[TAPP AU Masterpost]
Part one of an ongoing conversation.
So it's been a while since I've drawn The Boys, so let's fix that with a warm-up earlier on the TAPP!timeline, before Kokichi really gets over himself enough to admit he needs help.
He and Saihara are also dancing around their last major interaction before everything flipped turnways, too. After... everything, so to speak, Shuichi isn't even sure how to approach Kokichi overall, let alone while the kid's hiding in an alcove. Kokichi isn't sure how he feels about Shuichi anymore, exactly; he wants to pick a side, to either hate him or get the resolve to reach out (in his way) and be friends again, but at this stage? He just... can't.
It's the little things, that draw them back together. Little tests of the waters between them.
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probably didn't happen but imagine.
[Caption: Spoken by Eva Tsunaka to Damon Maitsu. "Poking you in the face, dragging you by the feet… I even bridal carried you at one point"]
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POV: Your name is Tsumugi Shirogane and the two most irritating people you know have joined forces to wreck your shit.
Amalgamate is ramping up and I am both so excited to see where we go next and simultaneously don't want the ride to end so in the meantime here's a pose practice that turned into fic fanart <3
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(click for higher quality, text description under the cut)
welcome to the hydraulic press channel
[Begin comic description:
Scene begins with Kokichi and Kaito during the offscreen Hangar Scene of Chapter 5. Kokichi, having been shot and poisoned, lay on his back on a hydraulic press. The first panel shows him from the side, with Kaito out of view behind machinery. Presumably, they are in the moments before enacting Kokichi's plan.
KOKICHI: "Momota-chan?"
KAITO: "Ouma?"
KOKICHI: "Before I die (which should be very shortly). I... need you to tell me something."
Zoom out. The camera focuses on the distance between the press and the control balcony. Kaito responds, "If robots didn't already have them I'm sure Miu—" Kokichi cuts him off. "Not that."
Zoom back in on a deliriously bemused Kokichi, who is slowly pulling the portion of Kaito's coat that will be trapped with him under the press over his still-bleeding right shoulder. "Did she hit it?"
Three small panels in succession show a confused close-up of Kaito's face: "... What?" as Kokichi fires back "On my jacket... the stitches make an 'X' pattern on the back!" Kokichi holds his crossed index fingers over his head, the intersection highlighted in purple-pink.
Cut to Kaito at the control panel of the hydraulic press, leafing through Kokichi's planning notebook with rigid shoulders and a determined expression. Meanwhile, from his position below, Kokichi less speaks to Kaito than in his general direction: "I'm such a nice murder victim, Momota! Ahahahahaha, I even showed her where to aim!"
Kaito is mildly alarmed as he hears a weak "Nishishishishi" from the press as Ouma loses steam, and he cringes as it progresses into a cough so severe it jars the outline of the speech bubble from its background with an overlain spatter of purple-pink blood. Kaito looks away from the press and toward the toilet where the two earlier attempted to flush Ouma's clothes and disrupt the future crime scene. A close-up confirms that the crossbow bolt went through between the large 'X'-shaped stitches on the back of Ouma's jacket, not through the center of an 'X'. Kaito sighs, and mumbles. "Oh, Maki...."
Regaining enough resolve to smile (and, perhaps, taking a few notes from Kokichi), Kaito forces a thumbs-up gesture Ouma cannot see. He lies through his teeth to comfort the dying kid with a morbid joke he just knows Ouma will prefer to any platitudes: "Yeah."
Kokichi, laying with his head tilted to one side and having determined he is isolated and out of view enough to cry, expresses genuine shock as he listens to Momota go on.
"She got it. 'Dead' center, Kokichi."
Ouma, crossing his arms over his chest as though he were to be lain in a casket, looks up at the top of the press with tears in his eyes. Even now, he forces himself to grin (or, since the expression is deep enough to affect his eyes, it may just be real. Dead men never need to tell.) "H-eh. Nice." His thoughts resound around the panel, unspoken. "but... I know that was a lie. Am I... proud?"
The camera pans over to a side-view of a sobbing Kaito and the shadow of an Exisal behind him as Kokichi's thoughts continue: "M-Maybe Mr. Luminary of the Stars..."
The final panel shows a side-profile view of a relaxed Ouma horizontally on the press, the sleeve of Kaito's coat dangling over the side behind him. He has one hand still crossed over his chest as the other lay palm-down at his side. His eyes have closed, perhaps for the last time. He smiles.
"wasn't so boring after all."
"Goodnight...."
End description.]
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Answers to questions nobody had.
Prequel to this, some indeterminate time after this.
I don't consider it an inherently romantic gesture, for the record, but Kaito gave Kokichi the jacket in this AU after v3 (assuming it was like a VR simulation "class 79" went through before starting at Hope's Peak, Or Something) since he had a lot of trouble getting to sleep. (He can't sleep on his back anymore, and was so vocal in his own disgust about the possibility of. Leaning on people *gross* just to waste time sleeping that Kaito figured it was easier [re: spared Kokichi's pride] to see if the familiarity helped at all. It does.) Kaito and Kokichi are... (acquaintances? friends? close?) Connected now. You don't go through something like the hangar and come out the other side without some kind of bond.
I think kitty's name should be Bishop. Less for any christian ties than the idea of a therapy animal 'delinquent-pet-he-does-not-have-paperwork-for-but-keeps-in-his-dorm-anyway' as an "overseer" for him to talk to in absence of wax Rantaro. Also the third most powerful chess piece (probably after Kokichi and his 'beloved') and, though he will not verbally admit it, in part after the actual good robot android from Aliens. Because, of course,
sometimes she reminds him of a friend.
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Kokichi 6G caramelldansen mayhaps?
[For an ask meme]
So I ended up doing this one twice since the first time I covered up most of the expression,, this is a weird palette to work with so I hope gradients aren't cheating too much
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small break from comics proper to draw yall this. its old meme, but it checks out !
based on a conversation in the Amalgamate server, which if you like V3, my comics, and reading fic on Ao3 but have not read amalgamate yet somehow: you're welcome for your new weekend plans, yeehaw
EDIT: occurs to me some of you guys havent seen the original in all its 2007-era glory. behold
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