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O Christmas Meringue, O Christmas Meringue, Your snotty branches delight us! Comment below if you'd like to a be a Secret Santa and recipient. With this comment, include a picture of the nicheling you'd like drawn, as well as any info you can give about them (genes, personality, differences from photo, even a toyhouse link!). If giving a picture not from the game, please include their official niche genes. Signups end the 4th of December! This will give everyone 3 weeks to complete their art and send it in. I will use a random generator to pair participants. (I will not be a participant.) I will pm everyone with their recipient's name, nicheling and info. Everyone makes their art. It can be traditional, digital, pixel, a sculpture, whatever you want; animation, gif, plain, anything! Do not sign your art or post it on any platform, including the forums. Everyone PMs their art to me as soon as they are finished. Art is due the 20th!!! If you do not send in your art in time, I will request art from an Emergency Santa to fill the place. You may post your art AFTER the rest of the art is released. On or near December 25th (my schedule may cause delays), I will post the finished art with the recipient's name (I will not reveal the Santas myself). Everyone may make their guess on who was their Secret Santa. Secret Santas may confirm or deny these guesses. Please wait for your recipient to guess you and then confirm the guess rather than announce that you were so-and-so's santa. If your recipient has made a correct guess and you confirmed, you may post your art to other places (DA, Fanart section, etc). You may also sign the art. (If you'd like your signed art used instead of the unsigned version if posted elsewhere by other people, just say so.) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ❤️ IMPORTANT Like the last 2 years, we will have Emergency Santas (ESs). ESs will make art for anyone whose Secret Santa did not finish or submit their art by the 20th. ESs need to be able to quickly make art. This Emergency Art (EA) does not need to be of the same quality of the official art; EA is just so everyone can receive something at the same time. ESs can also be a regular Santa at the same time but are not required to be. Just ask if you'd like to be an Emergency Santa. They're documented below for my own convenience lol Emergency Santas: @Sky @Pebble the derp snout @flower -she-he- @ralsei deltarune @Lilytuft with antlers @Gono* TIPS -Try out a new style or a style you haven't revealed before. It will be harder to guess the Secret Santas. -Don't start a big project if you're not 100% you can finish it. Go with something simple to give yourself time to finish and not be rushed. -You can ask me for a critique if you want. This would be especially helpful if you're trying a brand new style and you're not sure if it's good, or if you just want to get your art right. Just tell me what level of critiquing you want: Light, Medial or Heavy. OTHER -Check out @Pebble the derp snout's Secret Santa here! -This is the 4th annual Secret Niche Art Santa, hosted by yours truly!! : D -Check out previous Signups here: 2018, 2019, 2020 -Check out previous Art here: 2018 (can't be found?), 2019, 2020 REMEMBER THIS -Send in your nicheling submissions by December 4th. -Start your art as soon as possible once I PM the info. -Send in our art no later than December 20th. -If you do not submit your art by then, a volunteer will make art in it's place. Save your late art for the 25th or later. -On or near the 25th, the art will be released. Make your guesses and make sure to confirm or deny if they're directed to you! -MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL

OH YEAH! hMm my nicheling is predictable I'd like also to be an ES

(seems like nobody else had any changes soooo we'll start it soon. Probably not today tho)

Happy Thanksgiving my forum friends

Hello! This is my first playthrough so I hope it goes well. Before I start the story I'm going to give some background story about the characters. My starter nichelings , Sparrow and Crow, were thrown out of their tribe because they had wings. They washed up on the shore of an new island. They decide to start a tribe, and call it the tribe of wings. The rules are- 1. A wanderer must have a tribe gene to join. The tribe genes are - Antenna, wings (bat or bird), bird beak, and big ears. If a wanderer doesn't have any of these genes, they will not be invited. 2. A nicheling in the tribe may breed with wanderers, even if they do not have the genes needed to join. 3. If a baby born in the tribe doesn't have the correct genes, once they are old enough they will be banished.

uh weird tv lady

✨the funky man with pretty eyes✨ (I don’t usually draw eyes like this but I like it :] )

HECK YEAH

I'd like to both participate and be an ES I think I'll go for Misty the warning dot queen this time. She likes exploring, but is quite calm. You can add some flowers or something if you want

It's me, ya boy, Kat, finally joining a SS anyway uh. Doxx my beloved I'll try my best to explain his personality but he's just so. weird. so if my explanation doesn't work and you really need something to go off of: Kokichi from Danganronpa (that's the thing I based him off initially) He's very uh. Eccentric. And odd. He's never really seen with anything but a smile on his face, and he has this uncanny ability to tell if someone's lying or not, and be able to know pretty much anything about them even if they've never met before. Oh yeah, he also killed a guy idk man i just woke up

ill go with the nicheling i did last year- arrow my beloved (if side pictures are needed i can get those) she also has blue gems im pretty sure (maybe pink?) id also like to be a ES

"In this case, you die. You also lose the coin! :("

Have this

I'm ready! I'm ready! I'M READY! I'M READY! I'M READY to go work at the krusty krab TO START THE NEXT ROUND OF THE WARS!

Are we ready? 😁

'deltarune' kinda cool ngl

can we appreciate this gif I made last year though?? I'm still soo proud of it

secret santa coming soon 👀 just finished my annual pixel gif of Christmas Meringue!! can't wait to share ittt

same on everything! if someone called me a he I'd just be like "HAHA YOU THOUGHT I WAS A GUY--SIIIIIKE! I'M A LADY"

"he doesn't need legs" -me drawing deltarune

Happy thanksgiving :]

Part 3 from the perspective of Crow Ever since Crow had told Sparrow about his ability, she had been sitting sadly in a corner, picking berries. Crow fluttered closer to Sparrow and she flinched away. "What's wrong?" Crow asked her softly. Sparrow flinched again "Please leave me alone" she whispered, not looking up from her berry bush. "Why! I've done nothing to you. I've helped you! We would still be hungry right now if I hadn't gotten those fish!" Crow said harshly. Anger was flowing through him as memories of his past arose. Parents that never wanted him. Elders calling him a embodiment of evil. Saying Crow would hurt and kill. The whole tribe cheering as he was thrown into the sea. His mothers last words to him. Before he killed them all. Then it was to much. All the awful things that the Tribe of the Sea had done to him. Crow fell to his side and closed his eye's. He felt no grief or remorse. Only anger. And then sleep came to claim him. The waves washed over Crow. His tribe was staring at him as the sea carried him away. Carried him to death he was sure. Suddenly they erupted into cheers. "The killer is gone! The killer is gone!" they yelled, celebrating their victory. Sadness surged through Crow. He had killed. When he was just born he had killed his sister. A week later he had been playing with Gorge and had slashed him across the throat. Eight days later a visiting rouge had died under his claws. A season after that his father had died because he was talking badly about Crow. He was dangerous. He should die. No, Crow realized. They will die. And I will have my revenge. And that is when Crow first felt evil enter his body.

Happy Thanksgiving!

happy thanksgiving!!!

WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT

One of my nichelings gave birth to the flag of Poland

I did some unsheathing claws, too because I wanted to

DID ITTTTT + a sprint cycle, too

baby epper and tako!!! with drama!!!

Part 2 from the perspective of Sparrow Sparrow opened her eyes. A bolt of fear immediately jolted through her. Crow was either dead, or almost dead. Sparrow knew nichelings could hold there breath for a long amount of time, as long as they stayed still, or jumped out of the water as soon as they got in, but they couldn't hold it over night! Sparrow cautiously looked down. Crow was still there. At least he wasn't a pile of bones. The red fish had swam away over night, which at least meant it wouldn't kill Crow. "Crow? Are you alive?" Sparrow whispered. Crow didn't move. "Crow!" Sparrow said a little louder. Crow still didn't stir. "Crow!" Sparrow exclaimed. Crow opened his eyes. "Sparrow! What are you doing! I was trying to sleep!" Crow said angrily. Sparrow stared at him. "You were going to drown! You were under the water over night! I thought you were dead!" Crow jumped out of the water and shook the water out of his fur. " I have the water body. I can't drown." He said. Sparrow stared at him, dumbstruck. Crow... couldn't drown? Was that how he survived the purge without a raft? "Do the others have this water body to?" Sparrow asked. Once Crow said he couldn't drown, Sparrow had been noticing somethings that were different about him then about other nichelings she knew … or used to know. Crow responded to her question, cutting of her train of thought. "No not that I know of, though Piper might. She always seemed as interested in the sea as I was. I could swear she was smiling well they said that they would send us out to sea for the purge this season." Sparrow shivered. The purge was something that happened every season. Any double winged nichelings would be killed in some horrific way. Sparrows mother said that one year they burned all the unwanted nichelings, and another they feed them to carnivorous plants. No one had ever survived the purge … until this season. Crow lightly touched Sparrows shoulder with his bird wing. " Come on. Lets go." He flew of. Sparrow slowly followed. She knew she should feel glad that Crow couldn't drown, but instead a feeling of dread was growing.

Part 1 From the perspective of Sparrow Sparrow was drenched and she couldn't remember why. All she could remember from the past month was the raft that had carried her out to sea, and the aching hunger that always seemed to linger in the pit of her stomach. Sparrow slowly opened her eyes. The bright blue sky was spinning and blurring. She tried to get up, and stumbled, landing on a patch of black fur that grunted at her. It wiggled and Sparrow fell off of it. She stood up again and this time was able to see the island in which she had landed on. It was bigger then any island Sparrow had ever seen! Tree's dotted the area, perfect for gathering from and nesting in. There seemed to be a cliff which rose up from a small patch of savanna. Suddenly the other nichelings head shot up. He hissed at sparrow. "Um... Hi?" Sparrow said. The creature relaxed. "Oh it's just you." He said. Suddenly, as Sparrow was looking over the other creature, she remembered his name. "Crow! I thought I was the only winged creature that got away!" Sparrow threw her wings around Crow, gleeful that her winged friend was alive. "Do you think the others survived? Kakoo, Chirp, and Finch?" Sparrow asked enthusiastically. Crow flew to the top of a palm tree and tried picked up a shell that was nearby. "I don't know... maybe they washed up somewhere else on the island?" Crow said hopefully. "Lets go into the grasses and try to find them!" Sparrow exclaimed. She flew down the beach , heading over to a yellow savanna port, where she guessed one of the others might be. Crow pecked half heartedly at the shell one more time and then followed her along the beach. They layed down in the sand and fell asleep in minutes. When Sparrow awoke the next day, some fish were just under the waves, teasing her. Sparrow wished she could jump down and grab them to get a meal, but if she did she would drown. Sparrow stared at the fish sadly, her stomach screaming at her to just jump into the water and grab them. Crow had woken up well Sparrow was looking at the fish. He spotted them and immediately jumped under the waves to catch them. Sparrow watched in horror. Was Crow trying to drown him self!? Then a giant red fish came up and started sniffing at Crow. It's sharp teeth were an inch away from his neck, when Sparrow lashed out at it. The fish swam lower in the wave's and continued to sniff Crow. This time, Sparrow couldn't swipe at it again without drowning, so she just fluttered to the other side of him and anxiously watched him, hoping with all her heart he wouldn't drown.

Since everyone's making one of those pages now, I'm just gonna say that I'm perfectly okay with words like guy or dude. Also I feel honoured if someone calls me bro, but please use it sparingly to not wear down the effect. I don't like the sound of sis, it feels too twitter-y. (Don't feel bad if you accidentally use it though) To keep all this info in one place, yes, I still go by she/her, but won't mind being called anything else

It's like one half... also so weird generation: