Fancy Rats Part 1

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I've been looking forward to sharing these all at once! 😁

Angry, Awake, Confused


Determined, Devious, Energetic


Enthralled, Happy, Indescribable


Nerdy, Okay, Sad


Scared, Thoughtful, Working


I re-did Confused after my first attempt, and I may go through and re-do a couple of others, but overall I'm very happy with how these have turned out!

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[soc_puppet]

Hehehe 😁 Energetic took me a good bit to figure out, but once I thought of a rat "bouncing off the walls", so to speak, it seemed like the right way to go. Like rabbits and guinea pigs, rats will sometimes "popcorn" (do little jumps in a small area) to show excitement, but I thought that might fit better for the future "Bouncy"... provided I can figure out how to make that image work 😂

Rats are just so adorable when they curl up into a ball to sleep! That's mostly what inspired Indescribable here, especially with such a prompt to work with 😂 When rats have a darker color that reaches all the way down their back, it does frequently extend part-way down their tails as well. It's pretty cool, but I've been having trouble remembering to include it 😅

Oh! Working is supposed to be nibbling on a paper pad, actually; the little extended bit it a piece of the paper that the rat has nibbled off and is curling up. Pretty sure it's something I actually saw in a video of a bird nibbling a strip off of a piece of paper or cardboard, but the visual stuck with me. Working is one of the ones I'm considering re-doing (the ears are bugging me, as is the tail just a bit), so that might be something I tweak in the future. Not sure whether I'll keep the paper color; on the one hand, I do like that it adds more color variety to the mood theme! On the other hand, I don't know if there is yellow paper with pre-punched holes like that...

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I think there is? There's definitely three-hole punched yellow paper, and I think it's legit to make up a paper type for this too.

Rat ball rat ball <3

It'll be fun to see what you do for Bouncy!