I found the source of the ticking!

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Creature

She's just like me FRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! (Her name is Suburban)

Vienna Spin

I haven't really been able 2 work on the game recently because of the fact that I don't have wifi atm.

The bum.

Battle backgrounds

All five of them, are complete.

Early game screenshot, haven't done much with the UI because I have been mainly focusing on working on other sprites for characters.