#secret life roomies

[avi-mation]

Apocalypse buddies

[dogerbooger]

Not my best work but I just had to draw them together

Here’s the less funky colored one I almost forgot to send also

[lifesmpliar]

Its super weird to me that I keep making fanart for this series even tho I never make fanart in general.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Found a bunch of templates and thought it would be a good way to practice posing and drawing characters interacting, so here's some more roomies sharing a bed, because that is oh so dear to me right now!

(EDIT: I also did a colored version!)

(original template and alt version below)

Here is the source for the original template!

Grian shrunk so much compared to the template- he's so small

[absurdist-pink]

All three of the roomies were booted out of the Hearts Foundation raffle for individual reasons. They share the same brain cells, no wonder they work so well. Chaotic neutral queens.

[non-binaryandbisexual]

I made a fic about this but I NEED some talented artist on here to draw Cleo climbing out of the hole she got stabbed by scar in, walk to where her dead teamates are while blood is dropping out of her wounds, and carry Grian and Etho back to their home and sleep with them as she passes away while smiling because she was so proud of them and their efforts despite not winning

[crescxntmoons]

Thinking about Grian and how despite the fact that he’s always in an alliance, he inevitably ends up alone.

Always, when he dies he’s alone. From winning 3rd life to dying alone in that tunnel during DL and being the final Bad Boy (singular) in limited life. Grian is destined to end up alone.

And then, you think about him in Secret Life, and how yes he died alone but he died knowing that his teammates would be proud of him.

He knows that when Etho and Cleo find out how he died, all his work to weaken what was probably the strongest team, they’ll mourn but they’ll be proud of him.

Grian hasn’t had people be proud of him like that before.

[trashcanflagic]

The Roomies

Did my best to get the colors and things accurate.

[cxlandine]

unfinished grian + etho designs from session 6

[chill4234]

So who was that one guy who made a Cleo/grian/etho zombie AU?

Where Cleo was immune to the infection?

Yeah based on last episode’s events it’s safe to say they’re probably feeling really cool right now.

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

love when people draw the besties/roomies and grian is drawn in such a way that he looks like either their pet falcon or like they could punt him like a football or both

[avi-mation]

Current Hyperfixation is ~them~

Roomies time

[dogerbooger]

A moment between Cleo, Tango, and something about a hero?

[kingjullian-3]

There’s just something about the way session 7 ended. Everyone was focused on two of the survivors. The Zombie and the Stars. Everyone forgot about the Sun. No-one noticed the little platform on the sky, having mysteriously been changed.

Except someone did. The Glare. He saw the platform, how it had been changed, realised that the remaining survivor would be up there. However he did nothing with this information, why?

Simple, he wanted to apologise in a way. Apologise for forgetting about him, apologise for getting turned into one of the army. That’s why he let the Sun slip through the cracks, why he let the Zombie and the Sun hide in the base, even protecting them against the hoard.

The Zombie, the Stars and the Sun all survived. To the detriment for the rest of the server. They all failed, because of one man’s loyalty. The Harbinger had been upset for sure, but really what could she do?

The session was over. Sure she could wait for her revenge till the next week, but that’s too long. The Glare had ruined it for everyone else. She had been willing to kill the Stars for the task, why hadn’t he?

The Glare is a loyal man. He would never betray those he called allies unless they did so first. And neither did. The Zombie and the Sun stood by his side until his unfortunate demise to someone who in a past life had been his son.

The Zombie went out the same way, in a hole with that same son. But what about the Sun? He died fighting. Sure his curse had activated, both the Glare and the Zombie dying before him, but he knew that they would be proud. Knew that the first people who had seen his loyalty since the sand had been washed out of his wings, would be proud of him.

Proud of him for staying by their side till the end. Proud for fighting a 3v1 so the Zombie would have some chance of escape. Prions of him for taking a total of 91 hearts from the most stacked team before he died.

Because in the end their only players. Players in this unforgiving game. Cleo, Etho, and Grian were all just victims of these games, coming together to give eachother some form of comfort.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I did a colored version of another of my line art focused drawings, so behold! Roomies Cuddle Pile on your Tumblr once again!

(original greyscale/line-art post of the drawing here)

Reblogs are very much appreciated! I really loved working on this :D

[greeenchrysanthemums]

@thatlesbainmushroom and @jjlovesgoodies (hope you don't mind the tags, I was not sure how else to make sure you seen this<3) both said yes to hearing about my roomies zombie au, so here it is!! Though, I must admit that it is more of a half-baked idea than a fully thought out au. I'm not sure if I will ever actually write it, so it's free game with credit.

I suppose a TW is required before you read any further. It is a zombie au, so it is pretty grim. Mentions of death, blood, injury, and other apocalypse typical things.

Etho and Cleo were college roommates before everything went to shit. Cleo was a graphic design and arts student in her fourth year, while Etho was an engineering student in his second year. They have been together since the start, and were actually in their dorm room when the chaos started. Bdubs used to be with them, but they lost track of him (and his horse) months ago. They assume he is dead.

Grian was a first year architect student from a few towns over. His group consisted of his roommates, Jimmy and Joel, along with his work friend, Scar.

None of them had ever used a gun before the apocalypse, so it is none of their preferred weapon. Cleo has a baseball bat, Grian has a knife, and Etho has a machete. Etho and Grian both carry handguns but rarely use them. Cleo knows how to use a gun but does not carry one and would have to be in mortal danger to be convinced to use it.

Cleo is immune to the bite, something they found out at the beginning because a classmate had bitten her and she never turned. Though, this immunity would not hold any narrative weight. The world has fallen apart, there wouldn't be anyone left to try to find a cure from her anyway. They are just focused on surviving and trying to keep each other safe.

However, because of her immunity, she does take risks that Etho doesn't/can't. She used to be a real softy, not much a fighter who was all bark no bite, but she would do anything to protect Etho. She has many scars, from bites and scratches, because of this reckless behavior.

It would start with Grian having just been separated from his group and he's been wandering around the remains of a big city looking for them. He eventually gets overwhelmed by a hoard and ends up cornered in an alley, where he is then saved by Etho, who kills the zombies and offers to bring him back to his camp.

Grian says no and tells him he has to keep looking for his group, but Etho is persistent. Grian caves and agrees to go with him when Etho offers to help look for his missing friends; no strings attached.

The group traverses the remains of the burning world together for several months looking for Grian's group and slowly getting to know each other. Etho and Cleo share information freely, but Grian is more reserved. He only answers simple questions about his past. They barley know anything about this group they are trying to find. Instead of opening up as the months' pass by, he actually becomes more and more reserved.

He keeps asking why they keep helping him when they have no obligation to do so, especially since he's given them next to no information or reason to trust him, and they say why not? They don't have anything better to do than lend him a helping hand.

Grian leads them more and more northwest as time goes on, telling them that he was told to head in this direction to meet back up with his group, but still, they find no trace of them.

Around 6-7 months into traveling together, the group do a supply run in a mall that they thought was safe and end up getting trapped inside with no way out after Grian brings some kind of a display/structure down on top of himself on accident and it attracts a hoard that was hidden away out of sight.

They are very low on ammo, Etho was bit while getting Grian out from under the display, Grian was injured by the accident, and they're all too exhausted and malnourished to fight. They make it into a staff area, but there's no exit that they see, so they barricade the door. It is only a matter of time before the hoard breaks through.

Sitting inside of the small room, Grian admits to them that his group was already dead and had been for a while. He tells them that he had actually been ready to die that day Etho found him. He felt bad letting Etho's kindness (which was a rarity in this dying world) go to waste, so he went along with it.

He was just along for the ride at first, leading them on a wild goose chase while waiting for a chance to leave them, but then he grew to care for them. He never thought he would find friends again in a world like this, but, somehow, he did. They gave him a purpose, a reason to keep going. They made him want to live again. They made him happy. They made him laugh; something so simple and yet so important.

He didn't want them to leave him behind once they found out the truth, so he'd kept lying to them and pretending like he was still searching so that they would have a reason to keep helping him, a reason to have him around.

He was closing himself off all that time in an attempt to hold onto the one good thing in his life. He tells them that he's sorry, that he loves them, and that he's scared.

Cleo and Etho say they don't care that he's been lying, and that he's just as important to them as they are to him. They say that whatever happens next, they'll do it together.

And then in my mind it would end somewhat ambiguously/open ended as the zombie's break through.