#THEY'RE MESSY but cute.....

[cherubchoirs]

Just ignoring that I've been investedly reading and liking most of ya stuff recently, BUT (idk if you've answered this or not yet I might just be blind) but how do you think V1s and Gabe's first 'non hostile' encounter went? How did v1 go about resisting its programming, and gabe his, so to speak?

Thanks for further fueling my brainrot btw, your long text posts are like a guilty pleasure to read, pls make more ^^

aaaa thank you so much ;o; it genuinely makes me so happy to know that ppl read my ridiculously long answers to so many things and all the lore building!! i wish i could pass out pieces of cake to all of you.....

i actually haven't talked about this scenario in particular, but it's really one i enjoy even if it's a small, quieter scene. gabriel at this point needs something like closure, and i think just about all he can get is knowing whether or not the connection and passion he felt with v1 was reciprocated in some capacity. did v1 recognize him? can it feel anything from him? he had never been so personally affected by another, and so he goes against what he is to seek out that answer. to see if v1 is willing to interface with him through communicating rather than attempting to bleed him dry....because he thinks it just might. gabriel knows that v1 has the capacity to be non-hostile, as it has relented at the end of both of their encounters to allow him to speak, meaning its engagement of another actually isn't automatic or forced. that aside, he's also highly aware he instigated both fights - their encounter in gluttony was an obviously hostile display that v1 immediately responded to, while in heresy it....approached him from behind, yet didn't fire until he, again, armed himself against it. he knows he's set a precedent now, with v1 perhaps marking him as belligerent, but he decides to risk approaching it anyway with his swords sheathed to see what might happen.

i think he observes it at a distance for just a bit, seeing what it does when it has nothing around it to fight...and he's left half-surprised. it doesn't immediately take off to the next room in a mindless search for blood, but instead explores its surroundings uninhibited by enemy combatants. it's safe. it roots around curiously, using its guns and fists to break through obstacles and offering soft little chirps at unexpected sights or sounds. it's almost surreal for him, understanding in that moment that they had both only seen one side of the other - v1 is undoubtedly capable of tearing hell apart, yet it clearly has a mind that occupies itself beyond that goal. it has an internal world, and that's all he needed to know. so gabriel silently touches down when he's satisfied, doing his best to gauge just when to approach it so he doesn't catch it too off-guard (he even folds up his wings in an attempt to reduce his bulk)

as expected, v1 is still surprised and immediately wary - he sees its head snap to and its entire body stiffen to its viper-like readiness. a coin held fast, not yet launched into the air. gabriel raises his hands to show their emptiness, telling it in soft but certain terms that he wishes for them to meet in peace. v1 doesn't seem to respond, still standing in rapt attention and ready to strike. so gabriel stops moving forward and considers his options. again risky, but he's a dead man walking anyway. he kneels to the ground, bowing his head and still holding up his hands far from his swords in an effort to fully impress that he means it no harm. not this time. a beat passes between them, gabriel almost surprised by his own sense of calm, until he hears the quick little steps of v1's feet coming to greet him. the coin flicks and he almost winces, but then it flicks again. and again. and he looks up to see v1's face a couple inches from his own. he can hear the little zoom of its optical, see how the rings in its lens dilate and contract as it investigates him up close. he huffs a quiet laugh in response, sending v1 jumping back and flaring out its wings before he apologizes and continues to hold still. it seems to accept this as it moves back in, soon reaching out a hand to touch him and figure out just what he's made of, how he's put together.

gabriel begins to speak as it explores, at first a disjointed stream of consciousness until he can find how to articulate his troubled mind with its dying thoughts. he stays there bowed to it, coming to pour his heart out like a last confession to an entirely silent companion. until he asks if it hears him. if it knows him. if it recognizes anything in him or if he's truly alone in all he's felt, calling out to a partner that can't answer in the same way. and v1 stands there still quiet, still just staring. gabriel tries to immediately fill that silence like he can't bear it, saying that it's truly ok. even if v1 is empty, he thanks it for what it did, thanks it for letting him remember who he was and feel as if he was fully himself one last time. and he's never been just himself for himself, so it gave him something new right at the end of everything and even if all of this just the one-sided, foolish feelings of a dying angel it really is the only thing that can mean anything at all when the world is dying the same way he is - until v1 flicks its coin at his helmet. and it nods. it hears him. for once gabriel is rendered speechless as v1 huddles down next to him. it has time. gabriel struggles with the mortifying, terrifying, incredible, phenomenal thought that the little machine beside him might harbor an ounce of the same feelings he does for it. it's not an automatic love, it's not a complete surrender of what they had been before - v1 still hasn't processed its feelings while a part of gabriel still can't accept that he truly loves v1 (they're decently hot and cold for a minute, having quiet intimate moments that one or the other ruins - intentionally or not - to end in a bloody fight), but this is where it starts. because really, neither of them can come back from knowing that they would choose to spend time with each other without the promise of a fight.

[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[taiyami]

I was painting today so in between drying time I did a study over my DMG figure to keep myself busy. The little Yugis are for @toadstool32 because somebody else needed to draw Yugi tonight and I'm a man of my word.

[dilfiesz]

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew...I was enchanted to meet you 🪄

[takethelx3]

Been a minute since last time I scribbled them onto a canvas

[art-of-eve]

*throws a wip*

*runs and trips over nothing*

[watercolourcritters]

[ID: marker art of a red panda curled up sleeping in bare tree branches. It's tongue sticks out of its mouth in a blep, and its tail is curled up in front of its body. Text between the branches reads "It's ok to rest take the time you need the world will be here when you're ready (heart shape)" in capital letters. The artist's signature reads hg '23. End ID.]

(This one is up in my etsy shop!)

[mlgmi316]

why does mileena's invasion season pallettes look like him

anyways. they can keep the punk theme if thet want. why not just make them obnoxiously pink

[r0bee]

I choose to believe nothing bad happened after the end of BTS, they lived happily ever after etc etc

[Red - Pale Waves // amberprice]

[kaiartz]

too many sparkle dogs, needed people to draw or i'd go crazy SO UH. oops. i've always loved Suzu's look and i've been meaning to draw some of Lily's characters for YEARS

@lily-orchard

i dunno if you're still interested in getting art of older characters, but i couldn't resist ;u;

[bonfinite]

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[spaceratprodigy]

[ cropped 😇 ] — @grimreapersbutt

oh, he loves helping his wife in the kitchen *checks notes* cook dinner, yeah, that's what's happening here, don't worry abt it <3

[batri-jopa]

Warmest Wishes to YOU ALL:

above all - to believe that there is always more good than evil in this world. The world is a bit like a cat: sometimes behaves incomprehensibly, but we can still be sure that we are loved❤️

May we manage to spend this special time together in a warm and friendly atmosphere without unnecessary quarrels and tensions, Let's try to forget about what divides us and rediscover everything that connects us.

Everything that seems so ordinary that we no longer value it - turns out to be priceless the moment we lose it.

So let's hope that we can learn already to enjoy every little thing, every tiniest joyful moment and each and every person around us❤️

[jula483]

TICKLE PARTY

[monimolimnion]

i just realised the reason i dont like gumworth is because gumshoe deserves better lol

[turtlemurmurs]

just some doodles for today, from a while ago playing a game with a friend where we did quick ink doodles of our favorite characters* from random stuff :]

*my favorite character generally varies wildly and I just drew my "favorite" at that precise moment xD