[Image description: Eight pages from the comic Mighty Nein Origins: Caduceus Clay. The first six pages feature a young Caduceus and his mother, Constance, while the last two pages show an older Caduceus, as well as his father, Cornelius, and sister, Clarabelle.
Page 1: A wide shot of the Blooming Grove, with a beautiful stone and wood temple sat at the center of a verdant cemetery. From afar, Constance calls outs "Caduceus!"
Page 2: Constance is stood behind her son, with his head only partially in frame. The first panel shows her saying, "There you are, didn't you hear me calling?" In the second panel, she is leaning down to her son, a concerned look on her face as she says "Oh."
Page 3: A smaller panel shows Caduceus cupping a dead bird in his hands, holding it tenderly. The wider panel then shows his mother sitting down beside him, the pair sat next to a head stone. He leans his head into her shoulder as she asks, "Would you like some help?" The pair then proceed ro bury the bird.
Page 4: Constance and Caduceus are kneeling in the dirt, over the bird's burial spot. Constance asks, "Ready?, with Caduceus responding "Mh-hmm." The pair touch the ground where the bird was buried, and soon a bright orange flower magically blooms from the spot, causing Caduceus to startle.
Page 5: Constance sits beside her son, her hand gentle touching his face as she says, "Death and decay are a part of a circle, a wheel turning without a beginning or end. Death is how we nurture life, Caduceus." He looks down at the flower as he asks, "Then how comes it hurts?" Caduceus lays down in his mother's arms as she explains, "Because you loved them." A smaller panel shows a closer shot of their faces as she asks, "Do you regret that love?"
Page 6: A small panel shows a closeup shot of Caduceus, looking sad as he replies "No." Another wide shot of the Grove is shown, with the pair sat at the center, Constance continuing, "Part of love is knowing they will go, and cherishing them with your whole heart in the face of that hurt." Another small panel shows a closeup of the newly bloomed flower, with some of its loose petal blowing into the wind.
Page 7: An interior shot, a number of years in the future, showing an adult Caduceus asleep in his flower filled bedroom. He wakes upon hearing the voices of his father and sister, who are in another room, getting up to go investigate. His sister says "I just don't think it's fair that --", Cornelius interjects, "Clarabelle, please keep your voice down."
Page 8: Caduceus comes down the stairs tiredly rubbing his eyes while his father and sister continue to argue. Clarabelle says, "I will not until you--", cutting herself off as she sees her brother appear. Cornelius moves to ready some gear as Caduceus asks "You're leaving?" He responds "The corruption isn't going away on its own. Maybe... maybe your mother found something out there. I'll find her and your aunt, and find a cure." Clarabelle steps forward, declaring "It should be my turn! I'm old enough and faster than you, anyway!" To which Cornelius responds, as he begins to depart, "Clarabelle Clay, mind yourself. Stay home with your brother." End description.]
Sneak preview of Caduceus's origin comic from Polygon!
Generations of the Clay family have tended to the careful rituals in the Blooming Grove. But when corruption begins to creep in on their sacred space, the Clays depart one by one to seek answers. Soon young Caduceus and Clarabelle are the only ones left, and when a dangerous burial quest falls to Caduceus, he must leave the Grove to do the family’s work.
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more CBF!Soap and Reader thoughts for you! you mentioned Johnny always being the one to defend the reader from bullies, or anyone who has the audacity to be mean to them! he's so scrappy, just imagine the routine they could get into! John getting a little scuffed up as a kid, and the reader carefully pulling him away afterwards to paste a bandaid to a scrape - and as teens, gently scolding him while tenderly dabbing blood away from where his lip is split. the closeness, the YEARNING
YES
Kid!johnny wrestling with another kid who pulled your hair and ruined it, scraping his knees in the process. When the fight is over and your tears are dried you give him a bandaid (probably a hello kitty or Barbie one too) he wears it like a badge of honor
And then when he’s older, after having punched the shit out of someone who not only insulted you but touched you inappropriately, busted his face.
“You need to stop getting into fights.” You scold him as you hold his face gently and pressed the cold wet washcloth against his lip.
“He touched you! I’d be fucking dead before letting someone get away with that.” He’s still seething, shaking and nearly ready to go at it again if you hadn’t forced him into the bathroom.
You just sigh and clean up the blood, moving to his hand where it shook. Bloody knuckles and possibly a fractured hand, you nearly want to take him to the hospital but he would refuse.
So instead you wrap it up.
Johnny wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close, resting his chin on your stomach as he looks up at you. His soft eyes bore into yours, puppy like as you stare down at him while you run a hand through his hair.
He always had a hand on you. It was just the way he was.
“Alright, bonnie?” He knows you’re not, he can see it but needs to ask.
“Yeah.” You take a moment to answer, a lot emotions going through you. “Thank you.”
“Let’s watch a movie, your pick.”
You smile and he pulls you closer, a grin spreading across his face which makes his lip bleed again.
“Johnny!”
“I’m fine!”
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ive searched up which finger they traditionally use for engagement rings in china, annnd… its M I D D L E finger. it’s so fluff i want to cry
these boys are in loveee
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