Ehh Idk how I feel about this drawing particularly but anyways an idea I had was four silver teeth for Illinois to represent the four stars in Chicago's flag and also the four cultures that had power over him (native peoples, french, british, and american in that order); I have some backstory ideas for that kinda stuff too but I'm saving that for another time 馃槆 for now the idea started out cuz I was bored of Florida being the only one with teeth stuff going on
This last episode kind of fueled the latent NY/IL shipper in me.
IL: "Is PA bragging about his parade being first again? Yeah okay. Maybe he should focus on the fact that his is barely the third best in the country.
...New York's is second, by the way."
馃ス馃ス He acknowledged that NY's is second best. I feel like in Illinois terms that's as close to a compliment as they come lmao, while still making the Midwest proud with that passive aggressive spirit.
A quick lil Illinois design concept 馃uhm. Idk i'm surprisingly too lazy to explain my thoughts behind this, it's mostly just a jumble of baseball, mid to late 1900s kinda vibes I get from him, other select things. I have a very particular thing in mind for him but I havent drawn it yet 馃槍 either way I'm content with this redesign!
The fact I was fully prepared to research the biodiversity and climate of each US desert before I re read the question-
The states have definitely had a competition to settle this but it led to a fight.
I can't pick one so I chose the top 5 (from different categories):
鈥ali will make the best healthy, gluten free, organic, sugar-free, vegan donuts but no one will admit it. Florida tried them once and has been actively stealing Cali"s food. Cali caught on and has been proudly making extra for him.
鈥llinois makes the best candy. It started as a hobby in the 1800s but now he's the candy capital of the US. It has also become his stress relief. Guaranteed he's his best at Halloween but if you find candy in his house any other time of the year he's probably having a breakdown.
鈥espite his inability to cook, Florida makes the best comfort food by dumb luck. His signature is a stack of waffles, whatever he stole from Disneyland, and ungodly flavour combinations but everyone agrees it tastes like heaven after a rough day or a murder trial.
鈥tah makes the best baked goods. Usually he'll get his family involved to bake whenever they have company. Sometimes he'll even bake a bit extra for his neighbours.
鈥olorado has the best "baked" goods. Utah ate one by accident and saw God.
Alright alright I got the frustration edition out, so here's the Happiness Thanksgiving Edition featuring California, Colorado, Illinois, and Florida!! :D
Just look at their smiles 馃ス I know California isn't smiling as wide but I just know that deep inside, he's feeling all the happiness when people went to celebrate with him
Can't talk about happy Thanksgivings without the family man, family myth, and family legend: New York! (He ran to Cal's friendsgiving after the parade and his family's Thanksgiving for sure! And he had a smile on his face all day, a rare and happy thing)