I can't quite remember what exact year I decided to start designing Reggie, but I wanna guess it was around 2019 since that's a year after I made Gina. I had the idea of wanting to make a "guy" version of Gina, or at least make a different geode slime like her.

I started with his main color, orange. The complementary color to purple! (or near it lol)

Orange is a super hard color for me to work with, and warm colors in general. I use a lot of cool colors when I'm coloring or designing characters. I just really like blues and purples. I knew making this character would be out of my comfort zone.

I can't remember which drawing came first. The one with the white background was drawn in a drawpile with some friends. You can see Gina next to him! He looked pretty lanky in the beginning lol. I wanted him to be different from Gina, and I always knew he would be bad at shape-shifting. I also wanted him to have rock bits stuck to his body. However I have no damn clue what I was going for with those rock patterns on him lol. I wanted it to look kind of like bondage? Or something? But it wasn't working LMFAO. He also originally had magenta eyes, similar to Gina. Because orange and pink was a color scheme I was attached to due to an old OC I made of similar colors. You can see I kept the half-a-head idea with his rock taking up a good majority of his head and having one eye. When I was making him like this, I kept the idea of him being opposite of Gina by imagining him being timid, shorter than Gina, and shy. His character now differs, but I kept some of the shy and timid elements in a way.


Then sometime in...2020? 2021? Can't quite remember the year to be honest. I stumbled upon a visual novel called Your Boyfriend, which is an 18+ visual novel about a guy who stalks you and persues you. In other words, a male yandere... I watched a youtuber play it a bit, and got intrigued but sickened. I couldn't bear to play it myself, due to personal issues of characters who stalk the player. But I did look up a bunch of info of the game (at least surface level, a lot of the knowlege of it left my head), and I knew getting into it would get me sucked in so I kept a distance from it. I also felt like I would be judged by my friends, and being into a crazy male character was embarassing for me. I also didn't like how Peter looked lol (the character from the VN) However, I was still intrigued in the idea of it and felt a struck of inspiration.

During that streak of inspo, this pose was drawn of some unknown character. I just had a strong vision in mind of a crazed character. But I couldn't plug in any character I knew of, or any OC who would fit in this pose. Then I had the orange slime OC I was making in the back of my head who needed development. I had trouble plugging him in the pose. Mostly because of my self-forced aversion of the energy this pose was inspired by a male yandere. But also because his design wasn't done and I didnt like where the idea was left off in his visual design. I was also probably making myself avoid designing any crazed character, especially one inspired by Peter from Your Boyfriend. I felt like it wouldn't be right of me to make a character like that. I stopped myself from going further of using this pose idea or the energy of it, and left it abandoned. However I always kept it secretly in my canvas titled "orange slime man.csp"

That file collected digital dust in my hard drive for around 5 years. I would open it every now and then to look at it, but wouldnt go anywhere with it. I've tried playing with the design more, but nothing was working. It felt like shoving a square peg in a circle hole. So naturally, I just left it there and sit in the back of my mind that this character exists, and possibly plug new ideas into and try out.



And sure enough, it finally happened in 2025 after I played Monster x Mediator. It's a visual novel that has a male yandere, ironically the character type I avoided for so many years. Due to me playing the game blind, I had no choice but to learn about the character NauseAxe_404, a character I got so obsessed with that I made a fucking shrine about him. I went through the process of unlearning this shame I had over liking crazed, murderous characters. Not to mention, a character who is so obsessed and in love with someone to a sickly unhealthy level. Some things have happened throughout my life and started to boil over. I also had the natural process of a creator thinking "oh, this experience I had / this feeling I have.. that hurt. that was an awful event I went through, and I was forced to see a disgusting side of myself" and was in need to put that into a new character. After that, I finally decided "fuck it", and went back to the orange slime character I had in my scrap pile.

I started to see his character a lot more in my head of who he was and how he acted. I sat down and decided to finalize his design to where it is now. I sat in a voice call with my friends and spitballed ideas about his colors. I went through many color variations, even changing him from being orange. But no other color sat right with me. It didn't feel right to make him any other color, despite trying to think of a "sexy" color lol. I was given the idea of making his eye color similar to the geyzers at the yellowstone national park. Orange and yellow in the rim, green and blue in the center. The rock was also based off of a magma rock, only by association with how google images work by showing me somewhat related images. He still needed to have a geode rock on his head, and I found this exact picture of some rock from ebay. This is the closest image I could find to the one I used as reference. I sadly didn't save it, or lost the file. A friend also spitballed a name to me, based off of some kind of moon rock. Reggie!! It sounded simialar to Gina's name!! I stuck to it instantly. He was a geode slime named Reggie, who was orange in color and had rock bits stuck to him! His eyes were yellow, blue and green. And he wasn't good at shape-shifting.







This was when I finalized his design and started making sketches of him. Some being NSFW (cropped for the sake of this page being SFW). You can see where I kept the idea of being a bit shy from the beginning. I drew him interacting with Gina a little, which again, sparing the details for SFW reasons. Still not being able to shapeshift on his own, but was able to be sculpted and keep the shape. His body had less rocks stuck to him than his beginning design, almost having a completely smooth surface. He still had the big one on his head, and has a few stuck on his back. He looked so cute to me, I was in love with what I made. The more I sketched him after this, the more he developed into a character who was....not well.

And this is where I decided to show how uh, unhinged he can be? This is a sketch before I drew the drawing on the old page. I'm veeery bad at descriptive adjectives. But you can see how this sketch differs from the previous ones. A hand on his face showing an expression of excitable desperation. I started plugging him into the same storyline as Gina, how he would also exist in the facility she came out of. The rest of that I will keep secret for now hehe.