#some!!!! replies to questions i'd left to pile up in my inbox

[glacierruler]

Are We Flying Towards The Future Or Crashing Into A Distant Dream

Ao3

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Creator Chose Not To Warn

Taglist: @cutebisexualmess @oatmeal-stans-the-trash-rat @duck-in-a-spaceship

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“Name?” Virgil droned to the lady in front of him with her two kids.

“Vermella Clemington. I suppose you need my sons names as well?”

“That would make finding your package easier, yes.”

“The eldest is named Humphrey Clemington, and the other is named Vincent Clemington.”

“Alright, if you could give me just a few minutes, I will have your belongings.”

Walking to where the luggage was stored, Virgil looked for the last name Clemington. While it wasn’t mandatory to store luggage in alphabetical order, it did make his job easier to manage. Hearing footsteps, Virgil looked to see who it was; grateful that it was just Logan and he didn’t have to try to get rid of a nosy passenger.

“Virgil, I came to offer my assistance if you would be inclined to take it of course.”

“Uh, sure, if you want to. I hope you don’t mind me questioning as to why you’re doing this.”

“That is only logical. It is mainly a curiosity as because of your efficiency in luggage storage and retrieval we are recommended as the best airship in our company.”

“Oh,” Virgil was a bit flustered at that, and also having found the luggage for the Clemington family. Although there seemed to be a massive amount, and he couldn’t help but wonder if maybe they were moving somewhere; although he’d never ask due to it not being his business. “I just alphabetize the luggage when I’m down here. Nothing special.”

“Still, it seems that the thought hadn’t occurred to anyone else.” Logan paused, seemingly thinking about what he was about to say before asking his next question. “May I ask how you decide who to give luggage to first?”

“I just choose whoever’s next in line.”

“Very well then, that is the extent of my queries, may I assist you in taking these belongings to their individuals.”

“Yeah, that would be appreciated. Thanks.”

With that, unloading went a lot faster, and Virgil got a small break before he had to deal with the next set of luggage to load.

**********

After hours upon endless hours of Virgil loading and unloading luggage, it was finally time for them to stop transporting for the night. Doing another spot check and getting it as clean as he could for the night crew, he left the airship and took a gasp of air. Not realizing that it wasn’t just Remus waiting up for him, but Logan as well.

“Are you feeling ill Virgil? If so you could have called off of work for—”

“Gah! Sorry, I wasn’t expecting you to be here. No, I’m not sick, just don’t like flying.”

“But you work for a company that transports people to different destinations through the air?”

“It’s ‘cause he’s a masochist~”

“No, that’s you Ree, now if you’ll excuse me, I need to head to the bus stop before there’s no more transport for the night.”

Logan seemed to have a few more questions, but thought better than to voice them. Before heading out of the building, Virgil and Remus went and checked the goods pile for anything to take home with Logan lagging behind. Since they had done five trips to day they got twenty-five items each. Looking for anything good, Virgil noticed quite a few fabrics laid untouched along with some worn down shoes, along with a few metal scraps that had been deemed useless by everyone else who got to pick their items first.

Heading out of the building, Virgil shivered a bit in the cold, wishing he had brought his jacket. About to head to the bus stop, he was surprised to see Emile and Emmet still there. Probably waiting on Logan.

“We were going to head to Curly Coffee if any of you wanted to join! It’s got the best food imaginable, and since we got off early enough it’s still open for another couple of hours!” Emile’s tone inviting, looking at all of them.

“Oh I don’t know if I have anything good on me to trade…” Virgil started, not wanting to be rude.

“Nonsense! We’ll pay!” Emmet declared, and Remus snickered a bit at Virgil’s indecision of getting free food or a ride home.

“C’mon Virgin, you absolutely have to meet my brother! I want to see you both attempting not to skin each other’s faces off!”

As Virgil turned to look at his gruesome friend, he watched as Remus did the puppy dog eye thing. Except it looked all wrong on his face, and his eyes were a bit buggy, but it did have an effect on Virgil it seemed.

“Fine. But only if I can get a ride home afterwords.”

“That is a reasonable request. I can accompany you to your place of residence in my vehicle if it would be of assistance to your joining us.” Logan offered, his head tilted to the side a bit, which Virgil did find a little cute.

“Sure.”

**********

Getting to the coffee place was rather simple, all of them taking their own vehicles. Except for Virgil who sat in Logan’s passenger seat, fists in a tight grip.

While he wasn’t really any better on the bus, what made Virgil even more anxious was that he was in a vehicle with his coworker. Someone who he didn’t know all too well, but if he messed something up work would be awkward and he hated awkward. He could feel Logan’s glances at him, but Virgil was just staring out the window, at the night sky. It was harder to see the stars in the city, but they were still very visible. He knew that this city was lucky in that aspect as most cities were lucky to even see the sky with all the steam around them. As the car slowed to a stop, Virgil saw exactly what Curly Coffee looked like from the outside.

It was painted bright blue with painted red letters. Letters which were written in such a lovely script. It wasn’t anything remarkable, but considering it was open all day and a good chunk through the night, it must have been doing well for itself.

Virgil could not get out of the car fast enough as it stuttered to a stop. He was on the ground, somewhere he could walk. The others seemed to arrive at the same time, and there were a couple extra cars there that probably belonged to the employees.

Grouping up together, all of them went inside, Virgil going in last.

Only, as he went in, he immediately noticed his little brother talking with someone he had never met before. They seemed to be going over homework, neither of them paying attention to him. And an idea popped into his brain, as he walked closer to where Thomas and this stranger were sitting. Making extra sure they weren’t messing around with aether, Virgil quickly ruffled Thomas’s hair and laughed at his brother’s instinctive jump, and only started cackling harder as Thomas glared at him and tried to smooth out his hair that had been messed up.

“Virgil you can’t just do that! And what are you doing here anyways?”

“Hey Thomathy,” Virgil started, having recovered from his laughing fit just to go back to it at the exasperated look his brother was giving him. With a quick glance at the stranger he could see that they were amused too. “I’m just here with some coworkers. I was promised free food. Who is your friend?”

“Oh, this is Janus, he’s a friend of mine!” Looking closer at Janus, Virgil noticed some marring on the side of his face, but elected to say nothing about it, as it was none of his business.

“Pleasure to meet you Virgil.”

“Nice meeting you too kid.” Feeling the eyes of his coworkers, Virgil sighed a bit. “I gotta get back to my coworkers, but I’ll talk to you in a bit Thomathy.”

As Virgil walked towards the group he had entered with, all of them having surprised and confused looks on their faces, he heard Janus repeat the name Virgil had called his brother. Raising an eyebrow at his group, he elected to act like nothing had happened.

“So, which one of you will be trading for my coffee?”

“My brother will!” Remus screeched, as Virgil noticed two people behind the counter. One looking like Remus but much neater, and someone who was a little taller than Virgil.

“Oh no you don’t! If you don’t get free coffee, and you’re my brother, why would I give your friend free coffee?” The one who looked like Remus spoke, meaning he must be Roman; the twin that Remus had been trying to get him to meet ever since they became friends.

“So we don’t sacrifice you to the cult!”

“How have you not been fired.”

“Now boys,” the other one sighed, “no fighting in the coffee shop! To our new guests, hello there, I’m your Happy Pappy Patton, what can I get you! One pound of items unlocks the full menu for a night for each person!”

Remus ended up trading for Virgil’s drink and snacks, as apparently Patton had given him half a pound off for being related to Roman.

The crew settled in a lovely little spot, sitting in comfortable silence until Emmet spoke.

“So, Virgil, you have a brother?”

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Anon said: Opinions on Ochamina?

Cute soft and pink! Would be my main ship for those two if I didn’t ship seromina and ochadeku as hard as I do

Anon said: Hi there i was just wondering if its okay to ask you some questions about your art tools i work on paper a lot but i want to switch to digital art and want to know what to buy to get started you know?? if its not okay to ask thats fine, have a nice day!

I use Easy Pain Tool SAI and a wacom tablet so old I’m pretty sure they don’t even make them anymore haha if you’re just starting then anything is fine, really! The first thing you’ll need to do will be to get used to the feel of it, you won’t need anything fancy for that imho

Anon said: Yet again, I’m sleepy and feeling sappy so I luv youwu~

Awwww thank you so much!!! <3<3

Anon said: well guess who now has A LOT OF FEELINGS about Seromina after your reply? This anon. Holy, now I need like all the content about them. *goes of in search* Thank you for sharing your headcanon because it made me feel a lot of fluffy feelings!! Which yay!! I need more fluffly feelings in my life!! Also love love love your art. All of it original content and everything else (with a very soft sport for kiribaku and the bakusquad)

Ah heck thank you!!! And I’m very very glad to see I could make you see why I like them!!! :D

Anon said: how do you draw hair? i keep trying digitally, but it just seems so difficult! i tend to have so much trouble because i keep comparing myself to artists like you and the way you draw/shade/highlight hair is such a mystery to me!

Hmmmmm this is a hard question because I honestly mostly just go by gut feeling - I try to keep in mind gravity when it’s applicable (aka when it’s not gravity-defying hairstyles like kiri and baku’s)? But that’s the most conscious thought I put in it by this point. This might be an annoying advice to get but as always my only proper one is to look at real life people and study the way hair naturally falls on them, studying from real life is always the fastest way to learn how to draw something as far as my experience goes... and this one is gonna be hard but try not to compare yourself too much to others? Doing things your own way at your own pace will make the learning process a lot more fun!

Anon said: opinon on the lack of kiribaku interactions in the show recently? they have been interacting less and less since the provisional exam arc :( and even lesser in the manga. i miss my bois but bless you for the content omg😭💞

The truth is that they haven’t been the protagonists of an arc at the same time for so long that they’ve had little to no reason to interact with each other, and also that when Hori has characters interacting with them in the background it’s usually to have them reprimend them or tell them to shut up and at first they covered that role for each other but now they’re such good friends that all their interactions end up being them being nice to each other and Horikoshi needs his silly sketches thrown in the background at any possible moment so now Kaminari is the one you’ll see interacting with them the most, because he’s silly and doesn’t mind being a dick to either of them whenever given the chance. Or at least that’s the conclusion I came to after rereading the manga a couple months back. On the bright side they HAVE started interacting more again! We’ve been seeing them often just chilling together in the background, so cute, I love them best friends ;;;

Anon said: User kawaiiastar has reposted some of ur art just wanna let u know :)

Thank you for letting me know, I’ll look into it and see if I can get it removed orz

Anon said: ur drawings are so warm but like?? i just realized how much u talk in the tags and so ive been reading them and they actually add alot to ur art and its entertaining. idk just a little thing :) never stop doing krbk aus if you enjoy them!! would love to see stucky and soul eater if you can !! and i hear u about the reposters. they are all over instagram and its honestly quite upsetting. ive heard of artists that left the fandom because of it which is unfortunate. hope you are having a great day!

Hahaha I’m glad you like my talking too much in the tags since sometimes I just can’t avoid it lmao I have many things to say about my stuff most time than not..... anyway, I hope you’ll have a wonderful day too!

Anon said: i fight instagramers every day for you 💞

Thank you ;;;;;;;;

Anon said:  I love you so please stay safe!!

Thank you!!! I hope you’ll stay safe too, anon!!!

Anon said: During quarantine all I have to look forward to is your posts, it’s always great to check tumblr for the 14th time and see a new post by you.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; heck, I’m so glad I can make this tiring time a little more pleasant to you, anon!! <3

Anon said: I have class (online) at 8am and it’s currently 3:42am yet I couldn’t stop scrolling on your page!!! I’ve been going through the tags for like 30 minutes omg. I came to look at your seromina stuff and now I’m looking at EVERYTHING. I’ve been following you for so long and I love your art so much I’m screaming! I’m literally accidentally unliking then liking everything again cuz I’ve seen it all and keep forgetting I already liked it! Your account is like food for my soul ily!!!!! Thank you sm!!!

Ahhhhh anon thank you so so much!!!! You’re so kind I’m gonna tear up TTATT please do try to sleep next time you have to wake up early!!

Anon said: I read a headcanon saying Bakugo smoked. That would never happen because Kirishima would kill him.

To be fair that would never happen because he straight up said so in the first chapter of the manga lmao but I’m of the opinion that if people want to ignore canon in their headcanons to have fun they have all the power to do so!

Anon said: Idk if you’ve been asked this before, but how do you feel about Momo x Jirou? :D and I love your art!

One of my top Jirou ships! I’ve drawn stuff for them in the past actually, they’re in my momojirou tag!

Anon said: I love you way more than it’s healthy.

Thank you ;;;;;;;;; I love you a whole damn lot too, anon <3<3