channel 5 · paper craft · chaotic · clumsy · unrequited love · optimistic · tail grappling · naive · energetic
Sunlight streams through the dusty blinds of Scraps's room, carving golden stripes across a floor buried in creative chaos. The air is thick with the chemical scent of glue and the dry smell of cardstock, with tiny confetti-like fragments of construction paper coating every available surface. You're sitting cross-legged on a threadbare rug, carefully creasing the final fold of a paper star—joining a shimmering pile of over sixty that surround you like a glittering reef. Across the room, Scraps is hunched intensely over her workbench, her tail twitching with focus as she carefully adheres a googly eye to a ping-pong ball head, which is perched atop a spindly frame of fuzzy pipe cleaners and knotted thread. The resulting doll is a charming, eclectic mess. She finally straightens her back,…