always forget how much eames and arthur literally carry the fischer job on their backs. killing dozens of men in impossible conditions while yusuf Drives a Normal Van and cobb and ariadne Have a Loud Conversation. saito innocent he got shot in the damn chest. everyone else ASLEEP on the job. WAKE UP!
eames is james bonding it down a fucking mountain. getting avalanched. ripping men off snowmobiles. arthur's doing fucking judo holds in zero gravity. throwing men off paradox steps. shooting guys on the damn ceiling. and doing MATH on top of it all!!! meanwhile cobb is just Yelling Exposition while ariadne Asks Questions. i'd like to negotiate the fact that everyone's getting an equal share here. i'm contacting the fucking union
i know eames was sitting in arthur's alarmingly minimalist LA penthouse that night absolutely demolishing a $3,000 bottle of scotch telling arthur i'm sorry darling i know you've got an unaccountable soft spot but i'm never working with that layabout cunt again. he insists somehow he's sore from all that tumbling down a mountain even though it wasn't real. if he ever hears ariadne urgently yell EAMES!! over a comm like there's no one else on the bloody job he won't be legally responsible for his actions. arthur meanwhile spent so long in zero g he keeps falling down stairs. it's not because he drank half the $3,000 bottle. it's not. shut up, mr. eames. you've never had a hallway decide to turn into a fucking washing machine. you've never had to float in a goddamn elevator shaft. and eames is like mmm i'll float in your elevator shaft, darling, which makes no sense but it works on arthur anyways. he's easy except when he decides to be difficult. but i digress
tags: established relationship, crack treated seriously, humor, married couple, fake character death, undercover at your own funeral
summary:
“How did you know him?” a hipster in his twenties asks Arthur as they stand by the grave.
Arthur, sleep-deprived and uncomfortably hot in the Californian weather, barely glances at him. At the last funeral, he said he was Eames’s old business partner. Before that, he claimed to be a friend from college. Both relationships sounded so practical Eames has lamented about it several times since.
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By the third time, Eames's fake funerals have lost their charm.
hello. saw the funeral prompt at @gywo build-a-bingo. thought of several angsty scenarios. ended up writing something rather unserious <3
Ngl, this is a tough question. I honestly love every interaction we get of these two.
I think if I had to pick, it would be the scene in the hotel where Arthur helps Eames with his IV. Others have pointed out that Arthur did not need to do this. If he really wanted to someone with this, the more logical options would be Ariadne or Saito, the ones who are the least experienced of the group. But Arthur chose to help Eames instead. Chose to kneel next to him, touch him and have a moment with him before they separate.
"Security's gonna run you down hard." "And I will lead them on a merry chase." "Just be back before the kick." "Go to sleep, Mr Eames."
There's so much going on in this exchange. Eames being concerned about Arthur facing the projections all alone, Arthur reassuring him with a joking tone, the way they smile at each other (Arthur's dimples!). They're so soft with each other in this moment and I'm obsessed. Also I have questions about the way Arthur says 'Mr Eames'.
Tbh it was really close between that and the scene in the taxi after they were attacked by Fischer's projections. The "Are you alright?!" "Yeah, I'm okay, I'm okay." This moment stands out to me because Arthur is a very unflappable character. Dreams collapsing, projections attacking, Cobb yelling at him - whatever happens he remains relatively calm. He might be visibly annoyed, but he never raises his voice. The one time in the movie where he loses his shit is when he thinks Eames might be hurt. He screams his concern at Eames, even though they didn't know about the sedation yet, so as far they knew getting killed just meant waking kill. Yet Arthur still reacted like that. He didn't check on Fischer or Saito, just Eames.
They care about each other so much and I'm so normal about them.
Each fandom canon has its own unique challenges when writing fic and Inception requires extensive googling of various countries' law enforcement agencies to be accurate about who specifically is trying to arrest our boys now
telepathy but the distinct sort of telepathy displayed by men in action movies who have worked together and made it through dangerous situations before.........this is about the beat in inception where arthur backs the taxi into that projection and says "eames" and eames pops up and shoots the guy, no question, knew what arthur meant, 100% trusted that the coast would be clear.............unrelated but these two carried that heist on their fucking backs !!!
some royal jewels were stolen from the louvre which is unfortunate for historical reasons but you gotta appreciate a classic crime. so many crimes are online these days it’s nice to see heist culture is still alive
arthur and eames as leyendecker's "portrait of two men"
full ver and notes below (rambling)
1) i darkened eames' hair from the light green blond of the wip, which I was initially hesitant to do bc I'm so used to the black and blond hair ships I think and I thought irrationally "they cant BOTh have dark hair" as if undertones don't exist.
2) absolutely did not think I would ever finish this bc I hate drawing hands so much but I had so much fun rendering everything else I just kept going and completed it in record time
3) i really really struggled with the hands and arms but I knew I wanted to make eames hairy so I lovingly rendered the arm and chest hair <3 I had no idea what I was doing and I don't think I'll ever be able to recreate it. the hands are not the best but I think this study made me improve on them at least a little so thats a win for me !
4) eames' pants were originally bluer but it contrasted too much with the rest of the art so I desaturated it considerably. his shirt was also much brighter but it was absolutely an eyesore.
5) i had no desire to try to make them look like the actors (even tho jgl was my childhood crush and Tom Hardy is my forever crush) bc I usually draw in an anime or cartoon style and I didnt want to get stressed out trying to capture their likeness and making it too hyper realistic since that's out of my skill range
my only goal was to give eames' his beautiful lips and Arthur his very high cheekbones and slick hair since I was depending on their clothing to make them recognizable. I added a poker chip and a moleskin in their hands bc I was still worried it wasn't reading as THEM. Arthur has a basic face that I would draw casually but eames..EAMES I felt possessed drawing. I kept thinking "I have to make him look beautiful like Tom Hardy, I need everyone to see how beautiful an anime stylized Tom Hardy is but I don't want to go full realistic either"
6) I wanted to draw them in the original suits that leyendecker drew, but I really wanted to draw more slouchy folds on a white shirt and rolled up sleeves so I decided to just draw them in modern clothes. If I revisit this again, I ll just draw the new clothing over it. maybe even go ham and draw a bunch of versions of them in different AUs bc I love drawing clothing and I LOVE love LOVE Arthur and eames in all their different AUs. aside from regency and suits, I would love to draw their clothing swapped. like maybe their suitcases got mixed up and now they HAVE to wear each other's clothes or a body swap situation. pls if there's any art or fics of clothing or bodyswap please give it to me
7) I wish I made eames bulkier but when looking at reference pics hes not actually that much bigger than Arthur (not like bane u kno), just a little thicker around the neck. I broke his nose a little too. I wanted to draw a peek of his tattoos but I don't recall seeing them in the movie and I'm too lazy. also I cant be looking up shirtless photos of Tom Hardy at work.
8) when I tried to post this on Instagram the auto audio that popped up was "metal pipes banging over your head again and again cartoon sounds"
9) I did feel like a thirsty victorian man choosing to draw their arms instead of putting them in their canon outfits with blazers out of pure desire, but that is not a crime
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