a phm red string doodle comic~ followup to this post!!
just fyi, this got out of hand so it's long as fuck❤️ enjoy!! ->
timeskip 🫶🫡
REEKS of artstyle inconsistency. but also love 🫶 and my insane ramblings over the course of mutliple weeks. i wanted to get a semi-coherent storyline to post so here it is!!
shoutout to @kikithepink for this post, for ideas about the eridians' version of a fated soulmate; because they use echolocation, not being able to see the string, but instead hearing special vocalizations/a special sound to let them know that they are "tied"! every reference to rocky hearing grace's heartbeat is for you!
hopefully this post wasn't too difficult to understand- i did the timeskip because i wanted to get adrian in there AND! i love comics framed on memory, so them reminiscing on how stupid they were in communication ugh. i love it. hopefully it's comprehensible LMAO
so they basic premise is that grace initially didn't tell rocky that they were tied. he's nervous! and they also didn't know each other well yet.
they did talk about it after rocky tells grace about adrian, and then details to grace the "mate thrum" though that means something a little different for eridians. essentially feeling a "big big energy"; i'd like to think it's a very low-frequency tone (like the color RED! get it. red string.) but very powerful and unmistakable.
and rocky didn't bring it up to grace because he thought grace knew! LOL. but also navigating the "my soulmate is an alien" landscape, and it became clear to him (during the eridian mating conversation) that grace, in fact, did NOT know that rocky knew that they were tied/fated.
i'll probably make more fleshed out doodles about grace getting tied to adrian as well (i wanted to keep this one basic/short [well..]) but they were tied on first meeting (just like rocky and grace)!
and little easter egg, but every frame of grace and rocky sitting post-time skip, they are sitting on adrian! i too am not immune to big adrian propaganda, i love it so much, here's a more detailed look into my psyche:
anyway. i think that's it! thank you for all the love for this au, and if you got this far down the post. 🫶 til next time 🫡
iron lung spoilers 🩸 TW for general angst, talk of death, and blood‼️"dead stars" a comic by me ⭐
remember this gif i made?? this is the same au. yes, you heard it right, i made my fix-it au sad 😭🫶
my comments + an au breakdown below 🩸
i've officially dubbed this au "lifejacket simon"! i'm going to tag it and i'm so excited, i've never made fanart for an au of mine for anything before, let alone my own tag 🥲
first and foremost, is it crazy to thank you guys for all the love i've been receiving on my fanart?? i'm an artist who recently came from the dead desert of shitty instagram, getting maybe 10 likes on a post, so all of this is so insane to me; THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH! 💖💖my art is always for myself first, but the traction it has gotten really inspired me to be ambitious and gave me motivation to make more art (like this!) because i know people actually like what i create 😭 anyway,
LIFEJACKET SIMON AU breakdown + me being a nerd:
wherein simon attaches his body to the lifejacket/blackbox and survives the sm-13 explosion. instead of killing him, it just destroys the eel (sorry eel fans), and the pressure from the blast propels him close to the surface where he floats up in the life jacket.
is this humanly possible under canon iron lung circumstances? no. is it possible in this au? Yes. blood ocean is uncomfortably warm, but not boiling, so while it is hellish, the blood alone won't kill simon.
that being said, he still loses his arm, and instead of a facial mutation, he loses his eye due to blood exposure.
i just think the image of him floating alone in the blood ocean is so visceral, and i wanted to create a similar feeling of hopelessness that i felt after watching the shot of just the blackbox and lifejacket floating in the film. but maybe there is hope, because he is with the blackbox....
...i also have his seed pendant on his right arm. i needed him to have it with him. i yearn for the angst and tension of him having a physical reminder of his brothers/family on eden, and missing them even though they betrayed him. it's all the love he ever knew.
and i LOVE the paralell between the dead stars/ simon. is he not one himself? so here we are.
i like my art to be up to interpretation, so i'm not going to explain this comic (as much as i want to go into my exact vision and creative process making this) but if this is incomprehensible (or if anyone just wants to hear it) let me know and i will.
i can say that i love how much of an unreliable narrator simon is, and there will be more content for this au... maybe not as big as this comic but still some content For Sure.
anyway, and don't take this the wrong way, but i hope this comic broke your heart the same way it broke mine when i wrote it! 💔 making angst fanart is such a guilty pleasure of mine.
definitely more to come. also, i wasn't sure if i should add body horror to the TW bc of the missing arm; he isn't like mutated or anything, but let me know.
and if you made it this far, thank you for reading my insane ramblings! again thank you for all the love. and send me iron lung doodle requests in my ask box! 💖
I LOVE DRAWING IRON LUNG FANART i'd say try to stop me but genuinely i don't think anyone can i'm like addicted.
okay but serious question here. if i figure out how to make stickers or something would anyone buy them?? like actually being so deadass rn and you can say no. i've never sold merch in my life and i've done like 2 commissions in my 10 year art career for a friend bc it stresses me out 😭😭‼️but let me know bc i'm curious!
okay that's all! hashtag i love drawing simon and his bloody ass eye
i'm not sure this is much of a better ending, though.
narratively speaking, i understand why simon had to die. but sometimes you just gotta cope and make an au where he still kinda has his humanity and he escaped and everything's definitely not fine but it's better than a lone life jacket and black box in a blood ocean!!
not sure why this sudden obsession with iron lung is running so deep for me, but in any case, I might write a fic if the fixation lasts - so look out for that if you're into that kind of thing.
everyone sees life through a pinhole. why does a god get to decide that its pinhole is correct?
ughhh hey guys. this was supposed to be just more young simon doodles but i got carried away...
vague on purpose. up to interpretation.
i originally drew young simon with straight hair because his flashback in the movie had that look, but i think i like this design better so i'm sticking with it.
there are so many eden ideas bouncing around in my brain. let me know if this is incomprehensible.
