It's around this time every year that I begin to revisit old hyperfixations of mine in a failed attempt to offset the looming seasonal depression or the debilitating sadness that rears its ugly head every time I remember that I have to be around my parents during the holidays. This past week has been no different, with me rediscovering my love for RPGMaker and of course, Toontown Rewritten.

Now, I'm not going to explain the intricacies of Toontown to you, because that'd take forever and these DO have a character limit, but all you really need to know is it was originally made by Disney, it's a very grindy MMO, and it brings me simple joy so I love it unconditionally.

In this game, you of course make a player character (a "Toon"), and seeing as I'm one of those yucky creative types, I'm unreasonably attached to mine. For a while now, I've only had and played as one character, a cyan dog named "Fancy Biscuit", who looks like this:

(Yeah I know, you can really tell that I'm the one who made this character. )

I've spent about 2 years grinding to level her up in an off-again on-again kind of manner, and it's sort of payed off since I don't get bullied by the snottier players anymore and I can generally hold my own in a fight without losing all my gags (those are the designated attacks/weapons).

Now, I could just keep grinding up Biscuit, after all she's not even close to the level of laff I'd need to even look at a field office, buuuut I decided to start over with a new character, because I came up with a stupid pun name and I had to use it before anyone else did. Someone probably used it anyways, but I don't care.

I present to you, Deerly Departed*!

*Name is currently under review by game moderators

Deerly here purely came about from me trying to think of dumb pun names for a deer toon, because I like deer toons and I wanted to play as one. I also made up an entire personality and backstory for her despite the fact that she's existed for maybe 2 days tops. Since her name is a play on the phrase "Dearly Departed", she's a funeral director. Not a serious one of course, she's putting squrting flowers on the casket and playing Taps on rubber chickens. Lighthearded but slightly morbid stuff, you get the jist. (Is it gist or jist? I've seen it spelled both ways.)

So while I wait for her name to be accepted (or denied, only time will tell), I'll be grinding her and Biscuit up, plus making various little doodles to pass the time, some of which include these here toons. Here's the only one that's even slightly finished as a treat for all 2 of you that bothered to read this the entire way. You have my upmost thanks:

(The cat is another one of my toons who also hasn't had her name accepted yet. Bonus points for any of you that can guess what it is XD)

Until next time.