[image id: digital art of kim kitsuragi and harry du bois from disco elysium, but it’s styled like the ‘go for it, nakamura!’ manga cover, with bright cartoony colors and little heart and star shapes. kim is an east asian man running towards the camera with a determined expression and beads of sweat dripping down his face. the tips of his ears are flushed. around him are several drawings of harry, a white man with brown, greying hair and a horrific muttonchop situation going on, in various poses and outfits, mostly smiling and winking. there are small cartoon icons of alcohol, cigarettes, etc. floating around the image. at the top, the title reads, ‘go for it, kitsuragi!’ end id]
Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Harry Du Bois looks at Kim Kitsuragi….. | | Available right now as a print along two other HarryKim pieces! (l1nk in the notes <3)
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Godly: success] – Pick a star. No, not that one. A fainter one. Further away. Stay with this feeling of distance. Now here’s a secret: around that star is another world filled with aching people. Another you is there, his life different but amounting, all in all, to the same bottom line of failures and rare moments of undeserved grace. Another lieutenant is there, too. Behold the constant of your shared existence. You can cry about it later. For now, filled with tenderness, you imagine them kissing.
EMPATHY [Medium: success] – He remains stiff and uncertain at first, struggling not against you but – as always – to get past the rows of obstacles he sets for himself. He holds onto you. This act of defiance you two are sharing is sparking something within him. You yearn to see what it will lead to.
INLAND EMPIRE [Trivial: success] – You will return to these spacemen in the weeks to come. The way they fill each other’s jagged edges, their little lives. But you do not live among the stars. You have an appointment on this earth, Harry, in front of the video rental, where the neon sign blots out the sky. Don’t be late.
For the challenge here, prompt somebody make me feel alive/and shatter me
Lieutenant Kitsuragi could not possibly have expected the hungover wreck that is shambling down the Whirling’s stairs on Monday morning, but he knows all too well how to welcome the certainty that fills him at the sight, a feeling that is a known value, warm and trusted, the measure of his life: “stand by this man,” it says, “in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, for he is your half brother, and you owe a debt to this ancient bond, signed in blood.” It’s a recording that has been stuck in the lieutenant’s circuits for a long, long time, going in stale circles until today, when it adds: “he will understand you,” a prospect which is neither known nor trusted, not normal, and shakes him like a sudden lick of herring-flavoured egg and liquorice ice cream. “He will get under your skin and unmake you from the inside out,” the feeling states at last, and Kim lets a shiver run down his back before he stands to attention, alert, collected, stiff and imperturbable, waiting for his new colleague to make his move.
Shivers [Medium:Sucsess] : Two middle aged RMC officers stand in the appartment theyve shared for the better seasons of the year. They look like middle aged men in young love.
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