Cleo Shaw is a character role-played by saturneighteen.
General Description
Cleo Shaw is driven by a strong personal moral compass. She tries to see the best in people, regardless of which side of the law they are on, and likes to offer compassion, at least until she feels that she’s been wronged, insulted, or disrespected. She makes music under the pseudonym "Sparrow".
She is currently a Trainee for the Emergency Medical Services, call-sign Tango-TBA, and was previously a Solo Cadet for the Senora Desert Sheriff's Office, Badge #609.
Personality
Cleo has no problem seeing the best in criminals, and the worst in many of her colleagues. She is a staunch vegetarian, and cares deeply about animals of all sizes. She will go out of her way to ensure their safety, regardless of how innocent or dangerous they might be. She dreams of living on a farm with a full stable of animals.
She is very conscious of what other people think of her, and has deep-seated trust and self-esteem issues. She has difficulty trusting, mostly as a defense mechanism, and it takes her time to fully open up to people. She feels like an outsider, both within the police department and amongst her friends, and projects her doubts onto those around her. She often finds herself overwhelmed by her negative emotions, and when she does, one of her major gut instincts is to run and push everyone away, justifying it both as protecting herself and protecting them.
Some of her deepest fears include heights, and seeing loved ones hurt. Having recently survived a car bomb, she’s developed a deep fear of explosions. She is fiercely loyal to and protective of people she does trust, and that ferocity can cloud her better judgment. When Cleo feels insulted, physically threatened, or helpless (or when someone she cares about is), she’ll act impulsively, usually by lashing out verbally; she especially hates feeling powerless to act.
She struggles with alcohol, frequently turning to it as an escape when she feels stressed, upset, or hurt, though she’s recently been working to curtail her dependency on it.
A polarizing personality, her self-deprecating and self-loathing behavior and her need for approval and validation means that she comes across to many characters as self-centered and grating, while others with more patience and empathy can relate to what she’s been through.
Background Information
Growing up in Dover, in England, Cleo had a bright future and had a tight knit relationship with her father.
A few years ago, her father suffered a traumatic accident. Despite this, she has been plagued with doubts that something more sinister occurred, while wanting to seek justice. This has also escalated the downward spiral of her relationship with her mother – who is alive, but she has no relationship with currently.
She has a serious drug addiction and was only able to escape it through treatment at a rehab facility. She is determined to avoid this topic, though, and tends to change the subject or avoid it as best as she can.
Prior to moving to the island of Los Santos, she found herself antagonized by a local gang for weeks on end, culminating in her kidnapping, drugging, and torture. After days of enduring this nightmare, her captors brought a masked individual before her, and gave her an ultimatum: shoot this man and walk free or die.
Her captors remained silent while she begged to know that her boyfriend was safe. Worn down after days of torment, she chose to shoot the individual. Distraught and filled with insurmountable guilt, pain, and loss after discovering it was her boyfriend who she’d just shot, she left her old life behind and moved to Los Santos to find a new beginning.
Notable Events
| First Day in Los Santos |
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Thursday, October 14th, 2021. On Cleo's first day in Los Santos, she was kidnapped by members of Chang Gang: Vinny Pistone, Ramee El-Rahman, and Curtis Swoleroid. During this kidnapping, she was shoved into the trunk of their white Sultan Classic and taken to a balcony, just north of Dean World. After being escorted to the edge of the balcony, she was told "Welcome to the city, Cleo" and shoved off the balcony edge - falling 60 feet to the ground. Fortunately, Cleo recovered quickly from this incident. |
| Facing Hydra Gang |
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Having first met members of Hydra Gang: Juan Carlos "Flippy" Hernandez, Miguel Almerion, Mike Wadum, and Aleksander Sazkaljovich on Monday, October 18th, 2021, during a traffic stop. Cleo went on a short "date" with Mike, who had broadcasted his interest in her, upon realising that he was a hardened criminal, Cleo decided that she did not want to associate with him. This resulted badly, as Mike took personal offense and began to outrun cops while Cleo was in the car with him- being aware that she wanted to become a cop in the future. A few days after this incident, members of Hydra hunted down Cleo as they were made aware that she may have snitched out this event to the cops. Upon locating her at Alta Street apartments, they quickly ushered Cleo into their trunk and stopped at the balcony just north of Dean World. While surrounding her, Flippy took initiative and handcuffed her- checking her messaging records. While looking through these messages, Flippy noticed that she had been telling everything to Lieutenant Matthew Espinoz- making her a snitch. Once this was established by the group, they shot Cleo multiple times. |
| Meeting Lizzie Byrne |
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Cleo met Elizabeth "Lizzie" Byrne quite soon after arriving in Los Santos, and later found out from the police department that she had recently murdered someone. Maintaining contact with Lizzie without revealing her aspirations to join the PD, Cleo tried to act like she wasn't aware of her past crimes, until Lizzie revealed what she had done. Cleo's casual demeanor completely evaporated, as she now couldn’t feign ignorance about what Lizzie had done. A couple days later, Lizzie called Cleo crying about a warrant for her arrest for poaching. Cleo tried to calm Lizzie down by trying to relate to the situation, and took notes of what Lizzie said. After Cleo was hired, she discussed her information from Lizzie with Senior Officer Sexton Hardcastle. The pair quickly formulated a plan to lure Lizzie out, and hastily set it in motion. Pretending she had been tortured and abandoned in Sandy Shores, Cleo called Lizzie, begging for help. A short time later, Lizzie called her back, revealing that she knew Cleo had just joined the Unified Police Department. Monday, October 25th, 2021. The next day, whilst with Bobby Beats, Cleo was kidnapped by a man on a motorcycle, and was pushed into a second vehicle with a different man. As the car sped away, the driver claimed that he had just been hired to deliver her. Arriving at Grapeseed, Cleo was led into a dark, underground bunker, where she was tied to a chair, and soon found herself face-to-face with Lizzie. Angry about Cleo's deceit, Lizzie decided to make an example of Cleo, smashing her left arm with a hammer, slicing her left arm open with a knife, forcibly injecting her with drugs, dousing her with gasoline, and setting her aflame. Cleo fell unconscious, but was soon rescued by Deputy Lea Nova, and a handful of other PD members. She was treated at Pillbox, leaving with a sling for her mutilated arm, along with a few minor burns. |
| Bryce Saves the Future? |
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Not long after Cleo moved to Los Santos, Bryce Miller told Cleo that meeting her had turned his life into a more positive, hopeful, less-criminal direction. Later that day, Linguini Abalone introduced Cleo and Bryce to Dr. Victor Reed, a mad scientist from the future hell-bent on performing bizarre experiments on humans using urine. After being saved from needing to drink piss for the rest of their lives by PillBot, Bryce took matters into his own hands to protect the future and shot Dr. Reed multiple times before fleeing. Watching Bryce do this to a seemingly crazy but innocent man re-opened fresh wounds from Cleo’s past, and feeling that her trust had been broken, she pushed Bryce away before drinking herself into a stupor. While being consoled by Jeffy Coldiron and Sabith "Bunny" Cohen at a relationship booth, Bryce surprised her by dropping in a helicopter before whispering to Cleo that he loved her; inexplicably, this escalated into a hostage situation with Mel Rickenbacker and Fingle Dan, and even more inexplicably, everyone but Fingle Dan escaped without injury. Unable to out-petty each other, the couple met at their favorite spot on the beach and forgave each other. |
| Dropped into Bolingbroke |
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After spending an exhausting morning searching all over Los Santos for Senior Officer Lily Pond, who’d been kidnapped by Lizzie Byrne, Cleo met up with Bryce and spent the rest of the day unwinding in Los Santos. Late in the day, the pair entered a demolition derby at the Diamond Casino and Resort racetrack. As spectators watched from the stands, Cleo and Bryce managed to outlast every other contender apart from Rivington Rivera in an ambulance, the couple walked into the casino to gamble away some winnings. Shortly after, when leaving the casino, Bryce stepped away for a few seconds to make a phone call, and three individuals in a dark car abducted Cleo at gunpoint and drove her to the airport, claiming that “it wasn’t personal” and that “she was a gift”, implying that it was being done at Lizzie’s behest. While hiding out in an airport hangar, a fourth individual arrived. Her abductors loaded her into a helicopter, and flew her over Bolingbroke prison. Unaware and uncaring of her fear of heights, they pushed her out over the prison courtyard. Within minutes, a DOC guard on routine patrol found her unconscious with multiple serious injuries: brain hemorrhaging, a broken leg, a broken arm, a fractured pelvis, and a collapsed lung. As nearly the entire active PD descended upon the prison, she was transported into emergency surgery at the prison hospital ward. After receiving emergency care for her injuries, Cleo was placed into a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, and medevaced to Pillbox ICU for recovery overnight. Surrounded by Bryce Miller, Keanu, Jeffy Coldiron, and Sabith "Bunny" Cohen, she briefly regained consciousness before muttering “helicopter, police, not personal, PD, Elizabeth, gift”. Her brain hemorrhaging left her with lingering memory issues; she found herself confused about which police department she belonged to, and didn’t remember having lost her frog, Mads, weeks earlier. Cleo was soon discharged with a wheelchair, and while her physical injuries began to heal, she was left with major scars on her face. Worse, the ordeal significantly amplified her fear of heights and airports, and the trauma gave her intermittent feelings of helplessness, vindictiveness, and anger. With a little digging, Bryce was able to conclude that Alexei Pavlovich played a major part in helping carry out her kidnapping. Cleo left the hospital a changed woman; where before she was against violence, now she wanted to see the perpetrators suffer. As the days turned into weeks, and no police action was taken against Alexei or the others involved, Cleo’s anger and desire for vengeance against them intensified, and a feeling that the police department and justice system had failed her began to take root. |
| Leaving Great Ocean Highway for Chumash |
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Weeks of friction between Flop Dugong and Cleo finally hit a breaking point when Flop threatened to change the locks to their Great Ocean condo, after hearing rumors that Cleo had murdered Chief of Police Sam Baas. Having grown tired of Flop holding condo access over their heads, Bryce and Cleo began to search for a new home. Disappointed that nothing was for sale in Paleto, the couple instead found a quiet beach duplex nestled on a back road near Chumash. Sadly, any sense of peace was quickly shattered. During a backyard housewarming barbecue with friends, Cleo stepped away to confront a noisy motorist. Moments later, Bryce and the guests heard gunshots ring out across the beach. Running to the street, the friends found Cleo bleeding out on the pavement. Over the next few days, Cleo worked overtime to gut the interior of the house, quickly transforming it into a cozy beachfront escape. |
| Death of Paul Leeseman |
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While parked outside of Burger Shot with Bryce, Cleo was focused on discussing getting vengeance on Alexei Pavlovich when she witnessed Paul Leesemann being forced into the trunk of a car by Mac Block. Over the past few weeks, she had developed a budding friendship with Paul, and knew how he was hunted by the Blocks, but at the time, she thought little of it beyond placing a 911 call. When she later received a phone call about Paul being in the ICU, it gave her a much needed reality check about the dangers of asking Bryce to personally look into taking action against Alexei, and that feeling only intensified after being informed that Paul had passed away from his injuries. |
| Making Bryce the Happiest Dude |
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After a discussion where Cleo suggested they take a break and Bryce declining, Dante Wolf proceeded to give Bryce his engagement ring, that he had planned on using on ex-girlfriend Nancy Drew. This was a short-lived secret as, Dante told Cleo that Bryce has an engagement ring but doesn't know if and when he would use it. At first, Bryce and Cleo were privy to the idea of marriage; calling it a "cult". But later owned up to the idea of being married having dealt with the highs and lows of their relationship and them still being together. Bryce later gives it to Cleo as "something to look forward to in the future". Stating that, if Cleo was "ready"; she would then give it back to Bryce as a sign of being engaged. About a week later, Cleo decided to face her fears and hike up Mt. Chilliad. At the peak, Cleo decided to pop the question "Do you want to get married, bro?". Cleo quickly took it back and played it off as checking where Bryce was at in the relationship. Bryce said yes, but Cleo committed on saying that it was just a test. Bryce then leaned on the edge of a steep slope trying to show Cleo how to bounce rocks and fell. Cleo followed after. Both wake up at Pillbox, having no memory of what happened. Bryce, sadly, was in put in the ICU after his fall. Cleo, after seeing Bryce in his state, decided that life was too short to not be with Bryce. She asks Nancy Drew, who was also in the ICU room to give her a ride to their house in Chumash where she would try and get the ring to give back to Bryce as she thinks she's now ready. Upon trying to access their storage, she finds out that keyholders didn't have access to them anymore. Devastated at not being able to obtain the ring, she tells Nancy the situation. Nancy then proceeds to get her wedding band ,that she and Dante prepared for their potential wedding, to give to Cleo. After returning to the hospital, Cleo puts the wedding band on Bryce's finger. After Bryce was okay to leave the ICU, they talk about what happened and realize that they had inherited the ex-couple's matrimonial rings. Cleo then passes the proposal responsibility to Bryce. They then realize that they've accidentally proposed to each other. They laugh about the ludicrousness of the situation and move on. After this, Cleo starts referring to her relationship with Bryce as engaged to be engaged as both of them are already taking about getting married and a wedding when they haven't been engaged yet. After waking up from a wild dream of being engaged inside the Chang Gang compound, married in the back of a CVPI by some random woman they picked up at UwU Café, and surviving a zombie apocalypse together; being engaged was the only thing they remembered from the dream. Bryce then decides to pop the question, to make it official, to Cleo of making him the "happiest dude and be his dude", dude. Cleo, in delight, replies yes. Both anticipate their wedding to be chaotic as they are. |
| Tormented by Nicholas Simone |
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Lore to come..... |
| An OG Kingpin Takes a Personal Interest |
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Lore to come..... |
| Trouble in Vespucci |
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Lore to come..... |
| Coming Face-to-Face with Norman Bones |
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During July 2022, Cleo lived at The Lighthouse. She had a few ideas and plans on what she wanted to do with the place, such as making it a safe haven, holding events and gatherings. Renovations were made to make the property homely and welcoming. Measures were put in place to make the property more securable and to prevent trespassing due to the area being known as a notorious spot for illegal activities and wanted to feel safe. It was made apparent very early on that this house use to belong to Norman Bones, which he himself had explained to Cleo. Cleo's adopted parents, Jeffrey Bundy and Lennon Bundy, eventually moved in with her. After some time the property and surrounding land started to decay - trees began dying, the house started rotting, skulls, bones and skeleton corpses gradually began appearing all around the property. Along with this, Norman who lived in the inside The Lighthouse across from the dock infected Cleo's heart and Cleo had multiple episodes of going into cardiac arrest. Paramedic Kiki Pendragon would often respond to her and essentially became Cleo's guardian angel. Norman's goal was to pick apart the family with lies and false narratives, including that Cleo had made a deal, which was false. An attempt to kill relationships within the adoptive Bundy family. Eventually a donor heart was made available for Cleo. The transplant was a success, however, in the next coming days her new heart started to rot again. Norman had infected it again. During this time Cleo worked as paramedic trainee. Cleo became fixated on overlooking The Lighthouse from the house on a regular basis. Norman told Cleo she would be the "first to fall" and everyone else would follow suit. The day before Cleo died - she wanted to deliver a letter to Norman, as well as everyone else close to her, and convinced herself she was going to die the next day. Norman read the letter in front of Cleo. There was mentions of The Lighthouse feeling like Purgatory, a prison. Norman told Cleo to step inside The Lighthouse as she didn't have a choice in the matter. She fell unconscious inside The Lighthouse and before she knew it, she was in an unfamiliar area. Purgatory.   It was cold, foggy, and completely silent. The only thing Cleo heard was her own footsteps, the surrounding water and her own voice. Cleo explored this unfamiliar place and came across bones, skulls, dead trees, graves, a lighthouse in the distance and after some wandering Cleo sees a firepit in the distance with Norman stood next to it. Norman explained that this is where Cleo would end up when she dies. Cold, alone, and left to her own thoughts surrounded by water and a lighthouse. However, before her departure from Purgatory, one of Norman's crows became corrupted and shredded all of its black feathers and the bird's feathers turned white. This bird later became known as Hope. Norman shot this bird multiple times but Norman couldn't kill the bird and it flew off. Norman told Cleo to walk down to the shoreline where there was a boat and it would transport her back. In an instance Cleo finds herself no longer in Purgatory and on a shoreline north of The Lighthouse where she would sometimes go gold panning. Hope flies towards Cleo and finds a white feather near her and Hope flies off into the distance. Bundy also experienced what Purgatory was like after Norman took him to Purgatory the same day. Sunday, 4th September 2022. There was a huge gathering outside The Lighthouse, as prior planning went into facing Norman Bones days before. Cleo and her family and friends came together to fight Norman. Even some of law enforcement officers assisted. Trooper Jackie Snow, Captain Jenny Hall, Deputies Flop Dugong and Louis Bloom, and a few more. While Cleo is a pessimist she also thought logically that this isn't a fight she or the family would win against Death. Everyone was sorted into their groups, Cleo was grouped with Bryce Miller and her adoptive brother, Tommy Melarky. They staged at the north on-standby to provide medical assistance while staying out of sight from Norman, as he stated Cleo would be the first to fall. Bundy overlooked The Lighthouse from where he and Lennon had their wedding ceremony with a sniper rifle. Bundy shot Norman in the head and he dropped to the floor. Bundy took two more shots at Death and shortly after, mysteriously gets stabbed. Cleo's role was to provide medical assistance. Norman's goal was to claim the soul that was inside a person Cleo was associated with at the time. Bryce drove his boat over to The Lighthouse platform, Cleo assisted in making sure Norman stays down, but she also wanted to make sure the person was okay and provide medical if needed. However Norman eventually stood up. Cleo starts to back off. Norman chased down Cleo, grabbed hold of her, and pulled her inside The Lighthouse, making her collateral damage. At this moment, she was sent to Purgatory, at the same time the call was made over radio to blow The Lighthouse with C4 and The Lighthouse came down. The last thing Cleo heard over radio was Lennon communicating over radio that Bundy had gone down and presumed dead.   Taken and Trapped in Purgatory Cleo found herself back in Purgatory, except this time she won't be leaving. Norman told her this was her home now and she would spend the rest of eternity in Purgatory. She would plead for help and Norman would make her family and friends suffer with her suffering and messages passed across to them. What was only 4 months, felt like decades for Cleo. During this time Hope the bird would often visit Cleo, but she started resenting Hope. Hope would come and go via a portal of fire. Bryce tried his hardest doing research and finding out information about Norman and Purgatory. A month after Cleo was taken by Norman, Bryce wanted proof of life. Norman allowed this and sent him to Purgatory, but Bryce found himself inside a cage. Cleo found Bryce in this cage and pleaded with Norman to let him go. They had a conversation but Cleo already started forgetting small details of her life and people who she knew. Bryce was determined to save Cleo by making a deal to get her out. However, Norman wasn't allowing Bryce to leave Purgatory unless he made deal for his life. Not Cleo's, but his. Norman wanted Bryce to kill Lieutenant Emma Dupont and wasn't allowed to speak of it. If Bryce had delivered on his deal, Norman would have told Snow what Bryce did, incriminating Bryce. Those were the conditions of Bryce's deal. However, Bryce didn't follow through on his deal and still awaits punishment for not completing his deal. All in all, Cleo was never forgotten. The people who cared for Cleo and those she cared for fought tooth and nail, holding onto hope that one day she would claw her way out of Purgatory, regardless of Norman's constant taunting or passing messages across from Cleo. Friday 6th January 2023   4 months later, Cleo appears on the island that looks exactly like Purgatory north of The Lighthouse. With no explanation as to why she is back... |
| Tormented by Nicholas Simone Again |
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Cleo went missing and this time forever. |
Momentous Dates within the Government
Emergency Medical Services
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Hired to the EMS; Call-Sign T-166 | August 7th, 2022 | |
| Presumed Deceased; Removed from Roster | September 4th, 2022 | |||
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Re-Hired to the EMS; Call-Sign T-TBA | March 13th, 2023 | |
Unified Police Department
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| Applicant | - | Interviewed with PTD [1] | October 21st, 2021 | |
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Hired to the BCSO; Badge #522 [2] | ||
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Transferred to the LSPD | October 29th, 2021 | ||
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Transferred to the PBSO | December 12th, 2021 | ||
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Solo Certified; Badge #609 | December 14th, 2021 | |
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Transferred to the SDSO | February 5th, 2022 | ||
| Fired; Allowed to Reapply in 35-40 Days [3] | February 14th, 2022 | |||
MDW Profile
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Assets
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| Scorcher | T813422Q
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It's just a bicycle.
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CSHAW
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Cleo's beloved (and definitely cursed) Dubsta.
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| Scorcher | 8IS774LS
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It's just a bicycle.
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LI5Y7YPP
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Discography
Trivia
- Cleo is a vegetarian.
- Cleo's favorite flower is a sunflower.
- Cleo is allergic to honey and penicillin.
- Cleo was on the swim team in high school.
- Cleo will sing Backstreet Boys music to lighten the mood. [4]
- Cleo's big toe was eaten by James Randal, who had a prescription.
Gallery
6th Jan 2023
4th Sep 2022
3rd Sep 2022
3rd Sep 2022
Art by @tankarmern
Art by ashla_okoye923
Art by Wintermore_
Art by smsmithtv
Art by @SleepingJester
Art by Wintermore_
Art by @Wintermore_
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Art by @SleepingJester
Art by saturneighteen
Art by FireLordFLC
Art by @SixtenArt
Art by @Wintermore_
Art by Glitched
Art by DeterNET
Art by Cococosmos
Art by TheArcadeArts
Art by DeterNET
Art by Lakuto
Art by @Nova_Aspyn_Arts
Art by @wintermore_
Art by @Skellyrem
Art by GrimWren
Art by Merpapillar
Art by Jenpre98
Art by Aurora13
Art by GrimWren
Art by Awesam
Sketch by CrimsonWhispers
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Art by Cococosmos
Art by Puro
Art by Lakuto
Art by Ace liebe
Art by GrimWren
Art by @wintermore_
Art by Ace liebe
Art by @SleepingJester
Art by @Skellyrem
Art by Birb
Art by Lakuto
Art by AnoTheHero
Art by Ossie
Art by Lakuto
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Art by @SleepingJester
Art by Munky
Art by @xymphonee
Art by mostlywater
Art by thisisntkatie
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References
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| Played By: SaturnEighteen |
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