Started this piece back in April and have been working on it off and on since then. Took about 15 hours, but it’s finally done. There was some tracing done for the faces, so I’m not going to claim this was totally my own skill, but it definitely was a really fun one to work on to practice some more coloring and digital painting techniques and working on coloring picking and realistic painting, and I liked how it came out.
The hero has had a couple days off now, both their day AND night job is they finally felt save to meet their friends friend! They have heard so much about them now, they just know they’ll all be a happy family in no time. But when the other friend arrives … well let’s just say, the hero has to unpack their acting skills once more.
Later they excuse themselves to get another drink:
Hero, hissing: What the hell are you doing here ? Have you stooped so low you’re playing my friends now!?
Villain, hissing back just as venomous: YOUR friends?!? Excuse you? They are MY friends?! And how do I know YOU’RE not the one PLAYING ME?!
Hero, flabbergasted: WHAT?! Why would I risk the life these wonderful friends just to get back on YOU of all people?!
Villain: WHY THE HELL SHOULD I?!
Both stare at each other in shock, realisation hitting them equally hard: either one of them has to go right now and never talk to their friends ever again OR they have to play pretend and get along, only hating each other in secret.
Continuation: they constantly try to out do each other as the groups best friend. “I brought homemade muffins to the picnic!” “Oh? Well and I organised the picnic in the first place, villain!”
Bonus: the friends figured out beforehand of each of their identity and set them up to both have a bigger family and save the town. And when their fight for the group started they placed bets and are popcorn watching them being “secretive”
Little snow bunny Brotzly vaguely inspired by @generalized-incompetence‘s(Please) Let It Snow, which I loved so much (and basically just the last chapter since it only snowed (in a good way) then lol.
Okay, but Dirk Gently, but X files where Dirk never got released from Blackwing and ended up kind of just getting shafted around departments at the CIA because they couldn’t figure out what to do with him, and he ends up with his own little basement weird department (and also like trauma/Stockholm syndrome up the ass because he just had to grow into thinking that this life is what he wants because at least he can go to his own apartment and gets some freedom now despite not really being free). I am not really sure how Todd would factor into this because like… he would not join the CIA and would not even get to he point of being qualified to join the CIA, but… like… Brotzly though. Realistically, Scully should be Farah and like Todd is… idk abducted by aliens or something lol
Dirk and Todd spend their first Valentine’s Day morning together. Dirk doesn’t really know how all the normal traditions work, but he figures something out on his own, and Todd gets to deal with whatever that noise in the kitchen is and the concerning amount of cards hidden across their apartment.
Plus a little art that I did with the boys being dorky fond boyfriends.
Sketchy boys sorta for Valentines… sorta cause I was bored and floundering between projects and a hundred fic ideas that I am writing so slowly and I needed a break lol
I couldn’t help myself. Our brainstorming conversations inspired me to do an art loosely based on your WIP Hanahaki fic. I thought it came out pretty neat and cool.
Todd gets shot by Mr. Priest going through the bed portal and at first thinks it’s a pararibulitis attack, and Dirk is horrified to find that he can see the blood too. Because I’m angsty and love the whump
I got the idea from A Specific Fic that mentioned our boys under the rainbow (just a tiny blink-and-you-miss-it detail) and i can’t remember that fic’s name (sorry dear writer ) Please inform me if you guys have any clue, tysm!
