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(Complete) Wimblewools & Truffletons
🕑 Added 2025-01-28 02:42:32 +0000 UTC*dragging myself across the finish line* ough. guh. FINALLY done
No Two-Ton Truff here because his size throws the family tree visually off balance. Adsffffg. Anyway, it’s time for Mona’s side of the family. I made a lot of changes to her son “Teddy”, btw, including his name. Buckle up! >:O
Despite their visual similarities, sheep and goats have wildly different stereotypes regarding their species. Goats are thought to be brave and brash, thundering into life head-and-horns-first, while sheep are of course considered meek and timid weaklings. This could not be further from the case for the Wimblewool sisters, Mona and Muriel, of Lambden, England. Mona was an art history teacher at the local school, and Muriel taught music- and that’s about where their similarities end. Mona has always been a shy, stammering goat, even prone to fainting when spooked. Muriel, meanwhile was a pint-sized powerhouse with a proclivity for beer and bar fights. Mona was a hopeless lesbian often too flustered to even approach the ladies, while Muriel had always known exactly what she wanted- a studly ram with a bad attitude and a great big…..set of horns, silly.
Said ram manifests in the form of Balthazar Baast, future god of rock. Bal chats up the Wimblewool sisters one night at a pub, and while Mona finds him to be a bit of a tool, Muriel is instantly bewitched. Slapping her resignation upon the principal’s desk (it’s just the words ‘eat a dick’ on pink stationary), Muriel rushes off with Bal for a debaucherous new life of drugs, sex, and rock & roll. Present day Muriel goes by the stage name BATTLE-AXE, and has been Bal’s lead guitarist and manager for decades. Famous for teaching her fellow meek sheep the fine art of death metal rage, she refers to her beloved electric guitar as her axe.
Mona, meanwhile, has been left all alone. She doesn’t want high-flying adventure like her sister, instead Mona has always dreamed of a quaint, quiet life at home with a family. She moves in with her dear friend Roald, a librarian and rather lame amateur magician (he needs his faux unicorn horn for channeling his latent magic, or so he claims), and spends the next couple years boredly teaching and being the stiffly polite assistant at Roald’s sparsely attended magic shows. Ho-hum, life as usual.
News arrives from the front- Muriel is divorcing Bal, who’s so drunk on fame (among other substances) that he can hardly string a sentence together anymore, let alone perform. With a final harrumph, Muriel trades out all that exhausting hedonism for a safe stable life in the suburbs with a stuffy salaryman. Insisting this is what she’s wanted the whole time (So bugger off, Balthazar!), Muriel eventually gives birth to two treasured twin little lambs. Mona is happy for her sister, but also….jealous. As she creeps closer to her mid-30s, she can’t help but feel like she’s been waiting for years for her life to begin.
Well. Mona decides that since she’s had no luck finding a partner to start a family with, she’ll just have to go it alone. Roald, as exasperating as he is endearing, offers to be the donor. And so, Mona gives birth to the tiny golden goaty apple of her eye, Jamie. Mona is blissfully happy raising her bright, beautiful, only slightly stupid son for the next couple years, life as a single mother means she doesn’t even have to share him with anyone. Roald, an asexual gay man, opts to play the role of Jamie’s kindly “uncle”, rather than dad, helping Jamie with schoolwork and teaching sleight-of-hoof magic tricks that definitely don’t wear on Mona’s nerves.
Good news! Balthazar is sober! More news! He and Muriel are getting back together! Mona pretends to be surprised. Not like Bal hadn’t been spending the last year writing dreary, weirdly horny flop albums about lost love and being hungry for saucy little sheep….Muriel promptly divorces her husband (her dear john letter only reads ‘eat a dick’) and joins Bal on an electric honeymoon tour, and somehow, Bal comes back from it pregnant. Muriel’s quite smug about it. Mona can’t help feeling her life seems somewhat dull in comparison, even with her son….
It takes Mona a decade or so to pluck up the nerve to move to the states, and she doesn’t even move anywhere interesting. She merely wants a change of pace, a safe, quiet little shake-up. Instead a loud sow by the name of Lulu barges into her life and turns it upside down. Lulu is large, in charge, and her crass flirting makes Mona feel like she’s going to faint (and she does, sometimes). Mona doesn’t need to be good at talking to women because Lulu decides they’re dating by their second conversation. Mona is yanked along for the ride, bleating and terrified (okay not really, but Mona will never get used to how forward Americans are, goodness! I-it’s….exhilarating! Perhaps her sister was on to something after all with all that debauchery talk? Why Mona may just go home and drink a full caffeinated tea after this!)
Mona knew Lulu had a son, but by the proud, doting way she talked about him, Mona assumed he was a young, polite little schoolboy, maybe 8 or 9 years old. She is blown the FUCK back when Lulu happily introduces her to her gigantic surly boar of a son- the very same boar currently failing Mona’s art history class (and all his classes, really). Although Mona reaches out to him in concern over his floundering grades, nineteen-year-old Tibbs is not at all in a place where he wants help from his mom’s stuttering snooty british girlfriend. He tells her and her tutoring to fuck off, and then he fucks off- to god knows where, coming and going as he pleases, all while his mother turns a blind eye. Lulu brushes her son’s struggles off, or changes the topic, or, if pressed, becomes quite angry ,“Don’t act like you know my son better than I do!!”. Between the both of them, Mona often feels like she’s butting her horns against a brick wall. Still….she’d be failing as a teacher if she stopped trying to help young Tibbs.
Worse than Mona and her meddling is Jamie. Tibbs can’t stand Jamie. Approachable, warm, and just a bit goofy, he's the sort that genuinely wants to know the answer when he asks how you're doing. He's here for you mate, d'you need a hug? Whether by birth or through Mona's frantic overprotection, Jamie seems incapable of recognizing faults or negativity in other people. Since day one he's wanted nothing more than to be Tibbs friend (and maybe, hopefully, someday a brother?), which teen Tibbs of course HATES. He sneers at Jamie’s close, affectionate relationship with Mona (idiot actually calls her “mummy” still, what a rube). Worse yet, Jamie’s quite the cooking whiz (already getting offers from fancy culinary schools!) so he clicks quickly with Lulu. They spend their evenings making dinner and joking around in the kitchen, which used to be Tibbs’ thing to do with Lulu! >:( Sullen, resentful, and feeling replaced by the new golden kid, Tibbs withdraws from his family further. Jamie is the son Lulu deserves, Tibbs feels like an unsalvageable fuck-up in comparison. Jamie's relentless optimism and total lack of damage rankles Tibbs, and he spends quite some time trying and failing to shove away the grating goat. Jamie is so eager to impress Tibbs that he'll fake knowing how to smoke Tibbs’ cigarettes (cueing a violent coughing/puking fit) or even pretend to be related to Balthazar Baast (yeah fuckin right). It all does little to win him respect from the aloof boar, and Tibbs doesn’t bother looking back when he ditches his family for his girlfriend Joan.
And yet. Much later on, when Tibbs is serving his prison sentence, Jamie is one of Tibbs' few visitors. Tibbs is depressed and alone, but Jamie tirelessly brings him new books and junk food to share and teaches him how to crochet granny squares, and it's here that their friendship finally takes off. Tibbs not only comes to respect Jamie, but also grows fiercely loyal to him. Similar feelings ignite for Mona, a maternal mentor figure who sees Tibbs for who he really is. While Lulu and her endless fawning make Tibbs feel unheard and ashamed, Mona is kind but honest, fully able to challenge Tibbs when he’s being a moody little shit. He’s respected her ever since he was a teen, when he angrily got up in her face to intimidate her and she keeled over in a dead faint- panicking the fuck out of Tibbs, who thought he’d killed her. She then revealed she’d only pretended to faint to teach him a lesson- Mona may be anxiety personified, but she’s also been forged in the fires of public education for decades. She is not afraid of him, so he’d better stop trying to throw his weight around. Tibbs didn’t like the lesson at the time, but secretly he thinks Mona’s more than a little hardcore. In the end, she becomes so much more than his mom’s annoying goat girlfriend….and Jamie, of course, becomes Tibbs’ brother.
notes:
-Mona and Jamie are goats. Balthazar, Muriel, and their kids are all sheep. Winnie and Nona are both Muriel’s daughters from her poorly-thought-out prior marriage, and Bal has always been a doofy doting stepfather to both of them. They love Bal a lot! Winnie is a hippie-dippy herbivore that wants to create a commune for ungulate folk to graze sweetgrass freely, the way Mother Earth intended (public opinion remains skeptical), while Nona is a tech wiz that can’t stop selling scam ideas to silicon valley nerds. Bankrupting millionaires is a hobby for her. Bal eventually gave birth to his own princess of darkness, Belladonna (stage name Hemlock), a goth metal operatic-style vocalist (think Nightwish), though she’ll never stop being Bal’s baby bella luvvy lamby-lamb. 🖤
-Mona is an artist (she painted the designs on Jamie’s horns). When Lulu is later able to transform her shabby old diner into a slick Cajun kitchen, they’re finally financially secure enough for Mona to retire. She currently spends her days making artisanal cheeses and sculpting things out of butter. Lulu’s proud of each and every piece!
-Lulu isn’t allowed to use anything spicier than salt when she makes food for Mona. Even a sniff of cajun seasoning might kill Mona’s british ass
-Perry and Jamie get along like a house on fire, their combined excitable double dork energy makes Tibbs feel like he needs to lay down
-Roald is a cremello horse~ Also, Jamie still hasn’t figured out Roald is his dad. Roald says he’s Jamie’s uncle, and Jamie is of course a good boy that takes people at their word. 😌
-“Byron” is not Bal’s deadname, just the boring civilian name he used before he got rockstar famous. The only one to call him that these days is Muriel, in their softer moments. Comparatively, his pet name for her is “Bunty”.
they’re both (generally) more interested than crochet than cocaine these days. generally
Comments
Soltori
NEED to see more hemlock, whats their deal they look almost vicar emilia adjacent
Mix
this whole family tree is absolutely amazing lol
mirarevias
That Muriel and Bal doodle at the end is my favorite thing ever 😭
Lopoddity
Not annoying, he's inspired by Aziraphale! He originally had short fluffy white hair before I decided it was a little too on the nose
D
Also, pardon the comparison if it’s annoying. But I can’t not think Roald is somewhat inspired by Aziraphale
D
UGHHHHHHHH EATS THIS POST EATS THIS POSTTTTTT -Also Jamie’s design has me FERAL, it’s my favorite color palette and just SO pretty UGH
Morghann Patterson
And Winnie having a people pleaser coping mechanism meaning that Nona is probably the only one bringing this up and butting heads with her about it… oy. Do you think the twins ever got some stability from Mona?
Lopoddity
Nona and Muriel don't even need horns to butt heads~
TheTabbyBadger
I sense ~*mama drama*~
Lopoddity
Muriel thought it would be cute. Or she was lazy. Or she had postpartum depression. Or she was too zonked on post-birth morphine to think up 2 different names. Anyway, Muriel thinks it's cute. Nona would disagree, not so cute to constantly get mistaken for her twin sister by teachers and friends, not so cute for the school nurse to mix up her and her sister's allergen information, not so cute when she tried to take out an insurance policy at the same company as her sister and immediately got accused of fraud. Muriel disagrees, cute af
Res Hound
Is there a story behind the twins having the same name?
vulgarcute
Id love to see a family tree of Perry as id like to understand his aunt and Don a bit better
TheTabbyBadger
👀
Lopoddity
Eventually, yeah. The world will remember it forever as the day Tibbs went full fangirl
Craneswoop
I love this! Did Tibbs ever meet Balthazar?
Morghann Patterson
Yesssss complex romantic influences due to parents doing their own shit how I love you As someone whose parents have gone through Multiple Messy Divorces each, it’s something I don’t see actually come up a lot in how that kind of thing really affects you.
Lopoddity
I mean....you could always do one for Riley and Ryleigh. ;) Or maybe Ike, Rudy, and Dolph. I maaaaay whip up a quick tree for Perry actually. It's grumpy cats all the way up!
Lopoddity
It's just acrylic paint with a layer of varnish to protect it. It fades over time, after which Jamie scrubs it off and Mona paints a new design on. Bella has a long neck because Bal has a long neck, though he wouldn't rule out the possibility that her sire was an alpaca or llama.
Must Love Frogs
I need to do another family tree! And then YOU'LL need to do another family tree! And then I'LL do another family tree! We'll oxygenate the world!
Saba Saeidi
curious how those horn tattoos were made. Are they engraved or is it some sort of permanent paint? Im inclined to believe not engraved since horns are basically their own limb, but curious how it works in Fuzzbutts, if its even a common thing also, how did Bella end up with such a long neck !?!?!?
Lopoddity
If u wanna get serious about it tho the divorce definitely gave Winnie and Nona some troubling ideas about relationships. Like, Bal and Muriel themselves got divorced and remarried at least once. Muriel dumping Horace to go back to Bal was....well, at the time the girls were distracted by how cool and indulgent their new rockstar stepdad was, but as adults...Winnie might’ve internalized the idea that she ALWAYS has to be likeable and perky and "on" lest she be discarded, and Nona often sees people as disposable and has trouble letting others get genuinely close.
owlcoholik
Unicorn enthusiast convention in Tampa sounds like heaven honestly
Lopoddity
Not saying it couldn't happen, just. Don't let Nona's baby face fool you, she's nearly old enough to be Honey's mom. She may have lambs of her own. Horace and Roald tho would go to unicorn enthusiast conventions in tampa and be a match made in heaven
owlcoholik
Well shit. How about Horace and Roald then 🐏🎠
chichi77tim
Even though It's obvious since they were born before, I would never have guessed that the Winonas are in their 40s. They both seems so young, Nona especially!
Lopoddity
one night at a show: Balthazar: Alright, folks, quiet down, oy, shut the fuck up a second....I just wanna give a special shout-out to my most loyal friend, the one sheep I can count on when the going gets rough- Battle-Axe: *straightens up happily* Balthazar: -Horace Humblehoof of F.Luff & Sons Tax Consulting! Love ya, mate! Battle-Axe: >:O Horace, in the crowd in a too-tight Balthazar Baast t-shirt: W O O
Lopoddity
The Winona twins are in their early 40s, and Hemlock is in her mid 30s
Lopoddity
Baby Jamie: headBUTTING you and headBUTTING you and headBUTTING you and- Mona: couch cushion tied to the head be upon ye Baby Jamie: 🥺
Morghann Patterson
I have to wonder how Winnie and Nona felt about the divorce and their new father figure- Balthazar is cool as shit, and definitely welcome, but seeing Horace get dumped unceremoniously must have been a bit weird for them. And of course, I must ask- does Horace get to meet Bal, and does he become his one Deeply Normie Buddy to the chagrin of Myrtle. Co-parenting buddies!
Morghann Patterson
I know Roald has some accidental Blueblood….. but I’m seeing a fair amount of Discord in Balthazar too! So in love with the new herd of goats and sheep- does Jamie engage in playful headbutting as means of affection? I can so see him doing it gently to Lulu only to have her BONK him right back so hard he staggers.
Lopoddity
Yup, both named Winona!
Toadboss Ida
Do the twins have the same name?
Strix
OHHH I Love Jamie's redesign sm🥺🥺🥺
Ren
Jamie getting the same ear piercing as Tibbs 😭💕 Wonder if that was in the early days of desperately trying to impress Tibbs or something later on to honor him. Mona having a Rockstar family is just *chefs kiss* insert love it. They messy and I love all of them
Lopoddity
His name was Horace and he was a tax consultant. He liked newspaper comics about hating mondays and taking annual vacations to tampa. Muriel sometimes thought about pressing a pillow over his face while he slept
chichi77tim
Oh, okay. xD It's not important who the sire is, in the end, since for how much Hemlock's concerned, she already has a mom and dad. ^^ How old is Hemlock in the current timeline? Around Skie's age or older?
PrincessMuffinArt
Jamie looks GREAT. I love the flowers on his horns! Also Belladonna I see you! Nice to have you in fuzzbutts!
Lopoddity
Wouldn't say that Bal and Muriel have an open marriage (they're not interested in having relationships with others), but they definitely swing. They had a little too much fun on their honeymoon, Bal doesn't know who Hemlock's sire is. As far as he's concerned, it was Bunty who knocked him up
Corinne Stephenson
Poor bloke was probably unable to handle Muriel. Those divorce papers were probably a godsend
Heather
Dude Nightwish altered my brain chemistry 🤘 🎸
Heather
IM HYPERVENTILATING OVER THIS FAMILY LORE I CANT FOCUS ON ONE THING EXCEPT BATTLE-AXE MA’AM I DESIRE YOU CARNALLY
TheTabbyBadger
Oooo love the lore drop! What a fun family make-up :D Kinda feel bad for Muriel’s rando husband 😅 She and Bal are cute tho
chichi77tim
Wonderful work! Love the redesign of Jamie and Hemlock's design Is sooo pretty. I'm a bit confused thought: how did Baast have her? Do he and Muriel have an open relationship, It was only something that happened during the honeymoon? Or something else that I'm missing?
Blizwolfthewolf
I love that I said "I forgot" out loud before I scrolled all the way down. 😂
mailebird
"Babe, wake up. New Lop lore just dropped."
Lopoddity
Honey, waving at Nona across the room: 😃 Nona: haha. Ew :)
Lopoddity
Muriel: What d'you mean ya didn't know you could get pregnant??? You've got the right bloody parts ya daft dingbat, surely you had t'have known this was a possibility? Bal, scratching his head: Bal: i forgor
owlcoholik
I ship Nona and Honey. Nuff said
Millions of Bees
I love the idea of furry characters who are furries and dress up as unicorns and dragons and like Bigfoot or whatever. I had never considered it until just now.
gamigami
jamie. i lov. jamie . his design. his everyhting. hoohah. hHUWahou. litearlly a golden boy. also i love every word and ounce of effort you put into the family dynamics of your world, realistic from beginning to end and just as enticing... i do wonder if Tibbs met anyone in jail that he's still friends with, and how he reacts when Jamie in fact was not lying about being related to Bal (in a roundabout way lol)
ummhallelujah
I am so curious about Hemlock's other parent. Were they also a sheep/goat or is it unknown? What were Bal and Muriel's initial reactions when they discovered the pregnancy?
Ash
Jamie is literally my son I love he 🥹 Nah but that was a very fun read, glad to see more about this family! 👀
werewargs
It’s so good he’s just shuffling around in pure delirium I love it
Lopoddity
The way he says "aaaaaaugh" sounds so crusty. He sounds like an old computer processor starting to overheat, i love it
Lopoddity
Hmmmm i can't say i see that happening but ya never know
Amanda Stidham
Fascinating! Think you'll get attached to Teddy and write a new story for him?
werewargs
Dude that clip lives in my head rent free lmaooo
Lopoddity
He'll be replacing Teddy. :3 Though not in all areas- I think Jamie is a bit too dorky to be casually sleeping with Sunny and Skye like Teddy was. We'll leave that to Teddy the miscellaneous background reindeer oc, not Jamie.
Lopoddity
Roald has about as much magic as you or I do. But horses in FB have a long history of wearing divening cones/unicorn horns to channel spiritual energy/commune with the cosmos/vague woowoo bullshit. Roald is the FB equivalent of a furry. Definitely super into mythical unicorns and renaissance faires
Amanda Stidham
Aww. Well I like Jamie! I wonder how his story plays out. Does he just replace Teddy in the storyline with Lune and Victoria? Or does it go entirely differently? I'm dying to know!
Lopoddity
I HAD THAT EXACT CLIP IN MIND HOLY SHIT
Lopoddity
Maybe as a background character....if i ever draw a background, lol *cries*
Lopoddity
Across the table, I'm giving you a knowing wink~
Lammergayier
That tat on Jamie's horn..... CUPPA JOE REFERENCE SPOTTED
Corinne Stephenson
We can avoid a conflict. Just put Jamie in the bag and I'll walk out of this Himbo Bank without hurting anyone.
three thousand spiders wearing a trenchcoat
Wait I JUST noticed the sunflower design on Jamie’s left horn, omg such a cool detail🔥
Amanda Stidham
I love seeing the whole family! Will Teddy come back in some capacity?
AsTheJayFlies
Are you gonna go back thru the teddy tag and update each post with jamies new name? :0 thats what i would do. also ough everyone is so cool i love your storytelling so much
werewargs
The last Bal doodle had me thinking of that one Ozzy clip where he’s like “someone’s gone into my room and taken my beers away from my room” and I just picture Muriel fitting the “I don’t think so darling~” before Bal’s “auughhggghhhh”
Doglover502
Wait so does Roald really have magic? I’ve still been curious about how mythical creatures fit into this world, if they’re real or existed in the past or only exists as in-universe deities.
Tibbles Yorkie789
BlueBlood wishes he was as pretty as Roald! Seeing his luscious hair alone would have him rattling in his fetlock feathering!
tricoloryn
OH MY GOD AAAAAAAA teddy's redesign is AMAZING, i am absolutely obsessed with his sunflower horn
Lopoddity
Stiiiiill figuring out Lune's story but yeah, probably
Lopoddity
I drew the unicorn horn and thought fufufu, such a clever character design, damn I'm good....then I looked at him closer and realized he's just prince blueblood from mlp, god fucking dammit
pitviperofdoom
Also, as a lifelong Nightwish fan I'm loving Hemlock.
pitviperofdoom
I love the changes to Teddy/Jamie! Is he still friends with Lune?
Shield
augh im obsessed with this little clan . probably helps that goats & sheep are my favorite mammals but shhhh shhhush
Tibbles Yorkie789
I saw the unicorn horn and nearly gasped 😂 And I just know Snickerdoodle and Jamie get along, they got the the same smile and everything! (Tho something chaotic radiates from Doodle)
Lopoddity
Yup! ;3
Doglover502
Hey crocheting is still pretty metal. Some of the things people make out of those is insane. I bet they like to piss off the old conservative retirees by making little yarn satanic symbols (as deadly as it is difficult)
Lily Bryan
Love love love reading all the notes! But sad to see Teddy go, but very interested in this new iteration in Jamie. Gotta love a lovable dork
Iowasi
I adore this whole entry; thank you so much for spending so much time on this to share with us. ;;
Sorceringingarts
Extremely funny how Muriel named both her kids Winona, couldnt think of another name just picked one and told her daughters: you can share
Lopoddity
Maybe 16 or 17. Close in age but still young enough that Tibbs saw him as a pest
RagingRiptide
I really love how while Jamie is very obviously a goat, you can see his bio dad’s horse features shine through in his design. It’s really Impressive! This was such an awesome read. I’ve been so looking forward to this and it was well worth the wait!!
feathermaws
I love them all omg Do the vines on Snickerdoodle’s line mean adopted?
three thousand spiders wearing a trenchcoat
WOWWWWWW all these cool new goats n' sheep .......... all the character designs are INCREDIBLE, and I'm living for this lore drop!! also god i wish hemlock was real
Lopoddity
Mona says it must be because Muriel loved how similar the names Mona and Winona sound. :3 Muriel says she was strung out on morphine after shitting out 2 lambs and accidentally scribbled the same name on both birth certificates
MiyaTheGoldenFlower
Honestly their designs are gorgeous and the backstories very interesting 🤩 Tibb family history kinda hurt me a little, is kinda relatable when parents aren't abusive, they do love you with all their hearts, try to break the generational curses, but still fuck you up in other ways. How is his relationship with Lulu right now? I mean more like how they try to fix it or try to talk about their problems? Cuz I'm sure that conversation wasn't easy or pretty. I'm glad that Mona could make herself be respected without being more mean or violent, a win for us non confrontational very anxious people 😅. Maybe some can say that addictions are an stereotype in artists but let's be real no matter the type, many artists especially the very old ones did hardcore drugs that is a wonder they are still alive. And again I love how you draw old people 💖
WAr
How old was Jamie when he came into Tibb’s life?
Jewell H
Also my dumb tired ass just realized both of Muriel's girls are named Winona and I almost choked on my own tongue.
Angsty Ram
Ah, I just love them all so much! Adore goats and sheep so I am 100% being biased but all these designs absolutely slap. I especially love Jamie, the sunflower design on his horn is beautiful. Also I wasn’t familiar with Nightwish. And I now quite a fan, so thank you for that.
Jewell H
I am. So in love. With every one of these dorks.
CJ Strahd
Also Bunty and Byron makes me go berserk. Their lil oldness and way of speaking makes me joyous
StarrySharks
Now I *need* to know how Tibbs reacted after finding out that Jamie was, in fact, not lying to seem cool and actually *is* related to Balthazar lmao, I every single one of them to an unfair degree (especially Battle-Axe, the icon she is ✨)
Rumpeltyltskyn
Wait it took me way too long to realize that Muriel named both her daughter Winona? Lmaooooo
CJ Strahd
This is a fucking whirlwind and I love every word of it holy shit
