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Honestly I used to hate this game franchise so bad… then the… accident happened (I played btd2 and I got obsessed with Lawrence) my little autistic ass loves Lawrence for some reason.. also surprisingly good game.. I was very pleasantly surprised when I played

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diy basement root canal!

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I feel like he'd have awful posture

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wyd if the hottie from the bar who kidnapped you, starts caressing his knife after its all bloody from stabbing you???? what then???

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when you’re hungry and he says he knows a place

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at Gatobob's request it was possible to color it, so that's what I did :_0

I want fried sausage 💔

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law wip ( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀)

[ art commissions ] [ writing commissions ]

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A lot has been said of Lawrence and Ren's relationship, but I'm of the unpopular opinion that they didn't actually like each other.

They both had been chatting for an unspecified amount of time (about what, we're left to speculate), but based on their interests, they don't have a lot in common. Ren may have been a little shy, but he's a social butterfly compared to Lawrence. I find it hard to believe he could sit through more than a few of Ren's discussions of magical girl anime, and I imagine Ren would get bored of Lawrence's lack of engagement.

Add to it, in BTD2, in all of Ren's routes except one, he betrays Lawrence and gets him killed. It's easily the worst thing Ren does, and he does it to someone he's allegedly close to? Lawrence hardly ever drinks, and Ren invites him to a bar for their first meetup? These were two people who were grasping for any kind of connection. Ren was looking for anyone to collar, and his willingness to replace Lawrence with some rando MC proves this (Gato drew several pictures of what it would look like if Ren succeeded in collaring Lawrence. It goes poorly for Ren in hilarious fashion). Lawrence glimpsed beyond the veil, saw the Lovecraftian horror that was The River, and needed to find anyone he could relate to. Neither of them fit each other's bill.

Lawrence is a walking contradiction: he craves human contact while despising humanity. He surrounds himself with nature while living in the middle of the city. He embraces self destruction while still continuously coming back from The River. The meetup with Ren was a way for him to finally bridge that gap between himself and others or embrace The River fully. Either way, he's spared from having to make the choice himself: "I'll do anything you want!" you say. "I don't know what I want!" he says. No kidding.

Ren mentions the reason he liked Strade so much was because Strade was the only one who was ever kind to him, but is this true? His mother chose to keep him alive despite killing five of his siblings in their infancy. She lets him stay with her until he's old enough to run away because she what? Needed help with the housework? Besides, according to the BTD fandom, he has looks that could literally kill. If he bothered to look on Grindr he could easily find a sugar daddy who wouldn't treat him like a woodworking project.

No, Ren has it completely backwards. In spite of all the terrible things Strade had done, Ren was still able to see his good qualities, which was a first for Strade. He liked Strade not because Strade did nice things for him. He liked Strade because for the first time in his life, Ren felt needed.

Strade was a lot of things to Ren: captor, friend, confidante, lover, but there's also one dynamic of their relationship that rarely gets brought up: rivals. Strade could get people to like him in a way Ren couldn't, and making them feel heard was a big part of that. Gato said Strade hunted people who lacked confidence in themselves, and who does Ren pick for his own replacement/victim? Possibly the least confident person in the series canon: Lawrence.

The trouble is, Ren can't make Lawrence feel needed like how Strade made him feel. He can't make anyone feel needed, because, as I mentioned, he views people as interchangeable. He's trying to find a companion who will simultaneously treat him as a Strade-type figure and also feel an overwhelming need for him, and it won't happen, because of his difficulty in actually understanding others. What's tragic is this perspective was probably held long before he met Strade, and if the events of TPOF are canon, long after. -☢️

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Celia Lede 🩸

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A REQUEST

Original character by Gatobob

Found a reference and thought it looked like that one picture from Gustav Klimt, so I decided to draw in his style! Lawrence my beloved

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- it’s always in the eyes -

For a little update, i want to apologize for being inactive. I hope to be able to be back to commissions and posting more regularly soon.

And I wanted to thank you for your messages <3

please do not use or repost without permission <3

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Let's not kid ourselves. Ren is a possessive, abusive control freak who latches onto others to make himself feel more powerful.

Hell, the entire reason Ren and Lawrence are together at the jackalope bar (as revealed later in Ren's route) is because Ren intended to kidnap Lawrence. MC just showed up at the worst possible time. If they hadn't, Lawrence would have been either kept as a pet or killed in place of the MC.

There was no lovey-dovey UwU innocent boy there. He was trying to fill a Strade-shaped hole in his soul, and he had absolutely every intention of kidnapping and killing to do it.

And I love him for it. Good soup. Wounded character becoming worse than the person who gave them their wounds. And Fox is the culmination of that. By the time we see Ren again (in TPoF), his whole worldview has changed in regards to the people he kidnaps. You aren't people. Hell, if he likes you, you're not even product. You're property.

That "This one's mine..." line he says at the end of his route? That's not love. Bro just realized he liked this human shaped fleshlight / pincushion too much to share and too much to lose anymore. Pure possessive mentality.

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rotting away to filth

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oldie but a goldie

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diy basement root canal!

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