@hexcitrine mercy, mercy, you have twisted my arm and i will get started on davesprite lalonde.
vital context for this kidswap is that for the most part everything proceeds as normal. i don’t have a LOT of the details worked out, but the meat of it is that dave and rose were swapped at birth. this is not some great sburb conspiracy--it’s fully unintentional. rose’s eyes are still their lovely violet, and dave’s are red as shitty koolaid. have no fucking idea how this happened. could have been a meteor mix-up. bro and momlonde could’ve met up and gone ‘fuck it let’s trade.’
i concede to knowing Nothing and i apologize.
THAT SAID!
rose strider is a girl of so many sharp angles and suspicions that even her friends have trouble getting along with her at the best of times, and dave lalonde could never take jade’s place as the loneliest girl in the world but his mother’s alcoholism drives him to a sort of lowkey highkey desperation for sober approval that does not come to him often.
so lime, you might be wondering, where does davesprite come in?
and i will answer by copy-pasting my original ramble...
shit. fuck. fuck... a series of events in my head:
dave lalonde and rose strider's doomed timeline, where john went and got himself killed and jade vanished. they know that something needs to be done to rewind the clock, to right the wrongs that have been committed. this whole thing will go off the rails otherwise.
assume rose is a seer of time. she sees the confluence of timelines, the endless deaths. she knows the path to take to find the timeline she is looking for, and she can guide others to that timeline - that may involve being able to time travel with other people ? classpecting is so weird, forgive my transgressions
so she and dave spend two or three months in their broken, doomed offshoot timeline. rose knows what she needs to do from the moment things go south, but
against everything she's been raised to do, against the brutal, scalpel sharp efficiency that has been beaten into her by word and blade alike... she doesn't commit to immediately. she will. she will. she just needs Time. time to spend with dave before she does what she needs to do.
but when the months have gone by and she realizes her resolve is trying to weaken, she cuts it out of herself. she says her goodbyes.
she sends dave back.
because dave is still john's best friend, because dave is light and they'll need all the luck they can get--a court doesn't need more than one seer, but a few knights might do the trick.
she may have... misled him about what was going to happen. about who was going to be left behind.
davesprite is fucking bereft.
what i imagine you get is not just a dave who is angry about being the back-up dave, but a dave simultaneously furious with rose for doing this to him and to herself. he spent three long months with her and somehow he never knew?
whole lotta messy betrayal, i think. whole lotta love made incandescent rage.
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Bro how do u draw josukes hair??? Its so pretty :0
aww, thank you ♡♡ here’s a little visual guide for how i draw his hair!
i start with a heart at the tip to kind of guide the shape of his pompadour
i add a few stray hairs coming out of the center of that heart for a messier look
from there, i get the bulk of the shape down by scribbling backward from that heart with a bunch of squiggles that are in a C-shape. i’m mainly trying to get the general vibe of his hair down, so it is usually pretty messy.
i add even *more* stray hairs, this time around the bulk of the pompadour. because i think it looks cute
back of his hair. not much to say for this one
at this point, i have a mess of lines that’s kind of difficult to make heads or tails of (mainly because the main goal is to get the general form of his hair), so i’ll go over the sketch on a new layer and make it look a little more clean. and voila! josuke
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