⬦ 折原 臨也 | 平和島 静雄 ⬦ Orihara Izaya & Heiwajima Shizuo

Domestic shizaya again👀

Hey Shiga I've been digging your OCs Gabriel and Hershel on Twitter a lot! Could I ask if you could share a little more about them?

THEY'RE MY LITTLE MEOWMEOWS, MY FUCKED UP DOGS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, thank you for your interest anon, they're my faves OCs and the most personal. I've been trying to write a story for them for the past 5 years and cannot make up my mind about what to tell, so I'll try to channel Vibes here.

- Childhood friends to lovers, zombie apocalypse, roadtrip, time loop situation.

- They rely heavily on each other, it's a right-hand-left-hand thing, do not separate them, they've basically fused together at some point. They share the braincell.

- Gabe is Smart and Strong, he's been the one making calls for both of them for as long as they can remember. Golden child. He protects. Immovable object. But :( he got bit :(

- Hershel is a sewer rat who !! tries his best!! but hasn't succeeded in a long, long time. Unstoppable force. He's been burdened with the awful task of reliving the same span of days trying to stop the same event from happening. He's tried everything, every route, every scenario. He's been forced to take the lead, become stronger and wiser for both of them. He's grown a little bit bitter, a little bit unhinged, but he won't stop until he's found the way to save them both.

tw: light gore, injury

Chpt 1 // Chpt 2

Chpt 3: part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4 // part 5

(You can find this comic on tapas / mangadraft and spoontasti’s fic on ao3)

Chapter 6 is here at long last!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I cannot tell you how badly I’ve been wanting to post this. It’s probably still messy as fuck but I was so excited and I’m tired of waiting, there are scenes that I have just been SITTING on okay, and I want them to Exist. I gotta.

Anyway, sorry for whining. Give it a read if you feel like it! :D

Ahh, so the wonderful @scivious encouraged me to try GIF-making and because I have poor impulse control I had to give it an immediate shot! I intended it to be transparent.. but– The next one will be better, and hopefully higher quality, haha. It was a lot of fun, though! I will definitely give it another shot. ☆

a bunch of lios with sprinkling of galo

a light tarot reading, because i'm still fond of what i cooked up here. expect allusions to the ending of aci and general detailing of my intentions throughout. some nuances omitted because i want to see if anyone else catches on to them....

probably the most obvious thing is the card itself, wheel of fortune. generally it suggests change, cycles, some big turning point in your life. with the eye cutout slashing through the sphinx i meant to encapsulate izaya's plan of flipping the wheel over on the game makers and throwing them under an imitation of their own work.

there's a distinction in the meaning of the card when it's upright or reversed. looking inward, the card reads upright towards him and reversed as presented to the onlooker. throughout the chapter there's a lot of emphasis on the lack of sincere connections he has, how no one seemed to reach out genuinely concerned about his absence. his attention drifts to his phone a lot as he works, and he continues to work until the end of the chapter which i'll leave here.

it's hard for me to articulate but i hope you can see how i also wanted to convey izaya's personal development at this point of the fic.

less obvious is the positioning of izaya's finger keeping the lion out of view. i know shizuo is technically an aquarius but that thing looks boring and i'm not partial to the zodiac anyways so to me he's the lion in reference this bit from the first chapter.

you could also read shizuo as the bull hidden beneath izaya's shadow which i was also considering as a nod to a bull charges at the stirring of a cape. regardless it can work both ways in keeping him out of view for this part of the plan.

and this one just fell into place for me but wheel of fortune happens to be the element of fire!! which if you know you know.

there's a lot i tried to work into this composition and i have to thank rosa again for putting up with me and making it look amazing.... collaboration with me is pretty intensive but rewarding to see the initial ideas get visually realized.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

This is a collab I did with my friend @loppiopio when we were fanfic book clubing "A Cheap Imitation" back in 2023 man, good times good times

Linking the fic here in case anyone is curious

I am aware that light pollution doesn't work this way. However, stars pretty ✨

We still thriving DRRR fandom? Hell yes we are

Chpt 1

Chpt 2: part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4

(You can find this comic on tapas / mangadraft and spoontasti’s fic on ao3)

i have this INCREDIBLY late thing that i posted on twitter but completely forgot to put here and i dont like not having everything all here so. here he is. god