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Curly mood

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Time meassured in Robins and Commissioner Gordon’s Hair.

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he's about to become the joker

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Told my friend a really funny joke

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swimming up or down, captain?

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Recently saw your roleswap AU and I’m loving it! I have a few things I’m curious about:

1. So by my understanding Anya failed her flight certification 8 times and PE was cheap enough to be fine with that? Did she never pass? Makes sense, I’m just kinda clarifying lol

2. Does nurse!Curly also feel like he wants to try something different in his career like in canon? Did he also not have enough savings after PE went under? Did he go to nursing school or did he also fail his entrance exams?

3. What’s Daisuke’s story in this AU? Did his mom push him to go to trade school to become a mechanic? Did he do that on his own and his mom suggested working with PE?

4. It’s so interesting to me that Anya tried E-dating after getting back to earth and seemingly got rejected based on her appearance, poor girl :( but I’m kinda wondering about Curly’s perspective on this, did he have feelings for Anya while she was E-dating and just sucked it up for her?

5. I’m kinda curious about Curly and Anya’s relationship pre-crash, was it a little bit flirty like in canon? Did Anya try to approach Curly with what Jimmy was doing or was the blackmail powerful enough for her not to say a peep to anyone?

haha gonna answer all of these at once! but first here's something on 5 :)

she never passed the Official Legit certification but passed what counts for it in PE (so, certified only to fly PE vessels) and kind of sees it as her last chance to make it as a pilot. still hopes to get properly certified one day, working at PE to make the money for simulator hours and exam fees

curly actually went to a med school on a football scholarship but had to drop out about two or three years in because he started prioritising studies over practice and the money got pulled. used the money he had left to switch tracks and certify as a nurse. joined PE because space travel sounded fun but is pretty bored of it because he doesn't get to do much on a regular haul. he isn't quite as existential in this regard as canon curly because working in a people-oriented nurturing profession actually makes him feel useful, he just wishes he could be more useful ya kno? has enough savings to be able to rent a place and find a job at a hospital, so overall it all kinda works out for him if you don't count all the horrors

i think in this au daisuke's mother actually pushed him to intern as a mechanic a few years earlier than in canon, which is how he met swansea (pilot with engineering background) and got inspired enough to go into trade school. by the time the events of the au begin he is a certified mechanic though not with a lot of experience :"3

curly has had the biggest fattest crush on anya almost the entire time of knowing her (i feel like he kinda spawns in already in love with anya), so her E-dating phase is kinda rough on him (like, Very rough; mans full on wasting away from his heart getting broken in tiny ways a hundred times a day), but he is king of denying himself and putting others first so he does his best to be A Good And Supportive Roommate about it. he even tries to date other people too! but with not nearly as much gusto and it never goes far. he is too whipped

there was definitely Something. i'll expand on it a bit more in a later ask i got about captain anya, but the tldr is that she goes to great pains to Act Professional and curly is never in a million years going to confess anything. and then jimmy's arrival blows it all up and any kind of romance plummets down everyone's lists of priorities. and anya never tells curly anything -- this is her problem to deal with, and with him being jimmy's friend there is a tiny part of her that is afraid of not being believed even though she overall thinks he's a good guy :")

anya writes all kinds of things, but it's all fiction. she dabbles in poetry, but her two main points of focus in prose are a) long meandering stream of consciousness type of pieces that span generations and have very convoluted plots and interpersonal relations (think woolf's waves meets one hundred years of solitude), inspired largely by the time she had to lie there and do little more than drift in and out of delirium and think, and b) shameless smut that starts out as your run of the mill romance and suddenly changes genres halfway through (funny how life can just Change all at once huh). she never really gains a Massive audience but does have a considerable number of dedicated fans of both categories

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new fan of your work!!! i really like your designs for the curlya roleswap au... if your open to ideas, i have a fewewww...

Anya as the Captain, Swansea is the co-pilot, Daisuke is the mechanic, Curly is the medic and Jimmy is his med intern.... all the same like... what jimmy did could still take place and stuff, I just feel like Jimmy being CURLY'S "intern" would be cool.

also for Daisuke being the mechanic, I imagine him kinda having a clutzy "idk exactly what im doing but im happy to do it!" vibe. Which would always end up with Swansea lecturing him about "proper work etiquette" and all that Jazz:3

anon how does it feel to have the biggest most succulent brain?? this swap is perfect, I love it. have some horrible no good med intern jimmy

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Same perpetrator, different types of abuse...

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O captain my captain

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Thinking about them makes me feel nauseous

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Curly Talks: To Anya

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Girl failed the med school exam like 8 times I dont think she'd do all too well when faced with the burnt crisp of her captain

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an accomplice turned victim his apology, long overdue

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hii!!! so I've noticed that your art has an almost paper link texture to it, and I was wondering how you achieve this? I'm new to digital art but I can't think of a way to get the same effect. I've been a fan of your Mouthwashing art for a while and would really appreciate if you could share your sacred, magic art secrets. thanks!!!!

It's a noise texture. You can find it online as just images but I use the inbuilt Clip Studio one because it's fast.

I put the layer above everything else and set it to Overlay or Soft light layer mode depending on whether I want it harsher or softer. It's a part of the finishing touches that makes art look more finished.

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