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Hey there.

I know this isn't mainly a social platform of writing, and if you don't care for reading my long-ass bullshit, you're free to scroll. But I was very eager to post here a summary of my Oc, Marjorie's Ford life since her birth to when she first joined the Marigold Gang, at least for that couple of people who will care enough to bother reading, since I've always left you in the dark about most of her past up until now. I will make a storyboard with actual drawings to make it more interesting to the eye at some point, but it'll take long, so for now, enjoy what I have to offer.

The recurring year is 1894, and yet another baby girl is born under the prosperous (not for too much longer) Kingdom of Italy. But not just any child, falling short of aristocracy in terms of wealth: daughter to the Opera singer Caterina Casiraghi (Ford) and the handsome but opportunist American notary who snatched the Italian beauty as soon as he saw her, Christian C. Ford. Second to nobody in her own home but her older brother, Malcom Ford, Marjorie was still spoiled and pampered from all sides, and for a while, they were happy. 

But of course it was too good to be true, and soon enough Christian's misdeeds came biting back to him, after a life time of biting more than he could chew: the notary and most of his official possessions burnt to ashes in a fire, and although the cause was officially concluded to be an accident, his family knew in their hearts it was nothing but arson: between what remained of the man's belongings, in fact, the wife found multiple letters of a minatory nature coming from some unspecified shady client of the man's, that he had evidently proceeded to ignore. The widow, left on her own with a man to bury and two children to raise,  had no choice but to roll up her sleeves, and the broken family spent the next six years of their lives incessantly hopping from place to place, partially for the matron's role she played in different courts across all Europe as a requested and appreciated soprano, partially to avoid meeting the same early end as the late father and husband may his killers spot them if they stop in a single place too long.

Such circumstances weren't the most normal for the youths to grow up in, and the siblings came out as... not any normal really: while the weight of responsibility hung on the eldest's shoulders, stuck in the role of the "man of the house" and becoming gloomier with each day, the younger could only long to receive that much attention. Daughter unsuitable of inheriting anything, too young to get married to another rich man, and with a voice too small to follow her mother's footsteps into the world of Opera, she soon veered towards theater, her frame, just as small as her voice, nimble and agile, her movements graceful, her scenic presence lovely as she had learnt to emulate from her mother. Still feeling the psychological pressure that was truly only inside her own head from being both female and the younger child, where she couldn't follow her mother's footsteps she instead followed her late father's, soon adopting less-than-savory methods to get ahead in her career, eliminating the competition before it even got the chance to become such.

All prestigious careers however have as much of a raise as they are doomed to have a fall, and in 1914, when the Great War officially broke out, the entertainment business collapsed, specially fields as frivolous as dancing and singing, and the next thing which dropped at dizzingly fast speeds was... the Ford Family's bank account.

The Ford widow, ever the loyal mother and wife, used the last funds she had to send her children to their fatherland America like many other immigrants of the time to seek luck and a better life, and we all can imagine what happened to her, next.

The sole survivors of the Ford Family, at this point aged respectively 21 and 23, were soon separated yet again, however: not any more than a few weeks after they had successfully disembarked in Mexico, in fact, the Italian government spotted them, demanding that Malcom  came immediately back to motherland to fight in the army along all other male, able-bodied Italian citizens of age. The boy, after a lifetime of accepting responsibilities, had it drilled into his very subconscious by this point to always answer the call of duty without question, and so he did one last time, taking leave from his sister and all the money they had left. He wrote his sister letters and send her more money for some time, directing them to Mexico City where he had left her. After a while however he stopped receiving answers from her altogether, an no sibling ever heard from the other ever since.

This is because Marjorie after some months of permanence in Mexico, working some gigs here and there, plus the money she was receiving from her brother, finally saw an opportunity to build a new life all for herself, where she would be the sun, the star of the scene, rather than a mere moon in the backlight of not one, but TWO suns in her case, both mother and brother. Having been a nomad all her life Marjorie never learnt to truly form bonds and emotional attachments to people, always knowing she'd lose them as soon as she had to move yet again; hence the loss of her mother and the betrayal she inflicted on her brother never weighted much on her mind, or so she tells herself. She traveled all the way up to Missouri, where she soon started working as a maid at a certain Maribel Hotel, where a "kind", if sorta odd fella by the name of Asa Sweet welcomed her in his den in exchange of a mere few favors which would cost Marjorie nothing but a constant smell of bleach on her person, due a variety of reasons, and the sanity she had already long lost anyways.

Opportunist sociopath born out of heritage, of circumstances and most importantly of the intrusive thoughts of inferiority inside her own head nobody ever bothered teaching her the strength to fend off, the rest is history.

Imma just drop this OC sketch of my boi mwhehehe

Thank you to all who interacted with the recent pages of “The Rattlesnake and the Jester” your comments are so sweet 🥹❤️

In the meantime, while I work on the next page, here are some doodles I made a while back of Rocky and Maríanne

(Forgot to add this on the recent pages but Rocky Rickaby belongs to Tracy Butler of the Lackadaisy series)

I would like to know the most obscure and random Maríanne fun fact you can tell us, please!

Ooo, I shall give two! However, I’m not sure how obscure these facts are 🤷‍♀️

First fact:

I created Maríanne’s character while reading ‘Under the Devil’s Moon’ from @libras-interactives :> Her original name was Mariànne Paola, she played the trumpet, and was born in Cancun!

Second fact:

When developing her further, I wanted her attributes to be similar to a rattlesnake. Shows her connections back to her brother and his gang. Especially when it finds its way back to her.

I think these two images compared to one another prove my point:

Adding further on to this connection she carries around a rattlesnake tooth, which was given to her by her brother. Her brother attained it after a rattlesnake attacked a bully that was beating him up. Both Marí and her brother see it as a symbol of luck and protection.

Although the glasses was more of a fun idea to insert something of myself onto my character, it added more to these parallels since snakes are known to have poor eyesight lmao 😭

Despite her shitty eyesight, Maríanne is always wary of her surroundings when she feels threatened or tense, or any feeling of discomfort. She’ll literally sit in awkward position where you see half of her body and face.

Her logic: How can someone ambush you when you already have them in your sights? 😎

…😭 Okay Marí

Maríanne also has a “minor pet peeve” with birds (it’s not a phobia, she swears 😀)

I went on a bit of a tangent but thanks for the ask Calamity!! I always appreciate when people ask about Maríanne ❤️🥹

I’m going on a trip so there’s gonna be a bit further delay with the next pages of ‘the Rattlesnake and the Jester’ comic, hopefully I’ll have it done around early June or so 🥲

I’m the meantime, I decided to introduce you guys to a new LackaOC :> it’s a friend of Maríanne and her brother since the start of the Rattlers!

Meet Delilah Everlorn

Little facts:

- She’s from the UK ✨

- She taught Maríanne how to box (her father taught her, but she claims she’s self-taught)

- Cuts her own hair

- Born on October 29th, 1897

- Her design is based on a Scottish Fold

Hope you like her :>>

Would Mari Apple (ponified Marianne) get along with Apple Jack? Lol

:D !!❤️

Well I think regular-Maríanne and Apple Jack would get along. Maríanne appreciates kind, honest, and hardworking people. Would see Apple Jack as a voice of reason.

But Marí Apple….

Nah. There’s a reason they don’t talk about her.

She’d be good friends with Discord tho 😭

A little RoMaunce for the light of my life @rudnitskaia

Had to dig through my oldest childhood memories to harness the powers of love. kudos to you if you recognize the scene I tried recreating!

Hope you like it, my beautiful honey bun 🥺

AHHHHH!

Lots of practice for my future Lackadaisy Fan Comic ✨🤸 (I mean LOTS of sketches)

TW : Guns/weapons

PANELS!!!! 🖼️

Reference at last panel: (smth like this)

Her gun! (It has a silencer on)

William Humble's anatomy 💪

(He's hard to draw dayum 😭)

Lots of Character Designing ✏️

I have to look other's OC so that I can't copy any of them huhu. Also young Amber RAHHHH!!! (Smol boi lmao)

I'm still writing each of their character background and the main plot of the comic yeyyy.

(Ofc I'm not going to spoil anything MWHAHAHHAHAHA. Only random scribbles. Hopefully I won't spoil them ahha)

Ok that's all besties byeeee!!!!

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Lackadaisy X One Piece crossover??!! HELL YEAH!!

The Zoro stance with Adam is amazing! It looks so dynamic and ITS COOL AF! >:D

THE LACKADAISY... THE LACKADAISY IS REALLLLLLL!!!!!

I DONT MIND AT ALL, ITS BEAUTIFUL!!!❤️🥹🥹🥹🥹 THEY ARE SO CUTE OMGGGG! I LOVE ÅSE BEING A UNICORNNNN!! >:D Also the way you draw ponies or draw in general is amazing, I WILL EAT YOUR ARTSTYLE >:O

WE ALL SHOULD JUST MAKE OUR LACKADAISY OCS INTO MLP CHARACTERS 😤😤😤

IT👏 WILL👏BE👏AMAZING

… @officiallyzzanimazz I did it. 🧍‍♀️

Introducing:

Marí Apple

She’s the distant cousin that the Apple family refuse to talk about.

🐍🍎THE RATTLESNAKE AND THE JESTER🎭🎪

Page 1-2

Page 3-4

Maríanne Doodles 💃💃💃

Decided to do some scribbling and like test out new expressions or face shapes, just for funnnn ✨✨✨

I’m currently working on something for Maríanne, hopefully when I find time during classes, I’ll finish it but we’ll seeee…

(Imma go sleep now 💃❤️❤️)

YOUR ARTSTYLE IS SO UNIQUE AND PRETTY DUDE!!!! I love drunk Maura she’s so silly LMAO

I also just realized the pool ball has a face when it hit her and it made me giggled so loud, omg 😭

(Also don’t worry about how long it takes, I completely understand 🤧 art takes time and I appreciate you taking the time and effort to make art for my questions🥹❤️)

15, 17, 70 on the OC question list for Maura!

Curious to hear more about her :D

Part 1/3, number 17 from that question list, asked by @ahhhh-118!

Thank you so much for your questions, dude, it was very fun to draw! 😄 Sorry I was so slow with it, though. x)) I promise to work on the answers to your other questions faster! :3

*chucks it into your face*

HAPPY LATE VALENTINES FROM MARÍANNE, LOVELIES!!

❤️💕💕

How did Marianne end up in St. Louis after so much travelling across the country? What made her stay there?

I finally have your answer!

Trigger warning: Blood, Angst, a drawing of a gun

Maríanne was performing on the streets in Illinois (possibly Springfield). Her old gang members had been tracking her and finally found her. She and her friend tried to run from them when they caught her (she regrets dragging him into this because he got hurt), they got separated during the chase…

Atlas, Mordecai, and Viktor were coming from a business meeting and were heading back to Lackadaisy. Here’s what happens next:

And that is how Maríanne ended up working for Lackadaisy.

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So this comic took so much longer to make than I expected. But it’s 👏finally 👏finished 😫

Hope you all enjoy it! :>

/Mordecai, Atlas, and Viktor belong to Tracy Butler, Lackadaisy/

Where's the rest of Marianne's family? What is her relationship with her brother (both when Marianne was young and now, when they're adults)?

Hi, thank you for the question! Sorry it took me awhile to answer life and procrastination got in the way 😅 but here we go:

So the relationship with her brother, Sebastian, has always been strong even as kids. Despite an 8 year age gap, Sebastian adored his little sister taking care of her (practically raising her) since their parents were always too busy with their own business deals.

They left their grandmother back in Còrdoba and the family had moved to Florida making their own arrangements in selling illegal wine.

While young Maríanne was in her own world, Sebastian was always suspicious of the men that would come around their house and chat with his parents. The young boy always had a feeling that things wouldn’t end well.

To this day, he hated how right he was…

As adults they went their separate ways. They still write letters to each other on occasion to see if the other is still alive and the update in each other of their daily lives.

However, the letters tend to get lost (sometimes) since running under an alias can confuse the mailman.

(Thank you again for asking this question I will get to your next one 🤧)

GOD YOUR OC IS JUST BEAUTIFUL I JUST GHJKHGCGFHFJJG HHHHHHHHH what's her favorite food?? (sorry this question is so basic, will come back for her hand in marriage /lh asking more questions!! much love <3)

THANK YOU!!! ❤️🥹 I love your OCs too! The Rose Brigade?? That is such a badass name for a gang and each of your OCs have such a unique flair to them and they’re BEAUTIFUL!!!

And to answer your question (I don’t care that it’s basic, I love to answer them nonetheless! 🥹)

Maríanne favorite food would be Plátanos Fritos (fried plantains).

She used to eat a lot of it as a child, and still thinks about them on occasion.

If you give her a plate of these she will get all giddy and refuse to share it with anybody. (She may also be willing to accept the proposal too, although she would be very confused lmao)

Hope that answer the question, sorry for not including any art in this one! (Kinda want to do that for stuff more lore-related things :D) Thank you for asking though!!

Hey everyone!! If you have any questions about my lackadaisy OC, I’d be happy to answer them and make some art to go along with it!

Currently I’m working on answering some questions :D

So ask away and I’ll answer it to the best of my ability!!

*crawls out of hole* Happy Late New Year, everyone!

Here’s Maríanne’s character card! It took me a bit to get it together but here she is again :D

I hope it gives a bit more detail about her! ❤️

Alt account: @ehhhh-119 (Very creative I know)

Welp this wasn’t a surprise. Here’s my Lackadaisy OC, her name is Maríanne Villanueva!

She’s was born in Cordoba, Mexico! I’ve been wanting to put her out there for a while! :>

I will put out her character bio/poster as soon as I can. The earring will be explained eventually, but it is important to her lore!

But I decided to put out her character sheet first, I hope you like her!