#mymspector

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Mymble's Diamond post-ending.

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Some low-effort doodles because I've been thinking about Mymble Jr alot and just how much they watered her down in the 90s series. So I tried 'fixing' some scenes to make her atleast more expressive.

She and the Inspector would've been such a fun relationship if they just let them be themselves like in the comics (and books in Mymble's case), just, I dunno, they made her distinctly boring while they made the Inspector just a little extra silly and I think that's deeply unfair to Mymble. This is especially upsetting when they never shared the same panel in the comics besides 2 of them, and in one Mymble Jr is just standing there while Moomintroll does the talking.

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Here I come full force with my comic (aka better) Mymspector content.

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A sort of horrific AU about Moominvalley's constabulary! I'll probably make more story doodles about it.

CORRUPTED CONSTABULARY

Ok so the thing about this corruption stuff is that it's a sort of.... A long-time phenomenon that's happened within the police across Europe and making its way to the American police in a much worse way. Basically the corruption is a blood infection that takes one's empathy and agency, making them numb and prone to violence when there's something or someone they dislike - this is a government sanctioned disease and there hasn't been much effort to cure it.

How it works is that the tree branches suck the blood out of their host, and thusly suck their heart dry, and the heart is where the feelings are according to fantasy/metaphor logic. It infects certain people much easier than others due to the people's mindsets, which is why the force tends to be made up of terrible people and the nicer ones tend to get out of the job, willingly or otherwise. There are also very rare cases of policemen having blooming branches for unknown reasons, and these are called "blooming officers" or, more colloquially, "bloomers".

Enter: the Inspector. Because of the scar on his chest near his heart area (from WW2) much of his compassion still remains intact and the blood takes an external form in the shape of roses without any reproductive organs, red and white in color to represent red and white blood cells. If he takes these roses out, that means losing more of his blood and this losing himself, but nobody really knows that so there isn't much stopping him from ripping them out for reasons like the Chief not liking them or trying to be nice by offering a gift (despite the physical pain that comes with it).

The rest of the constables rarely seem... Very aware of things, and their brain functions seem stilted for whatever reason. The Inspector believes the higher ups placed their dimmer underlings in Moominvalley since it was a low-priority area. It doesn't stop people from being unnerved by their contorted flesh and branches, scared to be arrested by these creatures.

The Mymble's daughter is one of those people who don't seem to mind the body horror at all, perhaps growing up in her mother's care has made her immune to fear. Whatever it is, she tends to disagree with Little My and Snufkin on how to treat them, and took up dating the Inspector for one reason or another. The two have a very sweet relationship but a one-sided love, with the Inspector only playing along and hoping, nay, praying that something would spark in him eventually, because he feels it much better than the alternative of being true to himself or arousing suspicion by being too disinterested.

Mr. Hemulen is the most fascinated by the Inspector's bloomage and takes to casually studying him and his flowers, and he figures out the blood flower connection after some time and analysis of a specimen (he found it most strange that these things lacked any reproductive organs as any flower should).

The phenomenon of the corruption is strange, but what's stranger is the lack of effort to find a cure, and even more suspiciously if one looks at the higher ranks of the police... They don't seem quite as affected. Or rather, they don't seem quite as grotesque.

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What exactly is the relationship between the inspector and mymble, I’m a bit confused. You say the inspector is gay but he likes mymble? (Sorry I’m not good at English)

It's a bit complicated since it's a relationship that evolved with time, the but gist of it is: in my head canon of the series and the doodles between them I am mostly taking their comic characterization, with Mymble being very silly and eager about men and Inspector is very queercoded (implied to be gay) and a little goofy.

The thing about Mymspector as a ship is that it could've been a really fun and silly relationship if they 90s series hadn't made Mymble so boring.

It was a relationship that didn't exist at all in the comics and probably was something made to tone down or "clean up" both characters, but I really think it would be a very fun and even interesting if they just let them be like themselves on the comic, and that's what I drew.

The Inspector is gay but was too nice to refuse her (and he didn't want anybody to realize he's gay because that was illegal at the time, he sort of hoped that maybe if he actually dated a woman that he would miraculously be "fixed" so that problem would solve itself) but as time went on and they spent more time together he does grow to really care about Mymble even if he never falls in love with her, so it got easy to act as a boyfriend until he has to perform the physical romantic stuff which made him feel too uncomfortable and guilty so he breaks off the romantic relationship while still caring about her as a close friend.

Mymble would genuinely be in love with him, he was her first real boyfriend and she wanted to try something new in the form of long-term commitment, and she would be genuinely upset when the relationship broke off and he admitted the truth.

But I like to think that after some time they form a queerplatonic relationship with eachother, eventually.

Tldr: Inspector is in the closet but he does really care about Mymble, he likes alot her as a friend but pretended to be romantic with her for both of their sakes.

Qpr Mymspector 4ever tho.