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This was inspired by the Bikkuriman Art Collab on Newgrounds which I may or may not be able to enter because I'm not Scouted. It's not as high quality as the rest of my works because I was trying to make it look more simple with an 80's Japanese style.

A fun fact here is that I made this in vector and learned that Vector does not convert well into PNG unless it's a massive picture. So, why was I making this in vector? Well, I didn't intend to just make art of a sticker series, I turned it into an actual sticker! [url=https://bsky.app/profile/kyxlect.bsky.social/post/3lgsvpwvohc2a]Behold![/url] (I don't know if I can include real-life photos, so it's a link) That's a real 48x48mm sticker, just like the actual Bikkuriman stickers.

So..I guess I can share some more information about it:

[b]Why choose a Compass as Rudy's symbol?[/b]
- I thought about including the orb of corruption to signify it at first but more on that later, when replacing the orb I thought about either a mascot-type logo, an assistant style logo, research style logo then finished with the Compass. The first being that Rudy's a mascot, but he's also Kyx's assistant > One of Rudy's primary jobs is researching dimensions > He travels through dimensions so a Corrupt Compass was decided.

[b]Why "Naughty Cat" ?[/b]
- The Bikkuriman characters don't actually go by names, just what [i]they are/do[/i] it seems.

[b]Why put the orb as the back symbol?[/b]
- I feel like that spot is more of an affiliation symbol and while I originally planned to just put "Corrupt" or something, I thought that might be boring and when we talk about the Japanese version, they seem to use the same symbol to signify different things. 悪 means 'Evil' but it also means Corrupt, Bad, etc. I don't know how they determine which one of these things corresponds to the character but since I don't agree with Rudy being placed in the 'Evil' category and thought that it would be lazy to just write "Corrupt", I simply drew the Corrupt Orb to affiliate him with the Corrupt Faction.