#I didn't feel like redrawing him in every fucking panel when he barely moved

[trigemwar]

TriGem War, Chapter 5, 7/

Did y'all know that my friend thought Dottore from Genshin Impact was voiced by Matt Mercer? Imagine the TotK jokes I could have made if that was true (It's not).

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[adhdo5]

Sappy author's notes on every panel, on account of how it's still yaoi day in my timezone

1 - More obvious thing is as ID says he's not Quite touching Arron here. He's being careful!! You have to let them meet u on their own terms! The measure and mercy of it all. The other Hiro isn't fucking with Arron here he's genuinely thinking out loud. It's still an embarrassing You Are Not Hannibal ass thing to say but it's genuine ! He's remarking on when and how Arron does or doesn't make explicit what he's thinking about a situation and correctly noticing that Arron gets cagey/stonewalley mostly when he's distressed and it's information that he's aware can be Used Against Him

2 - Directly relevantly, Arron voices both his confusion and his intent in a situation where he could be maybe failing at that intent now, something he feels fine doing because of the trust they have between themmmm. It also seals Hiro's fate as the exact directness he's remarking on kind of lays him out as he realizes he's being cringe. Also on the note of physical intimacy and Arron setting the pace about it the hand on Hiro's shoulder(/second hand on his chest, it's like only barely visible in a couple other panels I didn't bother defining it much) is notable in both the way that Arron is still holding Hiro close and also in the way that the arm Between them is acting as a spacer if it gets too much for him. He literally knows how to have self respect he has nooo excuse

3 - Not a whole lot to say about this one they're just cute. Hiro internal monologue rn "I am fumbling this so hard right now"

4 - Hiro is calling this kind of a wash. He's saying "neither of us" because he doesn't want to be like noooo I fucked uppppp because that would be Manipulative so instead he's backing out in embarrassment. Abort mission. Arron is not less embarrassed (see: hand closes automatically). This is maybe my favorite panel for expressions also I had to redraw Arron like five times but I couldn't do the delete/turn off previous attempt later thing because I liked Hiro's expression too much

5 - Too absorbed in thinking "nice going Hiro. Well, next time" (frankly also an expression I'm really happy with) Hiro does not notice Arron contemplating his next move. He's calculating this. Unfortunately he's got "thinks he's hot shit" disease.

6 - Immovable object. Literally not done here. Aforementioned arm meta is doing so much. As aforementioned Arron is absolutely the limiting factor on how physically intimate they get ever and given that it's the scale of "prolonged skin contact makes him start taking ticks of poison damage" this is massive amounts of both trust and audacious posturing in equal part; combine with that Hiro's having mostly written this interaction off and this is 0% precedented

7 - Like this is the flirting game Arron is showing off. Braving new frontiers to look cool for his boyfriend. Hiro is soooo fine with this development there's such a reason why the directness works for him.

8 - And conversely the fact that Hiro picks up on Arron going tense and knows to back out for real this time is the exact "measure and mercy" that both motivated and enabled the posturing. Also this isn't lore details but I really am SO happy with the way Arron's body language progresses over these I care him so much

9 - Note Arron immediately going to cross his arms about it this SUCKS for him

Basically this comic is them both doing the "he's playing basketball, points at you and says 'this is for you,' and completely misses" thing and it mutually works. 🩶🩵Love wins🩶🩵

Idk if I’m gonna post the rest of this on account of it’s not that good for how many pictures it is but this in particular is worth it