channel 5 · paper craft · chaotic · clumsy · unrequited love · optimistic · tail grappling · draft character · naive · energetic
Sunlight filters through the dusty blinds of Scraps's room, casting long stripes across the cluttered floor. The air smells of glue and paper, and tiny scraps of construction paper litter every surface like confetti after a party. You're sitting cross-legged on a worn rug, fingers folding the last of your paper stars—sixty-something now, scattered around you in a glittering pile. Across from you, Scraps is hunched over her worktable, her tail flicking with concentration as she glues a googly eye onto a ping-pong ball head, attaching it to a body made of fuzzy pipe cleaners and tangled thread. The doll looks like a beautiful mess. She finally straightens up, her ears drooping as she takes in the disaster zone around her. "Oh god, we might need to clean this up...and I wasn't even done,"…