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Ulla and Donella

I love these 2 so much

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some platonic and familial love for pride month

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piltover stressing them out asf

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It's 3:69 am and you go to Varian's room right after he drinks his caffeine chocolate drink.

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hm.

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It's so funny to me that Nuru is canonically the prettiest in the group.

Like, do you imagine seeing this goddess of a girl coming to your village accompanied by a blond rat looking twink, an eerie dark haired boy whose gaze gives you the creeps and an arsonist child? It's quite the sight.

I mean, even if people didn't recognize Varian from the old wanted posters I'm sure some girls would still stop Nuru to ask if those guys are bothering her.

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I love the idea of Hugo’s adoration for Varian being obvious even before he realizes what he’s feeling because he doesn’t know how to hide it.

Like, he’s usually a master at hiding what he’s thinking/feeling. But that’s because he’s dealt with those things before and knows how to mask anything that would give him away. He knows what he’s like when he’s angry, he knows what he’s like when he’s hurt or upset, but he knows how to hide it well because he’s felt that way so many times in the past. It’s like a routine: recognize emotion, recognize what would give that emotion away, hide it. And it’s a good routine, one that’s worked and helped him survive for years.

Having a crush on Varian totally broke that routine. He’s never had a crush before, at least not a real one. Sure he’s been attracted to people and craved attention/ admiration, but never has he felt real, genuine affection towards anyone. Especially not romantic affection.

So once he starts feeling these things, Hugo doesn’t know how to hide it. He doesn’t know what he’s like when he’s in love, what his body language is like, any little ticks that might give him away. Every time he’s around Varian, he shuts down because he doesn’t know how to hide his feelings.

I think this is what got Varian to ultimately realize his own crush on Hugo, because Hugo has no choice but to be completely unmasked when it comes to Varian no matter how much it terrifies him. That’s not to say he completely loses his ability to lie and mask his other emotions, but it’s ten times harder to hide behind a facade when he’s around Varian, and Varian notices. He notices this different version of Hugo and chalks it up to him becoming a better person because of the power of friendship or whatever. He feels like he truly sees Hugo now. And he likes that he truly sees Hugo.

Or at least, he thinks he truly sees Hugo. Because, you know. No one saw the betrayal coming.

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emotional support coworker

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I loved th angst of the gang finding out about Varian past crimes and all. But I can't help but laugh at the concept of Hugo sweating bullets knowing dang well he's going to betray Varian in the end and thinking "Donella wants me to betray HIM OF ALL PEOPLE?????"

It was in the moment that Hugo realizes he f-ed up

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Quick drawing for Yoshiki’s birthday

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more work doodles

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Just thinking about Varian inheriting his evil laugh and psychotic expressions from his mother and giving both Quirin and Donnie some fucked up flashbacks about Ulla

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Oh the fear of losing something you already lost

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Shes such a freak

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So, I just rewatched the pilot for The Gaslight District and a thought occurred to me. During Ken's confrontation with Temperance, the audience is specifically led to believe that the secret the Virtue is keeping for Ken directly relates to Mel and her being the prophesied human, but I don't think it actually is. Like, obviously there is some connection there, but there are signs throughout the episode of Ken's ongoing animosity to the Virtues that feels to me like it's more than just him being protective of Mel. Obviously, that could be chalked up to his (possible) torture at their hands in the Inferno, but then why would they intentionally make the scene so weighty and mysterious. Mel's secret is known to the audience basically right off the bat, so there's clearly more to what's going on and I think I might have figured out what. I think...and stick with me here...Ken IS a Virtue. Sort of. There're those weird flashes of color whenever he gets uncontrollably angry, where half of his brain is highlighted. That's got to be more than just an aesthetic choice, right? Why the mystery of it all if it's not important. So, my theory is, that the version of Ken the Butcher we see in the Inferno, is not fully him. Not yet at least. I think that a Virtue replace half of the Butcher's brain with its own. It makes a certain amount of sense; the Virtues are basically just brains after all. Now, why would a Virtue do this, why would one of the seeming leaders of Paradise Lost physically bond themselves to the body of a rotling, which they all seemingly have nothing but disdain for? I think it has something to do with the rotling's immortality. The Virtues don't appear to be immortal in the same way, not based on what we've seen so far at least. I also think the reason might have something to do with which Virtue Ken might have gotten his half-brain from. I think it was Kindness. Not only is it the one that fits most closely with the name Ken, but I think it really fits with his personality too. You can tell how much he cares about people; not just Mel, but everyone. Everyone except the Virtues that is. It also sort of works narratively. All of the other heavenly virtues could easily be corrupted into concepts related to purity, duty or other sort of authoritarian ideals, but you can't really do that with true kindness. It seems pretty obvious to me that whatever the relationship between the Virtues and the rotlings is, it is clearly the Virtues who hold most of the power. I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be responsible for the apocalypse of the distant past (there is some obvious biblical symbolism there with the flood and the whale), or even the Black Hand and the rotling's horrific immortality. I imagine the supposed embodiment of kindness itself would have a hard time going along with things at that point, especially if the Virtues were then planning on wiping all of the rotlings out. It might even drive them to take drastic action. I think there's something poetic about the idea that Kindness is engaging in such cruelty as we see Ken perpetrate in the show in order to prevent something even worse from happening. I also definitely think that Temperance was the one who performed the surgery, hence why they knew the truth of everything. The butcher's knife, possibly the entire butcher persona, is there to explain away the headwound that would never really heal on a rotling body. Speaking of bodies, I think that what's left of the original Kindness, the other half of their brain and what not, is what is inside the pseudo-egg thing inside of the laboratory that Temperance is seemingly keeping alive for some reason. Thoughts?

*Small edit because I was wrong about the knife being there in the flashback scene

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They should try to kill and hit each other more frequently

The sketch

At first I was going to leave him with crooked glasses on his face but at the end I decided varian slapping him across the face so hard they went flying and then varian steps on them and cuts the wires of Hugo's car or motorcycle.