Some pretty old and silly doodles with stories attached.

Taco Trash origin story:
Taco was born because my friend @leisdum on Twitter originally wanted to create a FFXIV character on the Balmung server to dip into roleplay. Her name was inspired by the Megaman boss, Tako Trash. It was cleverly (or maybe not so cleverly) tied into FFXIV lore by saying Taco Trash came from a tribe of Xaela whose parents give their children undesirable names in order to deter evil spirits from possessing their young. In other words, a great excuse to have such a beautiful name!

Unfortunately not a lot of roleplaying happened because Lei got extremely nervous and felt like an awkward UFO. Somehow I ended up getting a lot of RPing done instead! Some of these doodles are of Taco and my lalafell when we were gallivanting around in the Quicksand.

Dandy as we know her now wasn’t created until much later. She entered the Quicksand RP scene once and may have lied to someone about how she got her eyepatch.

Despite our failures on the RP front, both of us really loved the way Taco looked. She’s just super adorable. We kept her in our hearts and Dandy came along later. That's when things got really out of hand, for better or for worse!! Today, their story is that Dandy picked up the homeless waif Taco off the street and employed her as her retainer. One ridiculous thing led to another and they are girlfriends now.

Top left doodle is a scene redraw from Rokka no Yuusha.
Bottom left doodle references one of Elena's portraits from Grandia II.