Decided to draw two of my old Crash Bandicoot OCs, Twist and Desirée! I can't remember exactly when I made them, but it was definitely sometime before 2015. I feel old jfhdjg

When I first drew Desirée, I had given her this pink and sort of plastic look, since she was intended to just be the annoying girly rival chick for Twist to despise. But I messed around with the colors and fell in LOVE with this new design, and I'm low-key a little mad about it gkshgj

Twist on the other hand remains pretty unchanged - I always adored her original design and I can't bring myself to stray from it 😂

Some backstory for them:

Twist has been stealing ever since she was young, and was always pretty great at it - it's in her genes! It wasn't until her teenage years that she decided to enroll at Madame Amberly's Academy of Evil, to learn how to make her thieving even more efficient and effective. It also doubled as a place for her to crash, as she never had a permanent home otherwise.

She ends up making quick rivals with Desirée, a star student at Madame Amberly's who's as conniving as she is popular. She's well-versed in mechanics, chemistry, and some even claim she uses some kind of dark magic or hypnosis - though maybe that's just be the effect she has on all her little followers...? She plans to use her charm, wit, and strange supernatural aura to effectively brainwash the entire student body into being her loyal servants, and one day she'll sway the entire world to wait on her hand and foot.

Desirée thinks someone like Twist, whose whole schtick seems to just be stealing people's stuff, doesn't belong at such a prestigious school, and most of their time is spent trying to one-up each other in various ways.

One day, a fight between them results in Desirée's reputation at the school being forever ruined, and as revenge, she gets Twist expelled from the academy. With nowhere to go, she's forced to survive on whatever she can get her thieving little hands on - including a hoard of these shiny purple crystals that seem like they'd be worth a fortune.

She stashes them and herself safely behind a waterfall, until one night she's discovered by Dr. N. Gin. He's so impressed that she's managed to collect all of these Power Crystals by herself - some of them even swiped from Dr. Cortex's own facilities - that he enlists her help in gathering more. Twist happily agrees so she has another place to bunk, and ends up getting along strangely well with the two doctors in question.