It's project old trauma on video game character o clock. This scene genuinely gave me like a three day existential crisis so here's some semi vent art semi projecting on Kris.
Some more personal thoughts and thoughts on this chapter below.
I really hated the way the chapter ended, not because I think its bad writing (I think it's a really good way to continue the theme of the chapter) but because some years ago, someone I knew for a very long time and cared deeply about did something similar and they just disappeared from my life.
I think if you've ever been in that position, where someone you're close to, your best friend even starts that first relationship and you can see them fade away from you, even if you're happy for them, you can't help but turn it inwards and question if its your fault. If you'd smiled more, if you were nicer, if you didn't tease as much, maybe you spoke too much, maybe too little…if you had fixed that Something, this person who's precious to you wouldn't just leave you behind just because they found a romantic partner. It just makes you wonder "what about my love (and me) wasn't enough". I think it's one of those situations where it's really difficult not to hate yourself and hate them as well a little bit (maybe a lot) so I projected all of that in this comic.
I've seen a lot of different conversations about Susie's behaviour this chapter and like I think Toby and the team did a good job portraying her ngl. As much as it genuinely hurt me when she told Kris the two of them don't need to go to the lake anymore (like that was the worst part for me) I think it makes sense for her as a teen from a complicated background (at the very least) who's just witnessed the "truth" of what's supposed to happen to her and her friends to just, go full hog into something that feels better.
I don't think she has any intention of completely disappearing from Kris' life, I think she still cares about them A Lot, she's just falling into that age-old trap of trying to juggle two people she cares about and ending up possibly hurting one (maybe both in the future) of them(again I can't stop thinking about how much I would hype up the lake scenes to my friends because it felt like Kris really liked being there and now she tells me it will never happen again PAINNN PAINNNN).
Even if I think she's genuinely hurting Kris' feelings, I think it makes a lot of sense for her character right now.
I'm equally fearful and excited to see how everything is going to crash and burn, cos I genuinely don't think Noelle's reaction to being told about the dark world is going to be positive at where she is in the story right now lol.
I think it's great you can meet him before he shows up in MSQ tbh.
This took forever to make cos I couldn't bring myself to draw his fuckass hw armor. I am never drawing HW Estinien for free again smh.
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A short EstinienxVrtra comic written by the client. I also want to thank them for paying me to redesign Ysayle's outfit I had a blast with it and when I get a moment I want to do a proper sketch of it.
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WHM mains make some noise I love it when a class upgrate makes you die repeatedly on week 1
Light Party ft @concaviddavid
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I actually figured out how to read Takeshi's Castle in the time it took me to finish this.
What's your favourite mech custom name?
Ft. my FC friends
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