#verse pt

“Duh huh huh I’ve got a great idea, I’m going to rebound and date a woman who strongly reminds me of my late wife in a no strings attached relationship while going through a thoroughly deranged grieving period, it will go fine and no one’s feelings will get hurt especially not mine” -Isaac a few years ago

Been a while since I felt like I could sit down and draw… graduating and moving and such… but I saw this template and knew what had to be done.

Ike has a lot of conflicting feelings about his dead wife.

chocodile:

Late birthday gift for @lsdoiphin!! Sam hangs out with her employees after a long day working the butcher shop. Dinner is whatever meaty odds and ends they couldn’t sell, skewered on a stick and slathered in barbecue sauce–no complaining, Ike.

Dude this rocks!! The environment is spot on. All the little touches of the wires and the solar panels and such are excellent B) And then of course there’s the joy of seeing the gang hang out in an actual environment instead of the void where I usually draw them!

(He’s said it 1,000 times: he does NOT want lizard claw on his bbq skewer. :/ Why doesn’t anyone LISTEN TO HIM?)

Hundreds of years post apocalypse, a werewolf runs a perpetually struggling butcher shop. Why is it struggling? We just don’t know. It’s impossible to know. It just doesn’t make sense. We’ll probably never figure out the truth.

Isaac was one of the Rietveld Academy’s top specter removal agents to come from his year. He became notable not just for his ability to get the job done, but for opting to use less popular methods. See, while it wasn’t unheard of to attempt to subdue specters nonviolently before destroying them, it was largely considered an impractical, useless extra step. Why waste time showing pretend kindness and understanding to vengeful shades when you’re going to vaporize them either way?

Pointless or no, Isaac’s results couldn’t be argued with. Despite being known for his abysmal social skills and emotional obliviousness, he had a way with specters, and he quickly gained a reputation for liking ghosts more than people.

He always disagreed with this assumption, however. It wasn’t that he liked ghosts more, it was simply fact that their feelings mattered more. He could be disliked by any one random and live with it, but when a specter is distraught? The city’s power goes out, buildings collapse, people die, and everyone within a mile gets migraines and bloody noses.

So, it paid to be attentive and considerate.

It paid to let the specter believe he was its long lost husband/daughter/wife/brother/cousin/friend… whatever it needed.

Most specters are bad at recognizing people and reading tone, anyway. It didn’t take much effort to fake it, even with his poor acting skills. He could spare this small kindness for someone long gone. (And then vaporize their ghostly afterimage.)

Hey dumbasses, maybe you’d get more chicks if you didn’t give your beloved inanimate objects human woman names.

As usual Sasha belongs to @broncoburro.

It’s nightmare girl again.