rare enough, but a second zombie pregnancy is honestly testing fate at that point.
Zed’s mother died giving birth to Zoey. It’s all she’s ever known, though it’s not as hard on her when most of her zombie friends have similar family dynamics. At least in that way she’s not the odd one out. Zed did know his mom, he’d been old enough to understand what was happening when she started to get sicker and sicker as the pregnancy progressed. He refused to eat or speak for days after his dad had come home from the hospital alone with Zoey in his arms, without the woman who’d raised him, who was so kind and beautiful and genuine.
When Addison told him she was pregnant, he nearly threw up from the sudden, intense fear that surged over him like a tidal wave, threatening to knock him over. The memories came rushing back, memories he tried so hard not to think about. But this time it was Addison instead of his mom. In his nightmares, he watched her body grow skinnier as the zombie baby drained the life from her, stole her nutrients, kicked at her until she couldn’t keep anything down. He’d heard horror stories from others with similar experiences as his own, other zombies who were old enough to remember the loss of their mother.
He had never spoken to Addison about his mom before, but he couldn’t exactly keep it from her when she looked at him with such worry in her eyes, like she thought he was upset with her rather than angry at the world for making such unfair situations. So he opened up, cried into her arms as he described his feelings in detail that he’d never told anyone, not even his dad, not even Eliza.
“I won’t leave you,” Addison promised, “I’ll fight even if it seems impossible. I told you that someday we would have our happily ever after and no one can take that from us.”
ALRIGHT, FINALLY FINISHED COLOURING THE HOTEL DRAWING!!
"Dont u loove pasig ou"
Anyways... here's a scene from the Turn the Lights Off ARG last night from @/clicks-bargain-bin, the account of which is run by @voidshrub !! Go give them and the runner of the ARG, @/turntableart, a follow!!
Here's the original sketch, as well ^-^ I had fun drawing this at midnight, lol.
ive already shown this to anyone who actually cares pretty much loll (anyone following the addison arg) but i might as well post it on here
this is actually the first proper animation ive done :'D like other than this ive animated a ball bouncing but that was more to test the software than anything,, lucky for me i consume animation memes more than i consume water so i know the basics B)
these flags could also be used to describe a system, or alter. traumagenic use only!
these are our personal subsystem flags but we wanted to share incase someone else would like to use them too!
sacrificial doll subsystem — a subsystem that would explain themselves as both dolls and the sacrificial lambs .
this subsystem could hold trauma towards cocsa/csa, religion, and being parentified / neglected.
killer sweetheart subsystem — a subsystem that would explain themselves as both killers and sweethearts . this subsystem could also relate to / like the yandere trope .
this subsystem could hold bpd symptom holders, anger holders, and trauma relating to being love bombed, degraded, physical abused or gaslighting.
dead girl graveyeard subsystem— a subsystem that would explain themselves as being dead, girl adjacent, feeling like a corpse or similar feelings . this subsystem may have a majority of nonhuman alters.
this subsystem could have trauma about being overwhelmed, near death experiences, murder, death, suicide, medical abuse / trauma, etc.
autumn twins subsystem— a twin subsystem (of two alters) that would are intricately connected and bound, may or may not always front together. these alters may be attached at the hip in innerworld *if applicable*
this subsystem may explain themselves as being autumnal, may feel a connection to (or be fictives of) dipper and mabel pines .
this subsystem could have trauma about childhood dysphoira / gender dysphoriarelatinf to being genderfluid, being forgotten / abandoned / ignored, being traumabonded with someone.
Shout out to Spinning Silver/Uprooted/The Goblin Emperor/A Memory Called Empire I feel like I spent several years reading lots of books and enjoying them sure but not finding any new best beloved books and now I am replete
one of those once you see it you can't unsee it questions about the cemeteries of amalo books: where is the orchestra? we get the the singers, costume department, office clerks, sets and stage hands, ticket staff, but I can't recall a single musical instrument. are all these operas sung a capella??
Hey y’all! Can you please send me pictures of your favorite animals?
I am stressing out about all -ologists I’ll be going to over the next few months and could really use a distraction. On the one hand, I am grateful I can see these doctors, and that my new PCP is taking my health issues seriously and referring me to specialists. On the other, I have been caught in a never ending merry go round of specialists for more than a decade. I am tired. I never get answers, they always just take money and refer me to a new specialist in a loop, and the latest loop has led to the discovery that I am allergic to neurologists.
So...please send me pictures of your favorite animals (for plushie inspiration, and also just because animals are adorable)
Hii! I just wanted to say ur art and oc designs r so lovely and diverse!!! Do u have any master posts or posts u would recommend to take a look at to get to know ur characters more?
Thank you so much, what a nice ask!!
I started to gather a bunch of links to posts for you, but good god there’s so many. I’ve left what I did put together below, but my best advice is to click on a character’s tag and have a scroll about~
You do bring up a good point though, I need to do some like, intro cards for all these guys (how did I end up with so many guys)
Addison Junwei and City both emerged from this sci fi comic series I never finished. They’ve changed a fair bit since then, but it’s fun to see the origins.
Junwei and Addison are best introduced here
This is City’s intro post~
And that one time I made him a succubus
Here’s Farisha and Edith’s first appearance together
And that time they were retired bounty hunters
And them being sweet
This is the best intro I can give for Cai
Beltran has a whole character sheet here
Then there was that time Cai and Beltran went to an ice planet
Side note, why did I go so hard on the world building for the ice planet??
classmate said he liked mcr a lot and i asked his favorite album and he said black parade and internally i was like okay fair it fucks and i said cool! mine is three cheers :) and he looked at me like :)? and this isn't a gripe about how he's not a real fan i respect his love for black parade but please one irl that understands i never told you what i do for a living. please