Lys Noire: Page One | Page Three
And here’s Lys Noire, Page Two! Faster than I thought it would be.
Lys Noire is an AU fancomic I am making, based on the incredible Daughter of the Lilies comic by @bludragongal. You can follow along with the tag #lysnoire
TRANSCRIPT:
Titlebox: LYS NOIRE An Alternate Universe Fancomic for Daughter of the Lilies
Orrig: Ve have a client
Lyra: Finally. One more day without a job and I’d be bored enough to yank my own teeth out.
Orrig: Vere is Brent?
Lyra: Don’t know, don’t care.
Thunder: *Thunders*
Brent: GRUMBLE GRUMBLE –Last time I ever take a lost pet job GRUMBLE
Thistle: Oh! You’re soaked! Here, I’ve got a towel, you should go dry off.
Titlebox: (Thistle also got Orrig a towel)
Orrig: Dav.
Titlebox: (It was less sparkly)
Some Notes: 1) I… uh… Yes, there was a point where I said to myself, ‘backgrounds are stupid, the last panel is going to be shoujo sparkles instead’. Sorry not sorry. And then I cackled as I finished the page and my family stared at me.
2) The way I see it, Brent takes all of the missing animal cases. Every once in a blue moon that might be something interesting like an exotic pet, but mostly that’s little old ladies or kids who scraped together a few coins to ask a detective to go find Fluffy. Brent grumbles and complains the entire time but he’s not fooling anyone because he also volunteers every time (and in case you are worried, Mr Scruffypants has just been delivered safely home)
3) OK, I actually get kind of anxious about misrepresenting other people’s characters on the weirdest things– other people are like “this is my headcanon” and I’m like “THIS IS PROBABLY OOC DON’T HATE ME”. Figuring out what’s on everybody’s desks was like that for me, but here is my current theory as to what each member of the main cast would keep on a PI desk:
Orrig: Pretty basic, current paperwork and some family photos
Brent: Is always a huge mess, he can never find the paper he’s looking for
Lyra: Depends on her mood. If she’s angry, the desk might be dominated with gun maintenance supplies. Happy, paper and stationary and letters. Bored, and she actually cleans the darn thing. Rest of the time, probably lots of bottles.
Thistle: This one I feel pretty confident about. Books, plants, a cup of tea. I kind of see Thistle as being the best at typing so the typewriter sort of ended up on her desk.
4) Last page I thought drawing water was hard. Turns out that drawing wet clothes is much harder– and when I tried finding reference photos and tutorials on the internet, what I found was rather more… NSFW than I was hoping for. Other hard things to draw on this page: People walking, towels (how is this hard???), typewriters, that coatrack that ended up getting covered by speech bubbles anyway, the whole thing because drawing is hard and artists are basically wizards
Thank you for reading! And for indulging me in a little silliness on this page. Next page, plot happens!