we're allowed to post our zine stuff now, so! here's my little comic for the @sigmaklimzine! essentially me trying to see if I could fit every vlr character into a four-page aitsf au, heh. also did some spot art for one of the fics:
definitely check out the zine if you haven't already, it's free and it turned out super awesome!!
oh, I also have an alternate version of the comic pages with the RGB effects at a higher opacity; toned it down in the zine itself for eyestrain concerns, but I still like these too:
Around Christmas last year, I blasted through the entire Zero Escape series and I may or may not have a couple favorite characters. go on. take a guess. who might it be
Somehow I ended up shipping Dioluna and made a playlist for them.
“don't get too close; it's dark inside; it's where my demons hide”
Demons - Live London Sessions / 2013
Imagine Dragons
I feel like it fits Dio trying not to let Luna in and not wanting to disappoint her while also trying to face his flaws and insecurities.
“you showed me feelings i’ve never felt before”
Sinners
Lauren Aquilina
We have confirmation that in Free the Soul going into a relationship with somebody is a sin, and Dio knows that the cult he’d grown up seeing him going into a relationship with Luna would be a sin to them and disapprove, but at that point he doesn’t care.
“but with you my dear i'm safe and we're a million miles away”
The Moon Song (Studio Version Duet)
Karen O & Ezra Koenig
Even if they’re on the moon and millions of miles away from Earth, they feel safe with each other.
“all at once everything is different, now that I see you”
I See the Light
Tangled
Luna has been stuck in Rhizome-9 all her life, but she’s been lonely as she never truly had a friend and Dio being there with her gives her a friend, with a potentially new outlook on life. Dio on the other hand had been rising through the ranks of the Myrmidons while never really seeing how screwed up they were, and now Luna is in his life, his world has shifted and is falling more and more in love with Luna.
“i just wanna be somebody to you”
Someone to You (Acoustic)
BANNERS
Dio has never really had people who weren’t part of Free the Soul, except for an unnamed woman who probably was an extremely short-lived affair, and now he wants to be somebody to Luna while he starts to care more about her. It could also fit Luna a bit as she wants to be somebody to someone due to her loneliness and feeling like a bit of an outsider when it comes to the others in Rhizome-9.
“i wanna be the one to light up the dark in you”
Light Up The Dark
Gabrielle Aplin
Luna could be trying to rehabilitate Dio, trying to find the light in all of his darkness and help him become a better person.
“but for some reason you're still here, standing to my side”
please don’t
mxmtoon
Even if Dio is difficult and knows it, he’s trying his best to become better with the help of Luna and he doesn’t want her to leave him, afraid that the only person who truly cares about him will give up on him, even if he doesn’t know why she’s helping him.
“what if we ruin it all, and we love like fools?”
Fools
Lauren Aquilina
They’re both afraid that confessing to each other will damage the friendship they’ve managed to kindle but wonder what would happen if they decide to love like fools.
“and help me remember the hope that i have compromised”
Birdcage Religion
Sleeping At Last
Luna is breaking down the walls that Dio has built and is finding the light in his darkness, helping him become better.
“but i can't help falling in love with you”
Can't Help Falling in Love
Elvis Presley (cover by Boyce Avenue)
Dio feels like it’s a sin to fall in love with somebody due to his upbringing but he can’t help falling in love with Luna.
“oh me, the machine can dream”
Me the Machine
Imogen Heap
Luna, despite being a GAULEM, is falling love with Dio and is dreaming what Earth would be like from what she knows from stories and the B. Garden.
“cause you're nothing till you learn you love”
Learn To Love
W. Darling
Luna is helping Dio break himself down to build himself back up and to care about others, with him learning how to love.
“no i won't be afraid just as long as you stand by me”
Stand by Me
Ben E. King (cover by Bootstraps)
Both Dio and Luna aren’t afraid when they’re with each other even with everything going on.
“are we all lost stars trying to light up the dark?”
Lost Stars
Keira Knightley
Luna isn’t exactly sure what her position is in the universe, trying to find meaning. She’s also falling more in love with Dio, sometimes wishing for Cupid to take back his arrow because of not wishing to damage their friendship and wishing for him not to see her for her true self as somebody caught up in her dreams and fantasies.
“count your blessings not your flaws”
King
Lauren Aquilina
Dio is learning to accept himself and to break himself free of some of Free the Soul’s philosophy, with Luna showing him that he can learn to truly live and that he doesn’t gain anything good from misery.
