#hackles

[have-you-read-this-webcomic]

Have you read Hackles by Drake Emko and Jen Brodzik?

Yes, completely!

Yes, partially

No

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onDec 18, 2025

Read it here!

[platinummice]

Dorn hair fluff up when you startle him send post

[thestalkerbunny]

With all this Tsundere talk, I think the closest character I've ever made and designed that could be comparable to a tsundere if we're putting labels on things would be Hackles.

He's very aloof with his emotions and feelings, he uses aggression and anger as a defensive mechanism because he's a bisexual man in 1920s and is a police officer. He can't show emotional weakness, he can't be vulnerable. He and his partner (both romantic and work partner) use a pretense of dislike for each other to ensure they aren't found out and lose their jobs/social standing.

He's naturally a grumpy and aggressive individual but in private he is very emotionally intelligent and open, at the very least with his partner who over a post war experience and nearly 3 years have learned and earned his trust.

[transchesters]

um. look at him.

[elementaldeancas]

I’m glad to see that Jensen Ackles sweats like a regular human being because I was starting to wonder…

[thestalkerbunny]

During my little vacation from art, I've been thinking about THEM a lot.

My original concept for Hackles and Peartree was for them to be rivals/antagonists for Maxim considering how they work directly for the police while Max is a private investigator and only called on scene when things are a 'bit much'. Sort of the 'Get outta here, SNOOP, this is our jurisdiction.' like in detective shows.

Now they're just a goofy pair of guys keeping their relationship secret from their work life.

[thestalkerbunny]

It started with me trying to figure out roughly how much HAIR is exactly on Hackles in his human form and it turned into a joke about how his partner is MADE of the substance that they make condoms out of.

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Slimes historically are made from a base of a laytex like substance which gives them their stretchy, rubbery, solid form, without it-they'd just be liquids.

[thestalkerbunny]

Hackles probably has arrested Selune at least more than twice and it's just

Selune, drunk and crying in the back of Hackles car: I AM I GOING TO JAILLL??? *hic* *sob*

Hackles, clearly on his day off: No you're not going to jail, Selune.

Selune: -hic. hic.- are you MAD at me....?

Hackles: No I'm not mad.

Selune:.....You gotta tell me if you're mad at me you're a cop, you gotta tell me.

Hackles: YOURE STARTING TO MAKE ME MAD, IF YOU DONT STOP ASKING ME.