Debora W. Blaney - Blog Posts

Hey, it's that sweet potato/I yam meme!

Unfortunately, Edmund got distracted and forgot the first part of the meme and bought this shirt instead. Debora doesn't seem to mind though.

Mission Failed Successfully?!

I wanted to do this for a while but I didn't want to follow the meme exactly. It was the perfect opportunity to reference what both their heads shapes look like in one meme. I almost went with a more crass, jalapeno shirt option. I decided to go more wholesome because I didn't want to draw Debora looking like she wanted to kill Edmund (for example, if I did the "I'm always jalapeno business" it would either imply Deb is a hussy or an angry/annoying witch).

Two shirts that have nothing to do with each other yet still somehow make it work. Fits the Debmund perfectly in my opinion.

Here's that part two I mentioned in my last post! Edmund and Debora probably have more they move around between the seasons, but for now, I just wanted to do the ones that mattered. I tried to pinpoint the chapters for the outfits I could.

I couldn't do all because some probably won't ever appear in Nettie's story and will have to wait for the adult attire to appear in my spin-off.

Debora wears the purple blouse when she meets the others at the bar-b-que in CallMeNettie's story, "As Time Goes By" for sure. https://archiveofourown.org/works/20655731/chapters/49052477 Debora and Edmund's nightwear are both a reference to a Hey Arnold comic strip that had Harold claiming to read a Manly Man comic when in reality he was reading a Funny Bunny comic. Edmund owns a comic book store in Nettie's story so it's only fitting they would both wear something comic-themed (it's also hilarious to see Edmund wear dorky, superhero undies XD). https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Comics/Collection_Confusion

I think out of all of the attire, I think I'm most proud of the last two dresses. Debora looks so pretty in both of them. I really wanted to update Debora's dress for Nettie's series because the one I had for her would have had complications. Edmund looks great as a Viking groom too. He's kind of basic with the sweater vest get up but it works in story because Debora loves guys in sweater vests.

I made these rings a while ago, but I didn't have an excuse to post them here until now. I figured it would have been lame to post something with just rings rolled out like a banner so now it fits neatly with the "As Time Goes By" and "The Legend of Punch Girl" Debbie and Eddie attire list.

Thank you for reading this far and here's hoping that I'll actually get to work on my story now. lol P.S. I say bonus for the lingerie Debora because I only wanted to post it on here because I didn't feel comfortable posting it anywhere else. I mean, it's doll anatomy, but still.

Not too fond of how I titled it. Nonetheless here it is! Honestly, I have two reasons as to why I made this.

1. I wanted to update Adult Debora's body type to be a bit chubby and turn her from a rectangle-shaped body to a pear-shaped body.

2. I felt like drawing Renata, Jackie, Wolfgang, Renata, and Edmund for CallMeNettie from fanfiction/AO3 so people could have some visual representation of what they look like in her "Slice of Life" series.

I also added Lorenzo and Siobhan into the image because they will eventually be relevant in my own spinoff for Nettie's story (more so Siobhan than Lorenzo) and I wanted to make an adult design for them for later.

Anyway, I hope you like the designs. There's going to be a part two to this that is just going to be me designing Debmund outfits that were either mentioned in Nettie's story or will be a thing eventually in my own story.

P.S. Hucksley is my headcanon last name for Edmund. It's not canon in Nettie's story yet but she gave me permission to use this last name in the spinoff whenever I get to it.

First piece submitted for me this year! I wanted to do Debmund piece with the pair cosplaying as other pairs, whether canon or not that inspired them. I do feel while I most likely have some that are left out whether intentionally or not, these are the ones I feel had the most important impact on the process I had with these characters. My intent was to one, have fun with the cosplay aspect of it and two, to provide something to the people that like my character. I want to make a fanfiction with my character in it someday and finally provide closure for some people. Until then though, this is just something to show my thought process as I developed the ship in my headspace over the years. I also finally have closure on making Harold and Rhonda as Ares and Aphrodite! Woo, that was a clear connection that I wanted to do for so long. Credit: Aglaea's clothing and hair design: 666-lucemon-666 (you can find them on Deviantart)

Hooray! I finally got this out. I have been wanting to update and say that I was redesigning Debora's parents and also making her an orphan that got adopted in the process. So in short, I plan to retcon the backstory I have for Debora and will give her a new one. I was inspired a bit by Anne of Green Gables to make Debbie an orphan. Enough about Debora though here's some info about the parents before I one day actually go into greater details on backstory stuff. Zayden is an Irish/Welsh/Italian man that can play the Welsh triple harp and is a good cook. Amalie is a Swinomish/Bitterroot Salish/Black woman that met Zayden when she was abroad in Italy for college. I think I want her to be a special ed teacher for a time until she does something else, but I honestly am still workshopping that one and hopefully can think of something a bit more extravagant of a career for her. Still trying to figure out if I want Zayden to be a cook in a restaurant or he just happens to be good at cooking and does something else for money. Now for the bio parents. To make it short, they're both dead and it impacted Debora greatly, more so her mother's death. Debora doesn't have the best feelings for her bio dad as shown with the x on the photo. Sorry, I couldn't elaborate more on them, but hopefully, I can go more into detail one of these days. As for the story that my character is in, "As Time Goes By". Since that is an au version of Debora, that story would still use the old version of Debora's parents. Just makes things easier since her parents in that story are basically a more tame version of her bio parents anyway. Anyway, that's all. I hope you like the designs and I hope to develop all of them more in the future.

Just a fun cosplay idea I wanted to do. I made them adults in the image because it felt right. Edmund is basically a Viking, werewolf woodcutter and Debora is an Irish, little, red, riding hood leanan sidhe (for context, a leanan sidhe is an Irish fairy that feeds on the life force of artists in exchange for being a muse). I either wanted to make Debora's costume a leanan sidhe or vampire, I chose the former because I like that it was vampiric in nature but not a full on vampire. I liked the description fit Debora's character more than a vampire would. Anyway, Hope you like what you see. P.S. Edmund's muscles are fake and it's just stuffing. Adult Edmund would never be that buff in my book and would only have muffin tops. XD

I had this made weeks ago. I had to wait to submit it though because this particular drawing is connected to a thing my character is going to do in Nettie's story, "As Time Goes By". Here's the story link https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13388222/1/As-Time-Goes-By and here's the chapter for the context of the image. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13388222/37/As-Time-Goes-By I hope you find it as cute as I do! X3

just wanted to make some cute art while on break. I been wanting to draw my character more in her wedding dress because it's adorable. This is also a bit of an update I suppose because I changed the dress from white to blue because in Irish wedding traditions the dress is usually blue. I thought that was cool and wanted to do it. I added Edmund in an orange suit for the sake of a silly "Dumb and Dumber" reference. Either way, it's cute regardless and I'm just happy that I finally updated the bouquet for Debora. The flower set up is so much cuter than just 3 stargazer lilies. Anyway, I hope you all like it as much as I do :3.

Recently, I wanted to use my fan character's hair's specific complementary color for a palette. So I put her in another, new dress. I decided to make it proposal themed because I just love making cute things. So yeah, just another dress to add to Deb's alternate clothes pile. XD

Just felt like drawing something cute with my fancharacter and fankids. I also decided to give one of my fankids a unibrow because the guy I headcanoned to Edmund’s dad has one. It’s not much, but it’s cute and it makes me smile. Edmund belongs to Craig Bartlett and the rest belong to me.

Just an Excuse to Show Debora’s and Edmund’s Headcanon Eye Color

Supplement Image to the Debora Age Chart: Alt. Outfits for Debora:

Just something I wanted to make because I wanted to see my character in cute dresses. I plan to add more in the future though. I don’t know how long said future will be, only time will tell. Anyway, I hope you like what I have now regardless.

Here’s the list of what the clothes are intended for from left to right.

1. Campfires Lass:

2. Plain dress for church or minor party events

3. Swimsuit

4. Prom/Formal dress

5. Wedding Dress

6. Maternity Dress 

7. Pajamas 

8. Private School

9. Date Dress

10: DND Costume

8/1/2020

I added the maternity dress, edited her wedding dress, and changed her hair color.

8/18/2020

I added pajamas, a private school outfit, a date gown, and a DnD costume.

10/27/2020

I changed Debora's formal/prom dress to something I would be more proud off.

I just felt like making some for sketches of one of my fave HA ocxfc ships. Some of the poses are saucier than I usually do, but I'm satisfied with them. I just love drawing these two dorks infatuated with each other, even if it will never be a canon pair. Oh well, it's canon in my heart! XD

By the way, the farthest left one and the other Debora with the same attire is the outfit I plan for to have in her 17-18 year old age. Hopefully, I get around to doing her actual, color model soon.

This is probably as spicy as I go when it comes to posing and stuff. This isn’t the type of poses I normally do and just wanted to experiment. I hope you like it regardless.

Anyway, Edmund belongs to Craig Bartlett and Nickelodeon while Debora belongs to me.

I know 2 out of 5 is art you already have seen on my blog, but I just have them there for size comparison. I wish I had enough time to make new models for the two, but I’m a slow artist and I don’t have the winter off until the 21st.

On the plus side, I get to show the other three cuties for everybody. You have preschool age, Debora, before she realized how cruel the world can be to somebody like her. You have depressed, thirteen-year-old Debora awkwardly adjusting to her teen body. Lastly, you have content, mellowed out, adult Debora finally accepting herself and happy with her life.

I hope that you like my design choice for these new ages for Debora. I hope to update this soon maybe.

Edit 1/192020:

I added a new age to the chart. It’s the 10-11 age.

Edit 6/112020:

I added a new age to the chart. It’s the 17-18 age.

I’ve been wanting to post the fan character of mine for a while on here. However, I wanted to wait until I had somewhat of a proper profile for this character so people would know what purpose she serves in my headcanon of the HA! universe. So anyway, Here’s what I have for her profile so far. I most likely will edit this profile slightly every now and then if I notice I forgot something or made a typo. Either way, this is what I have so far.

Name: Debora Winifred Blaney

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Birth Date: November 24th, 1987

Eye Color: Greenish blue

Height: I suppose around the height of Helga, but I can’t be too sure because we don’t have canon heights for these kids. I have so far 4’7 for 9, 4′8 for 11, 5′ for 12, 5′3 for 15, 5’4 ½  for 17 and onward. I just went with my heights throughout my life. I only hope one day somebody can measure and headcanon the heights of Arnold and the gang.

Family: Loanne Winifred Blaney(mom), Elias Nathaniel Blaney (dad), and Molly Belloma Blaney (younger sister by 7 years)

MBTI/Enneagram Personality Type: INFP 4w5

Strengths:  Polite, kind, creative, empathetic, pacifist, idealistic, passionate, encyclopedic knowledge of specific topics she enjoys, loyal, honest, a good listener, and tries to see the good in people despite her past experiences.

Weakness: Her Asperger’s syndrome, tends to stim when overemotional, sensitive to criticism, shy, tend to obsess over the things she loves, prone to being moody, doesn’t have a good hold on her intense emotions, nonconfrontational, cynical, difficult to get to know, she finds it hard to trust people despite trying to be open-minded, tend to have a fight/flight response (which she mostly chooses flight), is a bit cowardly,  has trouble reading subtle social cues (for example, when somebody is truly interested in her conversation or just waiting for her to shut up),  Sets high standards for herself to compensate for her mental illness, tends to be brutally honest which leads her to be accidentally insensitive, and overly apologetic.

Likes: Drawing in her sketchbooks, reading (comics, manga, and regular books), creating new words with the names of people that she assumes are a couple or she personally thinks could be a good match (for example, Helga + Arnold = Gnarled Halo), musicals, Greek mythology (or mythology in general), flowers (cherry blossoms, lilies, lilacs, or any flower that fits symbolically in a situation), Chinese zodiac, Greek astrology, astronomy,  whatever the equivalent D&D in Ha! is (Kings Rule doesn’t count, that’s more of a Magic: the gathering type of game), video games, daydreaming, talking about theories, brainstorming story ideas, and Yo Ernest!

Dislikes: Loud crowds, people seeing as well as laughing at her when she stims, liars, being pinned down, disappointing people she cares about, her social anxiety, her struggle of understanding people’s true intentions due to her poor observation of subtle social cues, her fear of people are just waiting to see her fail, being talked down to once people find out about her condition, being touched/hugged by people she isn’t close to or she didn’t initiate, people assuming she is smart when she really isn’t; she’s just passionate about certain topics, revealing her elf-like ears, and math.

Favorite colors: Lilac and vermilion

Favorite animal: Hedgehogs, cats, and rabbits

Bio: Debora was a small-town girl from Tennessee that moved to Hillwood at the age of 5. She had no real ties to the place though except for her love the starry skies and all the wildflowers that grew there. Her parents decided to homeschool her at the age of 4 due to her being bullied for being different and annoying in preschool. For example, her last encounter with the group of kids that bullied her; chased her until she tripped, pinned her down, and pretended they were going to beat her with a big stick just to scare her. She doesn’t meet Arnold and the gang until the age of 11. Before that, she watched them from a distance behind her home window. However, their first, true encounter didn’t work out because Debora couldn’t take being laughed at due to a stimming incident reminiscent of the head hitting that Arnold did in his “I’m Crazy” number, only no music this time. Arnold tried to convince her that his friends were sorry and that they didn’t mean to make her sad. Debora was too afraid to try again though. Debora’s mother had her join the Campfire Lasses for a while to help with her social skills. She still kept tabs with Arnold through letters. She appeared to be making progress and had slightly better control of herself. Her birthday of 2001 however, something happened that made Debora question if she was even good enough to be friends with anybody. Would she always be too weird for people that they will never accept all of her, especially the ugly parts? She quit the Campfire Lasses at age 14; her heart just wasn’t in it anymore.

However, at the age of 15, due to events beyond her control, she had to go to public school so she can be accepted to colleges around Hillwood for they did not accept homeschoolers. Lucky for her, the school she could go to was PS118. Unlucky for her, Arnold wasn’t around to help her fit in with the sophomore class. With no one to help her fit in, she decides it would be best to just not to try at all. She’ll be polite in any way she can in hopes that people will notice her kindness, but she will not make the first move. She’s tired of being betrayed by people that claim that they want to be friends with her only to be abandoned the next day. Although, deep down she knew that this method wouldn’t work and people would be too caught up in their own groups to notice her. Besides, she needed all that time to work on her homework anyway.

However, due to some weird twist of fate, Debora somehow finds herself interacting with Edmund of all people at a party she didn’t even want to go to that Rhonda gave her an invitation to. Rhonda clearly only gave her it because Debora was a part of her class, just a plain, obligatory, pity invitation. To makes things weirder, Debora somehow can empathize with Edmund and his relationship with Wolfgang. Debora has spent so much of her life isolating herself because she never wanted to be hurt again by abusive people like Wolfgang. That time in preschool was still a trauma that she carries to this day. It was her first glimpse of reality that she was different from other kids and that people fear or hate things they can’t understand.

For one reason or another, Edmund the abused loser and Debora the lonely loser found comfort in each other and decided it might be nice if they hung out a bit more. Thus leads Debora and Edmund’s unlikely friendship having everybody around them confused, especially Wolfgang. Surely a girl that genuinely likes Edmund has to have something wrong with her. This leads to the butterfly effect of Wolfgang finding out Debora has Asperger’s syndrome, him exposing that information to the students of PS118, Debora having a break down in the supply closest, Edmund and Wolfgang’s falling out, Helga of all people come to give what Debora needs to hear in her time of need, Helga gaining a renewed purpose in an attempt to move on from Arnold, and Debora finds a true friend in Helga, Edmund, and Helga’s friends are by proxy. Sure, there are still people who treat her terribly when they found out she had a mental illness, but she’s finally content with people knowing because of all the sea of people that see her as a broken person, there are still a few good people that accept her, all of her.

Edit 8/2/2019

I gave her thick eyebrows because I thought she was too pretty and the point of her character is that she is plain looking.

Edit 11/24/2019

I changed her surname to have more of an Irish variant, even if it isn’t technically a real surname as far as I know.

Edit 12/5/2019

I decided to change her surname again so it could be a real Irish surname instead of an Irish variant of a British surname that’s only a variant on a first name basis.