Well, alright, I'm bad, but then you're no prize either
Alright, I'm bad, but then that's nothin' new
You say you won't love me, I won't love you neither
Just let me remind you what I am to you
THE BALLAD OF LUCY GRAY BAIRD
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About the soul-swap partners:
I love that neither of them decided to stick to their given roles. In either universe, really.
You’ll get what I mean.
Cale, who was Kim Rok Soo, does not keep up the image of trash. He calls himself trash, he is called trash. He does not keep his reputation. Not the alcoholism, and he doesn’t throw bottles at gangsters. No, he takes care of the underworld and other nobles in his own way (ie, recruitment or utter destruction). He does not have his old reputation in this world either. He’s not known as this cold leader who doesn’t care when someone dies, he’s known as a brilliant young man who cares way too much. He’s known as an idiot who would rather pass out from exhaustion a week later than leave things to fester for one minute.
And then there’s Kim Rok Soo, who was Cale Henituse once upon an apocalypse. (First the fuq of all, nobody knew jac squat about him in the first place, and being the son of his mother probably made him something of an automatic anomaly. I assume just being a Thames makes you kinda weird. But anyway!) He lived as trash, an alcoholic who threw too many bottles back and then at the wall. Then he lived through 20 years of a losing war. And he got tired. Tired enough to listen to a voice in his head in his last moments, to switch worlds and bodies with some stranger. And he chose the motto that reflects the sentiments of his soul swap partner to a T: let’s live peacefullly.
And he smiles now, as Kim Rok Soo. He sits back in his office chair, with an easygoing attitude. He’s not the trash that would only shout; he is sly, and he knows how to use his status to properly put punks in their place. He’s the team leader who refuses to be mistreated by anyone. He will not be used, he would rather do his work as he needs to. He isn’t a lowlife with no responsibilities in the wake of a war he would be just about useless in; he has a niece he has to go home to. He drinks casually, not too much. And he smiles in a way that’s too bright for the cold Kim Rok Soo. He’s too happy now to be called cold-blooded. It’s like there’s a fire in his eyes that had been lost ages ago. Something that was rekindled when he had someone to go home to.
Despite changing their own lives so much, they wound up being nearly the same as one another and that drives me a little insane.
And let's not forget the best part. One famous line they have in common in every world:
“Should I flip everything over?”
Another thing: I think Cale's gonna start resembling Kim Rok Soo. As in, he'll start relaxing a bit as the work goes on, he'll learn to rest as he goes (as in actually rest) and delegate work properly. He won't brush past comments like he used to, he will look a person in the eye and go 'I can just leave this world and leave you to your fate' which I would love to see, honestly. I feel like their individual capacity to be petty increases with age, and that's probably one of my favorite things about these characters. So them finding new ways to piss off people who don't like them could just be made into its own series and I would sell my soul for it.
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Cale looked toward the person who had yet to withdraw his sword.
‘…Team leader.’
He was there.
It was not Sui Khan but the team leader.
He no longer looked like the young Sui Khan but the Lee Soo Hyuk that Cale first met. He looked to be around that age.
Cale avoided team leader Sui Khan, who was looking at him with his usual tired smile before looking at the last two people.
His gaze moved to Sui Khan. Maybe it was because he looked like Lee Soo Hyuk right now, but it was familiar yet awkward.
TCF Part 2 is.... so fun 🥲🫶
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I am NOT going to finish this even the thought of it makes me tired + its been so long.. i draw everything differently now + oh my fucking goooododddddddddDDDD + lyrics are not on point + i would rather eat a sock than continue working on this 😢
So I'll just chomp it all up into gifs and plomp it all here and finally close this coffin
The point was that Pebbles is just reliving main moments of his life. Everything flashes before his eyes, but distorted and strange and not all the way through, because the rot has eaten out of him almost everything that was responsible for his memories. He can't even remember the faces and names of his loved ones. But even so, shame and guilt and pain still suffocate him.
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CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 12
Oof I'm late here Alan and Damian
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
THE DETAIL- THE LITERAL PAGES FROM THE BOOK, DAMIENS WIDE EYE WONDER- ALANS LIL PEARL EARRING AND THE SWEAT DROP??? YOU CONVEYED SO FUCKING MUCH I LEEP LOOKING OVER THE DETAILS AND JUST AHH
DONT GET ME STARTED ON YOUR SHADING/HIGHLIGHTS WHICH ARE SO SO PRETTYYY
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@imagine-darksiders
Darksiders update! Gonna work on some shading shortly.
This would have been done sooner but I did a dumb thing and broke my fucking FOOT. Like an IDIOT.
Anyway, I had fun with the coloring process and rendering his eyes. Did have to tweak a few colors tho, but ah well.
Hope y’all enjoy!
Toodles~!
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