Okay, I admit it. I like cute things, and I need to work on my chibi-drawing skills. I mean, do they look nine years old to you? Their stripes are supposed to be kinda faded, like they're only half-there (because as really little kids they didn't have any). Seems Ratchet just had one of those annoyingly huge male growth spurts, too. Guys have this annoying tendancy to grow in leaps and bounds, so just when you think, 'Hey, maybe I'll be taller than him for once', they shoot up another four inches almost overnight. This is from a flashback in my fic, when Vel found out very early one morning that she was moving, so that's what's up with the funny background and the fact that they're still in their nightclothes. Ratchet seems to think that he's not in a very manly possition, LOL.