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[TAPP AU Masterpost]

Part one of an ongoing conversation.

So it's been a while since I've drawn The Boys, so let's fix that with a warm-up earlier on the TAPP!timeline, before Kokichi really gets over himself enough to admit he needs help.

He and Saihara are also dancing around their last major interaction before everything flipped turnways, too. After... everything, so to speak, Shuichi isn't even sure how to approach Kokichi overall, let alone while the kid's hiding in an alcove. Kokichi isn't sure how he feels about Shuichi anymore, exactly; he wants to pick a side, to either hate him or get the resolve to reach out (in his way) and be friends again, but at this stage? He just... can't.

It's the little things, that draw them back together. Little tests of the waters between them.

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C-10 Pokémon KOKICHI! (My inner kinnie has come for fanart lol.)

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this was already inherently angst, but here's a little more

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for korekiyo can we have 10H yo-yo?

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For some reason 10H gives me flashbacks to the mock accident PSA I did in highschool where I got all fake-bloodied up and afterward had a coupon for an orange smoothie while I was waiting to get picked up so IDK what Kiyo is doing here but thats the vibe

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May I request G-8 fool Kaito?

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what's wrong, space cowboy?

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A-9 Arson, Kiyotaka, please ?

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Kokichi 6G caramelldansen mayhaps?

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So I ended up doing this one twice since the first time I covered up most of the expression,, this is a weird palette to work with so I hope gradients aren't cheating too much

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Some of the covers of covers. And these are just the Evillious ones!

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7B SPONGBOB MIU! MIU IRUMAAAAA!!

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This one is dangerously close to the dreamworks face, but. She probably would.

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2A Kaede! Also, maybe kin list?

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Trackart alts. Which do you prefer?

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happy pride to whatever these two have going on specifically

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have had a hard time drawing the last couple days so i drew some TAPP!Kokichis for pose practice

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(click for higher quality, text description under the cut)

welcome to the hydraulic press channel

[Begin comic description:

Scene begins with Kokichi and Kaito during the offscreen Hangar Scene of Chapter 5. Kokichi, having been shot and poisoned, lay on his back on a hydraulic press. The first panel shows him from the side, with Kaito out of view behind machinery. Presumably, they are in the moments before enacting Kokichi's plan.

KOKICHI: "Momota-chan?"

KAITO: "Ouma?"

KOKICHI: "Before I die (which should be very shortly). I... need you to tell me something."

Zoom out. The camera focuses on the distance between the press and the control balcony. Kaito responds, "If robots didn't already have them I'm sure Miu—" Kokichi cuts him off. "Not that."

Zoom back in on a deliriously bemused Kokichi, who is slowly pulling the portion of Kaito's coat that will be trapped with him under the press over his still-bleeding right shoulder. "Did she hit it?"

Three small panels in succession show a confused close-up of Kaito's face: "... What?" as Kokichi fires back "On my jacket... the stitches make an 'X' pattern on the back!" Kokichi holds his crossed index fingers over his head, the intersection highlighted in purple-pink.

Cut to Kaito at the control panel of the hydraulic press, leafing through Kokichi's planning notebook with rigid shoulders and a determined expression. Meanwhile, from his position below, Kokichi less speaks to Kaito than in his general direction: "I'm such a nice murder victim, Momota! Ahahahahaha, I even showed her where to aim!"

Kaito is mildly alarmed as he hears a weak "Nishishishishi" from the press as Ouma loses steam, and he cringes as it progresses into a cough so severe it jars the outline of the speech bubble from its background with an overlain spatter of purple-pink blood. Kaito looks away from the press and toward the toilet where the two earlier attempted to flush Ouma's clothes and disrupt the future crime scene. A close-up confirms that the crossbow bolt went through between the large 'X'-shaped stitches on the back of Ouma's jacket, not through the center of an 'X'. Kaito sighs, and mumbles. "Oh, Maki...."

Regaining enough resolve to smile (and, perhaps, taking a few notes from Kokichi), Kaito forces a thumbs-up gesture Ouma cannot see. He lies through his teeth to comfort the dying kid with a morbid joke he just knows Ouma will prefer to any platitudes: "Yeah."

Kokichi, laying with his head tilted to one side and having determined he is isolated and out of view enough to cry, expresses genuine shock as he listens to Momota go on.

"She got it. 'Dead' center, Kokichi."

Ouma, crossing his arms over his chest as though he were to be lain in a casket, looks up at the top of the press with tears in his eyes. Even now, he forces himself to grin (or, since the expression is deep enough to affect his eyes, it may just be real. Dead men never need to tell.) "H-eh. Nice." His thoughts resound around the panel, unspoken. "but... I know that was a lie. Am I... proud?"

The camera pans over to a side-view of a sobbing Kaito and the shadow of an Exisal behind him as Kokichi's thoughts continue: "M-Maybe Mr. Luminary of the Stars..."

The final panel shows a side-profile view of a relaxed Ouma horizontally on the press, the sleeve of Kaito's coat dangling over the side behind him. He has one hand still crossed over his chest as the other lay palm-down at his side. His eyes have closed, perhaps for the last time. He smiles.

"wasn't so boring after all."

"Goodnight...."

End description.]

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probably didn't happen but imagine.

[Caption: Spoken by Eva Tsunaka to Damon Maitsu. "Poking you in the face, dragging you by the feet… I even bridal carried you at one point"]

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to be clear both of them are too nuanced to be kens but consider: it was funny (and thats as much justification as kokichi needs to do most things)