bound to want (part two) /// part one
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[ID: 23 page digital comic of Vashwood from Trigun Maximum. The comic is in a limited palette of a dark blue, light pink, white, black, and a light beige color for Vash's skin and a mid-brown color for Wolfwood's. This comic is the second part to "Bound to Want" and is spoiler-free. The first part is linked here.
It begins with a panel close up of Vash's expressions. The sky colored in dark blue can be seen behind him. He has a neutral expression, but he holds a slight frown and the reflection of his glasses covers one side of his eyes. Wolfwood says, "Hey. What's with the distance?" In the second panel, the shot widens to show both of them, a clear physical distance separating them with Wolfwood walking ahead and Vash trailing a little behind. Vash responds, "What? I'm just walking a bit slower today..." Wolfwood looks at him with a an irritated expression, clicking his tongue. Wolfwood says, "I was going to wait for you to start... But yer just running away away."
Vash is seen looking away, unable to hold eye contact with Wolfwood as he continues, "You've been avoiding me since that night. Did ya think I wouldn't notice? It's about that dream, right? Tell me about it already if you're going to be moping like this." Vash looks slightly downwards, his brows furrowing and he starts to walk ahead of Wolfwood without looking at him and responds stiffly, "I really don't want to talk about it..." Wolfwood looks at him with a surprised expression, but doesn't probe.
A panel close up to Wolfwood's eyes as he watches Vash go on ahead before he follows suite with an irritated sigh. The panels are overlapped by Wolfwood's hand holding the bottle of the Bride with motion lines, indicating a transition in time.
A wide shot of Vash and Wolfwood in a room now. Vash is seated, his back turned away from the viewer, while Wolfwood's body faces the viewer with his eyes looking towards Vash. He rests the bottle of the Bride on the table with a "clack" and his other hand holds two shotglasses. The background is coated in a light pink.
A panel shows a close up of Wolfwood's face, his eyes looking downwards to Vash as he says, "Let's drink." Next to this panel is Vash looking up at Wolfwood, his brows furrowed and a slight frown. The bottom half of the page is a wider shot with Vash's body turned away from the viewer as he says, "I'm not going to talk about it." Wolfwood responds, "You don't have to." as he sits down.
A wide panel of Wolfwood holding the shotglass, pouring in the drink as he continues, "I'll talk." The next panel is a profile view of Wolfwood, his eyes looking down at the now filled shotglass as he continues to say, "You're..."
"... upset with me." Vash can be seen next to this speech bubble with narrowed eyes, looking towards Wolfwood. The panels are all coated in with a dark blue background. Wolfwood continues, "I can't be certain why since yer not telling me a thing -- but it's probably... my bad." The panels show Wolfwood about to bring the shotglass to his mouth but he turns way as he continued to speak, his eyes not on Vash. The bottom page shows him looking away completely with a guilty expression as he says, "I'm sorry.
If you can ever tell me why, I can try and adjust to make it more bearable. But if you're just trying to get rid of me--" The panels follow Wolfwood's certain expression as he says this, "I don't intend to leave you. I can't... and I won't." A panel shows Vash's wide-eyed expression, surprised upon hearing this, and then his eyes soften as Wolfwood again concludes with, "I'm sorry."
Vash's inner thoughts begins, a boxed speech at the center of the page and panels of his eyes, his brows furrowing again and a resigned, but frustrated expression. His thoughts starts, "Stop. I shouldn't be happy hearing that. And why are you apologizing? I should be the one to..! I can't let anything like that happen to you. You deserve to live a long steady and peaceful life. I want to be optimistic. I want to protect you, but I might end up doing the opposite." The text surrounds Wolfwood from Vash's perspective, the other man drinking out of his shotglass, his eyes downcasted.
"I shouldn't have you. And you won't leave." Behind these text is a panel of Wolfwood's eyes finally looking over to Vash. Vash's thoughts continues, "It's so unfair." When Wolfwood sees Vash, his eyes soften and he frowns. The last panel shows the lower half of Vash's face, but tears begins to flow down his cheek. Wolfwood's hand is already reaching to wipe at them as he starts to say, "You know..."
A wider shot of Vash and Wolfwood, Vash slightly leaning forward with his mouth tightly shut, and tears steadily continuing to flow out of his closed eyes. Wolfwood continues to wipe at them with his hand as he continues, "This isn't a dream anymore. I don't know what you saw for you to be this shaken up, but whatever happened, you'll overcome it, right? If not you, I'm here too. You'll be okay, Spikey. So..." Wolfwood's expression grows more tender, "Have a little faith in me... and come back already." The dark blue starts to fade.
The wide panel has the dark blue background faded and replaced is the light pink. It shows Vash in full up to his shoulders, his eyes are still tears littered, but there's light in them as he says, "Wolfwood..." making eye contact with the other. The next panel shows Wolfwood's tender expression, his eyes and brows fully soften and he has a small smile on his lips, finally seeing the other return a level of sincerity with him.
The next panel shows the bottom half of Wolfwood's face and his hand is offered towards Vash for a dance as he says, "C'mon. We don't have to talk, but this is okay, right?" The background is now white and a ribbon flowing across the page separates this panel from the next sequence. Vash's inner thoughts continus, "I've spent too long avoiding this. It's scary to want after I've taken so much from others." A sequence close up of their hands is shown, with Wolfwood's outstretched hand on the right and Vash's reaching hand on the left. Vash gently places his hand in Wolfwood and at the bottom, Wolfwood wraps his fingers across Vash's.
Throughout the page, a dark blue ribbon starts to flow around the both of them with confetti raining alongside the effect. Vash and Wolfwood are hand and hand, dancing together with Wolfwood as the lead. The viewer can see a peak of Vash's expression, full of fondness but also a hint of sorrow as he looks down at Wolfwood. His inner thoughts continue, "I don't deserve this. I don't deserve you. But why is that even though I have these burdens, I still want to love you. I still want you to be by my side."
With a close up of their mouths, Vash's thoughts continue, the text covering his mouth, "Wolfwood, I--" Wolfwood's speech bubble covers Vash's text as he completes his sentence, "want you." Vash's eyes widen for one panel and in the next, his eyes spark, a blush appearing on his cheek and the confetti flows and spark. Tears ease up on his eyes again.
"Want me too already, Spikey." Wolfwood has leaned in enough to rest his head against Vash, a hand of his on Vash's neck, holding his nape and another hand pressed gently against his back. A ribbon separates this panel from the next, a mix of confetti flows across the page, as Vash envelopes Wolfwood in a hug too, holding him and his hand gripping tightly onto his back.
This page is just the ribbon flowly throughout the page on the white background, one white ribbon and the other a dark blue. Near the bottom, the ribbon envelopes each other in a loop. A conversation of Vash and Wolfwood is held over these ribbons, Vash starting to say, "What if I hurt you? What if you..?" Wolfwood responds, "You? How could you hurt me?" Vash, "You know what I mean... You see it everyday..." Wolfwood responds, "If you think I'm going to kick the bucket so easily, I suggest you look at me more closely from now on, idiot. I'm not that easy to get rid of."
The next page has the ribbon criss cross over the top of the page. Vash and Wolfwood can be seen in their dancing position again, Wolfwood now resting a hand on Vash's shoulder, as Vash takes the lead. Vash continues, "Well, I know that... I tried." Wolfwood responds, "But you won't anymore... since you want me... around, yeah?" Wolfwood's head cocks to the side, smiling with assurance, cheeks flushed. Vash looks at him with a wide smile and fond, loving eyes. The confetti flows across the bottom of this page and as it eases into the next page, it starts to disappear.
Vash responds, ".. Yeah... I do..." as he pulls Wolfwood into a hug again. Wolfwood says, "Not going to run away anymore, are you?" Vash says, "No... I trust you." A panel shows Wolfwood's turning away slightly with a shy expression, muttering "Geez..."
In a more simplified style, Wolfwood is seen gripping Vash's cheeks now with his hand, "Though... You do remember you avoided me for two weeks straight, right? How are you going to make that up to me?" Wolfwood asks. Vash responds with eyes closed and a pucker of his lips. A vein of irritation appears on Wolfwood's face. Wolfwood starts to squeeze at Vash's cheek with both hands, shouting, "Now that you've recovered, you're trying to be funny, huh?!" Vash says through the squished cheeks, "I'm just happy..."
The next page opens with a closed up panel of Vash's widen eye as Wolfwood's hand moves from squishing his cheeks to gently holding them and Wolfwood leans in. The inner thoughts starts again, "There's a chance I'm not making the right choice... My dreams, my fears of losing you, it will never go away. But you said you won't let it happen... And I want to hang onto your words closely this time. After all, if it's anyone who can make me believe, it's you." The white ribbon from previous pages flows across the page and it visibly ends at the bottom of the page, enclosing the two of them as they share a gentle kiss with Vash holding Wolfwood's face, a tear in his eye.
The next pages starts with Wolfwood saying, "You cryin' again?" Vash responds, "I'm just grateful..." Wolfwood responds, "But you've always had me." Vash responds, "Being like this is different from staring at you from behind all the time though..." The two can be seen together again, Wolfwood pressing his elbows against the table with Vash leaning over him. Wolfwood is easing the tears out of Vash's eye again, just like earlier. A close panel of Vash's fond expression is seen as he says, "Thank you, Wolfwood." Wolfwood looks up at him with a small smile, gentle eyes. Confetti starts to flow lightly across the page as text starts to appear against the white background, "I'm the one who's grateful...
That you'd embrace someone like me, when I'm not fit to hold you in the first place... But I know better than to hesitate. The moment I acknowledged it, I knew I'd spend the rest of my life loving you. So, have as much of me as you want, Vash."
The final page shows the confetti gently falling down the page and at the bottom shows Vash and Wolfwood pressing their foreheads together, Wolfwood's hands cupping the side of Vash's face gently, and both of them smiling brightly with each other. ID END]
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what are the boys' favorite pet names to use, and their favorites to hear from their partners?
(i hope the rest of your week is better!)
Thank you!
Killer: Baby and babe are right up at the top, because they're casual and don't convey too much affection publicly. Sweetheart is for more private moments, and Darlin' is around people who know you're an item. He's not picky about what he gets called, but he likes names like stud, hotshot, tiger, etc the most.
Dust: is also partial to 'baby,' but that's casually. 'Sweetheart' is also present, and can both be condescending and endearing, depending on the context. He calls you 'love' in private, though. He prefers casual petnames: baby, honey, boo, he likes them all
Axe: unsurprisingly, gives out a plethora of food-based names. (He calls Ren 'lil'bit' because he thought they were a tiny mouthful in the beginning, and it just... stuck as an endearing petname) Sugar, pumpkin, muffin, honey, and names of similar calibre are commonplace. He likes Big guy, handsome, sweetheart, and baby the most.
Cross is pretty proper still, so he uses slightly more serious petnames, and only once you're well established: Hun comes out almost immediately after he's acknowledged his own interest, and he brings out baby in private, and love or my love in polite company. He'll also break out sweetheart on occasion. He enjoys the same in return, but call him my knight and he's putty in your hands.
Baggs does nothing by halves, so his petnames reflect this. Teasingly, or casually, he uses the very literal petname pet, and the reaction it gets him tells him everything he needs to know. More casually than that, he breaks out my dear and darling, which is either him being facetious or genuine, and you will know which. If he's feeling sweet and sentimental, you get my love, my darling, my sweet, sweet [girl/boy/thing/other preferred term] and on occasion, dearest. He doesn't particularly care what you call him, but generally, the sappier the better. Pile it on; he loves the validation and lives off of the praise and knowledge that you love him.
Nightmare, the dramatic card, breaks out the most antiquated and proper terms. He will call you my darling, my dearest, my heart and of course, my love, with optional adjectives tossed in. He prefers more proper petnames in return, but places special value in my king or similar.
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i like the idea of george being one of the few people who are immune that’d be soooo interesting when you have sapnap hallucinating, excitedly telling george he saw dream down the corridor and george is like oh no
what would george’s initial reaction be to realising sapnap’s been influenced? bc that could set up some good angst
Oh there will be so much angst!!
It definitely takes a while for George to figure out that something is off with Sapnap, because he himself isn’t suffering from any of the effects Sapnap is experiencing. The audio logs from Dream being empty? Could have gotten damaged since Sap picked em up. Sapnap seeing Dream? He’s just being optimistic, maybe he saw something else, the emergency lights are very dim after all it’s hard to see anything. Sapnap mumbling about hearing whispers from the walls? They’re inside a planet cracker, there’s a lot of machinery and engines running, he’s probably just confused by all the noise. On top of everything George knows Sapnap is absolutely terrified, George is too he’s just keeping it wrapped up better, so he easily excuses Sapnap’s weird behavior.
It isn’t until he comes across the dead survivors that he knows Sapnap must have killed that it hits him that something is very very off. He even radios Sapnap to make sure what happened and Sap is certain there were only necromorphs in that room, there were no survivors or human bodies. But George is looking right at them, and he’s no medic but it doesn't look like they’ve been dead for long, not as long as some of the others he’s stumbled upon that must have died before they got on the ship.
This is when George starts to crack. He’s found enough logs to know how the Marker mentally affected the crew of the ship and the colony on the planet below, he just had a hard time believing all of it because he wasn’t experiencing any of it himself. But Sapnap clearly is and George was keeping himself together for him. Now his boyfriend is clearly losing himself and all the “evidence” of Dream still being on the ship is suddenly called into question. Dream could be dead and Sapnap is going mad, so what is George fighting for?
He intentionally puts some distance between himself and Sapnap after that, because now he has so many doubts, but he forces himself to keep on track with the task: keep the ship running long enough to get off it and destroy the Marker.
Now, I am still freshening up my mind of the full plot of the first game but an additional scene I do want to play with is Sapnap momentarily seeing George as a necromorph and trying to kill him. George does make him snap out of it but this leads to a lot of paranoia for both of them, George unsure if he can trust Sapnap and try to stay away from him, while Sapnap grows paranoid about the actual necromorphs he’s seeing and hesitating shooting them in fear that he’s actually shooting someone who’s still alive. He also struggles to look at George’s face after, like way after, it's something he struggles to get over because he's terrified of seeing George's face morphed and twisted like he did in his hallucination.
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