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20. found you / cannot trust you
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Finding Grian had never really been an issue, not for Doc at least. Especially since the pesky bird tended to be intent on annoying him in some way or another. However, Grian had asked for his help with farm efficiency so Doc was at the avian’s rock. He had been expecting Grian to be waiting for him on the bridge, or maybe down by his chest and shulker monster, but the pesky bird wasn’t anywhere he could easily see.
The next place that Doc checked was the cave with the Rift, but the Content Generator and Grumbot’ were the only things there. When he asked the robot where Grian was the robot told him “Father 1 is Not starting A Resistance”, whatever that meant. It didn’t help Doc find Grian, so he ignored it.
Then he looked inside of the largest rock, but other than yet another chest monster (Doc knows that his is just as bad but at least he’s only got one!) it was empty. The rock with Grian’s farms in it also yielded no pesky bird, which meant that the skulk infested rock was the only place left in Grian’s area. Doc supposed that if Grian wasn’t there he’d probably be re-stocking The Entity.
Finding the entrance was a bit difficult, a small one block hole in the top of the rock that led down into the dimly-lit hollow interior. The inside probably looked darker than it actually was, with most of the walls coated in a layer of skulk. On one wall in large, bold letters were the letters N.A.R., Doc’s mind went back to Grumbot’’s message “Farther 1 is Not starting A Resistance”. He’d barely noticed the strange capitalization but…
Doc enabled the infrared on his cybernetic eye and scanned the room, and finally landed on a small blip of warmth curled in the corner. He quickly flicked the infrared off, carefully stepping closer.
“...Grian?” Doc was not often hesitant, but he didn’t want to startle Grian, especially not like this. There were threads of skulk creeping up his wings and legs where they came into contact with it, it almost reminded him of the Mycelium from Season 7, but more… malicious somehow. Grian’s wings twitched and he buried his head a bit further into his knees, and Doc furrowed his brow “Are you alright?”
Grian made no move to respond, aside from his wings wrapping tighter around himself. Doc carefully knelt next to Grian, gently tugging at the avian’s shoulder. When he finally looked up, Doc smiled. “There you are,” Grian’s face seemed to crumple a little, the blank expression there fading.
“Doc? What- why are you here?” the creeper hybrid sighed, helping Grian out of the curled up position he’d been in for who knows how long, making a sympathetic face when the avian winced as he stretched out his legs.
“I couldn’t find you, you wanted my help with farms today, remember?” Doc asked patiently, watching as Grian’s face scrunched up in confusion.
“I- I said tomorrow, that was- it can’t have been that long, right?” The creeper hybrid grabbed one of the avian’s shaky hand in his own organic one, running gentle, soothing circles into his knuckles.
“Hey, it’s alright. I found you, didn’t I?” Grian took in a shuddery breath, wings curling around his back again.
“But what if-“
“None of that,” Doc was quick to cut him off, “I found you, other than some skulk nothing happened. We all space out from time to time, it’s nothing new.” His smile was reassuring, and Doc carefully didn’t mention the bad vibes that the skulk was giving him. A conversation for later, certainly, but calming Grian down was more important right now. Doc’s concern could wait until he was sure that Grian could hear him out without having a panic attack.
The avian pulled in a deep breath before practically launching himself at Doc, arms wrapping around his ribs, face pressed into his chest. Doc froze for a moment before reciprocating, trying to rebalance himself so they didn’t tip over entirely. “Thank you,” Grian mumbled against Doc, just loud enough to be heard. Doc ran gentle hand through the avian’s hair, pulling him closer.
“Not a problem, Pesky Bird.”
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Aforementioned Napoleonic AU! Martian !! I said it would just be a wip but then oops, I basically finished it! Ty to everyone who was interested :D
Really really proud of these I'm ngl! I rendered in a really different way than ever before and I'm very satisfied with it :D
Ramble about historical influences(basically me being a nerd about who I consider the F1 drivers of the Napoleonic era):
So I wanted to explain my thought process because I think that the specific context behind the uniforms I drew is very relevant, as I didn't just pick them on a whim.
I drew them in Hussars' uniforms(Austrian Empire = Red Bull, but like obviously not 100% accurate because the uniform colors are based off the RBR racesuits.) Hussars are, in my opinion, the F1 drivers of their time. Let me quote several things that led me to this conclusion:
"During the Napoleonic period, hussars, as in all armies, were employed as scouts, given raiding missions or despatched to harry and pursue a defeated enemy on the run. Mounted on light, nimble horses..."
"...Their flamboyant costume and their reputation for daredevil acts..."
"...developed a romanticized image of being dashing and adventurous.
Okay....so they're dashing and adventurous, riding specifically on fast, light horses, dressed in flamboyant outfits committing daredevil acts...sir that is literally an F1 driver!!! Tell me they aren't the historical predecessor to F1 drivers!!!
I have this big book of Napoleonic uniforms(yea I'm a nerd) and I was paging through it to see what uniforms I wanted to draw(I have a habit of drawing my one oc in the Napoleonic era. So when I started drawing fanart, I'm like of course I must draw them as this!) Austria's normal uniforms in this era are soooo boring compared to France's, so I was really 😒 about drawing them, but then I came across the Hussars, and then started noticing all these similarities and thought it was perfect. Also I need to mention the fact that Austria's royal cipher at the time was literally this:
IT'S "F1", IT IS LITERALLY FUCKING F1, WHAT THE HELLLLL!?!?!?!? I had like a partial mental crisis coming across this, at that point it was destiny for me to draw this
*I forgot to include actual ref images 😐, so here you go!!
*I wrote most of his around when I started this drawing, which was all the way back in April. And it's really interesting to consider now that I was basically immersed in the history of the Austrian Empire for a month. I apologize to everyone in my life who had to endure my lecture on why Hussars are the F1 drivers of their time. But god I could not hold it back when I saw some of these uniforms in person. And it was cool to pull out this drawing, even if it was just a wip, and be like "oh hey I've drawn these!!" Anyways, I digress.
Obviously the martian drawing is a direct reference to this pic from Malaysia 2010:
My thoughts on this picture:
I almost wanted to draw Seb in the Austrian Kaiser's outfit, but it is nowhere near as slay as the Hussar uniform, so Hussar uniform it is!
I have many thoughts and opinions on the lore of this au so pls ask if you're curious but it's also just a lot.
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