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The title is in blackletter, and reads, "Office Romance of an Animated Armor". This comic is created by Lant (@lantsart). The subtitle is "Special 1: "Shaped the Same" - A story of how Clankston and Phil first met. In the first panel, clankston is helping out a new intern. They lean over a keyboard, and in the background a mermaid in a giant fishbowl is staring at the screen. The mermaid says "Oh so that's how it's done! thank you clankston." In the next panel, the mermaid says, "Can you toss the keyboard and mouse back into my tank? Thanks!" In the frame, the camera is above their heads and pointing down to show clankston putting the keyboard into the giant fishbowl, and the mermaid is receiving it. In the next panel, a small voice from within clankston says "Pray, ensure thou dost update thine folder ere thou takest thy leave for this day." The intern says "huh?" Clankston then turns fully to face the intern and the voice says a bit louder, "Ensure thou dost update thine folder ere thou takest thy leave." And the person squints and says "Sorry, say that again?" In the final panel, a mouse leans out of clankston's collar, and yells "UPDATE THINE FOLDER ERE THOU TAKES THY LEAVE!" The mermaid startles and leans away from clankston.

The mermaid says "Oh thank you for the reminder... your mice are so well trained-" Immediately a bunch of other mice lean out of clankston's collar and yell "Watch it, buddy!" "what's the big idea?!" "I'll show you "well trained"! The mermaid looks dismayed and scooches back even more. Clankston quickly waves their arms in a placating way, there are cartoon sweat droplets flying off of them. They quickly point at a big button attached to their belt. A close up of the button shows that it says "Pray, do not agitate mine roommates (The mice)" Clankston then bolts for the emergency exit that leads to the stairwell.

THE PREQUEL of OFFICE ROMANCE OF AN ANIMATED ARMOR. This is the story of how Clankston and Phil first met 👀 (1/10)

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The upper left depicts Scurry, a mouse who is optimistic and vibrant. She is a protector and loyal paladin. Her ears are large and round like little lima beans, and she has round eyes, and a tuft of hair upon her head. A mouse-sized chestplate covers her chest, and sits above the Ring of Language around her belly. Her weapons of choice are a sewing needle, thumb tack, and her favorite shields are a 10 cent coin with a handle taped to it, and a button. A note on the side says that her ears don't pin back when she becomes hostile, instead they continue to stick out like a bird with wings outspread. On the upper left is the character Squeakums. He is a mouse with long bangs sweeped over his right eye, that has a scar running over it. His right ear has a cut along its edge, and his left ear is gnawed off at the end. He has a much more sleazy appearance with sharper ears and sharper eyes. Squeakums is a pot stirrer, an ideas man, and a bratty drama queen. (He swears he's working on it). I briefly considered giving him bangs split down the middle like mcdonald arches, but decided to go with the bangs swept over his scarred eye. The mouse on the lower left is Gnawy. He goes by he/him/they/them pronouns. He is a cynical romance novelist who smokes. Underneath it all he is a hopeless romantic and romance expert. He has a little writing table that he regularly breaks due to smacking on it in frustration during writers blocks. He refuses to replace it, so he tries to fix the broken legs with rulers and pencils. Kent_Ciputra from twitch wrote "The ember has died out for him, but it doesn't mean the coals can't be used to ignite other's fire." The last mouse on the lower right is NIbbles. He is an observant mediator who is the voice of reason. He is hard to please. Is he disappointed in you? Hard to tell. I considered giving him various hairstyles but settled on braided hair with studded earrings. He wears a scarf.

concept art for clankston's mice roommates!

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The title of the comic is "Office Romance of an Animated Armor", and it is created by Lantsart and Twitch Chat. The font is in the sort of fancy old calligraphy you'd see in old english manuscripts. As for the contents of the comic, it depicts a suit of armor jolting up in bed as a bedside alarm clock rings. The suit of armor doesn't have a helmet on. There are little mice peeking out of the suit of armor and they have nightcaps on. The armor puts on an office suit, and grabs a lanyard that has "Clankston" written on it. That is their name! They then dash out of the door while tossing a sandwich into the open neck hole of their armor.

Clankston is now at the office. Standing on the other side of the office next to the watercooler is a couple of centaurs and what looks to be one humanoid person. An arrow points at the person, and it says "Clankston's crush. Half centaur, half minotaur, looks fully human". Underneath in smaller text, it says "Some mice (chat) likes them because they have a rat tail haircut". Clankston holds a hand up to their chest, and there is a slight blush over the exposed armor of their hand. The background is sparkling in a shoujo like manner as the narrator mentions that "clankston likes them because they are shaped the same". Clankston approaches their crush when their crush has returned to his desk.

Clankston hands a letter to their crush. The narrator says that the DC is 10, which means that the number that chat needs to roll needs to exceed 10 in order for this endeavor to be a success. Chat rolls a 16, which is a big success! Clankston's crush opens the letter, which reveals a flowery blackletter old english style font. It reads, "Mine heart hath been captured by the lovely image of thou, and I find thou the bearer of all mine felicity. Should'st thou find it amenable, I desire to escort thou to a midday meal. Thine most sincerely, Clankston." Clankston's crush says "ok!" and the mice peeking out from clankston's neck hole cheer. Clankston is granted +1 charisma for the success, and in the corner of the page a Relationship Meter is depicted, and Clankston is currently leaving a "positive impression" on their crush.

A start of an adventure for a humble suit of armor.

Office Romance of An Animated Armor is a Choose Your Own Adventure webcomic where viewers on my twitch (www.twitch.tv/chompchompvt) can make suggestions and vote for what happens next! #clankstoncomics #clankston #comics