Cruz Ramirez - backstory HC
•It had always been her dream to race. Even when she was little she watched Piston Cup races on TV and it was fascinating to her.
•Cruz always wanted to be like the King or Lightning McQueen. But it wasn't easy. She lived in a patchwork family. Her mom had married someone years after Cruz's own father had died.
•Her father had always been supportive. She was Daddy's little girl and always watched races with him. For her, there was nothing better than sitting on the couch with her father at the weekend watching Piston Cup and eating popcorn. It was their little ritual and she often longed for that time.
•Her father believed in her and kept her dream alive. They went karting together and to real races, and the tie-breaker race was the best thing she had ever seen. It was so exciting and she always cheered for Lightning. When Lightning gave up his victory, she started to love the sport even more. It was about more than just winning. Passion and enthusiasm were always there. And when the Fabulous Hudson Hornet became the new crew chief, she could hardly believe it. She always admired him and wondered what happened back then.
•To become a racing driver she needed courage. Cruz had courage, but her courage began to dwindle when her father died.
•She loved her mom - a great woman, but not as supportive as her father at all. And getting used to a new family made everything even more difficult. Her stepfather didn't think much of girls doing 'boy things'. Even though Cruz didn't think it was just for boys.
•Cruz knew from the start that her mother didn't love her new husband. Even though her mom was good at hiding. She did her best and did everything for her daughter. But it wasn't important to Cruz to have a big house and a big room with enough money. That was what the new guy could offer and also the reason why Mom remarried - her job, which she spent all day doing, was sometimes not enough to get the bare necessities.
•But Cruz would rather go hungry to bed than live in a house with Ray Reverham and Jackson Reverham. Her stepbrother Jackson, also known as Jackson Storm was like his father - arrogant and conceited. And that's when Cruz started to always try to see the good in people because it was important that she wouldn't go down herself.
•Ray didn't want Cruz to go karting. Instead, he sent and encouraged his own boy in the sport, and who would have thought that he wasn't that bad?
•Cruz had been one of the best but she listened to Ray. The last thing she wanted was trouble with him because her mother had done so much for her.
•Jackson was like a plague but after a while, Cruz got used to it a bit.
•After she had to give up her old hobby, she looked for a new one. Her father's old camera came in handy. She started to be interested in filming and photography and soon started a blog on the Internet. She just filmed whatever came to mind. Mostly it was nature.
•Jackson got into the bigger leagues and Cruz started filming his races or him in general for fun. It got on Jackson's nerves and that was one more reason not to stop.
•In contrast to Jackson, Cruz made sure to be fit and eat healthily. Ray noticed that it would be a good idea for Jackson, so she became his personal trainer. After all the trouble her mom had put in, who was she to say no to it? It was the least she could do to avoid causing stress in the family.
•She was quicker to learn than Jackson, who apparently only raced for fame. Cruz had a passion, which made it easier for her to remember more knowledge. She was able to teach her half-brother, who was two years older bunch of stuff about racing.
•Her blog became more well-known and Jackson was soon popular - mainly because of his looks. Nobody knew what he was really like behind the camera.
•Nobody would ever find out, but Cruz secretly cheered for McQueen and not for Jackson at every race. She had hidden McQueen's merchandise in her closet a long time ago.
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Monster Kidz Oekaki is live!
happy anniversary everyone!! I've launched an Undertale/Deltarune oekaki.
if you're an artist who's been active online from the early 2000s to 2013, you might already know what that means. if you don't, an oekaki is an imageboard where the images are drawn in a browser-based drawing applet, so every artist has the same tools at their disposal. oekaki boards used to be a popular hangout for fan artists-- see Suta-Raito Oekaki, Bulbagarden's Bulbakaki, and PinkPT's oekaki for some examples. these sites quickly dwindled with the rise of social media and the death of Java applets, and were pretty much irrelevant by 2015.
when I found out PaintBBS, one of the classic oekaki applets, had been converted to HTML5, I started wondering if I could give a little taste of the "classic fandom experience" to UTDR fans... so I set out to figure out a way to get working versions of all the old drawing applets running on a Wacintaki board.
please give it a try! you can get a feel for all the different drawing applets to see what you like, create and view replays of drawings, and even collaborate with other artists (either by giving a specific person access to a drawing, or by marking artwork "public" to allow anyone to make their own retouched versions)
if you have any questions about anything, let me know :]
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Oh hey, links :›
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Commission Sheet : kurbiicommissions.carrd.co
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