Solar Lunacy (or really any) Freddy Patch tutorial!
Two ways I feel work are Hot glue and sewing.
First things first: youll want one or two printed coppies of the freddy head template. I covered mine in tape.
For black, cut out the freddy head and bow tie as a whole piece and cut it from a sheet of black felt. Then cut out the individual pieces by colour.
White: eye whites, eye shines, teeth
Cream: muzzle, jaw left, jaw right, inner ear left, inner ear right
Orange brown: (I had to dye my orange to the correct colour) cheek left, cheek right, head top, ear left, ear right
Red: cheek left, sheek right, brow, earring
Blue: chin, brow, hat band
dark red: tongue
Purple: irises
Optional: black: nose, pupils, eyebrows
If you have a cleaner cut job, yours will look better but hot glue those pieces on there. I recommend glueing or sewing in this order
Blue brow arch
Red brow arch
Muzzle
Tongue
Teeth
Chin
Eyes
Cheeks
Head
Ears
Hat
After sewing or glueing everything on, add in details like freckles and the line in the tongue. I decided to not do those because I already decided to redo the whole thing by hand sewing at a later date but anyway
After that either attach it to your jacket permanently or safety pin it from the inside. I added little loops for the safety pins to go through because I had them.
You can also see that I added in some light purple lines to the eyes. Sewing through glue is stupid so dont be like me and do this before hand if thats something you want
If I were to sew this (which I will probably be doing), id cover my thread ends with something like fabric glue to keep them from coming undone if it were to be removable otherwise id just sew it to the jacket.
If you intend for this to be a permanent fixture on your jacket, glue or sew that puppy -er- bear? On there securely. I mean add some stitches and glue to the center to keep it secure and everything
Or use peel and stick felt, im not your dad.
Happy crafting DCA simps and thanks @bamsara for the great fic and character designs
Ill try and post the jacket process later ✌️
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Not What You Think
"We saw you talking to Empress Caiatl?" This One said, flashing his crucible counter shell.
"Didn't she order your Guardian to shoot you?" Harmony pressed. Her triangular shell wore the House of Meyrin colors badly.
Sunny hardly got to settle into her nook before her friends accosted her, but she patiently pushed her way in. "She did. But I didn't know that the first time I talked to her, and she told me upfront both that she did it, and that she didn't know what she was doing when she did it."
This One's eye flickered as Harmony bounced and flashed her petals. "That doesn't matter! She shouldn't tell anyone to shoot anyone in the back!"
"First, she didn't know I was "anyone". At best, she thought I was a thing. Second, it was the only way anyone could see to stop the link. Even Freija didn't see an alternative. Third, she was sorry as soon as she realized I was a person. She even said the word "destroy" instead of 'kill', she really thought I was just a conduit."
"We are conduits," argued Harmony, "and that shouldn't matter!"
"One Guardian's Light for the entire solar system makes perfect sense when you're not the one holding the gun at your own Ghost," This One replied. "From her end, it makes sense. From ours..."
Sunny bobbed shortly in agreement. "Pretty much. So she told me, and then she said that she thought Guardians were all using us, and that we knew that, but I acted betrayed. So I offered to talk to her, let her ask questions about us, and after a while, Zwe made friends."
Harmony and This One both froze at her and she rolled her petals impatiently. "We share a sense of humor and she likes having someone to just chat with, I like explaining stuff and she likes the information. It's not even weird!"
"She did order your Guardian to shoot you in the back, though," repeated This One.
Sunny rolled her petals faster. "She's said sorry. And I mean a real apology, a, 'here's what I did wrong and here's what I should have done and I'm sorry' sorry, to both me and Freija. She didn't know and she learned. Now she knows. It's okay. Plus I've had fun answering the questions."
"What's she asked?" Harmony inquired.
"Oh, things like... Were we all made at the same time, do we feel pain or feel our Guardians' pain. Where do names come from, what's up with the dancing, fireteam composition. I tried to explain the classes but I think Freija did a better job of giving her an idea what it really means to the--'
"You let your Guardian talk casually with Empress Caiatl?" This One interjected. "I was with you until now."
"The questions started as more like interviews, and she extended that to Freija because she was trying to figure out what the connection between Guardian and Ghost was."
"... What?"
This One and Harmony looked between each other and Harmony twisted in a negative. "Like.... How are a Guardian and a Ghost a Guardian and a Ghost?" asked Harmony.
"Pretty much," Sunny confirmed, wheeling slowly. "It started with my offer, but the first thing she wanted to know was why Freija let the world end before killing me."
"Because she's your Guardian?" said Harmony before she said, "Ohh. Okay. She didn't know that they love us?"
"It's not just love," Sunny said, wondering what the other two would say.
"Huh?" Harmony wheeled but This One tick-tocked thoughtfully.
"That's not the only reason," Sunny insisted. "It's not just love."
"What, that stopped your Guardian?" Harmony wheeled again. "What do you mean?"
"I mean that Freija, when she told Empress Caiatl about it, talked about a whole other dimension to the connection that isn't love." Sunny's petals rocked as she watched her friends take it in.
This One seemed comfortable with the notion. "Makes sense. The thing that calls us to them before we meet them isn't really love."
"What?" demanded Harmony.
"I think it is, too," Sunny told her. "Freija said she didn't love me until she had been Risen a few months, around Dawning."
"Marco wouldn't admit he loved me under threat of torture," This One snorted. "He does, but he'd only admit it once I died."
"Kelly and I love each other," Harmony stated simply.
"Freija and I love each other, Freija's even louder about it than I am, but it still had to grow, she said, even if we were bonded from her first Rising. Oh! Caiatl asked her what her first memory was! Apparently it took a few seconds for her awareness to kick in."
"You're not gonna distract us, now. What did Freija say it was?" insisted Harmony. "If it's not love?"
Sunny drooped in the air and sighed. "She gets... Poetic when she's passionate, so don't mind the ideas too strictly, but she said it's Life itself. She also says that part of herself is me, and a bunch of other stuff. I think she mixes me up with her Light."
"We're conduits," repeated Harmony. "She's not wrong about that, but I never heard anyone call it so close before."
"Freija's weird," Sunny mumbled. "Caiatl likes it, but I take it too literally so it's strange to me."
"I feel like Marco's life," said This One. "Like a little portable storage unit for it, where it goes when it's not in him."
"I considered it memories," Harmony replied. "But I guess a life could be said to be memories. I don't know, I never felt so much part of Kelly like that as I did a partner. I've heard the whole, two parts of one, but I don't believe it."
"We're individuals with a symbiotic relationship," This One said. "A necessarily complementary pair. Not in for the whole, Destined One Guardian stuff, but we're Conduits for our Lightbearer, who is dead without us to feed the spark."
"I don't believe that, either," Harmony continued. "Conduits, yes. Part of a whole? Only in that we were once the Traveler. Supposedly."
"I didn't think so, but Caiatl pointed it out for us without having heard the theory," Sunny grumbled. "I told Rex. He was very proud of himself."
"Ugh," sighed Harmony. "He's just fixated because him and his are messed up."
"A little," agreed Sunny. "They're doing better with strand, but poor Thomas still wishes he was a Titan."
"That poor guy," Harmony murmured as This One snickered. "It's not funny."
"Only because of how it's going. I can't help it being funny that a Warlock wants to be a Titan. You'd think it was funny if a Titan wanted to be a Warlock."
"I wouldn't," Harmony snipped. "It's pitiful!"
This One spun to look skyward. "Anyway-- we're off topic. You made friends with Empress Caiatl?"
"Yes," huffed Sunny. "But I wanted to know more about what you guys thought of the connection between Guardian and Ghost. If it's not love, what is it?"
This One tick-tocked, then wheeled. "No idea. But I've seen too many cases where it wasn't love to say it is."
"Freija said that, too!" cried Sunny. "You think they really don't love their Guardians?"
This One wagged. "I didn't say that. But I know there's Guardians that don't love their Ghosts. And I'm still pretty sure that none of them could kill theirs either."
The three looked between each other and Sunny wheeled awkwardly. "What's the weirdest question she's asked?" asked This One.
"Ohh... Let's see.... Lots of questions about the classes, but my favorite bit was when I told her about Warlocks, she asked if Eris was one."
Harmony snickered. "What did you say?"
"Oh, I described the normal bookish and scholarly, then I added the habit of the real strong ones to warp reality and bend time and undo themselves and the like," Sunny hummed, wondering if Harmony was going to take offense.
"That's fair, I even know who you're talking about," sighed Harmony. "In each case. As long as you made it clear that they're outliers."
"Yes. I made sure that she understood the typical Warlock is an able Light-user with an innate need to plan ahead at least a little. She knows Titans and likes them in general. Crow didn't do Hunters any favors."
This One snickered and Harmony slapped him with a flap. "That event killed a decent person," she snipped. "It's not funny."
This One rolled his flaps and sidled away from Harmony. "Anyway. How's Kelly?"
"Kelly has been looking for more hidden records in Neomuna," Harmony said. "The whole thing with the conductor and the chorus and plugging everyone into the same network, with the Veil guiding them... It's been bugging us that the parallels with the Vex are so strong, the way they work. And the Witness did the same thing, shed its individuals to become a single united Thing, as guided by the Darkness. I'm wondering if the Veil isn't doing it on purpose."
"Huh?"
"It's complicated. You should hear Kelly when she gets going. I'm worried she's going to come up with something terrifying and clever and get us killed."
"What's the theory?" Sunny pressed.
"The Veil is just as conscious and alive as the Traveler, to begin with," Harmony said. "It speaks in the whispers the Guardians hear, in those weird cold feelings in our cores. Kelly isn't sure when it got here, but it's been on the move almost as long as the Traveler was. With two civilizations touched by the Traveler becoming a united person composed of the many, and the Veil leading one of them straight to it, she suspects that the Vex are what remains of a people that also knew the Traveler. With that presumption, it's possible that the Traveler has been trying to rebuild a Veil to substitute for that one."
This One and Sunny flickered at Harmony, hovering silent and still in the nook.
"See, and I thought Freija was strange because she's hyperbolic," Sunny mumbled.
"Why can't they unite?" asked This One. "Why make a copy?"
"I don't know, all that's Kelly's theory. If you asked me, looking at the information she's presenting, I say the Traveler builds peoples to a point they can copy the Veil and unite like that, and the Witness has been in the way for at least two."
"The Eliksni and the Krill," agreed This One. "We'll see. I'm not eager to find out." He turned to look over the empty nighttime courtyard of the Tower.
"It'll be okay," Harmony offered.
Sunny's silence hung heavy, and This One turned to look at her, easing his flaps. "It's not your fault."
"It feels like my fault," she murmured. "And it feels like Freija's fault."
Harmony stretched uncomfortably. "Look, that trap was well-laid. They knew whoever got down there would beat Calus, they knew the Ghost would be vulnerable."
"Oh, you think Calus was played up to die?" This One asked.
"He's hardly even dead, his consciousness is probably still in the Egragore," Sunny grumbled. "I just... Ugh. I don't know. We've been okay. She's been better. I'm okay."
"If it wasn't you, it would have been someone else," This One said. "Been managing power supply to that building for ages. Someone would have been taken over by now."
Sunny wheeled anxiously and rolled. "I know. It's okay. I just feel like crap, I'll get through it. I'm going to go check on Freija."
Sunny dematted hastily, leaving This One looking over the courtyard and Harmony looking at his back.
This One turned back to Harmony, making sure he kept far enough back to dodge a lunge. "That is kinda creepy, the Neomuni and the Vex Network parallels. Marco won't be interested, but I'd like a lesson anyway."
Harmony bobbed and spun. "I'll transfer the data and we can go over it together."
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