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Bestie your art is absolutely incredible, so good in fact that it's given me creative energy.

Anyway, I feel like you're someone who would put a lot of thought in your layout, so if you have any thoughts behind it I would love to hear them.

!! That is such a huge compliment thank you so much. I hope you enjoy whatever you decide to do with that creative energy! I have reread the tags you left on that piece about five times because they are so so sweet and you took the time to point out specific parts and as an artist that is always!! such a fun part to read. had to stim out the happy!

Now to answer your question, yep there was a fair amount of thought put into everything! The one exception is the clothes--Sophie, Dex, and Keefe had specific outfits attributed to their characters throughout the series and I based Linh's on her Nightfall cover outfit, but otherwise it was just "what can I easily do with how I've drawn their bodies already?

I wanted to have 1-2 characters per color (3 seemed crowded), and I used the meanings of the colors to decide most of where I put everyone...the explanations of which got very long so!! under a cut!

up first is pink, which represents sex and noticeably doesn't have a character. as this is a middle grade series and I was working with the main characters, there isn't really anyone who I feel fits that. The closest I could think was Ro, but I didn't want to include bodyguards for this piece. So I considered doing a landscape, but there are so many places that I couldn't pick one, so then I turned to quotes. I wanted one related to love and life that could fit the spirit of the message I wanted, and that's how I ended up picking the Mr. Forkle dying speech quote. Because it's about living your life, continuing on, and being happy. And I think that's a essential message for pride, to be happy and to live your life. Love people if you want, take risks, fight when you can. the flowers were more to fill space than anything, but I think they're nice either way

Red is supposedly Sophie's color, but it also represents life and that's something she's been denied the chance to fully experience due to standing out everywhere she goes, so I wanted to give her a chance to be alone and asked "what would she do if she had an afternoon to herself?" and remembered the books she had in her human room and how she brought her ipod to the lost cities and hasn't really used it, so I figured I'd draw her having a chance to live her life by herself for once! then I also pointed out recently that she wears a very specific white outfit on a lot of covers, hence the clothes. and i wanted to represent different aspects of her life, which brought in ella (a human aspect) and iggy (the elven) and the book (a tie)

Orange is healing, which I thought fit with Keefe and Dex best (I considered Marella as well but ended up putting her in yellow). Keefe's been trying to heal from the broken family he was raised in and the trauma he's endured, and while he's not there quite yet it's going to be an instrumental part of who he is. Then Dex has had an arc of coming to terms with a lot of grudges he's had against the world and letting them go, healing from the hurt and moving past it to live a life he enjoys without anger--and the Dex/Keefe pairing works well together, so that was a plus as well. For their background I tried to make a blend of the description of Dex's own lab and the drawings we have of Slurps and Burps, so it's predominantly Dex's stuff and knick-knacks and experiments, but you'll notice on the middle of the shelf is a certain Mrs. Stinkbottom to represent keefe!!

Yellow is sunlight, so it seemed only natural to draw on two of the characters who are most related to light--Wylie and Marella. I also consider Biana to be a light character, but found her better suited for violet. And even if they might also relate to healing or life or spirit, one of the things they bring to the story is shining light on different things. They both bring attention to different issues and bring them to the forefront, shining the light on them. On the consequences of the world they live in, so it was like a bonus double alongside having abilities that can literally create light!! And then the way they're posed to be using their abilities in tandem was a nice instant of the two of them having visible abilities that are similar to each other, and I wanted to make the way they stood unique. Everyone is positioned slightly different for variety, so I thought it would be fun to have them reaching for each other and the rays of light and sparkles came from that

Green is nature, which originally gave me a pause because there aren't any nature related main characters--there's the gnomes, but I was specifically focusing on the kotlcrew here and the closest is Linh, who I'd already decided would be indigo. So then i decided to go a little deeper and remembered that Stina works with unicorns at Sterling Gables, which seemed like a perfect fit. Her empathy plays a huge part in her unicorn work, so it seemed only natural for them to be super close and for it to be a soft moment, so no huge grin. Just her in the moment--then to amplify the nature sense I added the foliage around. She's also frequently alone and not as integrated into the group, so it seemed more appropriate for her to be alone

then there's teal!! which is magic/art. I will admit a big part of why Fitz is there is because of the teal eyes, but I also drew a little on the "magic is just what humans call what they don't understand" (paraphrased) line from book one where Fitz laughed at the idea...while also showing Sophie a world she didn't understand, effectively showing her magic. I thought it was a fun little contradiction. And then Maruca was like this magic solution to everyone else with Sophie's "This changes everything!!" though she tried to reason through. She's the wild card, the game changer, the shift. I think there's a certain amount of magic in that--also she distinctly didn't feel like any of the others except maybe violet. Also just happened to work out to make one of her locs the teal :). Their background is less detail than everyone else because their abilities are hard to represent and they don't have a specific Thing in common or in contradiction that's as recognizable, so I ended up just trying to represent who they are in the lines. Fitz with clean, straight lines representing his straightfoward approach to things, and Maruca with lightning because her ability is like energy and because she's unpredictable and powerful.

And then the indigo, which is serenity, I simply had to give to Linh. She is so wise beyond her years and has this approach of kindness when possible while unafraid to be brunt and forceful when needed, and I think that kind of understanding of herself gives her the attitude we recognize. It's the kind of thing that leads to peace with yourself, to serenity. It also doesn't hurt that she's a water character and indigo is very blue. So to work with both the water and the serenity i posed her with the calm expression and flowing hair, body open because she's trusting and in control of herself. I tried to keep her background as simple as I could to really hammer home that idea of calmness compared to some of the chaotic lines and scattered details in other backgrounds.

And finally, the violet!! representing spirit, I found both the vibe of the color and it's meaning to fit Biana and Tam. They both have such strong convictions and feelings about so much--not that others don't--that they're like...the spirit of the group. The confidence of Biana and the reservations of Tam and his stark hatred for the world. They represent perspectives and mindsets in ways others don't. Tam also works with shadows and the unseen and the quiet, and if you interpret spirit in the sort of soul/creature/unseen inhumanity then I think he matches. Plus i've always associated Biana with purple. Their background was kind of a surprise because I was just brainstorming and then went...wait a minute light and dark. sun and moon. optimism and pessimism. they're compliments to each other. Biana's ability revolves around light and she's a positive person and Tam's revolves around darkness and doubt. they're like night and day, and from there the background was born--though that reasoning is also part of why they're back to back. it was a new pose and also represented how they're close but still so different, which i thought was fun

so that was kinda my thought process behind the choices I made for who went where and why they were drawn the way they were!! I also made the choice to have them all smiling with their eyes closed--smiling, because the drawing is about being proud and happy in who you are, and eyes closed because of the vibes. Seriously I tries to draw like 3 different people with their eyes open and it just felt wrong. It didn't help that I was doing everything on such a small scale. literally some things I did pixel by pixel because everything was so small to fit in all in the proportions I wanted.

that got long but hopefully gave some insight!!

#quil's queries #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #rainbow-frog-earrings #quil's queridos #there were also several parts of this drawing that gave me particular trouble #sophie's shirt. dex's arm. wylie's hand and face. marella's clothes before I switched them up. tam's face. biana's head #I made her head too big and that made tam weird but I didn't wanna change him because I'd just gotten him to look okay #so I had to make her smaller #oh and also writing the quote was tricky #trying to figure out how to make the loops natural but still legible #but everyone has seemed to like it so far so!! sucess!!#*success!!#thank you for asking I love to talk

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Walk him like a dog

Pairing: Gojo Satoru x Reader

Note ₊˚⊹♡ : The first year trio are watching Gojo who is completely head over heels for you.

To the world, Gojo Satoru is the strongest but to the people who know him Gojo Satoru is a menace.

When he was in high school, he was a different breed. Yaga could not sleep at times from all the stress Gojo would cause; be it either an earful from the higher ups or checking the news only to find out there had been an explosion conveniently where Gojo’s mission was assigned.

Sometimes he would get pictured sent to him by the problem student himself, a picture with a beaten up enemy and Gojo winking at the camera with a note saying ‘Yay~ another victory! I mean it’s as normal as breathing for me (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ’

Even when Yaga would use his authority and lecture him, sometimes Gojo Satoru would not listen; be it simply ignoring or rebutting it with his opinion— an opinion no one asks for.

And when that happens, Yaga would pull out his secret weapon ‘You’! He didn’t use this card all the time but at time Gojo was simply so uncooperative, he had to! Any word coming from you would be listened to by him as if it were law. Right now, at the age of 28 he seemed to have matured- no stopped acting as childish and Yaga didn’t have to rely on you so often.

That same Yaga watches from the window at his new first years— Kugisaki Nobara, Itadori Yuji and Fushiguro Megumi— behind a bush, hiding peeking over to you and Gojo who were on a bench.

“Ah…” Kugisaki sweat dropped at the pair. “Gojo-sensei is so smitten.” She said observing at how you were simply reading a book, as Gojo yaps away but one thing very obvious was the gentle look he gave you.

When you finally looked Gojo’s way, their white haired teacher suddenly stops, they notice a faint blush peeping under his blindfolds and when he does starts talking he stammers. THE Gojo Satoru was stammering, biting his tongue simply because you were looking at him.

“Kugisaki, let’s leave.” Itadori covers his eyes, his right eye peeps through the cracks of his fingers. “Sensei is doing such a bad job at flirting with y/n, I’m getting embarrassed.”

Kugisaki lifts her hands and grabs the collar of Itadori’s and starts shaking it. “This is the closest we’re getting to romance in this school and I want to be the witness.” She grits her teeth.

Just then Nanami walks along the path, making the pair look over. You smile as you call out. “Nanami-kun.”

Nanami stops and waits as you stand from your bench, walking over to greet him. The students stare; as soon as you got off the bench and walks Gojo follows suit not even a millisecond later.

Kugisaki cringes. “He is like a puppy…”

They could vaguely hear Gojo start to make fun of Nanami, but when you think his ‘joke’ was a slight bit too harsh; they watch you give Gojo a side eye and almost immediately their teacher shuts up.

‘y/n has the strongest sorcerer at the palm of their hands .’ Kugisaki and Itadori collectively thought.

Before Kugisaki could comment she senses a small wet feeling on her forehead, then another and then she was drowning in it. Suddenly it started raining.

“Geh. Let’s get out of here.” Kugisaki says as she quickly brought her hands up to cover her bangs. “I don’t want my hair to frizz up.”

Itadori and Fushiguro follows her lead as they walk away to the nearby building and when they did reach shelter, Kugisaki quickly turns around to check on their teacher and you, a fellow sorcerer.

Her mouth drops slightly taking in the situation at hand, Nanami was no where in sight. She assumes he left because of the rain too.

But that wasn’t the focus.

Her eyes were focused on Gojo and you, holding hands smiling fondly at each other, she also noted that he was using ‘Infinity’ to not get wet from the rain.

Gojo laughs as he raises one of your hands high which makes you let out laugh, but complies as you proceed to twirl. As soon as you make two twirls, their teacher places his hands on your face as his leans down, his lips on yours.

Kugisaki and Itadori squeal and blushes at the intimate scene infront of them, jumping. “Sensei, finally did it! He kissed y/n—!” Itadori smiles.

They watch you smile into the kiss and you bring your hands up behind his neck, slowly trailing them into his hair, deepening the kiss.

“I’m so happy,Kugisaki.” Itadori wipes his tears with the back of his hands, extremely happy for his teacher’s happiness and success in his love life.

“I don’t know why you guys are making such a fuss.” Fushiguro finally decides to add into the antics of his classmates.

“Huh?” Kugisaki quickly turns and glares at the dark haired man. ”Is your heart made of stone or something,Fushiguro?”

“Yeah! I heard Gojo-sensei basically raised you.” Itadori chirps in. “You should be more happy for him.”

Kugisaki nods in agreement.

“I mean…” Fushiguro sighs as his hands are up massaging his temple, mentally preparing for the outburst to come.

“They’re married…”

“Ehhhhh???”

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