Beef Bastard.
Love the way this song popped into my head immediately upon a glance of the final.
Lore inaccurate & Evander looks like shit - in a way I don’t like… greatly.
But I fuck with Daemyn’s design in this one 😎💔
Red: Daemyn, Hanahaki 💔🌸🪦
Dark Blue: Evander, Hitman
Short Story Descriptions:
Hitman - A story I’ve had since middle school.
A Hitman who’s been doing this job since he was 23 - and has astonishingly made it this long - makes a blunder when he runs into a young & bubbly girl while trying to catch his newest target who has escaped. The girl, 23-year old college-graduate & florist Katie, abandons all that she knows to catch up to this mysterious man & his mission.
Evander wants nothing more than to get rid of Katie, who refuses to leave, insisting that she wants to stay & can be if use! But since the death of his longtime girlfriend 9 years ago, all he’s known is alcohol, depression & killing others for money. Maybe this ray of sunshine & flowers will be a good match for him & he can learn to be happy again after all.
(There’s also police involved, a faked death, unrequited crushes, & a reunion between lost friends.)
Hanahaki - Comic Novel about a young man’s fast decent into madness, illness, and inevitable death. (Another story I’ve had since middle school, and one I’ve recently picked up again!)
It’s a story about a mentally ill lunatic. He’s terrified to live & even more petrified by the thought of death. He’s stuck between living & dying. Pummeled by anxiety attacks, never catching a damn break. He fights with his worst enemy & most persistent alter “Bad Alter,” who wants nothing more than to make Daemyn’s life a living Hell, encouraging him to end it all, but Daemyn can’t.
Eventually he meets a friend, Jennifer, whose name sounds like the name of the girl who shattered his heart a few weeks prior, & constantly calls her Menefer instead.
He meets & loses people on his journey until he’s alone & dying with himself.
A conversation between selves, really.
Self, terror, trauma, mental illness, grief, regret & acceptance. Flat Line.