Catching up and seeing Spinel's pony story might not get finished. On one hand I deeply feel like Flannel doesn't deserve happiness, on the other, Petal making him her bottom bitch who will never escape or ever look elsewhere is nice, I imagine Flannel does get some deep punishment for what he did, and I hoped it would be severe but I'd like to ask what you had in mind for him even if it's not a perfect end, not everyone eats karma as much as we want them to.
I had this whole idea of Petal absolutely whaling into him that the husband serves the bride and that he is bound to her, both discovering she has a lot of pent up anger and frustration but that she also actually gets quite a thrill out of putting her husband in his place.
He was found out because of Pitch and Spinel blackmailing him to the point of noticeable distress which his guard friend recognized and insisted on getting involved. That was how his friend discovered his cheating and insisted on telling Petal. Flannel was not welcome in his own home for a good while and had to live with the neighbors for a bit while Petal sought out advice for what to do and tried to understand what went wrong. She then insists on couple's therapy and from there realizes how much Flannel loves her but how much he hates himself, and she learns more about his needs and interests and confides in the neighbors on how to better match Flannel's desires.
she was never really meant to learn about the situation with Spinel's age, she never got that context so it's not like she's forgiving him for such a thing, and you are right plenty of people don't face full karma.
I've had these two sketches for the longest time that I was hoping would be released eventually
Petal's theme song based around Flannel would be "Empire" by Shakira so I drew her in a scene from the music video
"Take off all of your skin I'm brave when you are free Shake off all of your sins Then give them to me Close up, let me back in I wanna be yours, wanna be your hero And my heart beats"
And then of course there's this lovely lil thing
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