Currently thinking about Dottore's evolution of pet names towards you. I know for a fact at the beginning, he would physically recoil when he heard couples referring to each other with those sickeningly sweet "baby, sweetheart, love," etc names. Even after you two get together he'd refuse even if you begged. He loves you but he's not bringing himself to call you by those sappy ass names. Nope. No way. However one time, he wanted to try and appease you just because of how desperate you were to hear the words come out of his mouth. So when he was alone in the dorm, he attempted to say one out loud as practice, and the stiff, flat way it rolled off his tongue was so bad. Yeah, he's just going to stick to calling you by your name.
But present Dottore. He definitely uses them from time to time. Not too frequently of course, but not too sparingly either. This is another one of the ways he's grown. I imagine he uses them mostly unconsciously ("My love, pass me the scalpel" "Darling, read this over for me".) He would also use them to tease you, like when you're mad or if he wants to fluster you even more. He thinks they're not as bad as his younger self once thought, plus you're more receptive to his words once he uses one of the sweet names. Mostly uses "(my) love, darling, dear/dearest." Also tends to put "my" in front of the word. Why? Because he is possessive. You are his lover, his beloved, all his. That extends to his speech as well. Mhm, especially if this was fragile reader. You would probably love calling him sweet names too, since that's one of your only ways to show affection toward Dottore. But you still get whiplash every now and then from the sweet pet names because of how starkly different he was in the Akademiya... he would literally make fun of people who used them. (The segment of that time period probably dies inside every time he hears it.)
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imagine you're getting a rare research-and-liquor-based sleepover with your bestie after you've had to split ways across the continent to further bear the responsibility of entire nations/peoples when your other best friend and the love of his life/literal Champion of a city-state bust in and inform you that yet another Big Bad is in fact Bad At Staying Fucking Dead
or, I finally came up with an excuse to riff on this post:
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as i’m procrastinating some designs for the main players in diane’s dimension, here are some of her inter-dimensional gaggle of children!
around 6 years into her time as a dimensional traveler, diane set up a rest stop of sorts (that became her home) at the outskirts of the nightmare dimension for anyone who finds themselves suddenly forced out of their home dimension, or in urgent need of supplies
however, whenever a child finds themselves in that position, diane takes it upon herself to watch after and take care of them, even refusing to take bounties unless absolutely necessary, until they are old enough to decide for themselves if they want to stay or leave - these three are the ones who choose to stay
furthest left is Hg80, from a dimension where people are made out of elements from the periodic table (diane’s nickname for them is hattie)
in the middle is charlie simmons, an outcast from the finger dimension after being born with syndactyly (hence why he wears gloves)
and furthest right is velquus caballissi, from a dimension where the most intelligent species are dinosaur-horse-bug-adjacent, and who fell into the nightmare realm just after hatching
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see here's the thing. once you realize that you can, in fact, do with your body whatever you want, you're an adult, no one will stop you - you cannot stop yourself anymore, either.
am i ready to spend a shitload of money on tattoos and disappointing my mother as much as possible? yes. yes absolutely i am.
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wait. wait. wait. ive been staring at ur latest comic for awhile now and i think i've noticed something about the colors? which are amazing, first of all- just gotta get that out there cuz i adore that soft pink and deep green combo
but i just realized that throughout most of the comic u use both in equal parts it seems. to separate bg + fg and such, to highlight characters/objects, etc.
but then when vash gets back to their room, all the walls are that dark green. and, bit by bit, the pink totally falls off. by the end, it's nothing but constant dark green as vash starts to cry
but then wolfwood slams in and he's backed by that soft pink. and suddenly the comic is nothing BUT pink. soft lines and whites and gentle pink tones EVERYWHERE to just. SO tastefully highlight the little details.
LIKE. WAS THIS INTENTIONAL?! i almost wanna guess that it wasn't since all those green panels w vash crying are all closeups focused on his expression so it makes sense to just put the simple green behind it and all attention on him so the pink just isn't Needed
BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE EFFECT IS SO MASTERFUL THAT I WANNA BELIEVE IT WAS ABSOLUTELY INTENTIONAL
HEHE..... first of all, thank you for looking at my comic so closely, THAT'S LIKE... REALLY SWEET and a huge compliment to hear, thank u thank u
and yes, it was intentional, especially more towards the end!!! in general, the colors are meant to serve as a mood indicator, so a balance of them in a scene would just mean a neutral "okay-ness" and have a functional serve to separate background / foreground / subject matter... deep green signifies introspection or incoming sadness (especially on pg5 when vash cries), and pink signifies wolfwood, which, not an emotion but he is happiness, someone that helps vash lose his doubts in a matter of seconds -- which is why those last few pages are just pink white and lines, and the panels are gone for the majority of it. i wanted to show their unity and togetherness!
while vash still has his issues of just Not saying anything about his loneliness, his feelings are alleviated temporarily with wolfwood's presence and he's just grateful that his paranoia didn't become true, and that wolfwood is genuine, true to his word, when he means he'll be following vash/staying with him. even though it's mission-bound, vash would probably still feel guiltily comforted by that fact.
I'M GLAD IT WAS PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE IN THIS COMIC because i definitely could've pushed it more... i figured it was a minor thing that not a lot of ppl would care for, but more ppl enjoyed it and noticed the colors than i thought, so i'm glad it worked out!!!
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me returning to tumblr SOLELY to join the circle of bg3 raphael girlies. absolutely pathetic
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