I always adore your art but your recent comic with the tamaharu baby tickled me so much I had to send an ask about it. I love your future character designs, and the dialogue was spot-on. I could hear each character's voice so clearly in my head that it felt like I was reading the manga for the first time again after more than a decade :') Thank you for the nostalgia, and for the cute, beautiful, and funny art 💙
What!!! Thank you so much! Impossibly high praise 🥹🥹🥹 comics are my # 1 love (and my job now!!) so hearing they resonate means so much. Your message is really motivating me to finish the other ouran comic wips I have floating around in my drafts!!
ooohhh may I request blupjeans with 25 or 27 from the fluff prompts if you are still accepting!!!
both both both!!
25. "I've missed you so much!"
27. "You're crazy if you think I'm letting you sleep on the couch."
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The moon is quiet in the absence of the Hunger. There's broken glass pretty much everywhere, leaving gaps in the domes that have hastily been repaired with spells and, in some cases, fantasy duct tape. A good few walls have crumbled and for the ones that are still standing, the doors have been busted through. But the power is still on, flickering as it may be. The elevators still work, making the end of the world seem a little more serene.
The Reclaimers' Dorm was one of the only places on the entire moon that didn't look completely destroyed. The furniture is crooked and all their plates are smashed from when the Hunger slammed into the quad, but most of the heavier things are still in place. The shower works. The doors are still on their hinges. It's a mess, but a self-imposed one.
By the time Barry got out of the shower, it seemed like half the employees of the Bureau were asleep in the living room. He didn't know the majority of these people, but Magnus was curled up next to a dragonborn, and Davenport was propped up against the couch with another gnome man, so he figured they were at least people he could trust. Angus, who Barry had met very briefly earlier, was underneath a thick quilt and burrowed into the side of an orc woman.
Barry took about two steps towards the living room before a haze of red blocked his path.
Today had been... wild. Absolutely fucking wild. He still wasn't quite used to having a body yet, but luckily no one saw him try to phase through the bathroom door on his way out. He had spent ten years waiting for this- waiting for the Hunger to come again, waiting for a gap in Lucretia's plan where he could slip in, waiting to see Lup again, and now that it was here, that everything was done? Barry... didn't know what to do with himself.
"Babe, you're crazy if you think I'm letting you sleep on the couch," Lup said, spectral hands laying themselves on his shoulders.
And Lup. She was here again, she had always been here, just a few feet away any time he saw Taako. Just barely out of reach.
"I don't really, uh, have a bed," Barry said.
"Yes, you do," Lup said, pushing on his shoulders to get him to turn around. He let himself be guided past the living room and down the hall. A few paintings had fallen down and he carefully stepped past them. They reached an open door and Barry poked his head in to see Taako. He wasn't asleep yet, but he looked exhausted.
"I- I don't wanna take your space-"
"Get in the fucking bed, Barold," Taako said.
"Getting in," Barry said, slipping further into the room. He took off his glasses, placing them on Taako's crooked bedside table, and then tucked himself in beside Taako. They barely fit together, but Barry really couldn't find it in him to mind. His skin felt a little prickly when Taako adjusted and brushed against his arm. When was the last time he had had a hug?
"Big day, huh?" Lup said. She was floating a little above them, though she just looked like a red blob now that Barry had taken his glasses off. Taako snorted.
"That's one way of putting it," he said. "I'm fuckin' zonked. I'm gonna sleep for days."
"Yeah, uhm. Same," Barry said. Lup let out a little laugh and if Taako relaxed a little next to him at the sound, Barry wasn't going to comment on it. He turned flat on his back, staring up towards Lup. Taako was facing the wall now.
"Light off?" Lup asked.
"Please don't," Barry said.
"Still scared of the dark?" Taako asked. "You fuckin'... lived in a cave for ten years, my dude."
"I had a nightlight," Barry said.
"Of course you did," Taako said.
They lapsed into silence and Barry let his eyes close. There was an awful ache all over his body. The shower had eased it some earlier, but now it was just pounding away at his bones. He tried to think about something else, about anything else, but it always came back to the throbbing underneath his skin. He had skin now. He was alive. Taako was here. Lup was here.
Barry opened his eyes as Taako shifted in his sleep, ending up half on top of him. The prickling cascaded into an uncomfortable feeling of burning, something hot bubbling just under his skin. Forget a hug, when was the last time someone had touched him that wasn't just a punch? Maybe when they had given him a healing potion after the gerblins? No one even mentioned that being a lich would make you touch-starved.
But he still got touch. Not a lot, but more than Lup had in the umbrastaff, alone for ten whole years-
"I missed you so much," Barry whispered. Lup turned in midair, looking down on him. She floated a bit closer, pressing a hand to his face. It didn't feel like anything. Barry's heart hurt a little bit in his chest.
"I missed you too," Lup said. "Every day."
"I never stopped looking for you," Barry said, feeling a growing lump in his throat. He tried to swallow, but it stayed. "Never."
"I know," Lup said. "I'm... I'm so sorry, babe, I-" she sighed and her form seemed to deflate with it. "I'm here now, okay? I know you were trying. You can rest now. I'm here."
"I love you," Barry said and Lup's form crackled, just a little bit. She brought her hood down to his face and Barry wished so badly that he could hold her for real, that he could kiss her again-
"I love you too, babe," she said. "Sleep."
"You'll be here in the morning?" Barry asked and Lup was nodding before he even got the whole question out.
"I'm never leaving you again," Lup said. "I promise." She swiped a ghostly finger over his cheek and Barry realized he was crying. He wiped it away himself. Again, she said, "I love you."
"I love you too," Barry said and closed his eyes again.
[ID: illustration of lup, a slim elven woman with brown skin and light wavy hair. she’s smiling with her eyes closed and wearing a flowing red cape over a body suit and tall boots. she’s holding her umbrella with lights up a bright blue light over her.
second image is a screenshot of a reply from @toooceanblue saying “maybe Lup wearing some comfy or cool clothes?”]
Obviously no pressure if you'd rather not but I would literally LOVE to see a picture of sharpie sleeve tattoo if its still there and you wanted to share :3c
here’s the pic of it I got last night before I showered plus a pic of the dragon face which I just went ahead and drew over again but I didn’t do the scales bc that would take a while and I am supposed to be doing homework
