lil messy Puzzle Boys comic, all in pen, so no take backs :)
i have a lot of negative feelings about getting older, so this is a small attempt at trying to deal with those. thinking about how Atem would feel, if he was allowed to really live, and get older and older, and live a full life, and what a blessing that may feel like.
bonus lil happy Atem sketch, bc sometimes i'm nice to him :> (i was gonna put him under a cut, but tumblr is acting up and keeps messing up my post when i try to do that🙃)
Valentin can also be reaaally stubborn and jealous at time!
He's a sensible boy, often dealing with mood swings; you could talk with the usual bubbly, sunny Val' in the morning and get hit with a brooding, cold gaze in the after-noon, all because he overheard some gonks talking about his past as a wraith, or because he couldn't figure out what wasn't working earlier during his shift.
Everyone knows that Valentin's filters totally vanish when drunk, but his lack of tact can be noticeable during certain sobber conversations- he can be clumsy with his words, and hurt people unintentionally.
He does not forget, nor forgive; he holds grudges passively, not letting it ruin his life more than it already did in the past, but bringing up those subjects can make Valentin spiral down in his own memories for some time until he brooms them back where they came from.
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Reason number idk to keep my shot day more consistent (tho tbf i had been doing really well on timing up until last week lmao):
Shot day being off means i get extra weepy over just. anything. everything. My brain looks at anything and goes 'oh yeah, that's like (horrible traumatic memory), you 'member that? Yeah, sure ya do! here's a recap of that particular time for ya too.'
and like??? I am not a fan of it today. i mean i never really am but, I have shit to do rn lmao (dishes and i keep having smutty ed/izzy and nathan/pickles ideas that refuse to actually flow on the page once i open a word doc.)
Do you see a common thread in which types of characters are your favorites?
Oughhh this is a tough one 😭 I would say I like camp, melodrama, morally dubious choices, misery, and potential for violence. Basically I like when things that are kind of intense and negative are framed as jokes. Characters that are sad and pathetic and also hilarious. My fire emblem faves constance and dimitri, my rwby faves nora yang and qrow, my rgu faves nanami and saionji, etc. idk that there is really that much of a thread through these characters, but that’s the best I can come up with