#I’m not that heartless

[nightcatssketchbook]

I was hitting some art block so I felt like drawing some fanart of @abd-illustrates’ Heartless characters!

I realized I never actually watched the final installment of the Concept Corner series, so that’s what I had playing when sketching these. It’s just so fun listening to the brainstorming and cool character connections

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

People who think Hua Cheng hates everyone and everything that isn’t Xie Lian truly just misunderstand that the thing he fell in love with first is Xie Lians kindness and how he devotes himself to the common people who are below his station.

Xie Lian cares for the common people that his thing. Hua Cheng doesn’t even try to make that his responsibility because frankly that’s a lot and no matter how good he would be at it he could never be Xie Lian. That’s why he doesn’t try to be nice or patient because he knows it would only be a facade when with Xie Lian it would be genuine and he won’t do Xie Lian the disservice of pretending. And yes as far and he’s conceded his God shouldn’t humble himself like this but does over and over again because he is most importantly a kind person.

Hua Cheng could not love Xie Lian the way he does or worship him as he does if he didn’t give a fuck about people. He may think no one in the world deserves Xie Lians care but that’s because he has seen the truly terrifying self destructive lengths Xie Lian is willing to go to and he doesn’t think anyone is worth Xie Lian suffering like that including himself.

He understands fundamentally that Xie Lians cares so much about everyone and Hua Cheng which is why he literally says "If your dream is to save the common people, then my dream is only you"?

That is not him saying hey I only care about you and fuck everyone else they don’t matter.

This is him saying if you want to make the world better and care for people then you should because you’re the best person at it. No one could do it like you can. But as someone who has received that kindness I will be here to be sure you are adored and appreciated for your good acts like letting that tiny orphan eat from a shrine dedicated to you because ego means nothing to you if children are starving.

He is saying I will be there to pull you together and give you the affection and love and consideration I saw you lose time and time again because people see you as a God and a Prince and a Miracle Worker and I understand that you are just a man trying his hardest to make the world a better place and that is what I adore.

If you are willing to devote yourself to humanity I am willing to devote myself to you meaning that I will be a part of that dream. I will by help ease your burden by helping people at your side.

I created a city that tries to keep dangerous ghostly objects like my lantern fall into children’s hands. This city will become a home for you and a place full of ghosts, regular spirits of the common people just living their afterlives because I understand you would never want to be alone without people to help forever. So I will look after them because you would want them looked after. I will help the farmers in Puqi village and the Gods who I hate because you are doing that so that is what I will do.

The common people will always be cared for in Hua Cheng ideal world because that is a world that Xie Lian wants and he wouldn’t be Xie Lian if he didn’t want that which Hua Cheng understands that his kindness and compassion is why he became so devoted to Xie Lian in the first place.

So no he doesn’t hate everyone and everything, he doesn’t want Xie Lian to be locked in alone with him where no one can bother them forever and ever because he knows Xie Lian would be fucking miserable and feel so guilty for not being there and feeling like it’s his responsibility to be there for people all the time.

He may resent that and grumble because he like Xie Lian is still a regular person with flaws which include wanting to disappear to a quiet place in the world and love his husband forever because he’s been through so much but he is under no illusions of that happening because there are people to care for and he will help his God do that and give him everything including himself to make that happen.

Also we never find out what he’s like without Xie Lian because he is the POV character. Like he clearly doesn’t hate people he just doesn’t think anyone is as wonderful as Xie Lian so why spend time with them when Xie Lian is in the room. He is genuinely mad and bitchy at anyone but Xie Lian talking to him because they are distracting him from Xie Lian or annoying Xie Lian so he has to snap at them because Xie Lian is the only person worth his attention. If Xie Lian wants to talk to people that’s his business Hua Cheng will be right beside him listening and waiting till he’s needed because that’s his purpose but that doesn’t mean he wants everyone to shut up and die that’s just not who he is.

[themirepirate]

was reading Sherlock holmes and this popped into my head

[screechingart]

HEYYYYYYY

I got the motivation to draw again ! And after seeing abdillustrate’s post with all of heartless gang’s training outfits I had to draw at least one so I chose angsty ice boy Eira <33333

I really love this one I even made it my wallpaper and I’m obsessed (cropped to hell and back ofc because of my lazy background🥲)

[iamwizzzzz]

i’m only good at expressing my feelings when you make it a safe space to do so

[calmlb]

A Mysterious Thing Called the Heart

[accirax]

hear me out

i think it might be Whit season

[robinsleeping]

She tried…

[goldkirk]

that post about shutting up and not assuming no one’s doing anything just because they aren’t blabbing it online reminded me of this increasingly-evergreen video:

[asweetersapphic]

y’all do realize that the statements “police brutality is abhorrent and never acceptable” and “i feel bad for caitlyn kiramman arcane in s2” are two statements/thoughts that can coexist, right?

[titsthedamnseason]

while we’re talking about books from my childhood i want to mention that nobody is writing young adult books on the level that marissa meyer writes young adult books and that remains true today and forever

[firestorm09890]

Ienzo the Liar

[malrie]

ok this post is very boring to everyone but me idc though. adult annabeth going into architecture I think like many archs she’d love the work but hate the politics and bc she’s specifically going into building development (mt. olympus rebuilds) it MEANS. annoying and insane godly ownership clients..

cuz in building development typically developers hire architectural firms (in this case whatever firm ms chase works for) and the architects then hire consultants to work with like structural civil mechanical electrical plumping etc (and occasionally landscape archs yippeeeee!)

licensed annabeth chase in her mid to late twenties to early thirties might be part of a firm (MAYBE just maybe with a firm of her own) would be a killer project manager and thrive in a management position but since the end all be all word is always ownership (the developers) she’d have the most beef w them but has to follow everything they want bc they’re literally the ones funding everything. I’m just saying tht she’s coming out of the olympus rebuilding simmering w dislike for every minor and major god who wanted their high rises rebuilt LMAO

[devilbimboy]

omg guys!!! aroace culture is when your mom asks you if you love her. She doesn’t ask this a lot but frequently enough to make you question everything. She doesn’t say “I love you”, but instead asks you if YOU love HER. She stares at you, oh god she’s staring, and expects you to say yes.

But you say nothing. You search so hard within yourself to know what love is.

“You don’t love me?” She asks with her heartbreak apparent in her voice.

So you lie and say yes.

But you keep searching in yourself a little more, a little harder. You’ve been staring at the floor for about 15 minutes now but you can’t muster up a good description of what love is.

Is love warm? Is love cold? Is love fluttery? Is love still? Is love everything? Is love nothing?

You don’t know, and you will never know. Maybe, you’re broken. Maybe, you didn’t come out right. Maybe, you aren’t human and instead a heartless monster.

There MUST be something fundamentally wrong with you because everyone else experiences love.

But you.

[an-albino-pinetree]

Dear Red States of America: What the fuck is wrong with you?

[venjamin-kingdomhearts]

i should be asleep but wicked’s on the brain and the mental image of “what if boq heard about nessa’s death and had a mini reprise of ‘No One Morns the Wicked’ but it’s clear he actually totally does because he KNOWS he’s part of the reason that happened to her” is getting me. please wicked movie pt 2 give the nessarose and boq situation extra depth. for me.