Based on the "I'm slowly forgetting your face.." meme, but I didn't feel like animating.
Ailbhe's ( @weirdestarrow ) Plymouth is the intended perspective here. Forgetting the faces of his deceased pseudo-children.
8 of 9 drawings, + notes under cut. click on images for higher quality
Drawings placed in order from earliest death (1622) to latest death (1712? I believe). Each kid has their respective flower with them (Crocus for Merry, Dwarf Sunflower for Mass, etc.)
This took awhile but it was fun! Finally drew all the dead kids together. All clothing is based on decade-specific paintings and stuff.
“You’re a piece of shit, you know that?” New Jersey asked, stomping into the room he shared with Delaware and New York. New York looked up from his laptop and raised an eyebrow.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” he said, but the smirk on his face gave him away. Delaware, sensing the fight this would turn into, sighed and shut his book, standing up.
“Call me when you’re done,” he said before elbowing his way past New Jersey.
“You know exactly what you did! I can’t believe you!” New Jersey exclaimed before beginning to rant, his frustrations overwhelming him. New York sighed and put his laptop to the side.
“Okay, but it was funny, and no one was hurt. Also, it was Delly’s idea. He’s still upset about your reclaimed land thing and wanted me to remind you of ours,” New York said. New Jersey scowled.
“I should have never let him escape,” he groaned. New York laughed.
“You good with an arm over your shoulders?” he asked. When New Jersey nodded, New York threw an arm over his shoulder. “Listen, you’re my big brother, and that means I have to be annoying to you.”
“I’m less than a day older than you,” New Jersey deadpanned.
“Yeah, so as your baby brother, I’m allowed to do these things,” New York steamrolled on without flinching, “Besides, we didn’t actually do it to the Ellis Island buildings. It was just a bunch of old sheets.”
“Still, I fought for that land for a long time,” New Jersey said, shoving New York’s arm off him. He felt frustrated and angry but tried to keep a handle on his temper.
“And then you did the same thing to Del I did to you,” New York said, raising an eyebrow. New Jersey felt like he was being punished for something, but he didn’t know what. Why couldn’t anyone just say what they mean? Why did people have to be so vague?
“I…are you mad mad at me?” New Jersey asked, shrinking in on himself as the anger was replaced by a deep shame. He hated when he got like this when his emotions changed on a whim and never made any sense. New York’s face softened, and his large wings encircled them. They weren’t touching New Jersey but shielding him from the rest of the world.
“No. No, I’m not,” New York said, “This was just a joke meant to make fun of the fact that history is repeating itself and that even over two hundred years since our independence, we’re still fighting over our borders.”
The guilt squirming in New Jersey’s gut subsided a little.
“It was just a joke?” he asked, wanting to hear confirmation, proof that it was okay, that he was fine, a good brother.
“Yep! Just me and Delly meaning little shits. You’re okay, Jay-jay. You always have been,” New York said. New Jersey nodded, then relaxed into his brother's arms, feeling New York’s wings begin to hug him.
I find the Venetian carnival to be a rather interesting event, full of beautiful outfits and intricate masks. I also find Masquerades to be interesting as well. I felt it would be fun to mix the two.
I offer a drawing of the Republic of Venice. The word Pestilence is in reference to something else, but for Tumblr I can pretend that it's a reference to the Bubonic Plague which killed up to 50% of the population of Venice. It would be a rather fitting name if you think about it.
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