Im going thru your "Five" Kakashi comic and IM LOVING IIIIT
Thank you for making it!! Young Kakashi is adorable and a shithead xD
Thank you for reading and enjoying it enough to send me such a nice comment! :D :D I really do keep meaning to come back and draw for it, I've been a wee bit stuck on how to pace and structure the Sand arc portion of the fic since it'd technically be the last one before Sakumo's suicide and presumably the epilogue. I've drawn a couple of possible paths already but none yet have convinced me enough to commit to them, and thus the comic has languished. But I'll get it right some day :D
I am obsessed with Five (as you may know from my last post) but I still hold a special place in my heart for Klaus. They are my children and by far my favourite characters in the series!
I just had to draw them interacting! It's a huge head cannon of mine that the Hargreeves children all make fun for Five for being 'a child'. Like calling him adorable and stuff as he slowly becomes more and more stabby.
Klaus would be just the person to push his buttons and not have the self preservation skills to know when to stop 😂
i might have already asked but are you planning to update five or a lot can change in a year anytime soon?
As always, very happy people are still interested in this story because I've poured a lot of myself into it <3 My answer is, still, I do plan on finishing it! But I've left it on the backburner because I am no longer in the correct headspace, and also, I no longer have the same time availability I did before.
blah blah the usual excuses under cut
I think I hit a crossroads when I lost my old laptop some years back, with it went the psd files for about 12 parts of the story and I was never able to recover them. That, plus the fact that I started Five before I went through clinical rotations, and the karaii before that and the karaii after that are very different people. Not to be too melodramatic about it, but public hospitals in third world countries with intense local gang warfare is pretty ptsd-inducing, and fictional stories about child soldiers quickly start feeling a bit sour when you see in front of you real live people shaped by those forces in a very not-fictional sort of way. You see one person dying and then you see several couple more and you fuck up giving CPR once and all these things kinda pile on, y'know? My comic about Kakashi started feeling like something I couldn't get into anymore. For a while there, all my art felt like it had been drawn by a very different person that I could no longer recognize. Infantile, childish, narrow-visioned-- deep sunk in a place of fiction when real life in front of me demanded my attention.
I've been a medical doctor for a couple years now though, so I've grown into my big boy boots and am doing quite well for myself, as it were. I'm currently a postgraduate resident for psychiatry so art and fandom have returned to being a place for me to destress and chill :) My Five comic is a legacy I am very proud of and really truly do want to finish, but I need to get back into that headspace to do it proper-like. There are so many unfinished stories percolating there that I'd be long-term sad if I fumbled them all in an effort to speedrun an ending. It would be a disservice to my younger self, who was so ambitious and had such a clear vision, y'know?
As it is, these things take time, and patience, and if you've run out of them then I hope you enjoyed the ride, and find greener pastures <3 Life's really truly too short to sweat the small stuff. Enjoy your health while it lasts, and don't forget to make your own meaningful human connections 'cause those can keep you going for a long time :D And thanks for being interested enough to send me a message! I am genuinely very happy people still enjoy my old works enough to come asking me about them. Stay awesome, and don't forget to smell the flowers!
So I just finished reading Five (I found it recently) and first off lemme say: its AMAZING. Your mind is a treasure trove cause the comic is absolute genious. I was wondering if you could explain a little more of what happened to Shikaku's mom. Im confused on how his grandpa turned her over to ROOT (I understand the why just not the how she ended up in that position) also GODDAMN, why you gotta go and make her hot??? Like there is not enough content on this woman to help me with my hyperfixation.
:D! I'm very happy you're enjoying my comic, friend!! Your compliments make me smile <3
As for Shikaku's mom (re: Shikata), she was tortured by enemy nin to a degree that rendered her both infertile and unable to sign for the forseeable future, so she effectively became useless to Grandpa Nara, who pretty much only wanted her to have male kids and be a soldier. He gave her up to ROOT as a means of winning a favour from the Hokage / Danzo, as ROOT at the time was only a couple of years old and was always in need of recruits, especially those with Clan-exclusive bloodline techniques. Doubly so if they didn't need to be brainwashed too terribly much to be loyal to Konoha, because that was more efficient.
ROOT, as we can remember, is an underground organization that commits wetwork atrocities for Konoha's benefit, even against Konohan citizens, so it needs to keep its soldiers both quiet and loyal. Eventually Danzo would recruit a Hyuuga/fuinjutsu user that would develop the tongue-sealing technique that Sai has (and Yoshino has in the comic) to keep them from speaking about the organization or against it, but at the beginning the best Danzo could manage was cutting out the soldiers' tongues to keep them silent. So that's why Shikata doesn't have a tongue :'(
Glad you find her hot, 'cause I like to think the reason Shikaku's so handsome is 'cause he inherited his momma's looks heheh :3 Most of her personality and fire was brainwashed out, but since she was recruited as an adult and not a child, there's still a bit of humour to her even under ROOT's intense conditioning. She laconically expresses the Nara trademark "Mendokusē/What a drag" phrase using the sign for 'tedious'.
Hello!! I know you're busy being a doctor but are there any plans to continue/finish 5?
I do!! but I lost steam years ago (long story), so I'm just waiting to get back into the groove again. I'm very proud of what I've already done and set up and I'd be disappointed in myself, too, if I never got around to finishing it. I just gotta get the energy x'D
Until then, I gotta make sure I don't forget how to draw kakashi in the first place kahstkja
