The intruder comes nearer, a young man with shiny hair and a beautiful face. Oddly enough, it causes Youngblood to search for poetry and poems to describe it.
“Sorry, I’m sorry! I came on a little short-”
“No, no it’s fine. It was me,” Youngblood apologizes, and doesn’t know exactly why. Usually he is cautious around strangers. “I just… I don’t do well with people invading my space.”
The other guy nods knowingly. Sun rays flicker through the treetops, leaving dots of light on his brown hair. It looks like a halo.
“You’re not from Reston, are you?”
Youngblood raises an eyebrow. “Is this an attempt to flirt or pure interest?”
“Hey! What? No! What? I didn’t want to… you know…this is a misunderstanding!” He couldn’t even protest as quickly as he got seemingly hot and cold at once. Quickly he clears his throat. “I was instructed to inspect a noise in the forest and you were lucky, because that tree I was hiding behind caught fire and uhm… so… yeah!” There’s an awkward pause. “So what’s your name?”
An amused smile twitches at the corners of Youngblood’s mouth. “Youngblood.”
“Exciting! My name is Roman. Roman of Reston.”
“Oh, you’re the town patrol?” asks Youngblood with a sparkle in his eyes. If this guy is what I need to worry about, he thinks, I’ll be perfectly safe there.
“I am!” With his most charming smile, Roman casually builds up in front of him. The elf’s gaze wanders over his new acquaintance and briefly gets stuck on the too large sword. It is more than obvious that this clumsy guy is not able to wield the weapon properly.
“I defend the town. The people in Reston rely on me,” says Roman proudly, pointing with one finger at himself. “And I totally, totally know how to use this sword.”
“Okay.”
Youngblood tries to hide a grin. This is the most green person he could have met. He thinks, this will be the start of a wonderful friendship.
“Logan… what’s with you? You’re acting strange lately-”
“I don’t understand… why I’m not getting through to Thomas?! Can’t he see that what I’m trying to do is beneficial for all of us? He NEEDS to listen to me!”
As the gloves glide slowly over Janus’s skin, every finger and scale revealed, he suddenly feelssomethingagain. He feels seen and seen through and naked, and it is the best and the most frightening experience in a long time.
“See. Much better this way,” Patton says softly, his breath vibrating beneath Janus’s cheek. “Now, you can tell me what’s bothering you.”
The pathological lie is already on the tip of his tongue, ready to deny. But without his gloves Janus can’t spit it out. He just can’t.
And then there’s Patton.
He of all people.
Patton, who is as different from Janus in every way as one can be. Patton, who is loud and honest, and sunny and kind, who makes stupid dad-jokes and likes frogs. Patton, who has not the slightest idea what he is getting himself into when he takes off the yellow gloves. Patton, who is warm and firm and real under his fingertips. More than anything else, he is real. Not a lie.
Janus shakes his head, lips tingling and heart pounding. He is sure that Patton can feel the frantically vibrating heartbeat against his chest. Everything in Janus’s traitorous body yells at him that this moment might be the most important moment in his life. There’s no way to deny it. Not anymore.
I have the feeling that all the Fanders are on Tumblr instead of Instagram. Since you liked my latest Janus picture so much, I have another redraw of a traditionally painted picture I made a few month ago. I fixed all the mistakes, adapting what I’ve learned so far. I like it soooo much better now Hope you all too!
I decided to reblog the answer since its been a few days and no one got it
most of you who answered got the fact that the colors represent the sides, yes, but its more specific than that.
i made a graph using the alphabet and then plotted the points- so id go to the side one letter, down the next, and continue until the name was done. on names that had uneven letters, id just repeat the first letter of the name. so Virgil’s is Anxiety(a), and Logans is Logic(l). the rest are the same. i split romans and remus’s as creativity so romans is creati- and remus’ is -vity.
so basically not only does the line represent the side, but it literally spells out the side’s name/function.
its not perfect bc i didnt have a ruler on hand lol, but the concept is still the same.
It has certainly been a while since my last art post. I apologize for that but school has been quite stressing and my mental health was suffering a little but now I’m pretty good, at least for now.
I lost inspiration halfway through it and I actually thought I would never finish it, but I managed to make it look good, I think. I’m quite proud of it, I think the colors are great and the small details of the Cosplay are great!
I also think this pose fits home so well, he would definitely lick the bat just out of curiosity and then he would continue to do it whenever Janus looks at him since he thinks it is gross to do that stuff (although he should have gotten used to this kind of stuff).
Of course, I hope you like it!! I hope to be able to post something new soon, but, in case I can’t, I apologize beforehand.
