Late Night Doodlin

theres javiarthur everywhere for those with eyes to see

I view vergil and rabbit as two closed off people willing to tear each other apart until they physically cannot anymore, and then that's when you get to the real vulnerability under all the hatred and projection. sublime toxic mutual destruction. like crack cocaine to me. need them to eat each other

Official ECB art for Path to Nowhere x Stone Ocean goes so hard.

Games I think the gang members would play:

Arthur: not much into gaming, I can see him play Zelda Breath of the wild and Tears of kingdom. Probably plays some other Nintendo games like Mario kart with the youngest.

John: I can either see him play comp fps (valorant, CS:Go, overwatch) / battle royal Or he's a speedrunner mostly on platforms game (Celeste, any old Mario)

Abigail: train on the games Jack wants to play so she can impress him when he asks for help, outside of that she plays Animal crossing with Mary-Beth and Kieran. When Jack isn't here she Loooves horror games. She finished all the resident evil.

Jack: pokepark, anything that looked cute and chill. Then teen year hit and he tried games with Knights. Loves watching Tilly play, tried to sneak on Abi to see horror games.

Hosea: those points and click games where you gotta solves things. Or maybe games like starcraft, so RTS. He also love Crusader King.

Lenny: anything that challenges his brain, Started with Prof Layton, continued with disco elysium, blue prince, chants of Sennaar. Hosea got him to play ace attorney too.

Sean: played GTA 5, went online tried rp loved it so now he spends most of his time trying to be the biggest gangster of Los Santos on some server. Also looooves mmorpg like he was a club penguin kid and then moved to Wow and ff14

Uncle: crazy candy crush kinda old man. Like John once saw he was top 3 world or something.

Dutch: forces everyone to bond on among us, Dale & Dawson or any imposter kind of game. Also like retro games and Sim city.

Bill: war games (Cod or world of tank) sport games. Actually anything so he can relax/ get rid of any tension he had during the day.

Javier: he tried guitar hero and HATED IT. He's actually more of a story game kinda guy, especially indie games. So he'd totally be into expedition 33, baldur's Gate 3, life is strange. Don't ask him about life is strange it's still a difficult topic (he totally cried)

Kieran: horse games. Like bro is a long time Star stable Online player, he played all the horse games you can think of. Animal crossing to hang out with the girl and have all the horses villagers.

Molly: Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. And also otome games, like my candy love and it kinda fucked up her expectations for love and relationship.

Tilly: play duo with John on fps game, or any final fantasy and fire emblem.

Micah: League of legends. You know why. Also play chess online only to brag about his elo. Had like 10 different acc cuz he keeps getting reported (rightfully)

Karen: just dance, she absolutely LOOOOVE those games. And rythme game, she's insanely good at osu.

Mary-Beth: Sims 4, like she has tons of mods and do some evil shit on that to pass the time. Play animal crossing too. Loves visual novels of any type.

Susan: I can't imagine her playing EXCEPT for one thing. She's at the head of one of the biggest Wow guild and she has been playing since the game came out. It's like the only thing I'll accept about her.

Sadie: not much of a player she sometimes joins Tilly and John but mostly spend time on Stardew valley. Depending on the day her activities in the game change lol

Charles: he goes through any indie games with a distinctive art style, anything that catches his eyes or has an interesting story he'll try it.

Resident Evil 4: jjba edition

Oh he means so much to meeee

More about baseball player Arthur! (I also drew John!)

I made the thing haha

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..his arms refused to obey and his mouth was filled with the taste of blood and he couldn't bring himself to take a single breath because his ribs felt like a crooked metal cage and the agony was sucking him into a vortex of unconsciousness and he was too lost and hurt to resist and…

..and it took him a while to realize that he was okay.

That it wasn't his head that was flattened like a rotten apple. It was the head of his mech.

It wasn't his throat that was filled with blood. It was--

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

_______The whole thing under the cut_________

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Orion feels like a mug without a handle. Like having one earbud fall out of your ear. Like a shirt that's had its buttons ripped off.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He remembers the rattle of metal and the roar of the monster. He remembers someone shouting warnings to him over the comms. He remembers something grabbing his head and slamming him to the ground with so much force, that some part inside his head audibly cracked and it was very warm and stinging and painful and suffocating and he was screaming trying to rip off his helmet and do something but his arms refused to obey and his mouth was filled with the taste of blood and he couldn't bring himself to take a single breath because his ribs felt like a crooked metal cage and the agony was sucking him into a vortex of unconsciousness and he was too lost and hurt to resist and .

..and it took him a while to realize that he was okay.

That it wasn't his head that was flattened like a rotten apple. It was the head of his mech.

It wasn't his throat that was filled with blood. It was--

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He can't get used to Shockwave being gone. It feels like a mug without a handle. Like--

..like a part of him has been torn away. Not essential to life. But critical to completeness. The science department calls it “ co-dependence. ” Engineering says that combining two minds into a single whole can make people see themselves as one entity made up of two parts. Most call it grieving.

Orion isn't sure what to call it. He doesn't know the right word for what he's experiencing.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He's not asking to deactivate his implant. He just reconfigures it so the reconnect checks aren't too frequent. The silly little device continues to pretend that Shockwave's absence is a technical problem that can be fixed by trying again.

Orion is strangely grounded by this ritual. Allows him to pretend that Shockwave is still somewhere nearby and all it takes to synchronize their minds is to try to reconnect.

And then he'll be whole again.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

He looks in the mirror and sees a puzzle. A mosaic.

He sees the little pieces he borrowed from Shockwave. As well as the holes left where Shockwave took pieces of him.

Connecting minds tends to make them bleed into each other. Blurring boundaries and confusing identities.

Orion thinks that part of Shockwave was preserved in him.

He also knows that part of him died that day along with Shockwave.

[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

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[Device 2 not detected. Reconnect.]

[Device 2 detected. Connect?]

Orion freezes, not immediately realizing what has changed.

Could it be...?

He'd seen a lot of impossible things lately. Aliens and resurrections and black holes and honestly. He had gotten a little tired of being surprised. So when the possibility of traveling to other dimensions gets added to his record?

Haah

He had been told that other worlds would probably be very different from his world. That on the other side could be any kind of unimaginable madness or guaranteed death or nothing at all but infinite emptiness and none of those things could be predicted but when he gets close enough to examine the strange alien portal setup, his implant sends him a ping.

[Device 2 detected. Connect?]

At the end of the day. There is one impossible thing that exists on the other side

STARTER

Odysseus laid in the bed that his wife used to sleep in, carved into the olive tree with his bare hands. Small specks of water seemed to be left over from the pillow he rested his head upon.

He was tired. Not from work or fatigue, although he tried his best to activity-fill his day so he could rid his mind of the worries that filled his head, but from the stress of it all, his wife leaving him suddenly after only a week of him being home for another man that was supposed to be him. He felt like he wasn't good enough.

And after the argument about the infant, who could really blame him? He wasn't quite pleased with himself; and who would ever be? He was a monster. If Penelope was pushing everything aside just for this other him, then maybe really he was just inferior.

He didn't feel like getting up. But what other choice did he have? The Fates and the Gods watched over him, almost ridiculing his every action from afar.

How could he live with himself?

He was a monster.

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