Plushies!

More Stockman plushie progress by Meromeroyui on DeviantArt

Click the book-like thing to make the picture appear. From left to right: Barney Stockman, Z/Vincent the living computer, Baxter Stockman. Hoping to do Barney's coat over the weekend.

I'm really pleased with how they've come out! So happy I finally found something I wanted to do badly enough with my other two blank plushies. Everything I came up with before ended up being things I just kept not being sure about, but when I hit on the Barney and Vincent idea, I was sure of it.

It's interesting how Baxter in the 1987 series is such a series of contrasts. He's meek and mild. He's arrogant. He's normally harmless, but can be dangerous when desperate and/or pushed to snapping. And he can be pretty much whatever one wants him to be depending on which trait they latch onto. Some people prefer him arrogant and dangerous and villainous. Normally I focus on the meek and mild and harmless side, but I love getting some snippiness in there too. And having him be dangerous towards enemies, if pushed too far. I prefer exploring the possibilities of him as a protagonist/hero, if given a second chance to have a normal, sane life. He doesn't want to devote his life to crime-fighting by any stretch of the imagination, but towards his loved ones he is extremely self-sacrificing. And he has more of a heroic streak than he believes he has; he will, for instance, try to protect children in his care if bizarre and dangerous things are happening around them. Even though he'd personally rather find the nearest rock to hide under and wait for the chaos to all blow over.

I just finished #64 in the story series. Wow. Now to debate on whether to do a dark idea with The Rat King next or a lighter, funny idea submitted by a reader. I've been waiting a long time to feel ready to do the latter, and finally I feel like it's time. So I sort of lean towards the funny one next. We'll see.

It's been a rather weird week with rocking emotions, frustrations, and an odd blurb that keeps morphing but probably won't get put in a story. But then again, who knows.