8/16/2025

Grinning HUUUUUGGGGEEEEEEE this comic has been a long time coming (10 months)

Okay so general process notes:

I was NOT locked in while drawing this dude this took me 3??? Days to finish. My Attention was so Deficit idk what happened. I'm blaming it on my allergies though I think those were def a part of it.

3rd and 9-11th panels are based on things from eps 1 and 9 ^_^ ep 1 with the silly ass heart eyes and ep 9 is the breakup scene + Watermelon telling Orange to stfu when he tries to win her back.

Originally the cracks in panel 6 were just a generic blackout across the eyes. But I changed it to cracks to represent how her image of him has cracked. No longer idolizing. Cinema.

I wanna work on my side profiles more :/ They look kinda weird more often than not so I put extra effort into them this time. It's all closed mouth so that's basically easy mode but yk. I'll probably get there one day.

I hate Orange's hair bro 😭😭😭😭 I swear it's different in like every single panel 💥💥💥💥💥

I thought to myself a few times that Watermelon looks like femreo LOL just bc of the hair and shade and general face shape. But Watermelon is rounder + her eyes are more ovally (except when she's wearing eyeliner ig).

Grins. Okay so. Hm. Where do I start. My hc/theory in a nutshell is that Watermelon actually Did like Orange initially, but his ass took too long to answer her so she stopped crushing on him. Bc at the end of the day it was a crush not love. They could never be och Anyway what was I saying

This theory hinges on 1 specific line of dialogue from episode 9 btw. When Watermelon is explaining her plan to Gumball she says "when [Orange] fell in love with me, I decided to go along with it." HOWEVER this does not account for the fact that Watermelon was the one who asked him first. She never says she planned it from the beginning, just that she was faking the relationship itself. Also the structure of the sentence "when he [asked me out], I decided" implies that she went with it on the spot.

I've been going back to that specific scene just to make sure I have my facts straight but tbh rewatching it so many times made me less confident in my hc LMFAOOO bc I keep wondering if maybe I misinterpreted her or am just wildly construing things. SO LIKE hopefully this all makes sense and is. Believeable.

And also obviously for meta reasons it was to make the narrative more dramatic and is ultimately a retcon for how genuine Watermelon looked in the past. This obviously was NOT planned from the beginning and That's Okay but I also reserve the right to cope 💔💔💔💔💔💔

But basically what this comic is saying is that Watermelon liked Orange bc he was like the Perfect Guy tm. He was comparatively smarter and nicer and more competent than the rest of the cast lmao. Also the line "you smiled at me like you meant it" is supposed to be bc. I kinda felt like everyone was mean to Watermelon in the very early season??? Idk could just be me.

But during the (assumed) 4 months of waiting for an answer from Orange the crush feelings faded bc who makes someone wait that long 😭😭😭😭 and what made it worse was that  he just carried on existing like it didn't affect him at all. I think Watermelon is someone who has high self-worth so eventually she thought to herself "this bitch is NOT worth waiting this long for" and all of that just twisted the feelings. This shift happens between episodes 5 and 6 btw bc there's still in-character reference to her feelings in 5.

In my interpretation, idt she gets the idea for her plan until after she and Orange start dating? 🤔🤔🤔 like I said before, the way she explains her plan feels like she went with dating him on the spot. So her original idea in the moment was to just use the relationship to boost her game, and the idea to eliminate him came afterward bc she couldn't stand his ass.

Somewhere in my head I think Orange never apologized for making her wait 💔💔💔 saying sorry wouldn't have done anything to help his case anyway but still. Watermelon was js tired of pretending to be all lovey dovey when she actually just hates him. I think he might've thanked her for waiting for him, but in a lighthearted way. Which just made Watermelon hate him more bc it's proof to her he doesn't take her feelings seriously. SIGH. # lack of communication

And then the breakup was revenge in the sense that she's making him feel what she felt. Sitting with unresolved feelings and wondering why. But after seeing his attempts at getting her back she comes to the conclusion that she didn't even need him in the first place. Bc he's just so pathetic now 😭😭 and if that's what he's really like under the 'perfect guy' exterior then he was never worth it in the first place.

For characterization purposes. It's weird trying to reconcile how genuine Watermelon is in the beginning with her shift in ep 9 😭😭 she's always been assertive so that definitely helps, but it's not like her personality completely changes bc a guy took too long to consider going out with her. I think she's nice in a casual sense but knows how to manipulate and use people and is willing to use that knowledge to her advantage. It's not necessarily smthn she uses in her everyday life and goes out of her way to do, but especially in a competition show of course it's fair game.

Idk though that doesn't. Really line up with her character in the early season. I might have to rewatch. Yk this would be A LOT easier if I took the plot at face value but unfortunately bitches love making things harder on themselves (it's me I'm bitches). It's okay I'll fix this in NC AU LMAO canon isn't real it can't hurt me.

I'm sure this is a personality that realistically works bc the human personality is super diverse but I can't make it make sense to me 😭😭😭 maybe I'll get it upon a rewatch though.

I also think Orange's character is worth a look at here bc ur telling me one of the more competent characters on this show completely falls apart when a girl he dated for 2 months breaks up with him? Be ffr bro 😭😭😭😭

My thoughts on that are that he has some kind of self esteem issue (this is so stupid bro I'm laughing to myself rn) ....????????? Also smthn about Watermelon emotionally manipulating him for her end goal.

I'm so ffr rn I'm looking up "why do people get desperate over breakups" LIKE THE ANSWER SHOULD BE OBVIOUS RIGHT 😭😭😭 am I dense or something. <- girl who hasn't wanted a romantic relationship a day in her goddamn life. Maybe I need to cut my losses logic-wise and just work with it 😭😭😭😭

8/18/2025

Okay I rewatched eps 1-5 and like. I think I'm right that ppl were kinda mean to her BUT in all honesty that's just the vibe across the og cast in general 😭😭 but between the flack from Conditioner abt Orange and the. Grimaces. Fatphobia. Anyway that's mostly unrelated.

My understanding of early season Watermelon is still kind of nebulous..... She Def has a lot of self-respect and has cute moments but it's not like she's demure. Idk where I got that notion from. But in essence I think I understand her a little better including how she went from what she was in early season to the change in ep 9. So yippee 😁😁😁😁

GRINNING I made an Oreo/Watermelon piece with this song years ago so it was awesome coming back to it......... also I need to get better at my guideline placement for front angles LMAO

This is like. ?!?!? Confrontation concept 😁😁 I've made a few drawings before of the concept of Watermelon's plan getting out and how that might affect things. I need the girls to fight 💥💥💥💥

Watermelon here is surprised bc she didn't think Oreo was capable of being So Fucking Pissed 😁😁😁 she targetted him bc she knew he was desperate for a gf. And in her head she also thinks of him as a pathetic guy. Part of her plan was probs to break up with him eventually like she did Orange so she never expected him to get mad at her.

I feel like I'm so shit at explaining my thought process 😭😭😭😭😭 either I overexplain or I assume ppl know what I'm thinking and don't explain enough. It's okay we thug it out

Eventually she gets her composure back bc she doesn't Really Care that he's mad at her. Sure her plan's fucked but everything with Oreo specifically is Impersonal. She hated Orange but Oreo was always just a guy she used. So in the last 2 panels she's turning the blame back on him. He's yelling at her asking how could she do this to him and make him betray his friends etc etc and she replies with "you did all that yourself. You CHOSE to do that bc you're so pathetic and needy for approval" # VICTIMBLAMING 😭😭😭😭

And Oreo believes her bc Yeah he could've just said no. He could've just not gone along with it. But uhhhh ye olde Emotional Manipulation is a bitch like this is still victimblaming 😭😭😭

I had 1 image slot left so I drew this too. This is inspired byyyyy.....I can't remember where I saw it, I THINK either from YT or maybe Tumblr. It went smthn like "you're human because there's always the child in you that doesn't want to be hurt and cries out against suffering." And that applies here bc I think no matter how much Oreo blames and hates himself for this it stems from the question "what did I do to deserve this". And that's also where the self blame comes in bc that's easier for him.

Again Oreo never did anything to Watermelon. She used him because she knew she could and to me that's just. It's just really sad 😭😭😭 And I think in a hypothetical scenario she even tells him as much. Like "you didn't do anything to me, it was just for the competition." And to Oreo it sounds like yeah that's his fault for being so manipulable. This shit ass storyline bro 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔

I'm not even done with this line of thought yet bruh there's another comic I want to make that branches off this. That'll probably be the next part but fucccckkkk MEEEEEEE it'll probably take up most if not all 20 images 💔💔💔💔💔 I'm too scared of fitting multiple panels into 1 pic bc of my shit ass phone camera. It's blurry at the edges and idk how the fuck to fix it other than to crop the photos down. Sighs.

IN OTHER NEWS. Grins HUGE okay so a few days ago I did smthn I've been meaning to do for a long ass time. I emailed Asaph abt possibly releasing the s1 OI scripts since he's not working on s1 anymore AND HE REPLIED THIS MORNING saying he most likely will release them in a future vid 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

He also told me he was already planning on making an update video abt where he is + the state of OI so convenient timing I guess LOL. In essence OI isn't coming back "for now" which reads to me that he's leaving space for OI if he ever wants to come back to it. Now I'm not holding my breath for that possibility BUT IT IS A POSSIBILITY.

Idk how soon those videos will come out though. Hopefully within the month or smthn? 😭😭🤞🤞 I'm highkey nervous now bc now I have to wait again and as much as I want to read those scripts!!!!!! I'm like what if they destroy my headcanons LMFAO average fan when they make up the rest of a story only for canon to kill them. In terms of full scripts they got to ep 14 so that's potentially 4 episodes worth of reading, but I vaguely remember Asaph saying the full season would be 17-18 episodes? The outline for the rest of s1 is done, so I'm hoping that outline gets released with the scripts as well....I didn't ask for that explicitly bc I'm scared of asking too much and being annoying 😭😭🙏🙏🙏 but if it doesn't turn out that way I think I'll ask him in a comment. Giggles nervously and turns into a sheep

Another side bit but Asaph does actually remember me just bc I hung around in the Discord and comments and livestreams so often HELPPPP it's an honor really. Number 1 OI fan LMFAO. Kind of a relief to know that from his perspective the email came from a longtime fan and not just a random person asking for the scripts 😭😭😭 I Did make a point to introduce myself as an active person within the community just to give that impression but still. Nice to be recognized ig LOL.

Okay I think that's it. Wiggles nervously. Back to the comic mines with me. BYE!!!!!!!!