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Just a little heads up: I'm alive and I'll try to post a few more drawings before the new year!
First up is a little series of portraits, featuring my favourite characters of three of my hypes from this year: The Magnus Archives, NEO: The World Ends With You and The Great Ace Attorney.
If you follow my reblog blog @schluesselschwert you probably already know who they are. x'D
Hope you all had as good a year as you possibly could and I wish you happy holidays!
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[Image Description: Image is a pastel chalk drawing of adult Lea and Isa from Kingdom Hearts sitting on a beach. Lea is sitting between Isa's legs, leaning his back on Isa's chest. He is talking nonsense with a smug expression, gesturing with one hand, while Isa kisses him on the cheek, smiling. Both their eyes are closed and their hands are linked in front of Lea's chest. The drawing is done in warm sunlit colours and the edges of the drawing are slightly smudged into the white paper frame, giving the image a dreamlike quality.]
Lazy Afternoons
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Lazy Afternoons
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Some good days good weather fun!
Here's a little teaser WIP of my piece for @eternalbondzine!!!
This is after the first layer of pastel chalk. There will be at least one more and then a final detail layer in chalk and pencils (and maybe markers)! I'm a little in love and very excited to finish this piece!! <3
A super quick sketch for the bEGINNING OF AKUSAIMONTH 2021!!! No "official" list unfortunately, but that won't stop me! :D
YESSSSS!! THIS!!!
Things that make me feel like posting on Tumblr is actually still worth the effort:
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your tags, they make my day!! <3
Things that make me feel like posting on Tumblr is actually still worth the effort:
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your tags, they make my day!! <3
AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK
Day 20: SET C - “Blank Stare”
Did you know? Apparently Nobodies come back into being the way they remember themselves. I think you probably do, after all the teardrops are gone from your cheeks.
So, apparently the truest vision I have of me is bleeding. I’d laugh about the irony, if it didn’t hurt so much. I keep thinking about how fast the wound scarred over last time. No such luck now, I think it’s getting infected … again. Weird, to be back in a human body, only to realize how frail it really is.
But I don’t think I have to tell you that. Still sleeping, no sign of waking up. Only because you saved me. Again.
I… well.
I know you don’t want to hear this, but … I really wish you didn’t do it. Save me. You should have just left me in the darkness. You made so many friends, and they miss you. And I … just don’t deserve to be here in your place. They’re friendly to me of course, saying any friend of yours is a friend of theirs and saying it doesn’t matter what I …Even Roxas and Xion. I can see her face now, you know.
I … I’m so sorry. And I can’t even get myself to say it. I can’t open my mouth whenever any of them are around.
I’m glad they gave us a place to stay here in the castle. With strangers living where our parents’ houses used to be, I really wouldn’t have any other idea of where to go. But it hurts to be here, in Radiant Garden. I can barely stand to look outside a window. It’s all so full of memories.
Of you. Of us.
I miss you, so much.
It hurts.
I wish I could have at least talked to you, even if just for a little bit. It’s been so long. And even longer since we talked as friends.
I know I’ve said it a hundred times, but I’m so sorry. For everything I did. I don’t know if you can hear me and I don’t know if you’d even want to listen to my side of the story. It’s not an excuse, I know that. I’m not even sure why I told you at all. I … it just hurts so much.
They tried to bully me into joining them for some ice cream again. But I can’t leave you alone. I can’t. This is the only thing I can do for you. Staying by your side, making sure you’re not alone.
Remembering.
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AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK Day 19: SET C - “Crush My Heart”
The first thing I felt was a stinging pain carved in my face.
I touched my cheek with a shaking hand and so the second thing I felt was wet and sticky and warm and it suddenly made me taste iron on my lips.
The third thing I felt was breathing. My own, deep but burning in my chest, and that of another, calm, below me. Another. Another person.
I tried to wipe away the blood from my eyes and moved to lift myself up. It was hard, my whole body felt heavy, but I managed to prop myself up on one arm. And there you were.
Breathing, motionless. I stared at your face. Alive, but unmoving. I tried to say your name, but nothing came out, my lips wet with blood but dry anyway and my throat numb. I didn’t know how long I hovered over you, but it was the realization that I was dripping blood onto your face that finally made me sit back.
I didn’t know why I was bleeding again. I didn’t know why I was lying on the floor or why you were there (asleep? unconscious?). But I realized I did know where I was. My breath started to hitch and I felt my stomach clench as I recognized the room where we had lost our hearts. Where you tried to save me, where I gave in anyway, my heart taken from me and my face carved.
Why were we here?
Did this mean… that it was … over?
Was I... back…? Was I …
Was I me again?
Sometimes as a Nobody I had tried to imagine how it would feel when my heart would be returned. I thought I’d feel relief or maybe even happiness. But in reality all I felt was pain and grief and a horror I couldn’t even place but that gripped me so tightly it blocked out everything else. When tears finally came I didn’t stop them. They burned in the cuts on my cheeks, but I barely felt it. I sat next to your unmoving body and I wept for the first time in years, until finally someone came rushing into the room, screaming your name and taking both of us away.
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AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK Day 18: SET C - “Lyrics (Only If For A Night)”
[ And I heard your voice, as clear as day And you told me I should concentrate It was all so strange, and so surreal That a ghost should be so practical ] [ Only If For A Night – Florence + the Machine ]
Somewhere in the darkness, I thought I heard your voice. I thought I felt your hands.
The sensation was so real and warm and wrong. I was alone, wasn’t I?
But I heard it again, so far away, felt it so close to me and it didn’t matter. I didn’t care if it was real or an illusion or a fever dream my crumbling mind conjured. I clutched onto it. It gave me a focus, a lifeline in the madness of my fall and I would not give it up.
I would not
give you up.
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memories - an akusai one shot
Title: Memories Fandom: Kingdom Hearts Pairing: AkuSai/IsaLea (Axel x Saïx) Rating: General (Angst and Feels) Word Count: ~1,780
Summary: Lea returns to Radiant Garden, and bumps into someone he doesn’t expect to see.
A/N: @herzblutrose had a birthday and I offered to write them some Akusai! :D But, because I am me, I wrote Akusads by mistake. LOL. I hope you’ll enjoy what I wrote!
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It was strange, seeing Radiant Garden back to what it looked like prior to everything going to shit ten plus years ago. Lea never thought he’d see the world look the same as it did when he was growing up; he thought that the Darkness had stolen everything away and that it would be irreparable. But when Riku said it looked different than he remembered, he knew he had to take a Gummi ship and head there himself. There was still time - Sora was still trying to find out what the Real Organization XIII was up to. As long as Sora was occupied, then he would be free to do what he wanted for a little bit of time.
Looking around, he’s surprised to see all the flowers are in bloom in the outer garden. It’s the first place he visits after touching down, and immediately felt astonished by seeing how it looked like when he was a teenager. How many hours had he spent in this area with his best friend - the person that he knew even back then that he was his other half. The missing part of his soul that always knew what to say and when to say it.
His feet took him to the courtyard, a memory of a blond kid with a keyblade coming to the forefront of his mind. “From where I stood, the only thing you drew was a big L on your forehead for ‘Loser’, ‘Lame’, ‘Laughable’.” It hit him so fast that he had to put his hand out and rest against the stone gate, collecting his thoughts as his heart began to ache in a way that he wasn’t at all that prepared for.
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AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK Day 17: SET C - “Void”
It didn’t end. I didn’t know how long I had been falling for. It felt like forever, it felt like an instant. It FELT, I felt. It was all I did, Falling, and Feeling and - remembering. My life passed me by, both of them. A cacophony of sensations and feelings and sounds and voices. The hurt I had caused, the hurt I had been caused. The smiles and the laughs and the love I felt and the hatred. It blurred and twisted and it was beautiful and painful and TOO MUCH and it.
Didn’t.
End.
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AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK Day 16: SET C - “Disappearance”
I was watching as your light went out, and I felt nothing.
When he came for me, I fought with everything I had. He had beaten me before, but surely this time, surely with all the not-hatred I felt for him, I could win.
I couldn't.
As I felt myself vanishing, the pain and the sadness finally caught up on me. It was just for one moment, but I felt an overwhelming hurt. In that moment I wanted nothing more than to go back in time, back to when things were okay. I wanted nothing more than to be whole again.
But there was nothing to be done. You were gone, and so was I.
In the end, it was all for nothing.
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AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK Day 15: SET C - “Acts of Love & Hate”
It didn't matter that he wore a different name or a different face. I wanted to destroy him. It was a desire, roaring deep inside of me, overwhelming everything else. It was his fault. His fault.
Destroying him wouldn’t fix what had happened, but it would set me free.
Of him. Of you.
Of the pain I refused to feel.
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“I’m the one who killed my mentor.”
Happy UR-1 incident day (October 7, 2020)!! He knows what awaits him.
Flowers In My Heart 🌸🌾🌿🌼✨
(This is supposed to be the design for my business card, once I finally get myself to get some of my art printed haha)
@laytonbrothersbirthdaybash Day 2: Headcanon
I like the idea, that while most adults had a bit of a difficult time dealing with little Alfendi, Uncle Randall got along with him incredibly well and the two of them spent a lot of time together. On one of these stays Alfendi found the (copy of the?) mask, which Randall hid, but couldn't quite bring himself to throw away. Randall didn't tell him what it meant then.
Even as adults, Alfendi gets along better with Randall than with his father. After the incident, Randall visits Alfendi in the hospital and finally tells him what happened at Monte D'Or that time.
Most of these sketches are from 2015, from when I first had that idea. Which means I procrastinated making the final two drawings for FIVE YEARS. But hey, better late than never.
Die and Make Peace.
@laytonbrothersbirthdaybash Day 1: Favourite Side character
Not sure if she even counts as a side character, but I thought this would be a great opportunity to finally draw her!
Also my first time drawing on an iPad!
Layton Brother Bash 2: Murder Boogaloo
BeeBuzzly is excited to annouce the second LB;MR Week!!
For those who don’t know, the bash was created last year to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Layton Brothers;Mystery Room. Like the year before, the week will run from Saturday, September 21 to Friday, September 27.
However, this year’s prompts layout will be different. This time, there will be two prompts for each day.You can choose to do one of the prompts, two separate pieces for each prompt or combined them into one piece! Also, its alright if your not able to participate everyday! Any amount of content will be greatly appreciated!
The Prompts:
Day 1: Favourite Side Character / Lunch Break
Day 2: Unlikely Match up / Headcannon
Day 3: Occupation Swap / Song prompt
Day 4: Suspects / Tea
Day 5: Victorian AU / Flowers
Day 6: Family / Crossover
Day 7: Vacation / Animals
When you upload your fanwork, you can tag it as #lbmr;week and/or any of the usual Mystery Room tags. Then, I will reblog all fanworks here, at laytonbrothersbirthdaybash. If I miss any posts don’t be afraid to message or at me. You can also submit your work if you’d prefer that!
I’m so glad to do this again and I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!!
FIRST BINGO! WUHUU!
Links to each of my entries for AkuSaiMonth 2015 in this post!
AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK Day 14: SET C - “To Be Left”
It was no surprise when you left. When you betrayed me.
Everything I once believed in went away with you. All my schemes, all my plans.
The very last part of me that had still, foolishly, believed
was finally dead.
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AKUSAIMONTH 2015: BERSERK Day 13: SET C - “Blissful Ignorance”
I searched for the warmth I once found in you, but it was so hard to remember. Everytime you rejected me, it left me a little more indifferent and soon, there was nothing else left.
It didn't hurt. How should it, when I couldn't feel at all? Unlike you, I accepted it from the start. I didn't try to fight a fact I wouldn't be able to change.
I accepted it. Just as I soon learned to accept that you would no longer be a part of my existence.
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I picked this story up again! I will post the first of the new chapter right after this! :D Klick the Read More to see the chapter overview and (re?)read previous chapters! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! <3
AkuSaiMonth 2015
So, I am taking part in @misomilk ’s AkuSaiMonth and seeing as I like to make things more complicated than they need to be, I decided to take all the prompts of card C to create a coherent story (More like story-doodle things) with it. This extra post helps me to keep things organised.
I will update this post regularly and link back to it!
Keep reading
“Had to lose my way To know which road to take Trouble found me All I look forward Washed away by a wave
I'm going back to my roots Another day, another door Another high, another low Rock bottom, rock bottom, rock bottom I'm going back to my roots”
- Roots, Imagine Dragons
I finally have free time again!! Yay! Time to show off some of the sketches I did in the last months!
First off, a selection of self-portraits I did in April and May. To me a self-portrait isn't about what I look like, but more about what it feels like to be me. I really enjoyed doing these. (Btw, the text on the third one reads: "But I like wearing a mask." Which was quite a weird realization.)
Calm Nights And Mornings (A.k.a the picture that low-key looks like Zavier wants to strangle Danny)
[Alternate Ending AU]
Rules: spell out your url with song titles and tag ten people!
Thanks for tagging me again, @heartlessfujoshi!!! <3
H eartlines - Florence + The Machine E CHO - STARSET R ise Up - Imagine Dragons Z immer Mit Blick - Revolverheld B orn Ready - Zayde Wølf L ove Is Blindness - Jack White U na Mattina - Ludovico Einaudi T hat's Okay - The Hush Sound R unning Man - Ollie Gabriel O nly One - The Score S andstorm - String Machine E scape - 30 Seconds To Mars
Again, if you feel like doing this, you are now officially tagged!