TGCF: Anticipation

TGCF: Anticipation

 Yeah so, anyways, remember kids, art is an inherently masochistic tendency

Okay so, this August I was visiting my family, and while I was there my little sister made me watch the Heaven Official’s Blessing (Tian Guan Ci Fu) Donghua, and long story short, after about 6 hours of denial I have accepted my fate and I’ve stolen all her books and I’m here now 3 months later, I spoilered myself on literally everything and when I tell you the absolute death grip this shitshow has on me The absolute death-grip this ship has on me, oh my GOD I can’t put it into words how much I’m not normal about Lang Qianqiu and Qi Rong

ANYWAYS SPOILERS

Through my incoherent descent into madness, I had the idea what if before his soul fully reformed and came back Qi Rong was conscious for a while, like he could see and hear his surroundings but there wouldn’t be enough of him for others to see him yet, something something isolation but also some time for him to think and feel conflicted about the fact that Lang Qianqiu is not only raising his son but helping to bring him back Also I headcanon him to be gone for like, 3-ish years, so Guzi is like, 10 years old here Idk I have many thoughts and emotions about this so naturally I had to let them out in the most masochistic way possible

Also this piece was also inspired by a little comic by @/starbiology​ (on both Twitter and Tumblr): https://at.tumblr.com/starbiology/nightmare/i7budjcsdzvi (Also special Thank You to her for explaining QiuRong to me when I was still new to the Fandom)

It didn’t exactly turn out the way I wanted it to, I couldn’t make some things work the way I wanted, but I’m pretty happy with the overall outcome (Despite the fact that I struggled so much with it holy shit, I’m never drawing anything again without making a proper charachter design ref-sheet first, the pain and suffering it was to figure out the designs on the fly, I’m never doing that again, same with the colors, it genuinely felt like I was purging something from myself drawing this) I had to downsize it like 3 times because it was too big to turn into a gif, which is just a travesty, so I’ll probably upload the non-gif full size image tomorrow TGCF belongs to MXTX Art by @mexcraziness-art