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palettepainter · 10 months

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💀 with Terri and/or Mick for the OC questions

(Since you didn't specify what question you wanted answered about them Imma give a quick answer to all)

How did you come up with the OC’s name?-

They just came to me and I thought "yeah, those are good names!

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range) -

Since we don't have a cannon age for Floyd I don't know what ages Mick and Terri would

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

Each other

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

Mick loves dirty fries and Terri is a fan of chicken curry

💼 - What do they do for a living?

I imagine the two are probably retired. Mick used to be in a motorbike club, now we works repairs/restores on motorbikes of all kinds.

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

Mick likes restoring motorbikes and Terri enjoys guitar, she used to play it a lot in her younger years

🎯 -What do they do best?

Mick is naturally good with motorbikes, both fixing and riding them. He and his old biker friends used to get into a lot of exciting adventures when they began travelling, Mick is very good at retelling these tales in exaggerated detail to excited kids

Terri is good at keeping a logical head in the face of chaos, she's very calm under pressure and is good at organising. She's also gotten good at preparing drinks, practise from when she worked in a bar years ago. Her talents on the guitar aren't half bad either but she's not as good as Floyd

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

Mick loves biking, looking at vintage cars and football. He's not fond of crumbed fish, iced tea or cats

Terri loves guitar, cooking different curries, and whales. She's not fond of heights, Mick driving recklessly on his bike (especially when they where younger) or lightning

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

Mick has loads from when he travelled with his biker friends, they got into a lot of fun schenanigans, especially when they where drunk. One of his fondest is probably the day he got Terri to ride with his on his motorbike for the first time (younger Terri was terrified of falling off)

Terri's fondest are from when her and Mick had Floyd and began to learn how to be a family. Floyd was a total surprise to them and Terri was very unprepared and scared, but the whole experience made her fall in love with Mick all over again

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

I can't really go into too much detail with this one and it spoils something in a future story titled Fever (follows the events of Terri and Mick meeting baby Animal sometime after the events of episode 3 of Muppets Mayhem)

However one memory that Terri also hates is when Mick fell off his motorbike and got badly hurt, the two had been dating for a short while and Mick ended up breaking his leg

🧊 - Is their current design the first one?

I don't think I have the design anymore in my files but Mick originally didn't have long hair, his hair was slicked back, sorta like Danny from the Grease movie

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

For Terri she was inspired by Trixie from Bluey (who I also imagine her sounding like)

For Mick he was inspired by Dundee from Crocodile Dundee and Kenickie from Grease

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

Not sure how to answer this one so leaving it blank

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

Mick is a male but he would be Bisexual, he'd have deffed messed around with some of his biker friends back in the day as well as a couple of other girls he met on the road before settling down with Terri

Terri is a female and I imagine her as straight, she didn't really know that much about LGBTQ+ stuff till Floyd told her about it when he and Teeth dated in their young adult years. Terri still gets confused on some things but she's a supporter

🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?

Mick and Terri are only children

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

Mick has a good bond with them, but he also has a found family sort of bond with his biker friends

Terri I can't go into too much because it'll count as spoilers for a future story

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

Their dynamic in general, I spent ages chatting with my pal on Discord fleshing out their relationship before I started work on The Red Critter. They feel like they have one of the more grounded, stable relationships despite how they sometimes bicker

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?

Currently a lot, I've got a new story in the works called Fever so been writing up a lot of what-if dialogue to potentially use in the story

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

Nope

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

For some reason cats hates Mick so he's pretty terrified of them whenever he sees one peacefully walking along the street. Terri is harder to shake but lightning can make her flinch

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

Mick has none, he's naturally a very relaxed person, at best he'll just get annoyed with someone and then be over it after a few days

Terri cannont stand Tina (they eventually come to neutral terms and become some-what pals later down the line)

🎓 - How long have you had the OC?

Not that long, I made Terri and Mick for The Red Critter story which is still fairly new

🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC?

Current age

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lighthausen · 1 year

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rewatched the 1970s Scrooge with Albert Finney! thoughts (and also thoughts in relation to the new netflix adaptation)

oh my goodness can't believe all the fantastic songs I had forgotten about

AND I HADN'T MENTIONED "I HATE PEOPLE" , THE BEST SONG!!!!!

really really love the ending of this one. so joyful. so well-choreographed. the scene where he buys all the toys, oh the way he gives those gifts to the Cratchits. The fact he met up with his Nephew and Niece and arranged to go over to theirs for Christmas dinner later. Everyone's bewilderment and delight. The kids pulling him on the sleigh. it's just so happy. love it.

Like yeah I'm with the popular opinion that the Muppets did it the best, but this ending hits different. Probably my favorite ending sequence of any Christmas Carol films I've seen.

Netflix Bob Cratchit lacked this Bob Cratchit's charisma

But also.... so that's why they designed the kids and Bob Cratchit that way. Bob's face shape. The ginger older daughter and blonde Tiny Tim. Huh. Neat? Yeah, sure, it is neat.

Scrooge crying over the past and forming a genuine connection with the present then feeling ready to meet the future... that's the way he's got to be in order for his turn to be convincing. Netflix film kinda stumbled with that one.

The Fezziwigs are so funny. I like how Scrooge kept looking at them during the Happiness sequence.

oh man imagine if they had a hell scene in the animated version.

forgot that the present wasn't wearing a shirt underneath the robe in this. Even more support for the Netflix present design. He didn't have his tits out like the original but he did have that amazing mascara, and the way his robe swished and revealed some leg in a couple of shots? good continuation of that energy

I am being hyperbolic when describing these. If you don't look too hard you could probably miss seeing how his chest was revealed in the original. And all the leg that's shown in the new one is below the knees (but oh, the time period!). I am not exaggerating the mascara though. It's incredible.

also the depiction of the future. Forgot that she was like that in this version too. Not as extreme, but still.

Netflix version went absolutely the fuck off with Marley's design, I still maintain that. I might even say that the Netflix version had a better Marley. The limitations for advanced editing and effects in the 70s did not do the original any favors. He looked a wee bit goofy and I'm not certain that's the vibe they were going for. Perhaps he was scarier back in the day.

THE MINISTER'S CAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

ohhh the reprises, the reprises and lietmotifs, it felt like something from the Christmas Children song in the beginning kept getting repeated, but I can't quite put my finger on it. But yesssss, back to applauding the ending sequence, having those songs come back is the best!!!!

Finney's performance is so good.

I like how this cuts in and out of his dream in this version too. Makes it more ambiguous. And while scenes of the Present dying can be cool in a lot of these films, it was nice not to see him go that way!

that's about it I think .

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