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this one's just for you all on tumblr though :^)

i cannot stress enough that souls are tangible things in death stranding that is one essential half to having your heart beat and your lungs breathe and that deadman, at the beginning of death stranding one, does not have one, but he does at the end

and the thing that turned him into a zombie that is reanimated instead of a zombie that is undead is allowing himself to love sam and lou

"as it turns out, i have a beach" -> secret code for "your living love warmed my dead body enough for it to recieve one of being alive's inherent rights which i had been incapable of receiving until then"

highdeathstranding

don't think it's unrequited, either. sam just doesn't use his words. the tragedy of this ship is that neither of them know they effect the other as much as they do until it's too late.

sam spends death stranding 1 completely terrified of touch, and at the end of the game, deadman is the only character we are shown him consensually touching. at the start of death stranding 2, we see sam respond coldly to fragile initiating touch (the woman i'm supposed to believe he's in love with by the end of the game, mind you) but attempt to tackle deadman in a hug the first chance he gets.

this ship is built upon these two recognizing (and in the recognition of, the manifestation of) the human in each other that they continue to deny themselves

#This!#EXACTLY #I mean no hate to the people that ship Sam with Fragile but that's exactly why I can't see them being a thing #I can't see any chemistry between them at all #to me they have the potential of being best friends maybe #it's just so clear the difference between the way Sam reacts to the first time he sees Fragile in DS2 and how he reacts to Deadman #He jumps into Deadman's arms without thinking twice #it's beautiful especially coming from someone like Sam #... if they only had more chances #DeadSam really is tragic

highdeathstranding

i cannot stress enough that souls are tangible things in death stranding that is one essential half to having your heart beat and your lungs breathe and that deadman, at the beginning of death stranding one, does not have one, but he does at the end

and the thing that turned him into a zombie that is reanimated instead of a zombie that is undead is allowing himself to love sam and lou

"as it turns out, i have a beach" -> secret code for "your living love warmed my dead body enough for it to recieve one of being alive's inherent rights which i had been incapable of receiving until then"

stayyoungstaysimple

不太会用但玩儿得挺开心的主要是能糊过好多细节适合我偷懒（喂

stayyoungstaysimple

Just in case anyone isn't familiar with it: this comic is read in the Japanese manga format, from right to left.

This is a gothic novel AU that somehow started when I kept thinking about white-haired Sam Bridges and his motorized coffin.

In this AU, Sam is a hybrid of a vampire and a succubus. Cliff is the vampire parent, Lisa is the succubus parent, and both of them are currently... absent (mostly because I haven't figured them out yet).

Being a hybrid is highly unstable. In theory, Sam has two different ways of feeding, and traditional vampire weaknesses (sunlight, running water, blood hunger, etc.) are much less severe. Unfortunately, the succubus side comes with a rather inconvenient trait: his sex can switch completely at random, entirely outside of his control. The vampire side isn't much kinder either—when he's hungry, he becomes so weak that even an ordinary human could probably beat him in a fight.

Deadman fills the role of Frankenstein's creature. The alchemist who created him disappeared long ago, and he grew up (if that even counts as growing up) almost entirely through self-education, with nobody around to guide him. He occasionally mingles with ordinary people, but spends most of his time conducting research.

He looks heavy and slow, but is actually incredibly strong and much faster than he appears.

This comic takes place shortly after Sam crawls out of his crypt, starving, exhausted, and looking for someone—anyone—to feed from, only to be very unfortunately captured instead.

Honestly, this isn't that different from his life at Bridges.

Becoming a vampire apparently wasn't enough to save him from being studied.

The entire reason this AU exists is because I wanted an excuse for gender-related transformation shenanigans and other questionable ideas. In other words, I built an entire world just to justify one very specific trope.

I also wanted to see whether my understanding of comics has changed at all, and whether I could get a little closer to the kind of manga I imagine in my head. The answer seems to be "a little, but not by much," so I'll stop here for now and try again another time.

Also, I've been missing the Red Samurai lately, so next time I might find a way to throw him into this AU too.

#Deadsam #sam porter bridges #Deadman #YEEEEES #I've been waiting so excitedly to see the full AU!#Thank you! Thank you so much!#Also amazing art as always!#I hope to see more of this AU 👀

Study using a photo I found on pinterest and turned them into Sam and Deadman

#my art #death stranding #sam porter bridges #deadman #deadsam #ds deadman #art study #my favorite thing to draw is sam and deadman kissing #sam if he had a happy ending on DS2 #just tenderly kissing his husband as Lou sleeps peacefully on a crib close to them

Some studies on DS2 Deadman (a bit of DS1 too), I also tried to explain how I simplify his features, including for a chibi, furry and genderbend version. It's been a long time since I last did a study on him, I missed this :')