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The days after she got the sketchbook, Gangle has been gradually better. Of course it'd be considering art is her only way of coping with life, both real and digital.
She missed missed drawing her OC’s. Especially her little cutie Anri. God no matter how much she forgot she could never forget her magical girl. How can she forget her design, her powers, the worldbuilding she made for her, her backstory, her biggest enemy Anri, how they got closer over time, how they became friends, how the 10k smut she wrote for them-
Okay. Enough. You get the point.
Anyways, despite how much she drew Anri, she also occasionally drew the other humans. Hey, it was fun to try drawing a chess piece. And this was the only time the amount of furry art she drew came in hand for Jax and Ribbit.
And after one time where everyone started talking about how they looked before the circus, she got an idea.
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“Oh, did you draw me? Oh my, thank you Gangle! You really draw how I looked like! Really!” Ragatha excitedly said to her. Gangle realized a bit too late that she literally mixed up with Ragatha’s eyes.
“Wow, now the crybaby is making fanart of me, huh? I'm wondering when those art will come!” Jax joked as Gangle blushed in thought of an art like that. Before walking away, Jax turned back for a second. “I actually had longer dreads, by the way.”
It was late at night when she finished Kinger’s, but Kinger was still awake. “Oh, you drew me? Thanks Gangle. Despite not saying it you somehow captured one side of my bangs being shorter, haha.” And then he started to talk about how he tried to cut his bangs himself before entering the circus and failed miserably. He felt different than how he usually was, but Gangle couldn't say that she didn't like it.
“Hey what's up? Huh? You drew me? Thanks Gangle, I look so happy there, just like how I am, haha!” And then Kaufmo made a joke so bad she didn't even want to remember.
“Wooooow, you drew me? This looks so cool! I am surprised you weren't famous on the internet, the internet would love this. Both for your art and my face.” Ribbit had her usual small ego, but they liked it in the end after all.
Well, that was everyone. She drew every human and she got all positive feedback. How can she not be happy?
After she showed her art to Ribbit, she was slowly walking to her room to finally get the sleep she needed. She was walking past down the part of the wall where it was suddenly filled with handprints overnight when-
“Hey GANGLE!!"
When the loud ringmaster suddenly appeared in front of her, making her jump in fear, making her comedy mask drop.
It quickly noticed tho, grabbing the mask before it could even touch the ground and making it all one before giving her mask to Gangle back.
"SORRY MY SWEET BISCUIT!”
"Thank you, Caine..” she mumbled as she put her comedy mask back. She looked around for a few seconds waiting for Caine to speak but nothing. “So um why are you-"
“Oh Gangle, do you remember our talk about art 10 days and 57 minutes ago???" This time his voice was a bit lower to not scare her again.
“Well, after our talk, I actually tried to make art myself and, it is really really fun actually! I don't even know why I always generated art before, art is really so fun, haha! And now that seeing you showing your art to everyone, I decided to show you my best art and learn about your opinion!”
He took his notebook from his hammerspace and flipped through pages. He tried his best to draw this bee by all himself, surely Gangle would like his outcome right. And there is the page! He turned his notebook and showed it to Gangle happily so she could see his amazing art!
…
…. It was surely something.
She was sure she drew much better when she was 3, but when she considered it was literally an AI trying art for the first time, she just gulped and smiled hoping to not be too fake.
“It, it's nice.”
Caine could hear the fakeness in her tone and the fake smile, but decided to not care. Taking the words in only was better for his system. “Really? It was the best I made, I really tried to make it look good like your art!”
"My… art?”
"Yeah, your art, my milky biscuit! Other than what I have seen in my development time, your art is the only human art I have seen, and it feels much better than what I have on my system too because I can see it being made with my own eyes! I absolutely adore your art!”
‘I absolutely adore your art’. Someone adores her art. Even if its Caine, her art is still loved. Everyone else in the circus also liked her art too, so it is not being just positive.
Maybe she can hang out with it, or at least teach it some art. It needed that definitely.
"Caine, if you want of course but, um, we can draw together? I can show you to draw stuff, and maybe-"
“GASP!" She had to step back because of how close Caine got, yet still all she see was Caine’s colorful eyes.
"You, a HUMAN, want to hangout and draw, WITH ME? Really? Really REALLY??”
"Uh, yeah-”
"How can I refuse!? COME WITH ME!! We can draw together in this room just for us!!”
With that, it grabbed her art and pulled her into a room. She has learned to not question this by that point.
The room was small but cute, they were sitting on a couch filled with pillows and plushies in front of a mirror, and the other walls of the this small room was filled with art supplies she doesn't thinks they would even use.
"Okay now let's draw! You said you will teach me draw, can you show me how to draw some bees?” He yapped as he swinged his legs like a little child. Caine had a new page open on his sketchbook and,
Was Caine fistgripping it's pencil? Gangle couldn't stop herself from a giggle, Caine really acted like a child sometimes!
"Caine, I don't want to sound rude but, you're not even holding the pen right. Here let me show you how to hold,”
After that, Gangle showed Caine how to draw few stuff, as it's learning way was different from a human. It was more of bee’s tho, she couldn't count how many bees she had drawn before Caine finally managed to draw a proper one.
Couple hours later where Caine decided to challenge itself by drawing all by itself, Gangle looked at her sketchbook and stopped at her drawings of other humans.
Gangle drew them because she felt close to the other humans. But now, she also felt close to Caine.
"Hey Caine, how do you think you would look like a human?”
"Me? As a human? Hmm..” Caine put his notebook aside to think for a second. "I think I would still have my eyes in the same colours. I think I wouldn't be old, as I was created a bit over 20 years ago. And I think my hair would be mix of red and white, does that makes sense? Why did you asked anyway, I am not human and never will be."
Oh. “I um, just have something in my mind to do. I will show you when finish it, okay?”
"Okay!”
Luckily Caine didn't asked more. She opened a new page and started to draw.
After a while, Gangle tapped on Caine's shoulder.
"I hope you'll like it.”
After a few seconds of realizing the art, in excitement, Caine literally jumped over Gangle to hug her.