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Chubby Ness

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Ness from EarthBound albeit considerably overweight.
A sort of sequel to "Chubby Ninten" ( feathery-wings.deviantart.com/… ).

Someone left a comment on "Chubby Ninten" telling me that there's actually NPCs in EarthBound that call Ness fat, at least two of them. I haven't played it yet, so I wasn't aware. I was like, "Oh my gosh, that's adorable!" and felt inspired to draw Ness as a big fatty. I always thought Ness was more dense in stature than Ninten or Lucas...
I think of Ness as being a bit hyper-aware, nervous, and kinda sheepish. I get this idea from the body language he has in the Super Smash Bros. series, even if that series is non canonical. All the characters exhibit personalities accurate to their appearances in their respective games, so I have no reason not to think Ness's behavior in Smash reflects how he behaves in his actual game. So, I depicted him a bit nervous here.
Here, I've come up with a little story that after the events of EarthBound, Ness just wants to stay home and doesn't want to do anything adventurous for a while. Unfortunately, he's also suffering from PTSD, and develops an eating disorder while trying to cope.
It wouldn't surprise me if Ness ever did become fat when he grows up. He eats things he finds in mud puddles for goodness sake.

I like the ones at the bottom where he's admitting he has a problem.
... I temporarily forgot how to draw Jeff. I wonder what event it was that called for those donuts.
I like to imagine that even with Ness's newfound shape, Paula still loves him.

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Ness / Jeff / Paula (c) Shigesato Itoi / Nintendo
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Could you make a drawing of this version of Ness as a smash character?