#The Boy Who Fell

[chamiryokuroi]

Trying to remember where I left off this web comic I was reading like 4 years ago I totally forgot about and is still updating

Either I figure it out or I have to start from the beginning… again

[every-character-ever-poll]

REN "NERO" ATSUSHI - The Boy Who Fell

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Group B Round 1

[image ID: the first image is of Nero, a boy with light colored medium length hair, a black jacket, and a backpack with a bed roll. the second image is of Yee, a man with dark pink hair tied up in a pony tail. he's wearing Chinese style metal armor, although I couldn't tell you what dynasty or era. there is a text box that says "Yee / HP +20 ATK +10 DEF +5". end ID]

Nero

Local schoolboy is isekai'd TO HELL. now he has to fight in the demon battle tournament to get a wish from the devil to escape! Follow this squishy bean as he learns to kill people with magic knives! As the illusion of home grows more and more distant! As he wonders whether this is all worth it! Read now for one boy haunted by his own actions for the rest of time. Character development where it's ambiguous whether he gets worse or better. He just Survives.

Yee

An ardent guard from a mobile otome game!!! My love!!!

[meeblo]

I've been wanting to reread The Boy Who Fell for a little while now, and I also have been wanting to make myself draw more rather than just lamenting that I'm bad at it without ever practicing or attempting to improve. So I figured, why not use one to motivate the other?

I don't know how long I'll keep it up for, but I want to try rereading one chapter a day, writing up my thoughts on it, and making some fanart relevant to that chapter. I haven't decided yet if I want to write up analyses on the chapter with or without spoilers for future story reveals, but I think I'm leaning more towards the latter.

I bought a drawing tablet that'll get here in a couple days. Never done digital art before, so it'll take some getting used to.

[dubadoowop]

Heyo! It’s 6 of my favourite characters from 6 of my favourite comics! 

[evilkitten3]

i started reading the boy who fell

i'd die for her

[aura-creed]

Anyone know why The Boy Who Fell's comic got taken down?

And what happened with the author? All their social media links have been deleted.

[filmxts]

behind every girl addicted to gen v there is a child who was addicted to sky high

Idk like they were my gen v u know?????

[zipsunz]

a comic i did for sunny's birthday ☀️ 🎨

(art by me, script by @sunkitty143!)

[phlegmboymessiah]

Some of my favorite Hematite screenshots:

[ardate]

Every Boromir hater makes my enormous love for him grow stronger. Sorry you couldn't understand him, I get him tho and we're holding hands and the whole of Gondor is laughing at you

[profoundwebhead]

i adore percabeth but also as someone who claims infodumping as a love language… the whole annabeth talks about architecture with percy because he’ll listen and percy listens to annabeth talk about architecture because she’s one of the first and few people that make him feel like he fits in. makes him feel like he’s at home… and mortally anchors him to this world… is everything to me.

nobody does it like them

percy’s love language is physical touch btw

when the wars are over and annabeth and percy just sleepily sit next to each other or lay in bed and maybe they are holding hands or one of them is leaning on the other’s body or just… just them.

the warmth and being close and the rise and fall of their chest with every breath, showing that they are still here and still alive and with one another?

it’s everything to them but it’s percy’s love language to have someone as amazing as her in a way he never believed he could because she was too good for him

and annabeth having percy in a way she never believed she could because she was never going to be enough for him, due to her abandonment issues and neglected childhood.

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Group B Round 2

[image ID: the first image is of Nero, a boy with light colored medium length hair, a black jacket, and a backpack with a bed roll. the second image is of Sheila, a mermaid with a seashell bra and green, blue, and purple hair. her tail is purple and blue and she has starfish and bows in her hair. the third image is of Queenie, an elderly woman with large, wrinkled hands, sharp teeth, large round glasses giving off a bright glare, and hair gathered up into a point. she's wearing an antiquated full-length dress. end ID]

Nero

Local schoolboy is isekai'd TO HELL. now he has to fight in the demon battle tournament to get a wish from the devil to escape! Follow this squishy bean as he learns to kill people with magic knives! As the illusion of home grows more and more distant! As he wonders whether this is all worth it! Read now for one boy haunted by his own actions for the rest of time. Character development where it's ambiguous whether he gets worse or better. He just Survives. [additional propaganda 1]

Sheila

pretty mermaid lady!! she asks claire (mc) to collect her scales for her after she lost them, and is generally very polite! i think claire and sheila can kiss. as a treat

Queenie

battle grandma [additional propaganda 1] [additional propaganda 2]

[meeblo]

TBWF Reread Ch1

This one will have spoilers for further in the series, so read at your own risk if you aren't up to around ch25.

I especially like how the chapter covers look in the screentone heavy style of the early series.

"The sky looked noticeably vast today" connects back to the first color page in chapter 1 and the panel of Ren looking directly upward as he falls, continuing that small motif through the start of the series. This is also the only time Ren's dad is mentioned to my knowledge, with confirmation he's dead. Sheds some light onto what Ren's life was like prior, though you don't really see what his life was like until Springtime of Yuuth gives a look at what his home situation is like.

ch01p02 inverts ch00p14, with a mostly black page where Yuu calls to Ren at the top for ch00p14 and Lord Devil speaks Ren's name at the bottom of ch01p02. The difference is that while the ch0 page is from Yuu's point of view and thus the black section is solid, in ch1 it's from Ren's point of view so we get his internal monologue cutting into the void.

ch01p04 is the first full art page aside from the color view of the sky, an impactful way to show Ren's new situation. "Please tell me this is heaven" paired with obviously demonic imagery is a nice bit of irony.

ch01p05 shows an early look at Ramia's powers. It's visually consistent with when we see them actually used a while later, which is a nice touch. LD being a smug bastard and Ren being in denial on page 6.

The pages of Ren seeing the fabricated vision LD created followed by LD saying "are you ready to face reality" are great before you know but absolutely masterful when you have full context. On a first read, Ren is seeing his own horrible death, being forced to cope with it, and having to accept the situation is a great way of setting in the series' tone after the lighter but ominous chapter 0. On a reread though, when you know Ren didn't die and that the vision is fully fabricated, it's a sickening scene to see just how deeply Lord Devil manipulated Ren from the start.

ch01p12 is the first obvious sign of LD's bad vibes, with the speed lines and way the text "grab" is written showing the forcefulness of LD grabbing Ren, followed by the emotionally manipulative "you should be happy". Ren on p13 is so indignant that he has the courage to object to that, but even Ramia speaking (no offense Ramia but you're not the most intimidating) is enough to get him to meekly back down immediately. Page 14, LD smirks as Ren is falling apart, while Ramia notes his reaction.

p15, with the manipulative "I'm thinking of giving you a chance" Lord Devil is framing himself as oh-so-generous and benevolent. Ren is still in shock and highly vulnerable to manipulation and suggestion, and that's exactly what will happen.

My Art

This idea is something I had for a while, but I ended up just cutting my losses after starting over multiple times. I couldn't get what I had in my head down. In my head, LD would be more hunched forward, the arm shape even more exaggerated and... shapey? is that a term? as he looms over the scene. I imagined more of an abstract transition from his robes into the scene, but I didn't really know how to communicate that so his robes are just sort of opening like curtains here. Doesn't really make sense since it looks like he's just directly on top of it rather than looming over it.

I realized he looks like he has no legs in this drawing and I tried to lasso and move things, but I wasn't able to move everything at once since it was all on different layers and gave up.

For the future drawings I'm definitely just going to do sketches.

[evilkitten3]

ibias' power reveal tho,,,,,,

[saph-y]

Baby Tarnished first trauma 😌⚔️