NixArt

Art from the Nix (thenixkat). My comissions are open (https://www.tumblr.com/thenixart/780002740417986560/id-three-images-a-banner-and-two-pictures?source=share), hit me up, you'll get more art out of me that way. Mostly fan art and any other odds and ends that don't quite fit with my original universes. Also my original stuff when I feel like adding it. If you have Thenixkat blocked don't interact with my art.

[thenixart]

[id: Four images: a banner and three pictures listing prices with sample artwork. The banner reads 'The Screaming Emu' in orange across a blue, black, and green bird monster.

The second image shows Andalite heads in varying levels of detail with prices listed: $10 for a sketch, $15 for line art, $20 for line art with flat colors, and $25 for line art with full coloring and shading.

The third image shows a digital painting of the bust of a blue budgie parrot with the caption: $75 for lineless art.

The fourth image shows a dragon standing upright with lines marking off segments of its body listed with prices: No additional charge for the head, +$10 for a bust up drawing, +$15 for a waist up drawing, and +$25 for a full body drawing. /end id]

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Hey! My commissions are open. For a lot of reasons I need more money than I’m currently able to make at my job. I would be incredibly grateful if you commissioned me.

Contact me via private message or ask through @thenixart​ or via my email: [email protected]

Payments through Paypal or kofi (ko-fi.com/nixkat > accepts card payment). Products are digital and will be emailed in .png format unless otherwise specified.

Extras!

-Additional characters are $5 per character. -Simple backgrounds like colored rectangles or circles or polka dots cost nothing. Complex backgrounds are $15. -Saucy/Suggestive art (T&A mostly and some kinks) has an additional charge of $25

I draw:

-Monsters, aliens, fantasy creatures -Animals and Furries/Anthros -Humans

I do not draw:

- Genitals, Body fluids, Sexual Acts - Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual Assault/Sexual harassment

Art examples:

[id: Art of a tumbleweed made of human arms. /end id]

[ID: A simple drawing of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi as a wolfman-type werewolf with a tail. He's drawn from the hips up and wearing his plate armor. /End ID]

[id: Digital art of the Pokemon, boldore, a deep blue and orange rock monster with three limbs and two yellow lined ears in the middle of its face in the place of eyes laying down on a simple green grass background bordered with grey. /end id]

[id: Digital art of the character Chur from Magi-Nation seated cross-legged in profile with his face turned towards the viewer. He is bald with scaly green skin, dark green facial hair, orange eyes, and a yellow gem embedded onto his forehead. He’s wearing a brown and grey fur bikini with arm and leg guards that have orange spikes on the shoulders and orange claws on the boots. The tail on his fur bikini is pointed curved upwards and is striped. 

Behind him is a red-orange rectangle as a background. /end id]

[id: A digital painting of two women, one tall Black and with red hair and one shorter white and prematurely gone grey, on a hike in a birch-maple forest in autumn. They are on a wood planked path with a split in the path in front of them. The taller woman holds a map folded in one hand and points at the path directly in front of them while the shorter woman looks at her and looks to be speaking. /end id]

[thenixart]

The Mudman, the Maiden, and the Ass [opening]

Kai slithers into the air vent on the ceiling with En's head in hand sorely tempted to keep hunting. There are so many sorcerers in this mansion who are sitting ducks against his presence that he could take his time and satisfy the blood lust simmering under his skin. It's been so very long since he last massacred a crowd… to be honest he's gotten a bit out of shape hasn't he? Sorcerers coming to Hole are so sporadic and weak he'd barely had to exert himself when they were Kaiman. Maybe he'll call up the boys and go out for a good few days of killing once he's acquired Mushroom Transformation magic…

Later.

Later. There's more important things to do. Even as he locks eyes briefly with another sorcerer, one that's escaped them before, and his hands itch for his knives Kai reminds himself that he can always come back and kill more later. Magic user are idiots, they'll still be here when he comes back.

More urgent matters. The scent of rot. Her tears. Their Par— [the core of his soul that hates wizards with ten thousand years of justified Rage balks at using that term] Their Friend's distress.

The contract was killing her, they all agree on En's death he only wishes he'd had time to make the man truly suffer half as much as she's been before taking the man's head. Left, right, straight. The roof. Jump. Disgustingly gelled hair clamped in his teeth as he climbs back back back to that room smelling or rot and blood and her even if this human nose can't pick that up like Kaiman's could…

Kai creeps into the room undetected by the heavily bandaged Teleportation sorcerer who's administering an IV of S grade restoration smoke like someone with no medical training. Mushrooms sprouting from her body slowly turn to sludge as En's magic fades and the Teleportation wizard leaves her side to go through more draws to look for more smoke to heal her with. His back remains to Kai and saliva ppols in Kai's mouth, dripping down the hair still clenched between his teeth. Such easy prey… 'Nikaido's friend', 'trying to help', he has to chant it in his head and tamp down on the itch for his knives and the craving chewing on his thoughts. They could do so much with Teleportation…

[novella-november]

If you are on a Windows 11 computer, pause everything you are doing for one minute and:

Open computer settings

Click on Accessibility on the left-hand menu

Scroll down the Accessibility menu and click on the Keyboard Option

Under the "related settings" tab, click "Typing" which should have a description of "spellcheck, autocorrect, text suggestions."

Turn off the AI "correct misspelled words"

and most importantly: turn off Typing Insights.

[ID: a screenshot of the above mentioned Windows 11 settings, showing that Typing Insights is now turned off, with the following description from Microsoft: "Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type To help you save time and type efficiently, Windows can learn to suggest words, autocorrect spelling mistakes, and interpret swiped typing. Take a look at the insights below to see up-to-the-minute stats on how Windows has learned to improve typing for you. These stats are stored only on this device and Microsoft does not collect the typing insights data." End ID]

"But Mx. November, it says right there Microsoft doesn't collect the typing insights data!"

I mean, yeah, it says that..... for *now.*

It also only specifies that Microsoft themselves don't collect it, and they wouldn't have made this something that I was automatically, secretly opted in for without my knowledge if they didn't have something to be gained by me not knowing it exists!

I only found this because a cat walked on the keyboard and turned on Filter Keys and while trying to figure out why my keyboard was just making chirping noises instead of typing, I happened to click on "typing insights" by accident.

Generative AI, and especially AI that is used to "personalize" and track your activity across the web and on your computer are never going to be in your best interest, it is always going to serve these companies in whatever way will line their pockets the most, and all it takes is updating their terms of service once, and then all of that data they promised they weren't collecting suddenly all belongs to them.

[thenixart]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Dorohedoro Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Ton & Natsuki (Dorohedoro), Cross-Eyes Characters: Ton (Dorohedoro), Natsuki (Dorohedoro), Original Characters Additional Tags: Peggy Sue Fic, Dragons, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, weredragons, Time Travel Fix-It Summary:

In a stroke of twisted luck Ton’s magic activates for the first time as he lay dying, now he and Natsuki have the chance to go back at a price. Can they stop the deaths of their comrades or will they fail and fall to the appetites of monsters?

[thenixart]

[id: A digital drawing of the character Natsuki from the comic Dorohedoro drawn from the chest up against a deep red background with brighter red crosses drawn on it and a red eye drawn behind her head. 

Natsuki is a teenage girl with spiky hair that is partly put in a long braid draped around her shoulders. She’s wearing an armored vest and has a red cross shaped tattoo over her right eye and she’s grinning broadly. She’s depicted here with brown skin and with eyes that are entirely black. /end id]

My darling daughter who deserved better

[thenixart]

[id: Line art of a humanoid dragon standing with one wing and arm extended and one hand on their hip.

The second image is the same line up but with a transparent background. /end id]

Dragon person line art commission for @rjalker

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I also have a ko-fi if you like my art and would like to help support the artist [ https://ko-fi.com/nixkat ].

[thenixart]

[id: A digital painting of a black short hair cat with green eyes against a green gradient background. /end id]

A commission for Price.

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I also have a ko-fi if you like my art and would like to help support the artist [ https://ko-fi.com/nixkat ].

[thenixart]

[id: Digital art of a earth wormy dragon with a very long neck, mole-like forelimbs, and a seal-like body. It grins hugely, showing multiple rows of yellowed teeth. /end id]

Behold! A wyrm!

The elder dragon, Gnaws the Root. He chews at the roots of the world and enjoys crunching teeth as a nice treat. His own teeth are layered all the way down his throat, he'll never run out of a fresh set.

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I also have a ko-fi if you like my art and would like to help support the artist [ https://ko-fi.com/nixkat ].

[thenixart]

[id: Four images: a banner and three pictures listing prices with sample artwork. The banner reads 'The Screaming Emu' in orange across a blue, black, and green bird monster.

The second image shows Andalite heads in varying levels of detail with prices listed: $10 for a sketch, $15 for line art, $20 for line art with flat colors, and $25 for line art with full coloring and shading.

The third image shows a digital painting of the bust of a blue budgie parrot with the caption: $75 for lineless art.

The fourth image shows a dragon standing upright with lines marking off segments of its body listed with prices: No additional charge for the head, +$10 for a bust up drawing, +$15 for a waist up drawing, and +$25 for a full body drawing. /end id]

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Hey! My commissions are open. For a lot of reasons I need more money than I’m currently able to make at my job. I would be incredibly grateful if you commissioned me.

Contact me via private message or ask through @thenixart​ or via my email: [email protected]

Payments through Paypal or kofi (ko-fi.com/nixkat > accepts card payment). Products are digital and will be emailed in .png format unless otherwise specified.

Extras!

-Additional characters are $5 per character. -Simple backgrounds like colored rectangles or circles or polka dots cost nothing. Complex backgrounds are $15. -Saucy/Suggestive art (T&A mostly and some kinks) has an additional charge of $25

I draw:

-Monsters, aliens, fantasy creatures -Animals and Furries/Anthros -Humans

I do not draw:

- Genitals, Body fluids, Sexual Acts - Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual Assault/Sexual harassment

Art examples:

[id: Art of a tumbleweed made of human arms. /end id]

[ID: A simple drawing of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi as a wolfman-type werewolf with a tail. He's drawn from the hips up and wearing his plate armor. /End ID]

[id: Digital art of the Pokemon, boldore, a deep blue and orange rock monster with three limbs and two yellow lined ears in the middle of its face in the place of eyes laying down on a simple green grass background bordered with grey. /end id]

[id: Digital art of the character Chur from Magi-Nation seated cross-legged in profile with his face turned towards the viewer. He is bald with scaly green skin, dark green facial hair, orange eyes, and a yellow gem embedded onto his forehead. He’s wearing a brown and grey fur bikini with arm and leg guards that have orange spikes on the shoulders and orange claws on the boots. The tail on his fur bikini is pointed curved upwards and is striped. 

Behind him is a red-orange rectangle as a background. /end id]

[id: A digital painting of two women, one tall Black and with red hair and one shorter white and prematurely gone grey, on a hike in a birch-maple forest in autumn. They are on a wood planked path with a split in the path in front of them. The taller woman holds a map folded in one hand and points at the path directly in front of them while the shorter woman looks at her and looks to be speaking. /end id]

[thenixkat]

Got one commission. Still in the red by about $300, very much still need help.

[thenixkat]

because the universe hates me I hit a deer and very damaged my current car, I need all the help I can get

[thenixart]

[id: A digital drawing of the head of a very earth wormy dragon. The dragon has tiny white eyes and is grinning hugely showing multiple rows of peg-like/human teeth. The background is a gold halo with white roots breaching in from the edges of the canvas. /end id]

A dragon, Gnaws the Root.

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I also have a ko-fi if you like my art and would like to help support the artist [ https://ko-fi.com/nixkat ].

[thenixart]

[id: Line art of a humanoid dragon standing with one wing and arm extended and one hand on their hip.

The second image is the same line up but with a transparent background. /end id]

Dragon person line art commission for @rjalker

--

I also have a ko-fi if you like my art and would like to help support the artist [ https://ko-fi.com/nixkat ].

[thenixart]

[id: Four images: a banner and three pictures listing prices with sample artwork. The banner reads 'The Screaming Emu' in orange across a blue, black, and green bird monster.

The second image shows Andalite heads in varying levels of detail with prices listed: $10 for a sketch, $15 for line art, $20 for line art with flat colors, and $25 for line art with full coloring and shading.

The third image shows a digital painting of the bust of a blue budgie parrot with the caption: $75 for lineless art.

The fourth image shows a dragon standing upright with lines marking off segments of its body listed with prices: No additional charge for the head, +$10 for a bust up drawing, +$15 for a waist up drawing, and +$25 for a full body drawing. /end id]

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Hey! My commissions are open. For a lot of reasons I need more money than I’m currently able to make at my job. I would be incredibly grateful if you commissioned me.

Contact me via private message or ask through @thenixart​ or via my email: [email protected]

Payments through Paypal or kofi (ko-fi.com/nixkat > accepts card payment). Products are digital and will be emailed in .png format unless otherwise specified.

Extras!

-Additional characters are $5 per character. -Simple backgrounds like colored rectangles or circles or polka dots cost nothing. Complex backgrounds are $15. -Saucy/Suggestive art (T&A mostly and some kinks) has an additional charge of $25

I draw:

-Monsters, aliens, fantasy creatures -Animals and Furries/Anthros -Humans

I do not draw:

- Genitals, Body fluids, Sexual Acts - Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual Assault/Sexual harassment

Art examples:

[id: Art of a tumbleweed made of human arms. /end id]

[ID: A simple drawing of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi as a wolfman-type werewolf with a tail. He's drawn from the hips up and wearing his plate armor. /End ID]

[id: Digital art of the Pokemon, boldore, a deep blue and orange rock monster with three limbs and two yellow lined ears in the middle of its face in the place of eyes laying down on a simple green grass background bordered with grey. /end id]

[id: Digital art of the character Chur from Magi-Nation seated cross-legged in profile with his face turned towards the viewer. He is bald with scaly green skin, dark green facial hair, orange eyes, and a yellow gem embedded onto his forehead. He’s wearing a brown and grey fur bikini with arm and leg guards that have orange spikes on the shoulders and orange claws on the boots. The tail on his fur bikini is pointed curved upwards and is striped. 

Behind him is a red-orange rectangle as a background. /end id]

[id: A digital painting of two women, one tall Black and with red hair and one shorter white and prematurely gone grey, on a hike in a birch-maple forest in autumn. They are on a wood planked path with a split in the path in front of them. The taller woman holds a map folded in one hand and points at the path directly in front of them while the shorter woman looks at her and looks to be speaking. /end id]

[thenixkat]

Got one commission. Still in the red by about $300, very much still need help.

[thenixkat]

because the universe hates me I hit a deer and very damaged my current car, I need all the help I can get

[thenixart]

[id: A digital painting of a black short hair cat with green eyes against a green gradient background. /end id]

A commission for Price.

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I also have a ko-fi if you like my art and would like to help support the artist [ https://ko-fi.com/nixkat ].

[thenixart]

[id: A digital painting of a black short hair cat with green eyes against a green gradient background. /end id]

A commission for Price.

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I also have a ko-fi if you like my art and would like to help support the artist [ https://ko-fi.com/nixkat ].

[thenixart]

Bioremediation How I met your… [end segment]

Time passes like water flowing through cupped hands. 

Inoshishi finds himself uncled twice and somehow turned into the figurehead of a freedom movement. His estate expanded and modified to house a mixed commune of mages and humans and half of an orphanage. One where the kids aren’t tortured or for sale! Imagine that. He and his original minions, his lieutenants now, opened so many doors to the human world--not Hole but the actual world outside of that polluted valley, that it was feeling more and more like it would be a good investment to get a permanent door built. If anyone actually knew how to do that… 

The humans pull their weight far better than he expected them to. In terms of skill and labor it turned out there really was no difference between a weak mage and a human. True though humans were more fragile they got along better. His home and Hyodoru’s family farm became a cultural melting pot or very odd social experiment depending on how you wanted to look at it. It was something to be proud of either way.

Hyodoru becomes one of his closest friends, a valuable hunting companion, and then his treasured Partner. He finally, finally! gets to hear his lovely little human scream her lungs out. In pleasure rather than fear but that’s ok by him because that way he gets to hear it again and again. Before he knows she becomes the mother of his delightful son. He gains a sister-in-law, as the humans say it, who hates his guts which he loves so much. It's delightful to hear someone call him a monster with their whole chest. Hyodoru’s mother Tatsuki is equally interesting for other reasons. For a person with such a gentle temperament, he was quite shocked to learn that she killed her Partner to increase the lifespan of her pet. He couldn’t imagine doing the same. As much as he loved his pet piggy Kokuo, Hyodoru’s companionship meant so much more. Inoshishi has to assume that the man had been a terrible partner.

His heart soars to see his son Ton become best friends with Meushi’s son Ushishimada. Half because of the opportunity for puns. His child in general brings him joy that he hardly experienced outside of fights to the death or adding new things to his collection of preserved sorcerer parts or time with Hyodoru. The kid takes after him in build and hair color and even has little baby tusks. But his skin’s deeper brown, more like his mother’s than his father’s. The boy’s hair is a midpoint between her tight curls and his shaggy fur-like locks. And Ton’s kind little green eyes and interesting compromise between Hyodoru’s brown and Inoshishi’s grey. The other compromises between their biologies are much... stranger. Fun Fact! Did you know that humans aren’t born with teeth? That they grow more than one set that they are supposed to shed as they grow up? Weirdass alien motherfuckers. At six years old Ton’s “baby teeth” did not fall out but were pushed aside as his “adult teeth” started coming in and that was just... bizarre to look at. 

As his family grows some of the humans and mages actually do find his rambling discussions on wizard biology interesting. This gives Inoshishi the motivation to write a book on the sorcerer mind and body titled: You Are Meat. And years later after consensual experiments on humans, he writes another titled: Comparative Anatomy of Sorcerers and Aliens.

Inoshishi is never quite tamed by all of these new relationships. His wonderful Partner was clever enough to use him, to figure out what he liked in prey and point him in the most useful direction for the team. Team. How interesting it was to see his people fight by his side, for them to find combat applications for what little magic they had access to. Ookami creatively using partial mammal transformations on himself due to his inability to properly fully transform things. Hakuchou riding one of the steers into battle while enchanted by her magic to follow her orders or using her D type summoned familiar to strike at precise moments with simple brief commands. Hotaru forges weapons and armor with her minor temperature control magic. A few humans who he can’t quite remember the names of yet taking up arms and joining the fray, often under helpful enhancements from Ookami.

Inoshishi had so much fun that when the devil who made his boar mask offered him a once in a lifetime chance at devilhood he refused. As politely as possible of course. And if it were any other devil than Red, his soul would have been dragged to Hell on the spot for calling devilhood the most boring thing he could think of. Red wished him well in his endeavors and he never saw the devil again in life.

And there was much work to do.

[thenixart]

Bioremediation How I met your... [late middle segment]

There is enough space on his property between the guest houses and the barn to house all the humans freed by Hyodoru and then some. And he is not lacking in the funds to provide for all of them neither. He does not understand her drive to help others. Even his underlings would mostly have only cared about saving their own skin and that of their friends if they were in the same situation. But Inoshishi supposes that that is merely one of the many differences between their two species.

The humans who want to return to Hole can start going home tomorrow. Between himself, Hotaru, Hakuchou they should be able to open doors in enough places to get everyone where they want to go. As it was, the humans were free to use his bathrooms and kitchen so long as they didn’t get hostile. Explicitly that if they got hostile he would take it as fair game to turn their spines into belts. And to their credit, they had enough sense to actually be grateful about being rescued and not starting shit or properly afraid of aggravating a bunch of sorcerers. Even if his servants were not really the causing harm to others without being severely provoked types, it was common sense to not provoke things higher up on the food chain.

Because he was curious Inoshishi decided to strike up a conversation with Hyodoru at dinner. An interesting one even if he didn’t understand quite a bit of her position on compassion and helping others but she was smart, he liked her and her pretty voice, and Meushi seemed to get along with her. Hyodoru seemed to be quickly figuring out what kind of person he was as they talked. And there was quite an edge there in her dark eyes. Something vengeful and predatory that made it feel like there were moths in his stomach.

A look that only grows as the weeks pass because Hyodoru insists that they have to be careful and actually return people to where they belong. Without getting them put into the crosshairs of the local militia. Because what is the point of saving people if you turn around and get them killed? 

Also with some funds. 

A stipulation that she wins after betting and beating him in a sparring match. Something he agrees to before losing because he is confident in his skills and perhaps he may have underestimated the power of an unarmed human, especially comparing their sizes. It is not a mistake he makes again when she challenges him a second time trying to secure a place for the orphaned children to live. He wins that round, managing to pin her under his weight with the points of his claws at her neck. But loses when Meuchi takes him on with the same bet by suplexing him (why is she so devils damned strong?). The two women had apparently been conspiring together behind his back.

Little by little he notices that the humaness has been stealing the loyalty of the rest of his household away from him. He sees Hyodoru and Hakuchou instruct humans with no homes to return to on how to care for the animals and work the land. Ookami often went hunting with her bringing back near three times the game he was usually able to capture and beaming like a schoolboy with a crush. While spying in the bodies of birds he caught her and Hotaru drawing up plans for restructuring the guest houses and laughing. He almost never caught Hotaru laughing. Not since that day he skinned his parents.  

When Hyodoru is the last human remaining with a home to return to, she proposes a deal.

[thenixart]

Bioremediation How I met your... [middle segment]

Inoshishi’s breathing is steady if shallow. It doesn’t feel like any of the arrows in his chest and gut have pierced anything vital but there’s always the possibility of them going deeper if he expands his ribcage too much. Summoning his door and fleeing to Hole was a sound idea, in theory, his prey could go after him or fend off his darling Kokuo. Not both. Especially given that only one of them had a crossbow and the rest didn’t really have anything that could properly take on an enraged war hog.

Unfortunately, it happened to be raining in the Hole.

Between the rain and blood loss, every ounce of strength left his body and he collapsed against the wall as his door dissolved. His head pounded like someone was massaging his scalp with a jackhammer. Every drop of polluted water in his wounds felt like cold flames searing his flesh. The rain soaking his hair and seeping into his eyes blurred his vision. His lips pulled back in an expression that was half grimace and half grin. 

The pain was intense and glorious. 

Inoshishi can tell immediately that something is blocking the rain from his head by the way that his migraine goes from wondrous roar to dull burn. His eyes still burn so he cannot see the person but her voice is a lovely contralto. He wishes immediately that they’d met in better circumstances because he’d love to hear her scream. 

Speaking while perforated with arrows and exhausted is a chore but he has to refute her suggestion of getting him to a hospital. While he preferred to play with sorcerers he knew enough about the events in Hole from stalking his targets to want to avoid being discovered as a magic user. Inoshishi had no fear of death but if he was going to go out via a human militia it’d be much more fun to fight in full health with his pet by his side. Make his death a wonderful spectacle if that’s what it came to. 

The humaness misinterpreted his refusal of hospital assistance with a lack of funds. Then offers to tend his wounds herself. Her promise of pain only sweetens the deal and he readily accepts. Actually getting into the taxi car (?) is an ordeal and a half. He barely has the energy to stand on his own and the human is at best a third of his size. Inoshishi ends up with his uninjured side draped over her like a shawl while they wobbly stagger towards the vehicle and back him inside the vehicle, uninjured side first.

Some of his strength starts to return to him now that he was out of direct contact with the rain. He tells her his name and she gives him her’s. When the car stops at her apartment building he has recovered enough to walk on his own. There was a bottle of B-rank healing smoke in one of his pant pockets, but he needed to get the arrows out first or the magic might try to incorporate them into his body and that’s not something fun. Useful for body mods but not what he was going for today.

The woman, Hyodoru, gives him a towel to dry his head as she gets ready. He can hear her rummaging for pots and looking around for things. His vision returns to him and he actually gets a decent look at the little human. She’s clearly healthy and well-fed. The woman is dark like his friend Meushi, though her short-cropped hair is in free-standing tight curls and not straight. As she moves he can see muscles ripple on her arms and back, Inoshishi had to assume she does a lot of physical labor. On the exposed parts of her skin, he can see a multitude of healed scars. 

He also sees the exact moment that she realized that he was a sorcerer.

The prolonged look at the bloody clothing she’d removed from him. An interesting experimental sniff of his blood on his boar cape. (Fascinating. He never thought about human and sorcerer blood smelling different.) She doesn’t know he can see her line of sight to one of the flyers on the wall full of phone numbers. But he can sense her considering turning him in and he collects his smoke to his throat in case she goes for the phone. When she instead returns to his side with a hot knife, a needle and thread, and disinfectant he is deeply curious but keeps his questions to himself.

“Alright mister, this is gonna hurt like hell,” She says looking in the approximate area of his eyes given that his bangs still draped in front of them. “Will you need something to bite down on?”

“No...” He replies in a shallow breath. “I’m good... with pain.”

“Alright.”

Inoshishi’s heart flutters when she starts to twirl the arrows to see if any of them were embedded in bone. And he knows with absolute certainty that she’s done this before when she uses her knife to enlarge the wounds to remove the arrows instead of yanking them right out. The pain is lovely as she pours disinfectant into the freshly bleeding wounds and stitches them closed. And it is a wonderful feeling when he can breathe deeply again. Then using gauze she bandages up his arm. He snorts with laughter when she brings out duct tape to secure cotton pads to the wounds on his chest and belly.

And possibly because he’d lost more than a bit of blood in the past few hours he suddenly passed out.

When he woke up he was in a bed covered with blankets. There was a strange feeling in his mouth which he discovered to be cotton balls secured to his tusks with rubber bands. In the air was the faint scent of cooked eggs and sausage. The human had already left for work and left him a note.

Hey. So I know you’re a sorcerer. Regardless, I’m gonna trust you to not be a dick. Ok? There’s breakfast in the fridge and I’ll drop by around noon with lunch. If you get thirsty I recommend drinking the bottled water by the sink instead of the tap. I wouldn’t recommend going outside until your wounds heal, don’t want someone else noticing and calling the militia. Both our asses would be under fire. I’ll redo your bandages later.

-Hyodoru