He’s walking past me on the way to the bathroom. I catch his arm. “Are you bleeding?”
-Simon, Wayward Son by @rainbowrowell
I started drawing this ages ago, but only recently, with Rainbow’s tweets about AWTWB being about emotional and physical intimacy, did I think it was time to finish it. This is one of those unsung intimate moments between Simon and Baz in Wayward Son, notable for all the ways it shows that there is indeed intimacy there, but it’s stunted by their individual issues. Baz resists being undressed because it will reveal both his indestructibility and his wounds. Simon wants to comfort Baz but has no idea how to cross that threshold. And yet, despite everything, the wounds are laid bare and Simon’s hands are coated in the evidence of their inescapable proximity to each other.
