#Too tired n sick to design costumes but I wanted Ado's cloak to be a call back to Drawcia's

[desultory-novice]

Woke up feeling a little sick today but the details you put into this!!

I love how you took a bad end AU and (while it's still not happy, though that was the original premise) found a way to extend it into new territory!

Really liking the stuff with the paintbrush and the name of the AU.

The Sword quietly offing Raquelle too (gotta separate Adeleine from all her loved ones) then taking her form is very in character??

In fact...

(I'm sorry. I had to bring the braids back in the way they'd hurt the most)

Inspired by this post by @desultory-novice where he talked about what would happen if the Dark Blade chose Adeleine instead. I'm calling this Apologies AU, AU: The Armed Painter and the Dyed Knight aka APDK

I uh... might have gone too far on the second page...

CW: Heavy blood, character death, and body dismemberment

Some info!

The comic starts in the middle of the conflict. The Dark Blade chained Adeleine in one place to make her watch. The start of the comic is when the Blade stabs Noir's back, causing blood to splash on Adeleine's face. All the cuts before hand were survivable, but still very painful.

Adeleine, as dark matter is known as just Dark Matter Blade, never Dark Matter Swordsman because the sword is more or less puppeteering her.

Noir had the paintbrush on him when he was killed because he was keeping it to give to Adeleine on her birthday.

Don't know if I'm going to go with it, but I have the idea of the Dark Blade taking the form of Raquelle. Either killing her and taking her form to befriend Adeleine and Noir or, for this AU, Raquelle was made up by the Blade.

At the end of the comic, the Magic Paintbrush tried to revive Noir, replacing everything missing by painting it. This attempt failed though. It ended up basically making a living puppet. The Paintbrush gained all of Noir's memories and realizes just what he, and it lost.

The Paintbrush didn't turn Noir into Dark Matter because it could feel how much he cares about Adeleine. This ended up making the care about her too; and Noir.

Noir's scarf at the end in a nod to those pocket color wheels

His outfit changed colors at the spots Dark Blade dismembered him. His sleeve cuffs are silver just like the Paintbrush's metal.

'Noir' later paints a glass eye for himself.

Calling this AU the Armed Painter and the Dyed Knight is a double meaning with Noir having the Paintbrush and also dying in this AU.

'Noir' still goes to Popstar, similar to the White Hair Noir AU. He initially pretends to be Noir, not wanting to except he's really gone.

I'll let Dess decide if this should count as Noir propaganda for the tournament