The man standing before him was a solid head and a half taller than Tango was, with short, summer-gold hair, the bangs of which occasionally wisped into his sky-colored eyes. He wasn’t as broad and muscle-y as some of the warrior-types he’d seen around town, but he still seemed to eclipse Tango’s sight-line of the street beyond; all presence, like the invasion of sunlight in dark places. There was a peaking of chainmail from beneath his tabard, a simple sword belt cinched around his waist. He carried himself in a way that seemed almost military, shoulders squared, feet solidly shoulder-width apart. He would have cut an imposing silhouette, if he didn’t manage to break the illusion with his beaming smile.
“Hello hello!” the man said brightly, leaning forward just slightly and tilting his head, an action that made him look less like a swordsman and more like an over-friendly dog. He offered a hand that very nearly swallowed Tango’s when he took it, and shook hands fiercely. “Pleasure to be of service, sir. James Solidarity -- friends call me Jim. Or Jimmy, if you like.”
more mouthwashing + honda… wanted to join in on Drawing Rehabilitated Curly as i’ve seen others do . also, beloved anya and daisuke!
scaridarity anyone (reference to this image)
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dazai being a good mentor :>
ft. atsushi’s first trip to the aquarium
We had a ton of fun with maru making this, she was able to select the perfect clips for each character Hopefully one day i would like to make mini animatics with this but only time will tell
i never posted these Ben AU drawings here and i've seen a few asks wondering about it so... here's a little synopsis i wrote for myself as a potential description later when I post it (because i don't wanna spoil it):
"There's a new boy in Damian's class. He's charming, if it bit awkward. He's just as clever as he is smart mouthed, and he's popular with their classmates. What's worse is that Benjamin Fitzpatrick lives next door in the old Drake Manor and Damian's family are convinced that Ben could be a good friend of his one day. Like that would ever happen.
Luckily for Damian, they're all more focused on the fact that there are two new vigilantes in Gotham acting like they own the place.
Unluckily, everything goes to shit when Ben starts acting strange and sickly, Spider-Man disappears just when they were getting close to him, and Damian learns that Ben's real name might not actually be Ben. Did he mention that Ben might be his older brother's clone?"
ohhh snappers
This was kind of my Stinky Child AU concept.
(It was first supposed to be part of the Kuja Empress comics so Croc was supposed to go by "Vanille" in this AU, the transition to Sir Crocodile happening much later. But I changed my mind at the last moment before posting the Ace meeting Luffy comic I guess X'D Who knows if I might change my mind again as this is a Work in Progress and some of you might have good input into it too. But this is where my mind's at now:)
Crocodile makes a sharp distinction between who he is as a pirate and who he thinks he has to be to safely raise Luffy. Nobody can know who he is. I imagine that actually raising Luffy was an unexpected decisions because he simply couldn't let him go so he and Dragon changed plans.
Crocodile tries hard to present in a certain way in Windmill Village, which is why we see him with make up and feminine clothes when he's interacting with Dadan and Makino. When it's just Dragon his clothing is more gender neutral (I guess?? he's definitely not wearing a push up bra, not that boobs in One Piece obey the laws of gravity) and he doesn't wear make up.
He'll gradually stop trying so hard when he learns that the people of Windmill Village don't judge if he doesn't conform to the idea he has about how a woman/ mother should present and they especially keep quiet about the most wanted man living among them. They'll do the same about a Warlord. He'll eventually be "baba" to the kids and not mom.
(Also, I don't know what Iva's involvement is. Since it's a gradual process, Iva might just help along a little bit? I don't know~
Additional note: I don't think Crocodile really struggles with dysphoria in this AU. That doesn't mean he's at ease with the concepts of womanhood and motherhood he attempts to live up to.)
Thoughts, input, objections, tomatoes?
(Edit: alright!! I gave him his fur coat back! *lol* Here's a little comic about why he might not have a coat!)
Araripe Manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), male, family Pipridae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Brazil
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photograph by Ivan Cesar