#tess art

[kentuckyfriedmegumi]

kiss me breathless

[quark-art]

the yaoi enjoyers have had their time. the yuri warriors are hungry.

@comicaurora

[mxwhore]

my very own hair cheat sheet! if you start factoring in these elements, i can guarantee you your hair is gonna start looking so much better :)

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[aviancali]

pride month just in time for lesbian summer beach dates 🏖️🌊

[accirax]

a collection of DCAS memes so far

[saguette]

small post and i wasnt planning on putting these jthm as cats here but i couldnt leave tumblr out. not very good at drawing animals but i have visions

[bastart13]

OSP's new Castlevania video starting with an announcement of @comicaurora getting published had my mind crossing the two

So here's the Aurora cast in Castlevania (esque) style

[themoonstonechronicler]

yknow i had to do it

also @comicaurora my respect for you grows every time i try to redraw one of your panels because holy shit this took so long

original panel here:

[kentuckyfriedmegumi]

dancing together

[dumpster2001]

Tess

[searyyn]

Cuddle the infested girlfriend

[googlyowo]

almost forgot to fuckin post these

[ophii]

oh dont mind him. yeah he does that sometimes (@comicaurora) and

i named this one nuisance in my aurora borealis folder

[jade--salamander]

Tess is awesome. 10/10 character & design.

(@comicaurora)

[mearchy]

On my rewatch of TLOU I realized there were some details that I missed before that help to paint this huge picture about the importance of the preceding Tess/Joel relationship. The first and most obvious is that Joel mentions passingly that he and Tommy met Tess pretty early on, and it sounds like she stayed with him when every other group they were in fell apart, and even when his own brother left. So they’ve been surviving together for at LEAST 15 years, probably longer than his daughter was even alive, which is a length of time I just didn’t fully process before.

We never hear the full goodbye/suicide letter from Bill, but a lot of people have pointed out that over Joel’s shoulder you can see Tess’s name mentioned at least twice at the end — including something about her deciding what to do. We know that basically every time we saw Tess directly interacting with Joel before she died, she was the one giving him directives and making the final decisions. She says outright that he listens to her. This is not a man who trusts fucking anybody after everything he’s been through. But he trusts Tess. She comes up behind him in bed while he’s sleeping, and in a world of raiders and robbers where hypervigilance is a necessity, he barely even stirs.

Now, one of her last lines before she dies is “I never asked you for anything, not to feel the way I felt—“ and he tries to say something and she shuts him down. But here’s what gets me: before that, before they realize she was bit, she turns around and in her dying frantic anger she yells “that is NOT MY HOME!” about the QZ. And it’s like okay… where else could she be thinking about, if she’s spent all these years on the road with different groups, with Joel, and then at least a decade in the QZ? What is she defining as home right now? Why is this correction so intense? And it could be about Detroit, about where she came from and isn’t (apparently) attempting to go back to. But then. But then she turns and she looks directly at Joel. And she’s got the most tragic expression on her face. And I wonder if in that moment Joel knew she meant that he was her home, even if she had never said it that openly before. Wherever he went, she would go. Haring off on a wild chase after his brother across the country? She’s there. She’ll do anything to make it happen. She’ll beg and barter and kill for this truck battery, for a mission she doesn’t even have half the same stakes in. She was his direction and his driving force and a safe place for him, but he was her home.

Thinking about this almost changed the tenor of the remaining story with Joel and Ellie to me. The hospital massacre felt perfectly in character the first time I watched, but when I rewatched with both the Sarah and the Tess story in the forefront of my mind it felt even more fucking inevitable. Joel is Orpheus. This couldn’t have gone any other way. He could never have done anything else. He has failed the two most important women in his life. He has failed a daughter, and he has failed a partner twice over- first by letting her die, and second by letting her die believing she was unloved. How can he fail Ellie now? He has to burn the entire world, tell any lie, just to keep her alive. There is no other option, no other outcome. There is no living Joel post-canon without the hospital massacre.

And the revenge for it will be what kills him.

[saguette]