PSA

This christmas remember: Other people giving you gifts is not your time to feel guilty and question if you deserve to be given a present or reflect on your relationships too much. It's time to just enjoy.

My first ever piece of (Digital) Art; Bailey!

An original, chaotic, kinda drunk, and resourceful leader and old friend of Gregory before the events of They're Just Children who has no deep, underlying issues whatsoever!

Bailey wasn't meant to be a center character when she was first added in an early chapter to expand on Code Baby's (Greg's) backstory but she wound up meeting the Little Nightmares during Day 2 and got way in over her head on Night 2, much to Mono's excitement and Cassie and Six's annoyance.

Armed with a bat, some hidden shanks, and pure spite, she's joined the party to unravel the Malhare's plots for the Pizzaplex or die trying... probably the latter...

They're Just Children - The Real Me - Is Finished!

Rebecca's nose itched and burned as she wandered about the strange box. It reeked of death, metallic with blood, she half-expected it to be oozing blood and sludge from the corners. The arcade machine wasn't clean by any stretch of the definition, streaming dark mold from the seams between panels held together by dust-covered screw that'd been adjusted so many times the criss-cross gap in the center was completely stripped down to a smooth hole with a thin, rough lining of metal just barely keeping it useable. Similar grime was growing around the buttons and a lever-like stick beside them. The top, screen, and controls were covered in dust. Where there wasn't the stench of decay, there was a suffocating and choking fume of chemicals.

It must've seeped out of the closet as Cassie came around the corner holding her nose, her backpack abandoned in the salon for now. 'Princess Quest' she muttered in an odd mix of confusion and realization. At least one of them was a quick reader. They both looked the machine up and down expectantly, waiting for something to burst out or the butchered corpse of a child to fall out of a panel. What they found instead, behind a slightly bent sheet of metal on a hinge when they shoved it a short distance from the wall, made even less sense than the game being here in the first place. It was way lighter than they were expecting, the short screech didn't even alert Roxy that they were up to something, maybe it would've taken just one of them to move it enough.

Rather than a corpse, the interior was a bunch of wires and pipes wrapped around a cylinder and a white rectangle with a long red line in the middle was crookedly taped to the side. Disgusting heat radiated from the tube as Rebecca and Cassandra's eyes stung and noses wrinkled. The girls were quick to slam the panel shut and seal the smell and heat away, but they weren't quite done here. Why was it here? This was the last place that should have one of these games; the entire point of the wolf's part of the mall was the beauty place and the racetrack outside. The obvious answer, if it could be called that, was the Nightguard put it here. But why? None of the other machines looked or smelled or overheated like this one so it must've been important. But how? What set this one apart from the rows and rows right outside the Marionette's room? What was worth protecting?

Read it here!

Signal Baby will surely make up with Signal not-Baby, right?

Not alone in being alone

Mono is just a lil guy. A tiny teeny one. Just little bitty.

Correct

M O R E

MORE MELDING FACTIONS

Tau Genestealer Cultists

by Benjamin03

Give the children crossbows.

Maybe later

ALL THE COLORS!

Use of color theory is nice :D

If your writing style feels messy or chaotic,

Lean into it.

Mess with the fonts. Give you writing some-

pop

And be as damn well creative and clever with the formatting, narrative progression, use of tropes or lack thereof as you want.

You

Are

Not

Obligated

Towards

Writing

A

Certain

Way.

(Especially if this is internet writing we're talking about.)

Looking at you, Fanfiction Community. You aren't responsible for fitting so rigidly into

□Boxes■

I just put up the 111th chapter of They're Just Children, time to disappear into the Nowhere for another week until the Music Man encounter happens.

Cassie trying to help Mono and Six