[ SHIELD ]:     in order to protect them from physical harm caused by a third party, the sender shoves the receiver against the wall and shields them with their body. (ly returning the favour, clearly)

pinned against a wall prompts . accepting

Days felt different when one had no way of seeing the sun going up and down; living in the sewers had robbed Akiyama of any sense time and how long he had been down there, although he got updates from the overall situation in Kamurocho from his peers and friends among the homeless network. To be invisible, now, was an advantage – it meant none of these poor men and women would be targeted by the Saio (or the Tojo).

And although Akiyama Shun was not a member of either organization, his association to the Tojo was now impossible to be disregarded; ‘an ally to Dojima Daigo’, people had said – and the moneylender had to chuckle, because he personally disliked so many things about the yakuza as a group and yet he was frequently dragged into their business. It was no surprise it led to him sitting on his garbage throne and waiting out until he felt it was safe to be above ground again.

…Which happened way earlier than he predicted when Lyla found him, paying the loan shark a surprise visit; she was one of the very few people outside of his homeless friends that had been told his location – Akiyama trusted her completely; after all, he was aware Lyla was not exactly… Human. He had kept her own secret with fierce loyalty and knew she returned it just as strongly.

And besides… There was no one else that could be such a capable bodyguard to him such as the Russian lady. At her invitation to go up for a small stroll and some fresh air, Akiyama couldn’t say no – it was as if she had read his mind; he desperately needed to see people, have a decent smoke and hopefully a warm bath. Lyla just grinned while he relayed all the things he wanted to do as if she was now in charge of babysitting the Lifeline of Kamurocho.

Unfortunately, Akiyama’s appearance did not do him any favors – he was turned away at the door of most establishments and the woman needed to go inside to buy anything the loan shark needed instead. Lyla often returned with extra things he had not asked for - but which she presumably thought to be amusing or interesting (including a small plastic toy in the shape of a pig, which squealed when pressure was applied; he was sure it had been a joke about the way he smelled).

They went to Theater Square to eat – with the man unable to get inside restaurants, eating the kombini bentos at the square was one of the best options. However, even at such odd hours in the night, there were Saio members patrolling the grounds away from Little Asia – Akiyama was not even halfway done with the food when Lyla alerted him to their presence – her senses picked them up before the man ever noticed anything amiss, but he didn’t need to be told twice; Lyla was his bodyguard for the evening and he wasn’t about to turn into a difficult client.

However, they didn’t go far – a couple of people running among the casually strolling individuals at the square would draw more attention; and Lyla decided for a creative alternative, and took advantage of the area close to the arcade to just shove Akiyama against the wall with a type of strength that the moneylender would have called uncommon for a girl – but he knew Lyla was no ordinary lady, either.

It was with a mix of a pained groan and an amused smile that he allowed himself to be pressed against the area next to one of the doors to the arcade, out of sight from most of the patrolling thugs from the Saio Triad – they went about their business without even realizing one of the man they were looking for was under their noses (quite literally, when one realized that the sewers ran underneath all of Kamurocho with connecting manholes).

But for the redhead, it was hard to forget that Akiyama was so close by – particularly with the look she gave him and the pointed sniffs that followed; maybe he happened to be extra bad to her given the heightened senses? But at any rate, he grinned – and the loan shark retrieved the small plastic pig to squish it, twice, entertained with the annoying sound it made.

“Yeah, I know, I need a shower – I got the memo,” Akiyama sighed then, cautiously looking around as Lyla stepped back with a smile of her own, “You think you can escort me to the hotel district? Guess if I throw enough bills at them, they might let me inside for a bath.”

The 'We need to talk' scene

but I've made it into a wet cat short comic

(and it only gets worse for him...)

Bonus secret 5th panel :

(intrusive thoughts so strong they make his brain crash)

feast for a king is awesome the start of it feels like I am being ushered into a theater by kosmic who sits us down and goes "hello everyone! come into the theatre! take a seat! welcome to my web comic!!! ok so heres a character introduction :) they are not the main character :) and heres my different alien species and how they work! some are worms and some are bombs :)) arent they cute and cool and silly!! ok heres a 400 page long sex scene where a girl gets fucked through a stab wound in her chest while giving a genderless worm alien a tit job, then the worm alien (who uses all pronouns, is called a queen, and has a massive cock) has to perform surgery on her while her dick is still in her chest because if she pulls out the girl will die. the whole time she's still so horny she's trying to bounce on her dick while her stab wounds getting operated on. then they keep on fucking. ..............ok are the normies gone? all of them? ok awesome. now let's do a flashback scene! Get ready for a lot of those :)

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Old OC spotlight alert: It’s Nequam! Ft. his girlfriend Ruby (and also Papyrus for funsies lol) (Patreon)

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the idea of katase and aoki's secretary/hisho being """""friends""""" tickles my bones for a lot of reasons but esp cause i just know katase's had to dig into daigo's history cause mine prob asked her to at one point and along the way she found out about masato through a stray myspace post and after a serious Down The Rabbit Hole trip i think she should be one of five people in the entirety of japan to figure out her girlfriend's boss And Tokyo's Governor was the most Emo Boy of emo boys. and used to date the sixth chairman of the tojo clan. who also used to be the most Emo Boy of emo boys.

playing an ongoing game called ‘learn whats acceptable to say in someones tags or get blocked’. a lot of you are losing.

I JUST THOUGHT OF A VERY INTERESTING THING

Since they're closer in age, what Bramble starts catching feelings for Red, Sweet or Spot? also perhaps even Snow 👀

and may i suggest Squilf and Crow👉🏻👈🏻

we've confirmed BrambleSquirrel as the endship but i suppose him catching feelings isnt out of the equation! ;P specially for his bestie

and SquilfCrowf is so cute!!!! i love that ship

but yeah its not BT endgoal rn ;(

so funny to slander that marcy & simon comic with this icon. shes just really cute in that panel.. like a small animal to me

Omg that sounds amazing -- I just found your account and am obsessed with your ideas already

Awww thanks friend! I’m definitely not the first one to make a Nomu!Aizawa AU with this combination of variables but I hope I can make a story that is unique enough to enjoy

A lot of the little sketches and comics I’m putting out right now are light-hearted and silly and bittersweet but the comic itself will involve more action and violence and other dark themes, which will all be tagged where appropriate. Just putting this out there as a reminder so no one is blindsided!

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Me being a bitter fuck and complaining a lot, disregard

Since one of the latest comics of the blobfish artist was basically "women are the ones who make men feel awful for showing emotions! It's true! Men perpetuating toxic masculinity against each other? Never heard of em!", who wants to bet the moral of one of their next comic is gonna be "women, before getting hysterectomy, please think about how your future husband will feel if he will want a baby from you and find out he's unable to get you pregnant! You are so selfish and manipulative for getting your tubes tied ;("

I wanna write and draw so much gay shit ough

Hm ok what's your favorite or a really cool worlbuilding thing you've done? For any fandom or original or even an unimplemented idea

Hmm well at least in the past decade, my big worldbuilding projects have mostly come down to three-ish stories: Other Side of the Gun, Adventures of Gæilo and Ethon, and Just Desserts

OSG was an Invader ZiM fancomic concept I started around 2013 to justify every single Irken headcanon I ever came up with lol - I never finished it, or even really started it, but I put a lot of time and energy into its roughs back in the day :)

^A stick figure recap of Ch. 1, inspired by - what else - the Vargas stick figure recaps lol

One that you can see over here is all the work I did for my DnD campaign, AGE! (Though its sideblog hasn't been updated in a while haha - the AGE tag over here works just as well) I basically homebrewed a pantheon and had an absolute blast designing all the gods and their forms before they became gods and even things like architectural differences in their churches and the BBEG and his motivations and just ah <3 Such a fun project :D

It also laid the groundwork for things like Pokemon Homestyle, specifically all my papercrafts! You can really see how I leveled up haha

And my latest has been Just Desserts! Even with less time under its belt, it's still pretty expansive, as evidenced by my icon and theme and the backlog lol, and it's the one I have the most AUs of! (Though OSG does come close actually haha) There are still some thorny details I'm trying to iron out, especially to do with the magic system, but all the characters and creatures and the fact that I made my own fighting minigame, ah, pleased! I've never been so happy with a sona before Charm! ♥ From the very beginning it's been so fun to work on and I still want to improve!

(if you have the time or want to) could you go into more detail about how your future donnie design is based on future leo’s canon design? maybe the decision making or thought processes that went into it, or scrapped design ideas for him? i love character design, especially seeing the choices made along the way, and your future donnie is delightful!

Oooohohohohoho

So!

I wanted the story to be compatible with canon. Which means the characters should feel and look canon, right?

It's really sad that Donnie doesn't have a canon design. Not so sad is the fact that his clothing style definitely has a pattern. Just..Look at them

So when I thought "hmmmm, how would adult Donnie dress?" my first thought was to look at adult Leo's clothes~

But I also wanted Donnie to be able to fly. So no cape or any long fabric for him.

As a result, yes, Donnie wears pretty much the same stuff but slightly different style. And purple. Obviously lol

I also tried to take geometry and shapes into account. Leo's design contains smoother yet sharp elements. Donnie's design is more squarish and angular.

But none of that negates the fact that I originally made up this design thinking I was only using it for a 🤌two-page mini comic🤌.

Which means that an impressive percentage of my decisions were driven by the " fuck it, we ball" mindset. His wrist monitor disappeared because I was too lazy to draw it. That logo on his belt existed only in my thoughts, I was too lazy to draw it too. His goatee is pure design flex of mine. I thought it would be funny

And this is pretty much it haha