#emilalli

[vaninaivanka]

#stand still stay silent #sssscomic #ssss #lalli hotakainen #emil västerström #emilalli

[antre-de-la-dragomotte]

Because their dynamic is priceless.

#stand still stay silent #fanart #sketch #lalli hotakainen #emil västerström #emilalli #ssss #sssscomic

[wisedo]

Inktober2023 Day 5 - Map

#inktober #inktober 2023 #stand still stay silent #sssscomic #emilalli #emil västerström #lalli hotakainen #dusklings #my art

[koipalm]

i never knew somebody like you, somebody

#to me lalli blushes with his ears and emil with his whole face. to me #stand still stay silent #im trying to get a feel for their fashion styles.... hmm #ssss #emil västerström #lalli hotakainen #song lyrics because that is what i was listening to #emilalli

[kururu]

boyfriend said lalli looks like the katsup blast cat and i can’t get it out of my head.

#emilalli #?that's the shipname right. i'm pretty sure. #emil västerström #lalli hotakainen #stand still stay silent #ssss #🍥

[clickatickaclickaticka]

some Real Old unfinished ssss fanart from back when I was still into it

#probably never gonna finish this so I figured I’d post it as is #ssss comic #stand still stay silent #emilalli #emil västerström #lalli hotakainen

[autistic-lalli]

I don’t know if you’ve already done it, but could you please do an analysis of the trash can scene (especially how Emil & Lalli still share dreams even after Lalli leaves his head!!!!!!!)? It’s one of my favourite scenes and I’d love to hear your take on it :)

I'd LOVE to!!!

This got. Way longer than I expected.

Since this scene comes right at the end of Adventure 1, it's in an interesting place--both as a general read and also when it comes to what I bring to it as a reader (/fan creator.) It's the denouement and also foreshadowing for what's to come at the same time.

I'm actually going to start on page 955. There's an interesting change here, did you notice it? Thought bubbles. The comic doesn't use them hardly ever; character thoughts are either expressed directly, or, if they are too internal even for that, through grumbled dialogue. But here we see Emil's thoughts, evaluating the situation and the risks of his and Lalli's only options. He looks outside (They've all gone inside the house!) and then looks at Lalli (If they hear us...)

And then he and Lalli are on the move without another word.

Lalli's time inside Emil's head is obviously key, both to them as individual characters and to their relationship. Each of them has grown and matured tremendously over the last couple of weeks, and this individual growth has allowed them to also grow closer to each other.

So what do thought bubbles tell us?

After months of being in the field, and despite still speaking two different languages, Emil and Lalli have figured each other out. They actually understand each other.

This relationship is for real.

The rest of their escape continues to highlight this, the way Emil seamlessly trusts Lalli's actions, even though he has no idea what Lalli's actually doing. The way Lalli jumps in to making sure they stay safe, because Emil's expended everything he has getting them this far. They hide (in a trash can) and the back and forth of support continues. Lalli gets dazed when they get exposed, and Emil takes out the attacking duskling in the meantime. They hide together and protect each other. They're desperate and tired but they're a team.

There's no question they're working collaboratively, for either Lalli or Emil or for us as the readers. Lalli won't ditch Emil in the depths of an Old World building, and Emil won't set of an explosion without making sure Lalli's gotten out first.

And then when they fall asleep? A classic move, if I say so myself. They're stuck waiting for it to be safe, the adrenaline is receding, and they're both exhausted.

Then... they both wake up in the same dream? Inside the trash can?

And this is one of the things I am confident we were robbed of in Adventure 2 (if not in a distant, theoretically Adventure 3.) There is a great deal of detail in this little moment, detail that has zero explanation.

Let's observe how this dream is different from any others we've seen:

It's in the present, in the dreamers' present circumstances. They're still in the trash can. They're still in their uniforms. There is no dreamspace in the typical sense.

There are also butterflies. And a bird. The butterflies glow, the bird does not.

Both Lalli and Emil are there.

The first dream in Adventure 2 suggests that the shared dreaming doesn't always happen, but does happen sometimes. Whatever happened when Lalli crawled into Emil's head, and/or the ensuing time after that, made permanent changes to the way both Lalli and Emil interact with the dreamsea.

So from this three-panel segment, we know:

There's a third space that exists for them. There's a third dreamspace for both of them. This space isn't static, and can be very present--and very unstable.

This space is subject to influence just as any mage can influence their own dreamspace. I don't think it's insignificant that, as Emil gets more worked up, more and more butterflies appear, culminating in the bird. Think about the fish and the birds in the Adventure 2 dream--Emil influences this space, whether he does it consciously or not.

Emil and Lalli are permanently tied. Whatever happened to them, their minds and their souls are permanently muddled.

I don't have a precise conclusion for this post, but thanks for sending the ask! My main writing I'm doing right now is proving to really stretch me technically, so I was jonesing for a change of pace. Feel free to send more if you've got any other thoughts or questions :)

#a little less edited or polished than my usual analyses but that was also the goal #sssscomic #stand still stay silent #lalli hotakainen #emilalli #emil västerstrom #analysis #meta #my shit #ask #thefrogofrainbows

[thatmintleaf]

The urge to chew the ship you're obsessing over like a rabid dog chews bones

#emilalli #renheng #I need to consume and be consumed

[sirenadeillustrationcomics]

Hello, I achieved my goal, here is a little stupid comic about unspoken thought, summer evenings and sheeps.

(at first, it was a scene I wanted to draw for my comic, with 2 original characters, but life is short and days are long, and I don't kwow if my story will go so far. So here is a present for this fandom.)

(Also big inspiration from Sleeping Giants and Routines)

#sssscomic #emilalli #fanfiction #thanks for reading

[ferwuo]

welp, it’s so late i got recommended to read “Stand still, stay silent”. but anyway here are my pieces of art dedicated to these silly beautiful boys.

#stand still stay silent #sssscomic #webcomic #fanart #emilalli

[vaninaivanka]

#stand still stay silent #sssscomic #ssss #lalli hotakainen #emil västerström #emilalli

[antre-de-la-dragomotte]

WAR ZONE

I have big plans for them.

#fanart #stand still stay silent #emil västerström #lalli hotakainen #emilalli #acrylic #painting #acrylic painting #ssss #sssscomic

[wisedo]

Inktober2023 Day 14 - Castle

#inktober #inktober2023 #stand still stay silent #sssscomic #emilalli #emil västerström #lalli hotakainen #my art

[koipalm]

Can you draw the kissing scene between Lalli and Emil from You Made Me A Believer? I liked the part where it mentioned Emil's facial hair dragging across Lalli's face lmao 😳

i got distracted 42598738 times drawing this. hope you enjoy!

#yeah im also not sure what happened. #ask #my art #emil västerström #lalli hotakainen #emilalli #ssss #stand still stay silent #i think this ended up being good practice. yay

[bfhaver]

#stand still stay silent #ssss #sssscomic #lalli hotakainen #Emil Västerström #emilalli #emil x lalli #minna sundberg

[wilwywaylan]

Drawn for Ploum for l’échange de Noël 2022 ! Her prompt was “characters keeping warm”. It’s perfect for our two idiots. Lalli is totally warming his feet under Emil’s butt.

[image ID : a super-deformed drawing of Emil Vasterström and Lalli Hotakainen. Emil, a blond, white man with blue eyes and chin-length hair, wearing a black sweater, fingerless gloves, white pants and orange and white socks with pompons, is sitting crossed-legged on the floor. He’s leaning his head on his hand, a cup in his other hand. There’s a blanket on his shoulders. Lalli, a white man with blue eyes and ashen, short-ish hair with two longer strands, wearing a white sweater and black gloves, is lying beside him. He’s munching on a cookie from a plate. A blanket is almost entirely covering him. The background is a gradient of brown and yellow, centered on the both of us. end ID]

#stand still stay silent #ssss #emil vasterström #lalli hotakainen #emilalli #just two cuties being cuties #my Drawings