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Part 4.5/5 warning just in case: implied sa attempt
👁️🌙📚
🏷️ #silverbulletinc #fakebookseries #weirdwest #cowboyoc #harpy #harpyoc #s0ulpatches #WesternHorror #slasheroc #yandereoc

“We won’t charge her for the disappearance of her picture groom since a strong argument was made that it was self defense. He tried to… ‘consummate the marriage early’. However, we are still charging her for the attempted possession of an illegal substance. You will be informed of her other charges shortly or in due time.” - The Oracle, Silver Bullet Incorporated: [Case file name/book title appears to be damaged beyond recognition.]

October 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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Part 4/5 warnings just in case, they’re heavily stylized tho: blood & death
Ichigo age 23
🍓🦜🫀🩸
🏷️ #silverbulletinc #fakebookseries #weirdwest #cowboyoc #harpy #harpyoc #s0ulpatches #WesternHorror #slasheroc #yandereoc

1st comic panel: A silhouette of hands leading each other towards a shed in the woods. 2nd comic panel: inside a shed with sunset’s light streaming in is a silhouette of a woman speaking the words, "and to prove that they’re dead, bring their hearts to me." 3rd and the largest panel: the focus is a pink haired girl in a nightgown drawn with red line art. There’s a splash of blood on her face. She’s ominously decreeing, "He won’t have me." There’s a stick figure lying dead on its back in a sea of red.

A silhouette of what looks like a cowboy is speaking, "My parents thought California and I were already together. They were surprised when they found out he was probably gonna get hitched with Miss Milkweed, so then they figured it was about time to marry me off too. They got a matchmaker and found me someone in New York. They said he was an entrepreneur or something…
They didn’t bother making sure I got there safe. They’re not wrong in thinking that I take care of myself, but still, I was traveling to the other side of the country."
The background is water damaged paper.

"When I got there I heard rumors of a witch living in the woods. Some said she granted wishes. Didn’t have much else to lose even if they were old wives’ tales, and I’d rather be anywhere than with him. So I went over there.

And that’s where she ambushed me."

"I put up a fight and I think that’s why she decided to strike a deal. I took her to shed close to where I was staying for the night."

October 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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Part 3/5
Ichigo age 18

🦜 #silverbulletinc #fakebookseries #weirdwest #cowboyoc #harpy #harpyoc #s0ulpatches #WesternHorror #slasheroc

Pink Skies and Dusty Trails! Fake western show title this deputy and sheriff would’ve had when they were younger. Deputy has pink hair, a dark brown hat full of bullet holes, a slightly worn green cape, and some chaps. She is facing away from her partner and aims with both hands towards her front. Yet her eyes are on us. Her eyes are suspiciously dark, hinting that she’s not quite human. Sheriff only aims with his right hand. His holster is fully on display over his jeans as opposed to his deputy’s which is slightly obscured by cape fabric. His belt buckles, brown boot spurs, and hat strap all have gold pieces. His hat only has one bullet hole. In the strap he tucks in a couple green feather and an old black and white photo. They are both standing between two red canyons with the sun and blue sky behind them.

Version without hats. Both of them have similar three-pronged bangs although the pink haired one's bangs are longer. Also, they rocking the short mullets. Burnet guy has sideburns.

“Me and Ichigo were thick as thieves! Those were the days… things were so simple back then. It all went sour when Mayor Milkweed moved into town with his family. Pa thought the mayor’s daughter was a right fit for me. Miss Mil- uh, Penelope’s a nice girl, but… well, ya see, I already had my eye on Ichigo for about a couple a years.” California Horner sheepishly kicks dust with his boot with his hands behind his back.
Horner continues, “She kept the outlaws in check. I heard some folks call her ‘overly cruel’, but the way I see it she evens me out.” - Silver Bullet Incorporated: [Case file name/book title appears to be damaged beyond recognition.]
👋Note: Ichigo and her partner’s lives for the first few years could’ve passed as kid’s cartoon (her tough guy/bad cop personality would’ve probably been played for laughs) But it’s obvious that things escalated.

October 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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Ichigo Abara age 15
🍓☁️
You see the joke is that her hair was short to begin with. It gets hot working on a farm in California, THE STATE.
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#harpy #survivalhorror #fakebookseries #weirdwest #cowboyoc #slasheroc #oc #s0ulpatches #oclore #silverbulletinc
Typos? That's pretend water damage

Ichigo shoves her baby brother into a table corner. He gets injured so bad that there’s a splash of red in the spiky impact effect seen in comics. Next to them in her pink room you can see a plucked orchid on its side.

Her parents kick her out at sunset. Their silhouettes can be seen looming in the yellow light of the doorframe. Meanwhile Ichigo on her knees is barely illuminated by the sun going down. Most of the house, grass, and bushes are covered in shadow.

In the moonlight she’s later guided by a kind young cowboy (doesn’t actually work on a ranch, just has the outfit of the time period), her age. A porch of a western town building can be seen behind them.

"When he was around 3 or 4, my baby brother liked to meddle with things that weren't his. He destroyed something that was precious to me at the time. I loved that orchid. I’d water it, talk to it, sing to it. I was furious with what he’d done. I accidentally pushed him too hard into the corner of a table. It gave him a pretty nasty gash. My parents walked in on him crying. It felt like there was a hole in my stomach. They removed me from the house just as the sun was going down. They closed the door on me, after threatening disownment. I had to seek shelter elsewhere, so I headed towards the direction of the inn. On the way there I passed by someone my age. He was the sheriff's son. Out of kindness he offered to take me in. His dad’s bed was empty that night, so I slept there. His dad and the deputy were out of town on the trail of escaped outlaws." - Ichigo Abara, [Case file name/book title appears to be damaged beyond recognition.]

"I was grateful to have somewhere to stay, so cleaned up around the house a little- it was in pretty rough shape- and even made breakfast. While California was at the table, he asked me what happened that night, and I told him what had happened. It was his idea that if I dressed up as a boy I might be able to stay here without getting any strange looks, as it just so happens, nobody in this part of town would recognize me. Before the sheriff got back, he bought me new clothes.

When the sheriff, Cassidy Horner, got home, California introduced me as "Indigo Mori". I remember I had to correct him and say it was 'Ichiro Mori'. He also told him how helpful I’ve been while 'holding down the fort'. They made a deal, that in exchange for lodging, I could clean their house. Later California also wanted me to work alongside him too. My family didn’t care that I was living a new life as a boy, they didn’t want anything to do with me. They were just counting the days until I could get married off.

3 years later California ran for sheriff and won and kept me as his deputy. I assume you’ve the read the papers. During our time, many would hit the floor before hitting the jailhouse, because of us… because of me." - Ichigo Abara, [Case file name/book title appears to be damaged beyond recognition.]

August 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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Those descended from harpies or other bird creatures are called avians in SBI.
#harpy #survivalhorror #fakebookseries #weirdwest #slasheroc #creaturefeature #oc #s0ulpatches #oclore #silverbulletinc

An old black and white photo of a young Japanese girl standing in a Meiji period kimono. She has feathery eyelashes and strange (bird) feet. They’re covered by tabi.

Her hair and kimono are different shades of pink, the main kimono fabric has a white flower print, aneri is a mint green, obijime cord is yellow over its dark red, and her eyelashes are white.

“The Abara family moves to the U.S. in 1883. They have a son there the next year, Sou, Ichigo’s brother. They come to favor her brother more than her, even though she desperately tried to win their approval by studying hard and doing more work around the house and on the farm. The family worked in agriculture and made decent money. Sadly, her hard work would be taken for granted. They saw what Ichigo was doing as the bare minimum, and instead focused their attention and praise on the little accomplishments of her baby brother.
Of course, her mother’s side of the family also carries the dark secret of being descended from harpies. Females usually carry these genes, and they’ve been watered down after generations, that however doesn’t mean they’re gone. Ichigo’s mother only received a rare hair color, Ichigo however wasn’t so fortunate. In her parents’ eyes she was born a monster.” - The Oracle, Silver Bullet Incorporated: [Case file name appears to be damaged beyond recognition.]
🍓☁️
Note: Let me clarify, pink hair isn’t necessarily an indicator of harpy lineage, but rather it’s the hair color matching the feathers of the harpy they’re descended from. It just so happens that a rosy-faced lovebird’s pink is seen as natural as being a redhead in the world that they live in.
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Some of her nonhuman traits are harder to spot.

August 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM

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It's dark and bro nearly rolled his ankle.
#oc #weirdwest #survivalhorror #silverbulletinc #s0ulpatches

Bust of my albino oc with transitional pink glasses looking visibly startled with slight motion blur.

August 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM

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no shading version

August 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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Naomi Deere and Truthseeker (her ponysona) bishoujo figure
#bishoujofigure #mlp #ponysona #mlpoc #oc #weirdwest #fakebookseries #silverbulletinc #s0ulpatches

1890s detective lady in a ribboned sunhat holding a magnifying glass. The magnifying glass is a necklace with a chain that falls loosely on her arm. She has her back slightly turned and is looking directly at us. There’s also a My Little Pony character with a matching sunhat flying off her head as she runs with a similar magnifying glass. Both these characters share pink and purple color schemes. They have orange and purple sunset adjacent shading.

Them but without the hats. Pony doesn't have a magnifing glass. I wanted to show my characters curly/wavy hair and that the pony is smiling.

August 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM

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doobles
🔍🌌☁️🍓
Been struggling with writing the middle one.
#ocart #doodles #oc #silverbulletinc #s0ulpatches #fakebookseries #weirdwest

Uncolored bust of a black girl in an 1890s dress and ruffled undershirt. There is a flower on her frilly high neck collar.

Girl that’s hinted at having avian features such as bird feet under her high-heeled boots. She is wearing a ruffled blouse and baggy sword-fighting pants. Her eyebrows resemble heart-shaped feathers. Her lashes are also feathery.

July 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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doodles that I made a while back of HUNTR/X from Kpop Demon Hunters hanging out with my monster hunting ocs
#huntrix #kpopdemonhunters #rumi #zoey #mira #silverbulletinc #chibi #sketchbook #s0ulpatches
ignore Artemis crying in the back this ain't about him

Sanrio collage around the Huntrix girls. Zoey is making the ok sign while holding onto Rumi. Rumi is making a peace sign with the back of her hand. Mira just had her hand outward with the other that’s facing Rumi on Mira’s hip. They are in their outfits from "How It’s Done".

Huntrix and my ocs together. They’re separated by color coding around their line art. Huntrix are in front of my ocs. Zoey is blue-green, Rumi is purple, and Mira is pink. Lester is red, Carter is multicored cuz his blood looks like an oil spill, and Naomi is blue and sparkly.

My ocs in a group surrounded by doodles and Sanrio stationary and packaging. Lester has his hand outward beckoning while his other one presumably is on Carter’s lower back. Carter is doing a peace sign above his head. Naomi is kinda doing jazz hands towards her face almost like she’s showing off her nails. Lester is in a suit and loafers. Carter has a dark green jacket over a black shirt and overalls. Naomi has sturdy heels on and an 1890s blue dress with a flower on her white undershirt’s collar.

Artemis is in the back of their group, hunched over crying for no reason.

July 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Lester Bennet ref sheet
He likes bugs, fish, and fossils. Bro is basically an Animal Crossing character. Under the Bureau he’s Naomi’s bodyguard but to the public he's an arms dealing store manager.

🏷️ #silverbulletinc #fakebookseries #weirdwest #oc #s0ulpatches #survivalhorror #cowboyoc #ocrefsheet

Albino character with a short shag cut in a plain 1890s suit. His name is Lester Bennet. Red/pink transitional lenses cover his grey eyes. There’s a bust drawing of him next to that full body, looking startled with motion blur. Unfortunately, I peaked with that art of him jumping up in the air with a time period inaccurate bomber jacket. A compromise is shown with him as a chibi wearing a long dark fur lined coat. Unrelated, but this one is also wearing cowboy boots. Zoom in on the boots shown with their original reference image.

June 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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silly Father’s Day post
Been meaning to draw this with my ocs for a while.

🏷️ #silverbulletinc #fakebookseries #weirdwest #monsterhunter #oc #s0ulpatches #survivalhorror #fathersday #fathersday2025 #oclore #ocmemes #drawthesquad

Fake twitter screenshot of my cosmic horror alien oc, The Oracle, sharing the following image. Meringue the wolf dog sitting next to Artemis who's wearing a partial fursuit made of wolf taxidermy on top of an ornate green couch dated 1890s. Standing in front of them is Artemis' adopted daughter Adelaide, who is holding a brown-haired doll in a pale green dress. Artemis is telling a mildly confused Adelaide, "Men are evil spirits." Meringue is side eyeing him.
The caption is "Girl dads at random:"
Within the same screenshot Meringue on her account responds by saying, "girl dads are simultaneously the biggest misandrists and biggest misogynists ever"

Meme this is based on without my ocs. It's a nuclear family being portrayed with one daughter.
fae rie says the thing about girl dads being the biggest misandrists/misogynists & Mirah says the image portrayed is girl dads at random.

"we need an american girl doll who got hit in the head during the kentucky meat shower of 1876" There's an official American Girl doll at the front of the image, but the illustration in the back of some poor brunette in a light green dress looking behind her at the sky meat above is who I based the doll Adelaide is holding on.

June 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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Art Trade with kankur05 on Pinterest
They wanted Pinkie Pie. I made her anthro cuz I wanted to draw her in a cute outfit. Did some background practice too.

🏷️ #mlp #pinkiepie #pinkiepiemlp #mlppinkiepie #cutecore #artist #digitalart #fanart #arttrade #s0ulpatches

Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony holding a heavily decorated cake in front of a background with star sprinkles, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, fruity marshmallows, lemon meringue, and waffle cone topped with crystal sprinkles and white icing also wrapped in pink and blue striped paper that has a lacy white trim. She’s got a puffy blue jacket on top of a shirt that has her cutiemark incorporated as the bust. Her colorful confetti jorts are being held up by a purple ribbon. Her shoes have pink bows for laces and matching vertical stripes on the toe box. Their sides look like sea foam green icing.

Sketch that shows she has cellulite and stretch marks.

June 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Redesign of Artemis in his 20s. This scenario isn't cannon btw. To take out the trash he prefers to dress up as monster like a Scooby-Doo villain and then uses the presumed methods of what he's dressed as.

🏷️ #silverbulletinc #fakebookseries #weirdwest #monsterhunter #oc #s0ulpatches #survivalhorror

It's nighttime in a Western town of which the porches and support beams are what's being shown. Outside in the street, a wasian in cowboy clothes slouches over the rifle he's holding. It glints from the moonlight on his back, leaking out between the gap under his arm. The shadows color him blue and purple. His wide outward stance obscures most of the tassels on his chaps. The hat he's wearing completely blacks out the top half of his face.

Same town, but he's shaded differently. Still tinted blue and purple, but you can see how colorful his outfit is. That hat he wears looks like a sunny halo with a half bullseye pattern in yellow and orange on its sash and spiky red inner brim trim. Otherwise it's just brown. His vest is a reference to kea parrots. Undershirt is a plain white button-up. His belt buckle has a cactus engraving visible. His pants are yellow-orange, under brown and yellow leather chaps. Boots are mostly brown leather where the foot is visible and have yellow soles.

With his hat off his head is clearly angled down in a way where his eyebrows are more visible than his brown eyes. They look pretty mad. Short wolf cut hair, middle parting.

May 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM

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🏷️ #s0ulpatches #silverbulletinc #oc #ocmeme #fakebookseries #survivalhorror #weirdwest

It's a fake twitter screenshot.
Me: I just know her posse doesn't stress her out she's glowing
Beta Oracle (under construction): Happy family
My characters overlayed on a cat family. There's Naomi wearing a sun hat, secured by a ribbon, and an 1890s dress shirt. She's smiling and literally glowing from joy with flower effects around her. She's in the place of the happy momma cat. Lester, an albino guy with an open smile; Carter, a tired looking but content man; and Artemis, masc leaning in black wolf fursuit head, are behind her on the taller papa cat. Meringue, the wolfdog with a spiked collar, is super imposed on the kitten. Her eyes are going in two different directions and most of her mouth is concealed by a smudged shadow.

May 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM

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the video in question

May 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Saw this vid and made an edit of my oc with the bachelorettes. He was already a 5'6 short king when Juniper tested a potion on him.
🏷️ #silverbulletinc #oc #fieldsofmistria #fomfanart #cozygaming #cozygames #s0ulpatches

Chibi Artemis surrounded by 90s anime girls, the Fields of Mistria bachelorettes in portrait form. They're all pointing at him and chanting the word "small".

May 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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Poison sniffing dog that pretends to eat the poison. She also does human things when nobody’s looking.
🏷️ #digitalart #oc #originalcharacter #wolfoc #wolfdog #dogoc #wolfdogoc #canineoc #silverbulletinc #s0ulpatches

Top Text: dogs after you tell them they can’t have grapes dipped in chocolate and coated in battery acid and electrical wire end ID
Bottom Image: Meringue the wolfdog making a derpy yet solemn face when she’s refused the opportunity to eat something dangerous to her. end ID
Surrounding Frame: pink polka dots with various character related doodles and monsters as desserts end ID
Upper Left Corner: ghost with pixie stick on a donut (booberry flavored), creepy yellow eyes, Meringue’s paw, will-o-wisps, stars, strawberry, text that says "rest in peace", werewolf cheesecake, & a vampire milkshake end ID
Upper Right Corner: lil cookie that looks like Meringue’s head surrounded by whipped cream and lemon drops in a chocolate pudding cup, Meringue as a Pillow Pet surrounded by eye and star doodles, banshee tears soda can in a pool of its own liquid, cotton candy that looks like a witch’s hat and hair, there’s a star wand, a black cat’s paw, a crescent moon with cutesy face, and happy frog face next to it end ID
Lower Right Corner: Doodle of Meringue with sloppy makeup on and one eye higher than the other for comic effect and of Adelaide a human girl who is applying the makeup. She seems to be beaming with joy. Text under the Meringue reads like a script: [blinks one eye at a time]. emojis for a plug in, a battery, some grapes, and chocolate are in the lower right corner end ID
Lower Left Corner: strawberry macaron squonk the cryptid, lightning emoji, stylized canary wing in a lemon tree, and a green comet cupcake and peanut butter donut with sprinkles end ID

Top Text: dogs after you tell them they can’t have grapes dipped in chocolate and coated in battery acid and electrical wire end ID
Bottom Image: seal with eyes drifting, big nose and barely visible mouth. It looks so stupid. end ID

April 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM

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It’s weird how we have to package ourselves as products to showcase our humanity. Whatevs, I just wanna join in on the trend to get my art seen. Better late than never👍 Anyway let’s talk about something other than ai and art. How was your day?

🏷️ #noaistarterpack #fursona #digitalart #s0ulpatches