#characters are from

[hagfishesss]

go, my french textbook instructional video character yaoi!!

[maryalezoo]

Not art related but my monochrome indie plush collection is finally completed and I'm so so happy aaaaa <333 (plus a cute cat plush that matches the aesthetic)

[naturenaruto]

//nsfw//

pick a 3some..you +

kakashi & L lawliet

jason todd & hua cheng

gojo & wei wuxian

iruka & ebisu

noctis caelum & yamato

shikaku & genma

light yagami & itachi

Voting ended onMay 1, 2023

[deshah]

The thing about searching for the Heterodyne is that – yes, noble purpose, yada yada – it gets boring. And lonely. And boring. Ssorae does not deal well with lonely and boring. So when she hears someone losing a fight and cursing up a storm about it, her first thought is, fun!

...Admittedly, this would have been her first thought anyway.

Fun! Had not always been Ssorae’s first reaction to violence. For a long time, her first reaction was hide. It’s a useful reflex when you’re stick-thin, fast, sneaky... and not much else. Once she’d grown up a bit, well. She was an adventuress’s daughter; she knew how to make herself opportunities. By the time she was twenty, she was a spy. When she was twenty-five, she was sent to spy on the Heterodyne.

Her bosses had been hoping the assignment would kill her; she was a little too good at her job. Instead, it introduced her to Natalie.

Natalie is small, for a Jaeger, shorter than Ssorae even as a human. She looks like a werewolf, if werewolves were purple-grey and perpetually half-shifted. With her masses of curly hair, she’s the fluffiest jaeger Ssorae had ever seen, and cute in an I-have-no-self-preservation kind of way. She’s got a sly sort of humor that’s hard to spot through her Jaegerness, and she likes it that way. She regards the entirety of life as an opportunity to have fun, often at others’ expense, and the only people she really seems to regard as real people are the Jaegerkin and the Heterodynes. Ssorae was instantly smitten. Natalie thought this weird outsider girl was hilarious.

One thing led to another. Before long, Ssorae spent more time with the Jaegers than at her work. Her superiors were unable to get another spy in with the Heterodyne. Eventually, she just let them think she was dead.

The more time she spent with the Jaegers, the more she found that they spoke to a part of her she normally kept buried under caution and scheming. Charging in like her mother was no way to keep someone like her alive. But...

She joined them playing – “playing”, for Jaegers, is friendly brawls – using tactics that let her keep up and won her the label shneaky gorl with a proud grin from Natalie. It wasn’t about Natalie – it stopped being about Natalie weeks in – it was about...

“So,” Natalie said one day, sprawled next to her in bed, “Vhen are hyu goink to take de brau?”

Ssorae froze.

Then bolted.

The next day found her dithering in front of General Gkika, trying to find a way to ask her to support her bid with Lady Heterodyne. Gkika laughed, took her by the shoulder, and brought her to Lady Domnica herself.

The interview with the Lady was terrifying, and quite possibly the last time she was ever afraid.

(The first thing Natalie said when she saw her new form was wow, you’re gorgeous.)

The romantic aspect of her relationship with Natalie didn’t last much longer than that, but mentor-student was, for them, a much stronger bond.

[dyemelikeasunset]

I'm working on a comic where one of the character's communicates using sign-language. Would you have any on how to convey her using sign-language during her dialogue scenes?

This is a really great question!

When illustrating dialogue for characters who speak, I usually try to draw open mouths and point the bubble’s tail towards their mouth

But for a character who uses sign language, you can try keeping the mouth closed (usually) and pointing the dialogue bubble towards their hands

I don’t doubt you’ll research (or already know) sign language, but using actual signs will help significantly! You can choose one word/motion in the sentence, illustrate that (like the one I did above) and type out the whole sentence in their dialogue box