Oh, it's Loyal !

Don't mind me, I'll just post my art on here - you can find me @ohitsloyal everywhere

[ohitsloyal]

Egg ain't having none of that bs

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A little percabeth doodle based on a frame from the season 2 trailer (I'm so so excited!!)

[ohitsloyal]

I've been really enjoying Absolute Batman, so here's a little fanart ! If there's other fans out there, hi :) !

[corazondebeskar]

I want to talk about Bob.

I want to talk about Bob and how fandom treats characters with mental illnesses, because I’m already seeing this shit.

Spoilers below the cut.

His arc is so good, and yet some people are really just focusing on making him into “UwU babygirl” material. I know, this is tumblr, home of the babygirlified characters.

But there’s heavier context here. We’re talking about someone who survived an abusive childhood and overcame the addiction he used to self-medicate for a wildly unrepresented/stigmatized illness.

His memory loss is not cute. It’s traumatic. He’s traumatized.

Yes, it’s important that he absolutely can be seen as a love interest, as a favorite blorbo, as a comfort character. In fact, I think he will be for many people with mental illnesses. His story resonates.

But there’s a systemic, historic pattern of treating mentally ill folks as children, or incapable.

The situation with Valentina is a metaphor for conservatorship. She handles him, makes decisions for him, all while talking down to him.

Don’t let fandom do that to him, too.

[ohitsloyal]

idk I just wanted to draw them but was lazy (I like their faces though)

[ohitsloyal]

Went a little crazy with this one ngl

I wanted to draw him sooo bad, I hope we get his costume in game after the movie comes out because I love ittt (and I love pedro pascal but who doesn't)

[ohitsloyal]

Okay I'm back and I have a new ship to obsess about (oops), so here's some oshamir !

[diviner-alva]

8/30 - The way she accepts praise that comes from him

Of course I had to mention the fact that Aloy barely seems bothered when Kotallo is the one offering compliments. Other people she just tenses up or feels awkward, yet Kotallo literally calls her a miracle and/or the one that always performs miracles and suddenly she tags along in the inside joke??? I've never seen her doing this any other time or with anyone else, even when Lawan mentioned her helping the work stoppage in Chainscrape and she answers awkwardly "I was just... helping out". Always downgrading her deeds or humbly saying she didn't do it alone in an attempt to lessen the weight of them. BUT Kotallo calls her a miracle and she's suddenly like :) what the hell is THIS guerrilla/ashly/noshir?????

And when she returned to the base after defeating Regalla, you can see that Kotallo probably burst through the doors and started screaming into the common room how Aloy defeated the machines from the sky with a single blow and brought Regalla to her knees on single combat challenge. And obviously he has told this story more than once as you see... Zo's thrilled response lol (I doubt he didn't made it sound even more incredible and creative as he repeated it. I also hc he told to each one of the gaia gang individually because they always say "Kotallo told me" instead of using "us", he did that just so he could tell the story three times lmao this man is hopelessly in love). AND Aloy doesn't seem at all annoyed he did so, the first thing they say to her is this that and she just nods or play along like "sorry to disappoint" SERIOUSLY WHAT THE ACTUAL F*. I am going crazy, this could me something almost irrelevant but TO ME IT MEANS A LOT??

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[ohitsloyal]

Kotaloy kiss!! I doddled this at work super quick between two frames ;u; Sorry for the low quality, litterally drew the black lines on tvpaint :'))

[ohitsloyal]

She is looking respectfully

or, you know, something like that

[diviner-alva]

She is learning and Kotallo is her test subject

[ohitsloyal]

Bare Kotallo lives in my mind rent free 👀

[elysiumnightmares]

POV: Hekarro sends you to go talk to the Sky Clan commander

[ohitsloyal]

I wish we could have seen them interact man, Fashav was on screen for like 5 minutes but he has my heart and I miss him :'(

[ohitsloyal]

Idk if anyone will see this but hi <3

I haven't used tumblr in a while so I am very rusty but if anyone who reblogged/liked my Kotaloy fanarts comes across this post:

Thank you so so much ;u; ! I saw all the little tags and all the cute comments and, first of all, amazing to share the love for these two with so many people, glad I'm not fangirling alone; and second of all, y'all are too sweet!! This makes me so happy ;u;

I didn't know how else to respond to tags so I hope this post shows my appreciation!

[ohitsloyal]

Do you know the "oh" in fanfics? Yeah, that one precisely

Again, I am obsessed with them it is ridiculous at this point but oh well, I will gladly sink with this ship tbh

[ohitsloyal]

YES HE DID!! He DID miss you girl, you have no idea omg

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Thought I'd post these two lovebirds on here too!