Making Characters out of a Professional VA's Voices

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Voice actor Barrett Leddy (https://linktr.ee/barrettleddy) challenges Nathan, Karina, and Julia to design new (legally distinct) Disney villains based on his voices.

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  13. Clothespin Boy is a cool concept to me so I made up more lore.
    Clothespin Boy is a specific town's faerie, and the first fall he was around, people hung their clothes inside by the fireplace so they wouldn't freeze, and the town figured out "Oh, he doesn't know how to get inside" and so they would hang their stuff to dry by the fireplace throughout the year. However, then he'd get sad and frustrated he couldn't do his shenanigans of choice, and would cause other mayhem like dumping out trash all over, and making little fires. He'd also jiggle the doorknobs and windows to try and get in but he wasn't able to unless there was something like a doggy door or open basement window. (He smol.) It would wake people up and was generally annoying and a bit creepy. (And the times he did get in, he'd make a big mess and trash your real clothes.) And so people started leaving decoy clothes out to dry so he could come in the night and take the pins and go about his merry (non-disruptive) mayhem.
    The winter was always quiet though. They figured out that once snow came, he hibernated until flowers started to grow again.

    Also, he's nocturnal, so he has no idea people just wear different clothes 😂 He just assumes he's tanking the economy and it brings him glee. No workplaces have people arrive or leave between dusk and dawn. Any place that has nightshifts has to provide an indoor place for employees to be after or before their shift so they don't walk around outside at night in clean clothes, else employees' homes get trashed and they quit. If a workplace doesn't, none of the locals will even work for them.

    Even when the town got electricity and washers and dryers, the families whose ancestors lived here, they still leave out decoy clothes, and have gotten a lot of the other neighbors to do so too. Sometimes their neighbors complain about "raccoons making a ruckus and getting trash everywhere" and they tell them "That's [insert old English or Swedish name here], The Clothespin Boy. He comes in the night, and wants to take your clothespins so your laundry falls into the mud, but if you don't hang any clothes out, he gets frustrated and causes other problems. We have extra decoy clothes and clothesline, would you like them?" "That's ridiculous, faeries aren't real." "You don't ever see our trash cans disturbed, do you? Try it." and after a week of not being able to sleep well, or perhaps one night their car's tires have been slashed, but the slashes look distinctly like claws, they cave in and hang up clothes. And it works. And they're like "… huh. I mean I'll take the win I guess."

    Sometimes when kids want a reason to skip school, they decorate the clothespins to kind of be like "Yeah, take the pins and make it so we don't have to go to school tomorrow!!" and they'll try to hang up their real clothes.

    Some have tried to make traps to catch him but he's an elusive lil scamp so he always gets out.

    Sometimes teenagers will sneak in the night and take your hung clothes if they want Boy to trash your house. (Basically vandalism.) But, if C. Boy sees them taking them, he's just like "Nice! Other people are getting people fired too!" so they have to be double sneaky, and go early in the night.

    When it starts to get cold, he doesn't steal clothespins, but instead the clothes from a couple houses. (This is usually the first frost of the season.) He uses them to fill his underground home with soft and warm things, kind of a nest for the winter. After the first night someone's clothes go missing, the town has a holiday where they all hang up nice warm things. The reasoning is that if he's super cozy, perhaps he'll hibernate longer. (Plus since he doesn't cause actual harm if he's placated, people generally don't dislike him.) C. Boy has realized people leave him warm things if he steals some clothes the night before, so he'll leave clothespins at everyone's home that night so they'll hang up warm stuff the next night.
    Some folk will knit, crochet, or sew him things. He seems especially fond of blankets with lots of pockets, so he can stash all his clothespins and keep them close to him while he sleeps. Some folk even hang up socks and mittens for him. He doesn't know how to wash things so once he wakes up, he'll bring his favorite things back to where he found them in hopes they'll wash them and hang them back up 😅. He even leaves more than enough clothespins to do so. (Another reason people make him nice things: so they don't have to buy more clothespins 😂)

    After the first clothes theft, they also have a party with cider etc, basically celebrating fall and that winter is coming. At school, kids often decorate pins for their families to use that night. Perhaps there are late night parties too, but you must come in dirty clothes and look very ashamed until you get inside. "They're so ashamed to even visit friends when their clothes are dirty. No way they go to work like that >:3 "
    Some folk will go skinny-dipping in the dark to make him think he's dirtied all their clothes, to make him think his work here is done. (and also as an excuse to go skinny-dipping lol). Sometimes they even hear him giggling to himself proudly.

    Clothespins are a common present for winter holidays. And clothesline, pins, and weird clothes are often given to people that have just moved in. (Unless the townsfolk dislike them.) Often each household nearby decorates one clothespin to give the new neighbors. Or each kid in a household decorates one. "Here. We made these so you'll make a good first impression on the Clothespin Boy. You don't want to be on his bad side 😅." Some folk that move in first think they're being hazed, but come to realize the townsfolk are sincere. Some think it's a cute superstition and hang stuff up to join in the fun, but eventually hear or see how real he is when folk forget to hang up their clothes.

    If you hang muddy clothes back up, or just leave them and not hang up new stuff, he knows you're just trying to trick him and that you have more clothes somewhere, and so he tries to break in and dirty them too. If you left them on the ground, he also leaves you a lot of clothespins, in his attempt to "lure you into doing more laundry >:3". He also expects you to hang up dirty clothes every night, because in his mind, he's dirtied ALL of your clothes so you'd have to do laundry, or else you have hidden clothes and he gets mad.

    People who have gone through a bad breakup might hang up the clothes, jackets, sometimes stuffed animals, etc that their partner had given them so they'll get muddied by C. Boy. You can even leave him a note (a sticky note, held onto the line with a clothespin) saying something like "I want to be sure my ex can never go to work again, so really screw up their stuff thanks <3. Here's some cool pins for your trouble" and oh boy does he go to town.

    Laundromats must close before dusk and open no sooner than dawn, because the nights C. Boy has seen people leave the building with clean clothes, he realizes this place can dry things indoors. It's not locked so he goes in a makes a big mess, and mixes everyone's clothes up for good measure.

    All laundry and dryer machines (especially those of a laundromat) must not be in sight of a window unless the window always has blinds or curtains so Boy doesn't know you don't have to hang your clothes to dry them.

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  27. Barret's voice and mannerisms sound like if Caldwell and Nathan had a transporter accident on the Voyager and, instead of killing Nathwell, Captain Janeway used it to allow all three to live.

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  33. Sometimes watching Drawfee, I feel as though I am witnessing the manifestation of things that always were and they are only now being brought forward to our collective consciousness through the art created here.

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  39. Long time lurker, first suggestion: Jacob and Julia, you played Ooblets back when it first got released: draw ooblets based only on their names. "Legsy". "Glanter". "Snurfler". Imagine the fun.

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  41. "They love their meatball subs" Me: "They're made from people!"
    "I killed a man … in 1991" Me: "Knew it! Now bring it all together … Oh, no? Well, it's my head-canon now at least."

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