April is Princess! i still frequently call her Princess. its just as much her name as April is. theyre simultaneously authentic and in a way still "as fucked up as possible." not mutually exclusive! i could use many words to explain why i want to see a bloated fat-titted drooling puppy get thoughtlessly railed by her outwardly well-intentioned dad who is actually just as maddeningly sadistic as herself. thinks man.. yea i would consider princess a sadist, i think, more sadistic towards herself than an enjoyere of pain... (masochist) being hurt kind of is an escapism for her. she basically wants to be perfect all the time and if she isnt she needs the intensity of punishment. she purposefully pull rubens string... they play games...flirty..
WELL! that got a bit away from me, mostly because i want to keep talking about my oc's. thank you, anon

uhm ... opens my steam account
lol! mason and sophie love playing games together, and mason is the one who got sophie into a lot of her interests. i can easily imagine them getting really competitive over 2 player fighting, racing or survival games on some old consoles in masons bedroom. on the computer i imagine sophie also liking to Watch mason play games, as a lot of games would actually be too difficult for sophie to play easily. i can imagine sophie really liking to listen to mason play his own games.

darcy-- "This is such a cute ask! Yeah, video games is def one of the biggest ways they bond.. I like to imagine them cooler than myself and Mikey and therefore play more games than us, haha. Sophie loves games like Webkinz, Monkey Quest, Neopets, Minecraft, Chuzzle, Insaniquarium, Plants VS Zombies, coolmathgames stuff .. Silly and cute kids games! She does also have a large part influenced by Mason though, and enjoys literally everything she likes XD. She also has odd random tastes though- really enjoys indie games or random stuff she finds on the internet that people have made on a whim. Also random porn games she'll very shyly watch by herself on YouTube, haha (honey-pop type stuff). As she gets older she definitely refines her tastes.. Likes puzzle games, visual novels, rogue-likes.. There are too many to list! They are gamers."
Darc has asked me to list games that mason likes. mason would like games like minecraft, doom, resident evil, the last of us, spore, binding of isaac, gmod. would also enjoye indie games, rpgmaker games (think earthbound, undertale) she would probably really like pokemon too now, that i thinks on it. these are to mostly give you an idea of their in-universe equivalent interests, eveything would be uncopyrighted mcfakegame

this is not an ask about my oc's, but i'll play along.
there could be a lot of reasons for this, and a lot of it could be chalked up to the effect that doing commission work since i was 17 would naturally erode away my drive and creativity, and i combat that by keeping my art as personalized to myself as possible, sometimes at the expense of technicality and trying to appease general eyes. if someone commissions me, that pic is for them, and i want them to be as happy with it as possible. if i draw something for myself, then im the only person that drawing is aimed towards. this of course is horrible for algorithm and growth, especially for somewhere like twitter, but i also try not to extend myself far beyond my current "sphere" and prefer to be discovered by likeminded artists and supporters with similar interests as me.

digital pics of mine that were more popular from 2020-2022 were capable of being technically impressive and detail oriented in a way that i can no longer emulate, but the point of a lot of what i drew was usually at mine and others expense, and were fleeting grabs at trends and shock-material that pulled a fleeting parasocial audience. i would draw something as grotesque as possible, slap-on some current buzzword or a popular character in porn, and call it a day. there's also a chance that you have no idea what "era" i am talking about, because ive been drawing since i was fucking born.

im not proud of where i am technically either, but im much closer to where i want to be than before, and i feel i finally have a ground to work off of, that nothing but shitty indulgent sketches and overambitious collaborations with my sister could do the heavy-lifting for. im trying to protect something, i guess. for better or for worse.

darcy-- "April was born between Ruben (fox dad) and who used to be her mom (a pitbull-brown lab mix). Ruben and her mom got divorced due to parenting differences and general emotional disconnect from each other, frequent fights, ect., after which he was able to be a lot closer to April and quickly realized he was in love with her! When she was 5 he got her pregnant, and she gave birth to Olivia, (back then- "Ollie") a silver fox, when she was 6. Ruben, of course, fell in love with Olivia literally right away.. hehe"
april is rubens princess. see demands constant attention from him and he gives it extremely enthusiastically. he could be viewed almost as a butler to her if it weren't that he was also a massive pervert. he gets equal much in return to the ways that he spoils her and they both thrive off of obsession. they're not able to bring themselves to stop at any limit which is how olivia got born and they happily adopted her seamlessly into their lifestyle. what the redwoods do in our world seems reprehensible but is little more than "taboo" to them-
darcy-- "This is especially because we made this furry universe of ours specifically for comfort, so they have a lot more differences in things like laws or morals lol. This personally is aimed toward me because that's also what I find sexier is having a sense of realism, but happier and more indulgent"
the way me and darcy write parent-child dynamics is inherently playful in nature in the sense that both parent and child are on equal grounds, relationship speaking. growing and raising is not a trap in the context of the redwood familiy. april after the divorce becomes free from the trappings of childhood as does ruben become free from the trappings of husbandry. their love then becomes their own choice.
darcy-- "Olivia does have more of a struggle with this massive love her family has for each other because at times it can be overwhelming. she questions if she deserves such appreciation, and she struggles to relate to other people because of her unique experiences. This is why she goes to therapy- Ruben and April are there for her just as much as they use and play with her <3 Oh! I also want to add that April is not expected to act like a mom! Her and Olivia are more like sisters with the added bonus of her being her mommy as well. April is much too little and spoiled to do something so serious like that. Ruben will do literally anything to make sure they both have happy and indulgent lives."

i will say all the characters sort of came out of us at different times just when they needed to exist because they're all extensions of ourselves similar to our shitverse characters. we realized over time that we were creating characters that belong in the same world under the same rules.
darcy-- "Being the hardcore, dedicated shipper I am, of course I had to make them not only in the same world, but also... kiss??? Woah. Mind blown, I fall for the classic elaborate character connections."
we're not entirely sure all the ways theyre connected to each other outside of their personal relationships as these are pairings of two or three for the most part. we know there will be exceptions such as we want percy to be the therapist to olivia-
darcy -- "Along with April and Sophie being friends-"
-and there are other dynamics we similarly want to explore.