#daves super awesome ocs

[ihateloginwallsfuckyou]

siiigghh.. daveted valentines...

[suddenly-stickmin]

Doodles n drawings I did on @00lari00 's whiteboard! Once again it was super cool seeing everyone's drawings and OCs all together :] These boards are so much fun

Also thank you very much to the super nice people who left little comments by my drawings, seriously do appreciate it [sob sob sob]

[maned-wo1f]

sorry to those who followed only for metalocalypse or whatever but I gotta introduce you all to my super awesome cool ocs

From left to right on the colored image is:

Detective Yvonne Floyd, Sergeant Raden Miles, Lieutenant Erin Beckett, Detective Sam West, Detective Evan Hierdrich, the twins Ian Ments and Aaron Ments, Malakai Wilson, Andy Beckett, Cody Beckett, Ech0, Yegor (dog), Jahck, Don Whittaker, Damien Miller, The Demon, Atlas Jones, Archer, Silas, Baguette, Cornelius Reign, Geo Walker, Dave, Cannon (horse), Sheriff Wayne Colton, Clifton “Cliff” Bow, Azmodeus

[roomwithavoid]

i feel like the experience of reading homestuck, especially in the modern day due to cultural osmosis and seeing it everywhere, is that it feels like you had a mutual who had been posting a bunch of art and mini comics of all of their characters, and posting little interactions and world building info about them, and it’s super compelling and interesting, and all of the characters are fun and all of the world building it really fascinating, and then one day this mutual is like “ok guys i made my characters into a proper comic you can go read!” and you’re like fuck yeah this sounds awesome, and then you go read it and it’s just all of those mini comics and context-less character interactions haphazardly strewn together in a way that doesn’t even try to make sense, plus a bunch of scenes that only exist because the author thought they looked cool, but then get immediately undone because they didn’t want that character to stay dead cause it’s their oc they’re too attached to, so nothing of consequence happens.

and it results in a story with a lot of interesting world details and a lot of awesome characters that you refuse to read ever again because it sucks but you still occasionally remember the characters fondly because damn if those few good moments didn’t go hard. also either dave or dirk strider permanently lives in you now

[lixenn]

Top 5 of your own OC's :3

How dare you making me play favourites with my babies *le gasp*

Just kidding it's totally fine lol.

Chief/Dan because I invested the most time into him and I adore my competent disaster man.

Uzumaki Ren from my Naruto WIP, he's my fellow science gremlin and even though I currently don't actively work on that story rn, I'm still super attached to this explosive loving numbskull

Dave :)

Vlasta, because they are so interesting and unique! Scenes with them may be challenging to write but I really like that because I think it makes me grow as an author and that's awesome.

Yves, I don't think I mentioned them yet, but I created them for my Killer Whale/Housekeeping AU crossover and I like them a lot. They are an information broker and Dave's primary contact if he wants to know about specific going ons in the Mafia world (Dave refuses to go to Mammon because he likes having money, thank you very much.) They are an infiltration and seduction specialist. They are chronically late to every appointment they set up, love confusing people with their androgenous looks and actually can't stand rumours (they are a perfectionist who prefers if their reports are based on solid facts only).

[ooops-i-arted]

I'm relieved to see that at least some other Star Wars fans are as sick of Ahsoka Tano as I am. Do you think there'll ever be a point where Dave Filoni will ever get rid of the annoying orange for good? With him literally breaking the space contiuum to save her from what would have been a fitting end for her character, I think it's doubtful.

No, not as long as he's in charge of Star Wars and as long as the majority keeps eating up his version of Star Wars. Everything he touches has to be part of his Ahsoka & TCW Extended Universe. (I'll spare you an essay on how much anxiety I have over Mandalorian season 3 just being another season of Din being pingponged between Filoni's favorite plot arcs instead of the story being about him and Grogu. I miss the freshness of season 1 so much, with all its new planets and characters I fell in love with, just being consumed by TCW plots/characters. Bo-Katan & the potential of the Mandalore storyline excite me but I am just so worried it'll be about what Filoni cares about rather than what's best for the story and Din's arc.)

Ahsoka won't die unless Filoni comes up with what, to him, is an epic and worthy death (probably where she saves the galaxy, stops Order 66, and can live happily ever after in an alternate universe with Anakin forever; Padme and her importance to Anakin are completely ignored, of course) and even then he'll just go back and write EVEN MORE fanfic about her life like more Tales of the Jedi stuff about her past, or a whole What If series focused on her, or something else equally ridiculous. Imo he's basically a fanfic writer promoted to canon and he's gonna make all of us look at his sooper speshul awesome OC until the end of time.

Not intended as a diss on fanfic writers or anything, just that his attitude is the same I had when working on my super amazing powerful perfect Jedi OC when I was eleven. Which was great! I loved it! I had so much fun! But I was eleven. I have higher quality writing now. Like, No Prison Can Hold was just the adult version of me playing with my action figures, but I still wanted to tell a story with a beginning/middle/end, have a character arc for Din, and keep all characters aligned with canon once I decided it was a story that should be that way (and in fanfic you don't have to do that! in canon you do!). If I wrote like Filoni, Din would be rescued by my super amazing Jedi OC from childhood, she would hold his hand and lead him through the whole rescue and always be right, and the climax would be how SHE felt about Din and Grogu's reunion. It would be a much less satisfying and well-written story if I sacrificed the story itself at the altar of my favorite OC.

Tl;dr I have Concerns about the writing quality and I see Ahsoka as the canary in the coal mine for it. Especially after Book of Boba Fett, where Din was the Super Special OC taking over the show (Din is just a more balanced character, he has flaws and doubts and a more realistic skill level; 14 year old Din wasn't beating General Grievous for example), but of course we had to shove Ahsoka in there too, and Cad Bane to finish an arc THAT WAS NEVER EVEN IN TCW AND I NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT WITHOUT TUMBLR, so I'm guessing the average audience member didn't know about it, and DIN AND GROGU ARE REUNITED IN NOT EVEN THEIR OWN SHOW, a HUGE moment and like ten minutes after being separated which was a big deal so it doesn't even feel earned, like this was a travesty of writing. Ahsoka is just one of the more obvious symptoms of writing whatever you want instead of planning a coherent arc and caring more about connecting your show to another show instead of focusing on your main character and making the story actually about them.

....I guess you got an essay after all. Oops. Like I said I have strong feelings on this. If I, a fanfic writer with a full time job on my hands (being paid WAY less than Filoni, I assume), can make the time to write with consistency and character arcs and focusing on the main character and all that, surely Filoni should be able to when it is literally his job.

[bookipsies]

Hello, and thank you for attending my Tedx talk: Why Spider-Man 2 is a Masterpiece

1. The opening credits that recap the entirety of Spider-Man in case you missed it

2. Guess how many other marvel heroes are in the intro? Fucking zero this movie is about Spider-Man and Spider-Man alone fuck off iron man get a job.

3. Slow pan out from Kirsten Dunst’s creepy half smile that she maintains for the entirety of the movie

4. Within the first 3 fucking minutes of this movie we get the most iconic line of all time “hey, he stole that guys pizza!”

5. Peter Parker gets 30-45 seconds of uninterrupted shot of him trying to get some mops back into a janitor’s closet while Zooey Deschanel’s sister watches.

6. This movie is 2 hours of Sam Raimi beating Tobey Maguire the fuck up. He throws mops at him, he hits him in the head with a book bag, he lets James Franco bitch slap him twice in the face.

7. James Franco is in it back in the days before we knew he had a clone named Dave.

8. Harry Osborne just forces a physicist to hang out with his friend who is failing College. Also yes Peter Parker is flunking College

9. Literally Peter is flunking everything. He can’t pay rent on his shit ass apartment with a communal toilet, his aunt is losing her house, he can’t make it to a show to see Mary Jane on stage, he’s fired constantly, everyone calls him lazy and a disappointment. Even though he is the goddamn Spider-Man saving the city

10. Aunt May is old as shit. As she should be. I shouldn’t watch a Spider-Man movie and want to FUCK Aunt May and/or watch My Cousin Vinny

11. Remember when no one knew how to make super hero movies? So Sam Raimi is just fucking making it up as he goes.

12. Why is Spider-Man at this physics demonstration? Who the hell cares UNPLUG THE MACHINE SPIDER MAN

13. Back up, why is no one like “hey Otto those arms are evil as fuck”

14. Why do the ARMS HAVE AI!?

15. In the most recent Spider-Man movie the villain wants to steal weaponry to support his family. You know grounded down to earth shit. In Spider-Man 2 the villain wants to MAKE THE SUN BECAUSE HIS ROBOT ARMS TOLD HIM TO

16. There is a reason. J. Jonah Jameson has not made an appearance in another Spider-Man film. Because if it’s not JK Simmons. Than get the fuck out. I know JK won his Oscar for Whiplash but we all know it’s really for his portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson featuring such lines as “flowers? If we spend any more on this wedding you can pick the daisies off my grave!”

17. When the evil robot arms first break bad. Sam Raimi films the scene like a classic horror film and it’s FUCKING. BRILLIANT.

18. So many good screaming women in this movie. Zoom IN ON THAT SCREAMING WOMAN HELL YES.

19. Oh back back up there isn’t a scene in this movie I think where Tobey Maguire doesn’t cry. HE IS AN EMOTIONAL SPIDER MAN AND I LOVE IT

20. James Franco cries too.

21. When PP chooses to give up being SM and “Raindrops keep falling on my head” plays to him waltzing through New York CULMINATING in a freeze frame of his dork ass smiling face.

22. He saves an adorable child who, in maybe the cutest exchange I’ve ever seen, attempts to help PP up when he’s dangling from a ledge in a burning building.

23. Doc Oc dressing like a straight up cartoon pimp.

24. Baby Elizabeth Banks plays JJ’s secretary and is so young she’s adorable.

25. The stopping the subway scene is actually literally iconic. I get tense thinking about it. He’s screaming and it clearly hurts and the subway starts to crack and break and it’s AWESOME and everyone promises not to say who he is afterwards

26. Doc Oc ruining the precious moment by forcibly scooting everyone so he can steal Spider-Man to get COMIC BOOK URANIUM TO, I SAY AGAIN, MAKE THE SUN

27. “Your father only obsessed over his work” “GOOD NIGHT BERNARD”

28. The fight choreography between DOC and Spidey is actually awesome because Doc doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing and Spider-Man is fighting 4 robot arms attached to a physicist and it’s just them punching each other and falling.

29. MJ doesn’t appear to own a bra so that’s a thrill every time she gets tossed around.

[centipedesauce]

rating crushes ive had

1. daveed diggs 12/10 super good and awesome

2. connor dbh 2/10 not my type idk what happened there

3. papyrus undertale 9/10 sexy

4. rascal glitter force 5/10 clown man

5. mrs lovett 10/10 there is one (1) good british person

6. earl 10/10 he's my oc and he's wonderful

7. murdoc niccals -80/10 gross

8. corkindale from the urban animal webtoon 8/10 he can turn into rats

9. mayor of halloweentown 6/10 he kind of thicc

[subjectsix]

You have inspired me to make a Marvelsona! Also I want to learn about Rebekka!

AAAAAA I’m so glad!!!! You should totally do it, the world needs more Marvelsonas!! :D And the community is super neat

kjhsjkHFJKDH AAAAAAAA im glad you wanna learn more!!! immmmm 😭💖

Bekka is a young adult (20 as of infinity war) living in San Fran who developed her powers naturally at about 13 years old :Oc She doesn’t learn the science of her powers really until later in life when she meets Hank Pym and the rest of the Ant-Man squad, who help build her a suit that lets her control, practice, and amplify her powers more. She can manipulate molecules of things by touching them, letting her phase through objects, stick to just about anything (like Spidey), heat and cool what she touches if she wants to, and create concussive blasts to push things/people away or to propel herself in a direction a bit more :O She does vigilante work under the name Ion, but when she’s not doing that she works at Baskin Robbins and does concert photography for a local venue on the side :D She also hangs out with Luis, Dave, and Kurt a lot fdkhfkdjhfdkjh and she made an accidental trip to space at one point, but makes a few return trips to visit the friends she made 

Here she be:

She knows some other Marvelsonas too and they’re all really awesome :Oc (idk everyone’s tumblrs tho riiiiip)

I’m hoping to make a lil bio sheet for her soon as I get back into the swing of art!!!

[franeridart]

Hi hello love ur art is amazing and inspiring! Sorry I'm hyper. Also I have question! Been wondering for a while actually but like Diamond Bakugou right? Like how tall is he? Cause I know the diamonds have different heights so I was wondering exactly (actually both him and Kirishima) if he is like Blue and Yellow or like Pink?? Ily💜

Thank you so so much!!! And I guess more around Pink’s height? But to be honest with you while doodling those sketches I was like “...it’s su no one will get on my case if I go off-model” lmao so I can’t say I have any set height in mind, he’s just... tol lol

Anon said:it took me two straight days to hit the bottom of your blog in just the bakushima tag- then I realized in the tags for it you said "I promised myself I wouldn't draw for this fandom" - hmm, your art is amazing btw

LMAO anon you don’t get it, the fact that since then I spent two whole years doing little less aside from drawing bnha is exactly the reason why I didn’t want to start hahaha I could feel this was how it was going to end r i p

Anon said:I pre-ordered TMH zine and I'm super excited cause there's so many amazing content creators involved and just... Kiri and Baku you know? What's not to love! Anyway just wanted to say I'm most excited for your comic! Since I absolutely adore all your art and comics and from your preview it looks awesome!! So yeah! Thank you for all the amazing things you've created so far and I'm really looking forward to whatever you feel like making in the future too!! Oh also I love your OCs!

OH MAN thank you SO MUCH for buying it!!!! I really hope youre gonna like the comic, I worked so hard on it !! ;^;

Anon said:i'm sorry that i'm throwing this at you but concept: bakusquad goes to an amusement park ft. spinning teacup rides where baku and kiri spin it so fast it breaks while kaminari's crying, sero's laughing, and mina's recording it

hAH the only way you can get Bakugou in a spinning teacup is to allow him to turn them into an extreme ride there’s no doubts about that hahaha

Anon said:hey! I know you don't allowed respots but, can I use your art as icon? like for tumblr and twitter? if I can't I'll understand and respect. thank you for your time ���️

It’s cool as long as you credit!! Thank u for liking my stuff enough to want to use it like that!!

Anon said:I love all your art!!! And ahhhhh your new costume sketches are so freaking good!!! First, thank you for being amazing!! And second, I was wondering if you'd be ok with it if I used one of them as my phone background? Totally understand if not! Thanks!

NO PROBS AT ALL thank you SO MUCH for liking them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:What do you think of BKDK?

Don’t ship, but I’m highly invested in their canon relationship and its development!

Anon said:I am way more invested in Luca and Nico than I should be. XD I really love Luca a lot, your ocs are really interesting and the art is so pretty.

Thank you so muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch ;O;

Anon said:The only thing I can think on Kiri's hero costume on winter, is Bakugou getting extremely flustered and yelling that Kiri is gonna poke someones eye out. 'Cause them nipples hard baby.

That seems to be the general feeling of the whole fandom, doesn’t it hahahaha it’s real tho, Kiri it’s winter pls don’t die

Anon said:Ever heard of Bo Burnham? In one of his sketches, he says "The issue is, I got my father's temper and I'm emotionally inarticulate, so rather than being honest and vulnerable I did a quick switch because I'm hurting inside and I'm trying to hide it, so eat a d[u]ck man"; swap "father" with "mother", and isn't that the best description of Bakugou anyone could have ever offered?

Never heard of him before, but this is pretty damn accurate haha

Anon said:You said you think Katsuki's ticklish (which is just too much fun to imagine), but what about Kiri? Does he take advantage of it? Do they strike you as a couple that would engage in tickle fights, which maybe start as sparring? or the opposite, a tickle fight becomes a full-blown grappling contest?

Kiri definitely takes advantage of it and the worst thing is that it’s not even a fight cause with Kirishima’s quirk he’s completely immune to tickling (and also attempts at other types of attacks in general - explosions - to make him stop) so once he manages to get a hold of Bakugou and start tickling him all Bakugo can do is yell and cry-laugh and hate him a lot hahaha

Anon said:Date-Dave Anon here. Since Dave isn't really the date type, do /you/ wanna go on a date? Somewhere classy. Like the cheesecake factory or something.

A n o n ple a s e ................... !!!!!!!!!! (a cheesecake factory does sound pretty neat tho :O )

Anon said:Could you draw Momojirou cuddling please? Thank you! ♡

Yes I could! I’m not taking requests nor commissions right now tho so I’d ask you to wait till I got a moment to spare I don’t wanna waste on the usual krbk de-stressing doodles haha

Anon said:i bought the tmh zine just so i could have a physical version of your art :3 and krbk of course

;;;;;;;;; omg thank you so much!! I really hope you’ll like the whole zine, it’s such a good one imho !!!

Anon said:Do you know what mbti/16 personality test is? And if so do you know what yours is?

Seems like I’m an INFJ :0

Anon said:Im so happy you shared the names of your ocs because i absolutely love them! There one of my favorite things on your posts! I was really interested in Tony and Ila so it was nice to finally know there names!!! Keep up the good work your amazing!!!

SOB I’M SO GLAD YOU LIKE THEM THEY’RE MY SOFT KIDS specifically Ila and Tony they’re very very soft and I’m very very happy you’re interested in them ;^;

Anon said:hi I like ur art and ur awesome ❤

THANK YOU!!!!

Anon said:Do you have any other ships that are as strong as kiribaku for you?

They’re my otp so no lol in the past I’ve had ships just as strong as them, but currently they’re my main source of entertainment and strong feelings - I do have other ships that make me go !!!!!!!!!!!!!! a lot, both in bnha and in general, but none as strong as krbk are :D

Anon said:that drawing of nico with his hair up i wanna cry. i am now thoroughly invested in luca and nico both as a pair and individually and i really hope to see more of them in the future because THEY BRIGHTEN MY DAY AND FUEL MY SOUL AND YOU ARE A LOVELY HUMAN.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really hope to draw more about them, so thank you SO MUCH for being interested!!!! ;O;

Anon said:do you have an opinion on the ship ocha*mina (ashido and uraruka)??

I guess they’re cute? But I don’t have any strong opinion about them, I have a lot of mina ships I like better and generally I’m at best lukewarm about ura ships ngl 

[ihateloginwallsfuckyou]

Fun oc lore drop

pink (The guy in my pfp) (My fursona) is a Cannibal abuser Whos dead and he ate his situationship boyfriend after being manipulated into doing it by A Creature and hes Evil and FUCKED UP!!!!!!!! but oh so silly. The smilerrrrrrrrrrrrr. Hes so happ y.

[lixenn]

Me and you Ein... we get each other *nod nod* competent people for the fucking win!

(also curious about which one of your characters had similar character developement? i forgot if you mentioned it already OTL)

Oh yeah the clothing I assumed it was something for reference. In case you need more info feel free to drop an ask or dm cause I'm not really... a fashion person so i tend to slack on that 😔 like chief is easy cause his personal style is basically one of my go tos but Dave... and Rina... and Yves... (<- has regrets about making my ocs fashionable even though it's very much in character and therefore needed).

I'm super happy that you like Rina's strenght bit! Cause it's so important to me. I wanted her to be powerful but... I wanted it to be... hmmm not the typical kind of power. I'm such a major sucker for people manipulating things from the shadows. Marina's role is kinda inspired by Dune (the movie i haven't read the books yet). I don't know if you are familiar with it but there's this religious order made up out of only woman that kinda... orchestrates a lot of things, pulling strings and dude... it's so awesome. I also didn't want Marina to give up her femininety for power. Don't get me wrong I love me a girl that kicks ass and doesn't give a fuck about her appearance as much as the next person but having a character that is powerful and gorgeous and vain just hits different.

HELLOOO!!! (〃＾▽＾〃) These are for Dan, Dave & Rina!!! 💖

🌼- What's your favorite thing about this oc?

☁️- What is this oc's clothing style like?

Heya there Ein! My angel! Thank you for coming in and delivering some questions 💜✨

Dan

🌼- What's your favorite thing about this oc?

This is difficult to answer because I love a lot of things about Chief. Hmmmm... I like his competence and ability to roll with the craziest bullshit. Yes, some stuff the Varia pulls will have him stumped especially when he's tired (brain takes longer to process things) but he will put his confusion and questions on the back burner and just get shit done. I'm a sucker for competent people Ein, it's one of my weaknesses 😔

☁️- What is this oc's clothing style like?

Dan isn't really a fashionable person, he prefers comfort and practicality over style. He wears the Housekeeping uniform while working (so pretty much 24/7 OTL). The standard uniform looks a bit formal, it's basically dress pants (black), dress shirt (depends on division but as Chief of Staff Dan's shirt is also black) and Varia boots. Since Dan wears his uniform a lot it kind of misleads people into thinking that it's his prefered way of dressing but it's not. His personal style is way more casual. Hoodies and sweaters, cargopants (he lives for the cargo pants, he needs the pockets so bad), mostly in earth tones. Green, brown and grey are his go to colours sometimes he mixes in some black. He still wears the Varia boots in his free time too because they are the best boots 🫡

Dave

🌼- What's your favorite thing about this oc?

My favourite thing for Dave is his complexity. He started of as just some silly comic relief with his comments in the Guide but he quickly grew into a very complicated character with lots of layers and hurts. I like how he developed into someone life like, someone who's a lot little bit broken, hiding the his true self under a mask.

☁️- What is this oc's clothing style like?

Dave also wears the Housekeeping uniform while working but unlike anyone else in the division he doesn't stick to one shirt colour. Dave exists in a weird twilight zone where nobody actually knows what his place is. He's just ghosting around in Housekeepings command structure doing whatever he likes which includes wearing all the different shirt colours of the different departments lmao.

As for personal style... It varies on mood, he often goes with punk deliquent kinda style, ripped jeans, lots of jewellery, leather jacket, fishnet, matching the chaos gremlin energy. But sometimes he likes something soft and cozy too, with oversized sweaters and slacks. Again it depends on what he feels like in the morning. Just know that Dave is pretty fasionable (unlike me and Chief OTL) and cares a lot about his appearance.

Rina

🌼- What's your favorite thing about this oc?

I love Marina's ambition and ruthlessness. She's a powerful woman, but not for her abilities in battle. No, Marina fights with words and social influence. Sweet praise, hiding dripping poison underneath. Nudging someone in the right direction with just a few comments. A manipulator in the shadows, often dismissed as just another pretty face (which she fully takes advantage of). Politics is her playground and oh boy is she winning at it.

I love strong female characters but I wanted Marina to have a different kind of strength. So yes, she's ruthless and has high ambitions, but she fulfils her desires in a social setting instead of in a fighting one.

☁️- What is this oc's clothing style like?

Marina is pure elegance. Beautiful dresses, nice pair of heels. Often times simple but still stunning. Her usual go to are dresses and skirts but she also rocks a pant suit occasionally. Colourwise she's not that picky but tends to go for warm colours over cold ones. (She's also fond of green like Dan).

oc ask game

[3one3]

The Sequel - 901

Dave Disaster

André Schürrle, Juan Mata, other Chelsea/BVB players, and random awesome OC’s (okay they’re less random now but they’re still pretty awesome)

original epic tale

all chapters of The Sequel

Why is he on a first breakfast date? It’s not even like it’s the first time going to breakfast. It’s the actual first date. No dinner dates and coffee dates and lunch dates and this is just the first time they’re having breakfast. It’s a first first date. No wonder he can’t keep a relationship going, André concluded with bitterness after Mario told him to be quiet and leave him alone. He was apparently out with a girl he met and liked, and didn’t need his teammate blowing up his phone. His teammate was at a bookstore, bored. Lukas was hearing some Christmas stories in the kids’ section with a bunch of other little people. Christina was with André in the cafe. She had a latte, a lemon bar, and a magazine. What she didn’t have was any overwhelming urge to entertain him instead of read the magazine.

“Want to go to the cinema later? See a film?” he suggested when he noticed her turning a page.

“Not really.”

She looks pretty today, for a Sunday. There is something that happens when she wears a turtleneck and puts her hair up. It makes her cheekbones look good. I don’t get it. I like her eyes today too. Is that a hint, actually? Did she wear makeup today to get me to ask her to do something better than see a movie?

“What about going out for dinner?”

“If you want.”

“You look nice today,” the player smiled before leaning over to smooch his girl’s cheek. She ducked away, grimacing.

“I’m trying to read,” she complained. He sighed and picked up his phone again. Why not buy the magazine and read it at home, when she’s alone? Instead of when she’s sitting here with me. I’m booooored, he whined to himself.

It was his idea to go to the bookstore. Lukas woke up ridiculously early, so that meant Christina had to get up ridiculously early. She made him breakfast, and played games with him, and watched cartoons, and it had snowed overnight so they even went outside to play in it before more games and cartoons, and by the time Daddy got up, everyone else was stir crazy and wanting out of the house. Daddy’s go-to when he was left alone with Lukas was children’s story time at the bookshop. He checked the weekly schedule, was delighted to find a Sunday event, and announced that he would save the day and get them out and about. All he really wanted to do was go back to bed, or relax on the sofa for a few hours.

He wasn’t supposed to play much on Saturday, at the home of his former club Leverkusen. Maximilian Phillip did his ACL early in the first half, and André was the only logical replacement available. Auba wasn’t even in the squad, due to injury. Dortmund went down a goal thanks to some all too common laughable defending. Then Leverkusen went down a man before halftime. The red card was for a terrible challenge on Gonzalo Castro, who also had to come out of the game thanks to an ankle injury. Shinji came on, and André was hopeful that his inclusion would link himself and Yarmolenko up more with the rest of the midfield, since they were two wholly separate entities up to that point. Then Dortmund still couldn’t score. They had a lot of the ball, but just kept giving it away, or dribbling into nothing, or crossing blind with no hope of actually finding someone. With time running out, Shinji managed to finally exploit the tired legs of the 10-man side. He found a little space out wide on the left, André saw it too and ran there on the overlap, Shinji passed to him, he got his head up to check the situation in the box, and cut the ball back to Yarmolenko, who managed to get it in the net. The game finished 1-1. Bosz wasn’t fired. André was happy to have made the assist, and indeed looked the most useful of the black and yellow lot at times during the match, but two more points lost and another terrible team performance hurt mentally, and playing almost the full match hurt physically.

“Are you going to finish your lemon thing?” he asked Christina after granting her two minutes of peace in which to read her motorsport magazine.

“Yes.”

“Can I have a bite?”

“Yes.”

“Does it have to be a Chris-size bite or can it be a-“

“Babe-“ The rider inhaled sharply in preparation for telling him, again, to shut up, but an announcement over the store’s PA system caught the attention of them both. The parents of Lukas were being summoned to the children’s books department. Her heart skipped a beat. Her partner knew why.

“I’m sure he’s fine,” he remarked right away. “I’ll go see what’s up.”

“I’m coming.” Christina reached for her phone and he waved her off.

“He probably just needs to go to the bathroom. Stay. Your coffee is almost full.”

“If he needed to talk to an adult and give his name, it’s because something is wrong,” she snapped. “He doesn’t talk to strange adults.” She lifted her bag off the back of her chair and started walking away.

“Then you go and I’ll stay with your coffee and your lemon...thing...” the BVB man trailed off, watching her go. I guarantee he’s fine. It’s not like he punched another kid. Worst case, he wet his pants because he needed to go and was afraid to ask someone to take him. He picked up Christina’s fork and used the side to cut a piece of lemon bar.

The actual problem was that Dave was missing. Lukas’ stuffed chestnut pony had gone AWOL. He couldn’t remember where he put him down, or if he let anyone else hold him. Christina checked where he’d been sitting for the story, and around the little tables and chairs where the kids evidently got to color afterward. There was no sign of the pony. She summoned André, who wanted to make the store employees demand to check the bags of every parent in the department, as if one of them intended to steal Dave. Lukas was hysterical.

“Are you sure you brought him in with you?” his mom asked while trying to calm him down. She’d already gone over it in her head a hundred times. It didn’t seem possible that she wouldn’t remember exactly what her little boy had with him when they walked into the store, and the fact that she couldn’t be sure really upset her too.

“Yes! He listened to the snowman story with me!”

“Okay. Okay, well, I’m sure he’s here somewhere, Munchkin,” the worried adult stressed. She tried to wipe at his tears. His face was as red as his tiny hoodie, and his soft blonde hair was standing up all crazy from his stressed out head rubbing. “He couldn’t have just walked out on his own.”

“Yes he can! He goes everywhere!” Lukas argued, sobbing. Christina meant the stuffed animal didn’t leave the store under his own power, and her son was pretty sure he could have. It wasn’t always easy to tell if he understood that his pony wasn’t real and just pretended.

“He wouldn’t have gone without you though,” she told him. That works both ways, doesn’t it? That’s like, “oh he couldn’t leave without you because he’s a stuffed animal and literally can’t” but it’s also “you’re his best friend and he wouldn’t ditch you”. Where is Schü? Why isn’t he doing the Super Dad thing and just finding the pony? “We’ll find him.” Every parent in this place is judging me right now, Christina thought, glancing around the kids’ section. It was full of low bookshelves and decorated like a forest. In that moment, it was decorated like a forest at the North Pole. There was a section right in the middle with lots of pillows and small beanbags with the wooden chair for the story reader, and the life-size artificial snowman. There were plastic tables and tiny chairs in another area, with crayons and rolls of cheap paper. André and Christina both checked the rack of plush toys for a very secondhand looking pony that didn’t belong. “Do you want some water?”

“No. I want pony!”

“Come here. Let me pick you up.” She adjusted the way her arm was around the unhappy tot and lifted him up on her hip. Standing upright felt good after squatting for so long to hug him and try to calm him down. “Do you want to go find Daddy? I don’t know where he went either but I bet he’s easier to find,” the equal parts sympathetic and frustrated equestrian suggested. She then mumbled under her breath, since Lukas wasn’t actually listening to her anyway, “Tall fluffy guy with too much beard and a £2000 navy wool overcoat...how hard could it be...” They departed their post at the then open picket fence style gate that was meant to keep kids contained in there during the story reading. They’d been waiting there to make sure no one leaving the children’s section was trying to do so with another child’s Dave. Christina thought it absolutely ridiculous that an animal sort of named after Cesar Azpilicueta could possibly go missing or cause a problem. After Dirk, she- a Chelsea fan- was confident that Cesar Azpilicueta was the most reliable and trustworthy man in her life, despite his partner’s propensity for gossiping about her in ways that somehow always ended up rather detrimental to the rider, or at the very least, inconvenient, and despite his occasionally off color remarks pointed at her.

Where is he, she groaned inside when André was not to be found at either the registers or the customer service kiosk. He was supposed to be enlisting the help of the staff, who absolved themselves of involvement as soon as responsibility for the hysterical child was assumed by his parents. Said child was still hysterical and his mom hated walking between bookshelves in the otherwise quiet parts of the store- for adult readers- disturbing people while hunting for her husband. She wondered what he could possibly be doing since Lukas definitely didn’t wander into the Psychology books and leave his pony there, as well as how Lukas could possibly still be crying. She thought he ought to have run out of batteries by then.

“Chris!” a familiar and very welcome voice called to her at moderate volume on her way to check the restrooms. Mother and Child spun around and saw exactly what they were looking for- a tall fluffy guy and a small not-so-fluffy-anymore pony. The big Schü presented Dave to the little Schü, beaming.

“Look who IIIIII found,” he said in a singsong way to get his attention. His miniature turned a little from his mom’s chest and relaxed his teary, squinty eyes enough to recognize his favorite friend.

“Dave!” he exclaimed, reaching out with both hands for the chestnut.

“Where did you find him?” Christina inquired, exasperated but very, very relieved. Lukas hugged the pony tight and the tightness of the invisible rope strangling her heart for the previous 20 minutes went away. Not only had she feared the pony was lost and they’d be dealing with nonstop tears for days, the stuffed animal obsessive girl inside feared the heartbreak. She hated seeing her little boy truly hurt, and she knew exactly what it was like to lose a plush pony. Her parents had to get hers overnighted from hotels in other time zones, or drive hours to get him from whichever hotel bed she’d forgotten him under. He was just like her favorite actual pony, and grown up Christina still had him. He lived with his twin on a shelf in the study. The twin was literally the exact same stuffed animal, but he looked a little different because of the different life he led as Aidan’s plush version of real life Spike. Aidan gave him a haircut once, for example, so his mane was shorter than Christina’s Spike’s. She had a black pony that was with her for much of her adult life, as a comforting friend in bed at least. He never had a name, and he too was still around. There was a nonspecific rotation of animals brought to bed when she moved in with André, and some still ended up there from time to time. Lukas the baby zebra- her gift from her husband- had become the only permanent resident though. Dave went to bed with Lukas the baby human every night, and Christina was so glad that wouldn’t have to change. She kissed them both.

“I checked every kid in the store. A girl in a hat with animal ears said she “found” him but couldn’t remember where. The mom apologized and said she didn’t even notice her kid was carrying around a stuffed animal. A likely story,” André scoffed. He was feeling very full of himself. Then he winced at Lukas. “Don’t wipe your nose on him, Mausi.” Mom handed over child and pony so she could get some tissues from her bag, and he suggested they go back to the cafe to replace her latte and get something for Lukas- mostly to try to get him cleaned up and fully calmed down after the ordeal. Plying Prinzessin with sweet, frothy milk and cinnamon espresso might make her forget to start lecturing him about being responsible for his things, he added to himself. It’s no fun to have to search the whole store for the pony but he’s two and a half. I don’t know how responsible he’s capable of being at this point. I think we should just be happy we’re able to leave him with a group of kids and he’s well behaved and secure enough not to need one of us in his line of sight. He had his first sleepover without Mama, Papa, Nanny Espen, or Grandma this week too. He’s always had one of us to tuck him in.

“We should just go home. He’s going to need a nap, I have stuff to do at the barn, I want to watch the grand prix from Paris Masters-“

“I thought you weren’t working today?” the player asked back, dejected. It wasn’t that he didn’t want her to work on Sunday when he had off. It was that he knew she didn’t plan to, and something changed her mind. He didn’t want it to have been the missing Dave ordeal, because that was sort of his fault. It was his idea to go to storytime, and his idea to idea to leave Lukas in there with just store employee supervision instead of staying with him the way he usually did. “Why did you put makeup on and do your hair nice if you’re going to the barn?”

“I don’t know. I’m not riding,” Christina shrugged. “I need to finish the training plans for the week, and it’s supposed to snow more this afternoon. I don’t want to be on the roads with the idiots who can’t handle flurries on top of slush.” She was already pulling on her wool varsity jacket, and had one eye in her open tote between her ankle boots to look for Lukas’ knitted hat in there.

“Does that mean you don’t want to go out for dinner later? Should we tell Espen not to come over after all?” André scratched at his beard and watched her get the hat and a tiny down vest from her big bag of mom tricks. I thought we had the big bag today because we were going to spend the whole day out, take him home for his dinner, and then go back out to do something without him. That’s why I called the nanny. I thought she wanted to do stuff today, he repeated. I hope it’s not me. I hope it’s that she had to get up at 5 and now she’s a bit cranky.

“I don’t really care. We have leftover ratatouille lasagna. Or we can go out. Whichever.”

“I still want to go out. Somewhere by home.”

“Okay. So don’t change anything with Espen. Can you turn him around so I can put this on?” Mom held up the black vest, and sounded entirely indifferent about the dinner arrangements. That was a good thing. Lukas was dressed for the elements and advised to hold on tight to his pony for the walk to the Range Rover. He was carried to keep him out of the wet and salt and thus keep his car seat as clean and dry as possible. He fell asleep cuddled with Dave on the way home and barely woke up to have his layers removed for a proper nap in bed. Christina tucked him and the pony in together and hoped the trauma would be forgotten when they woke up. She changed her nice skinny black jeans out for less nice barn jeans, and her stacked heel boots for fleece lined flat ones. André was reheating the ratatouille lasagna when she said goodbye. He wanted to know when the grand prix was, and said he might brave the forecasted snow flurries to go watch it with her in the barn if Espen was there on time to watch Lukas.  

Stall Schürrle- decorated for the season with deep burgundy Christmas stockings and small evergreen wreaths- was eerily quiet at midday. The horses were all out in the 2” of snow in their warm turnout blankets. Tom was off, as usual, and Isandro and Kyle went out for lunch after cleaning stalls, filling buckets, throwing hay, preparing grain for later, and sweeping and blowing the aisles. Mr. Fluffy, the cat, was the only one around to greet Christina. He preferred the barn empty- devoid of dogs and humans and traffic- and seldom hung out in “public”. His food was put out on top of the feed bins each morning while the guys fed the horses, so that the dogs couldn’t eat it, and he usually snuck into the feed room undetected. By the time the horses all had their grain, his bowl was empty. The cat ate his dinner the same way- in secret, while the noisy horses stomped their feet, banged their buckets around, and neighed for their grain. Isandro sometimes left treats for him atop the brush cabinets in the grooming stalls, where only a cat could find them. Mr. Fluffy slept in the garage a lot, sunned himself on the “back porch”, and occasionally took in training from the table in the gazebo. He hunted mice and small birds. But he wasn’t so hardened a barn cat that he wasn’t interested in head scratches. He rubbed against his adopted mom’s leg when she was done stomping the snow from her boots inside the door from the informal courtyard and wash racks behind the grooming stalls, and she bent down to pet him.

“Cold outside, eh?” she asked. Mr. Fluffy didn’t respond. He followed her across the aisle to her office though, but declined an invitation to accompany her inside. It was pretty warm in there. Christina turned the thermostat down when she left for the day, so it wasn’t exactly toasty, but it was comfortable enough for just her thin cashmere turtleneck, and she didn’t plan to be there long enough to bother with adding a few degrees on the digital display. Desk, or couch, she asked herself. Desk, I guess. I need to spread out. She put her cheap grocery tote down on her leather chair and pulled from it her laptop, a plastic container of mixed nuts and dried fruit, and a pair of heavy socks. The next order of business was going upstairs to make an Americano, contemplate eating a piece of fruit from the bowl of snacks for humans and equines, and get a glass of water. Then she got set up at her desk with her socks on and her boots off, with the spreadsheet version of her weekly calendar and her trusty notebook of workout and training notes, condition reports, and vet and farrier appointment details. It was a little too quiet without the radio on throughout the whole place, so she put a suggested playlist on iTunes on shuffle just in the office, and then stared at the monthly calendar under all of the other stuff.

December 3rd. Seven days ‘til the horses leave for London. I need to get Dopey The Dinosaur into canter-around-in-a-tiny-ring mode. I need to do something to get Dirk to realize he’s showing again. I need to keep Nick loose and working. So... The Olympic champion flipped one page back and forth in the notebook, reading and rereading her notes on what she’d done recently with the three horses. Then she started putting plans into the spreadsheet. Calvin was going to jump small courses in the indoor every other day, and she wanted him to work for 20 minutes on the lunge line with side reins on the others. Dirk was going to have an extensive flatwork school on Monday, focus on jumping combinations inside on Tuesday, hack next door on Wednesday, jump inside again on Thursday, flat on Friday and Saturday, and do a quiet hack inside on Sunday. Nick would gallop out on Monday ahead of his chiropractor’s visit on Tuesday. Wednesday would be a short hack, Thursday he could work on the combinations like Dirk, Friday was for serious flatwork, Saturday would be a day off, and he’d do light flatwork on the nice soft footing inside on Sunday.

Christina read it back to herself multiple times, and then went to work on planning the rest of her horses’ work around those things to take advantage of which jumps would be set up which way, and where, where in the schedule she would have time to teach the kids and how what she’d do with them would fit with what she was doing with the rings and fences, and which of her horses she needed them to school for her. There were some immovable objects penciled into the boxes on the desk calendar and bolded on the spreadsheet, like her Christmas market date with André and Lukas on Monday afternoon, Chelsea vs. Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night, and Stefanie’s job interview on Wednesday morning and her reminder that her boyfriend was available to watch her have a lesson on Friday evening if Christina was available to give her one, Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday night, and Christina’s lunch date with Mario on Thursday. There was a home match at Signal Iduna Park on Saturday afternoon too. It was hard to fit everything in and be able to put a check mark next to each horse’s name for each day, to ensure he was accommodated either with a ride, a workout on the line, or a planned day off. The single sheet of paper with the very tiny font was then emailed to Tom, Isandro, Kyle, and Stefanie, and printed out to be taped on the white board outside. It would tell whoever prepared the horses each day what he needed to be “dressed” for, and it would tell Isandro what jumps he needed to make available in which ring.

That attention to detail was a prized part of her method- her process- that helped her earn all the trophies on the shelves upstairs and enjoy the moments in the photos on the walls all around her. That was what Juan willed her to get back to, and she was trying to do it. She didn’t sit down at the desk at the end of a long day and try to figure out what to do with the horses the next day in the 5 minutes she allotted for sketching out the schedule for the guys, as she’d taken to doing recently. Everything was planned out again. So far it didn’t seem to make any difference in how the horses worked, but it made the business of the barn function more smoothly, and it made her feel better about what she was doing. Things would always get in the way of the schedule. A lost shoe, a bad day, the arrival of an unexpected bad habit that needed fixing, weather- it could all force changes on her carefully planned agenda, and that would be fine. It wasn’t inflexible. But having that structure was some kind of mental reassurance to Christina. Completing the planning stage alone gave her a sense of accomplishment. She readied a piece of masking tape to affix the schedule to the board,  and realized when she sat back at her desk that she hadn’t even eaten any of her snack. It was 3 o’clock on the nose.

I’m gonna text boyfriend to tell him it’s GP time, and then I’m gonna take my trail mix and my water to the lounge to watch on the TV, she decided. It was impossible to really pay attention to anything at the house when Lukas was awake and André was around. They were constant distractions. André behaved better at the barn. He could hang out with her there but see more clearly when he was annoying, getting in the way, or being a distraction. Christina put her barn sneakers on and took her laptop with the other stuff, and stopped on the way to give Kimi a number of kisses and a piece of dried apricot on the crossties, where he was having his ear fur trimmed. Isandro was taking care of the touchup job with the most nimble and quiet of the clippers. The sound still upset Julian in the adjacent grooming stall. Kyle kept talking to him while he combed out his mane, trying to help him relax. Christina gave him a banana chip and a walnut. It took less time for André to come over from the house than it did for her to get the Internet stream from Paris to work, and to work on the TV on the wall. He had to fix it for her. She was trying to connect to the wrong Chromecast device.

“Is this the million-dollar thing you did before?” the footballer questioned once settled sideways on the couch. His girl sat in the roomy, boxy leather armchair directly across from the screen.

“Yeah but it’s not a million bucks anymore. It’s like €300,000 now, which is still enough to draw all the best people.”

“I figured. Otherwise you wouldn’t bother to watch,” he winked. He didn’t really care about the jumping, but he liked to be supportive and sometimes it was helpful to listen to Christina talk about a big class. It helped him learn what was new in the sport, who was on form, what horses were getting good, etc.

“Without having seen how any of these horses have jumped so far this week, I’m going to say Double D wins this with Cornet. The original one. The good one,” she clarified. “He posted a picture of his daughter sitting on him a little while ago. She’s so cute. I’m glad she and Caroline are there with him. He’s been on the road three straight weeks.”

“Are you happy for him when he wins? When you’re not there against him?” André wondered aloud. His wife’s relationship with her teammate was difficult to understand for him, because it was unique. He didn’t know Daniel the way he knew her other guy friends, and he didn’t see that much of the interaction.

“I don’t know. Sometimes, I guess. I would be happy for him if he wins this. It’s a big class. I don’t know or care how he did in Madrid last weekend. Man, there are 10 crappy nobodies before he first good rider. Also, I can’t believe Chloe Reiss is doing this. Chloe Reiss is the reason I want to make money irrelevant in show jumping.”

“Who?”

“Remember when I did the World Cup qualifier in Washington and you came to watch and punched Simon in the face?”

“Yes.”

“The last time I saw Chloe was a couple of years before that, at Washington. She’s from there, actually. We were there with a couple of kids qualified for the Junior Hunters and the eq finals. She was in her first year up from the ponies, with a really popular trainer from that area. She was doing the Children’s Jumpers, which is 3’6 and pretty easy. It’s like entry level jumpers for kids who don’t bother doing Pony Jumpers. They do the last class of the Children’s as part of the evening schedule some night, before the Puissance or the Gambler’s Choice, Thursday or Friday, and I remember sitting in the stands watching her with this chestnut and white paint, like Optimus,” Christina explained in her usual animated raconteur style. “The mare was cray cray. I’m pretty sure her name was Queen Of Hearts and it was totally fitting. Chloe couldn’t even get her around. The riding was embarrassing. Everyone was cringing and feeling vicarious awkwardness for the trainer. It was obvious that she was overfaced and out of her depth. Now, for reference, keep in mind that that same year, people like Jessy Springsteen and Lillie Keenman- people you know- were doing the equitation, the Junior Jumpers, the Junior Hunters, etc. They weren’t doing open jumpers or the World Cup or something. Even Reed was still just doing the Juniors at that point. Katie Dinen even did the Juniors the year after that. Now Chloe is competing against them- Against me! In the big stuff. She’s training with Markus now.”

“Ehning?”

“Beerbaum. She’s only where she is because her parents are rich and bought her ridiculous horses. She just did back to back to back shows with him- Oldenburg, Munich, Stuttgart, 3, 4, 5-stars. She only finished in the top 20 once. Top 20. Once. I wish Americans like Stefanie could come over here and train with Markus, the way she does with me. Instead of just kids with more money than talent.”

“So why don’t you do something about it? Encourage your teammates to train for- Okay, yeah, I see why that wouldn’t work,” André laughed before finishing his thought. He liked to hear his girl get really into a subject. It was fun to hear her passion come out that way, and to see her heart in it too. Her heart was always in the right place on that subject. He was going to suggest she get her fellow top riders to train younger equestrians for free the way she did with Stefanie, but knew it was ridiculous. Christina was in a place of privilege too, just like the kids that irritated her so much. Being rich and being talented were never mutually exclusive. She could afford, time-wise and economically, to train Stefanie in return for a little help schooling her horses. Her teammates couldn’t do that even if they wanted to. They showed every week. They worked for breeders and other trainers. They rode and trained for a living.

“I’m sure Markus is making bank off that girl.”

“He probably sold her a horse bred by his brother, right?”

“I’m not sure. The horse on the order of go was Codarco, who I’m assuming is by Darco. Darco has been dead a long time. A bunch of people still have semen. Not Ludger though, I don’t think. Darco was a Belgian warmblood. You know Olivier and Nicola? The twins? Their dad rode Darco in the Olympics, like before they were born. He sired McLain Ward’s Sapphire.”

“Stop knowing everything.”

“I’ll try.” The expat replaced the lid on her nuts and fruit and leaned forward to put the container on the coffee table. She’d managed to talk through a couple of rounds already while grazing. They were boring and full of knockdowns. All the good riders were in the second half of the order because it was dictated by the results of the qualifying class. Daniel would jump 23rd, and Christian 32nd. Kent was 34th. In and around that area were all the other top guys and girls she wanted to see. She stretched, and yawned, and looked around her burgundy and white themed viewing lounge, maybe for something to entertain her while she waited for the interesting rounds. André noticed.

“Come sit over here,” he suggested. “I’m more comfortable than the chair. And I have a blanket,” he grinned, reaching for the folded Hermès throw on the back of the leather loveseat. His featured rider relocated. They had to spoon because it was the only way to fit on the couch, but they did it more on their backs than their sides, to be able to see the TV.

“Was it snowing again?” she asked after checking the skylights, which were covered by snow anyway.

“Not yet but it’s coming. I think maybe Casa Iberica for dinner, yeah? It’s nice and close, and we haven’t been there recently.” The BVB Bee bent his knees and squeezed them around his wife. There wasn’t enough room for him to straighten them anyway.

“K. Hey have you seen Eric Lamaze’s current #1 horse yet? She’s a Hanoverian mare?”

“I don’t know. Have I?”

“She’s out of a mare by a stallion called Drosselklang. I like the absurdity of that name. Drosselklang.” It sounds more like a sound effect than a name, Christina thought while a very large palm settled atop her head, in front of her ponytail. It just sat there, still and heavy and familiar. The arm attached to it was resting against her right ear. “It’s actually Drosselklang II. So someone thought one Drosselklang wasn’t enough.”

“You’re starting to do that deliriously tired rambling thing, Prinzessin.”

“I know. If I fall asleep, wake me up for...Daniel, obviously, but also...Eric, or Simon if they go first.”

“Got it.”

“So does Drosselklang mean bird sound or throttle sound? I get those two mixed up.”

“That’s because they’re the same word.”

“So which is it?”

“I’m not sure. Don’t you know the person who bred and named the horse? You can ask.”

“I don’t know who bred him. He was owned by the state stud for a long time. Then they sold him to the Czech Republic. He died a couple of years ago at like 30, which is pretty impressive. The lady writing the breeding book asked me if I’m eventually going to sell Dirk to the Verband. They always get the important horses. They have Casall right now, and Mylord Cathargo, and Cornet Obolensky, Corrado, Cassini, Quidam de Revel. I think she knew the answer, but I guess it’s slightly controversial.”

“Why?” the bigger German athlete snorted. André was intensely skeptical and disapproving of any notion that something Christina would do with Dirk could be considered a controversy. He really hated the commonality of horse people passing judgement, commenting on, and being generally critical of what each other do or don’t do with their own animals.

“It could be considered selfish, I guess,” the smaller German half on top of him shrugged. She was far less bothered. “He could cover a lot more mares as part of their program, and bring a lot of notoriety and money for them. It would be good for the breed, in other words. I get that. I understand. I can see why I should do it. But I’ve never even entertained the idea. He’s my best friend and I’m never giving him up.”

“That’s what I say to myself about you every time you stage a revolt.”

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Do you happen to have a full body ref of your sona on hand just asking

his colors are fucked up and ive never posted him before outside of friendgroups but here he is (his colors r more purplish) (and by that i mean his fur and his wings)

[franeridart]

Hi! Idk if you read fanfic, but would you happen to have any kiribaku fic recs? Or any bnha fic rec?

I’m pretty sure there’s stuff tagged as fic recs on this blog, yes! Nothing particularly new tho, I haven’t had the time to put down a new rec-list in a while ;-;

Anon said:How long does it take you to finish a drawing with and without color?

That honestly depends on a lot of factors - which tools I’m using, how many characters there are in the drawing/if it’s full body or not, how used to drawing the character I am, how big is the canvas, if I already have a clear idea of what I mean to draw or not, how precise I want to be with lines and stuff. 

That Yuuto sketch I posted yesterday took me about 40 minutes I think, and over half of it was spent trying to figure out how I was supposed to draw him since it was the first time I drew him - the tools I used are the ones I use when I want to be fast and don’t care about being sloppy. A small random Kirishima bust properly lined and colored could take me five minutes to sketch and line and as many to color on a good day, cause I’ve drawn him so many times by now I don’t even have to think to draw him. Deku, on the other hand, can take me an hour even just to sketch, I can’t seem to grasp how I’m supposed to draw him at all.

Sorry, it really depends on a lot of things, I can’t give a proper answer to this :(

Anon said:Ive been tryin to find ur art of sero carrying baku for like 20 minutes n i cant find it :(

Are you talking about this one? Or this one? There’s also this one I guess...? And maybe this one lol 

Anon said:yoooo, hey man, that cat kiribaku thing ya got going on is some 👌👌👌👌👌

HECK THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Has anyone ever considered Hadmie. Hadou x Camie before?? It just seems like it'd be a cute ship to sail with, tbh. That just might be me tho.

I dunno if anyone has before you, but I can’t say I have, sorry! If I gotta ship Nejire with someone after all it’s gonna be Yuyu haha

Anon said:Hey do you do commissions? I really love your art and I'd love to get a commission from you!! (and also I just wanna know if there's yet another thing that I have to save up for XD)

Not right now, sorry! Maybe after I’m done with the zine things!!

Anon said:*runs around like an excited puppy* DAVEDAVEDAVEDAVEDAVEDAVEDAVE!!!!!!! :D

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Anon said:AHHH i love your ocs so much also Nico looks so cute and i love learning new things about them

AAAHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY G O D!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:KIRI + PINEAPPLE PONYTAIL = THE BEST THING EVER

I’M GLAD WE AGREE ON THAT

Anon said:your oc's literally kill me!! i already love nico, and i think i speak for everyone when i say that we definitely want more of him and luca!! i don't know if it's just me, but I love when the angry, swearing types fall for someone.

SOB thank you so so much for the kind words about my kids ;^;

Anon said:OH MY GOD LUCA IS BACK!!!! YESSSSSSSS FUCKING KILL ME THIS IS A BLESSED DAY I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. MORE OF YOUR OC'S!!! (only when you want to share of course, I'm just trying to convey my enthusiasm here. not demanding at all ^^)

I think that might happen soon enough, actually!!!! Thank you so much for the interest in them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Are josh and chris still not dating?

Sadly until I’ll sit down to write their story that specific part of it won’t go anywhere :( Chris gotta deal with a bunch of things before he’ll be ready to put a name to what’s between him and Josh 3 one day I’ll let him work through it !!!

Anon said:I'm so paranoid I'm going to repost one of your post by accident but the thing is is I never even repost anything at all but just because I know you don't want them to be I'm so scared that by accident I'm going to have something screenshotted and forget it's yours and like Ugh😂

Well, my name’s written on all my drawing so I doubt you’ll forget it’s my stuff lol to make sure you’re not reposting anything the author doesn’t want reposted you can always just ask before reposting it, tho~

Anon said:I was just scrolling through your OC stuff and I just. Love them so much. Thank you for the babies ❤

GOD THANK YOU ;O;

Anon said:Okay I've never seen your oc's before and Dave is the cutest green boy I love him

AAAAHHHHHH I’M GLAD!!!!!

Anon said:kamijirou getting together? :3 also if there were ever a scenario where jirou would confess first, what do you think she would be thinking?

I actually have half a thing planned for that :0 gimme a while to get around to drawing it!

Anon said:How do you feel imagine kiri’s parents???

Actually since I’m still hoping one day Hori will give us the official versions I try not to think too much about it! I don’t wanna grow attached just to have to give them up once I’ll have the canon versions haha

Anon said:hey quick innocent question ive been following for a long time and saw a lot of your art do you have a thing for feet

Are you asking because I draw a lot of people barefoot? Feet are just easier and faster to draw than shoes, anon

Anon said:I love how you answer asks all at once. It’s nice to see that you’re getting in bulk appreciation

THANKS I honestly just don’t want my blog to be more asks than art, so I let them pile up before answering - it does mean I make people wait a lot for answers tho orz sorry

Anon said:I LOVE YOUR ART

THANK YOU!!!!

Anon said:You've open a sea of possibilities with red pineapple kirishima. You're a legend :prayeremoji:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn’t call myself that but I’m glad you appreciate him too hahaha

Anon said:i cant help but notice nothings been added to your sero tag in 4 months

That might be because I rarely use single characters tags! Try looking under #bakusquad and #seromina :D

Anon said:Hahaaa hi this is probably really really awkward but I just wanted you to let you know that you're super awesome!! And the fact that your art is something that I can look forward to is absolutely amazing (no pressure tho)!!! So yea, thank you for being cool and creating beautiful art~~ :D ✧✧✧

SOB it’s not awkward at all!!!! thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Would you mind adding some more Tokoyami art to your shop? More specifically the pieces where hes hanging out with Kiri, and the Tokoshoji piece :D Im desperate to bury my notebooks in stickers from your shop rn and the bird boy needs more love ❤

AHW I’m sorry anon, but those are definitely too small to be of any use on the shop ;-; if you’re okay with it I could add the last one I posted? I should seriously draw more of him..................

Anon said:That jacket that Kirishima has on...I NEED!

I drew it and that’s still a mood t b h

Anon said:I went so far back in your blog that it kicked me back to the beginning ;-; I was just getting to the D. Greyman stuff too

AW ;-; (..........it’s good tho, the further you go the least worth it my stuff is l m a o)

Anon said:Do you ever draw kiribaku or something else in paper or some kind of sketch book if you do i would love to see them❤(sorry if my english is bad)

I do have some doodles on paper posted on here somewhere? But tbh I rarely draw traditionally anymore unless it’s just random doodles :(

Anon said:Aahhh!!! I really love your kiribaku shit its so cute!!and you draw so goood too literally when i found this ship i instantly found you and you are so perfect in my eyes and your art!!!!! I looooooovvvvvvveeeeee yoooouuuuuu thank you for being here and showing us this stuff!!❤❤❤❤

HECK thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:i adore your art so much and your bakushima comics make me smile a lot! :) you’re one of my favorite artists now dldksjshskdk

tHANK YOU OH MY G OD ;^;

Anon said:Consider this: fantasy Kirishima meeting normal bakugou, thinking that's his Katsuki 😂😂

.........................you literally got no clue how long I’ve been thinkin about drawing this............ he ck

Anon said:Your drawings give me life 😍❤️

sob thank you so so so much ;-;

[franeridart]

I absolutely adore every single KiriBaku thing you draw. They’re so pure and I love them.

;O; !!!!! thank you holy heck!!!!!

Anon said:Fran i missed your hq fanart, it was so good seeing some more from you!

I’m happy you liked them!!!! I missed drawing them too, really !!!!

Anon said:Imagine this - BNHA kids like It kids. Also love your art!

But I haven’t watched It :O and thank you!!!

Anon said: Is it ok if fictionkin people reblog your art and tag it as kin or anything of the sort?

Sure! People are gonna do so anyway whatever I say after all, and this seems like a really silly thing to get bothered over since it’s not like it hurts me in any way haha

Anon said:Who dabs more, Denki or Mina?

If I gotta pick one I’d say Kaminari, but I sure as heck hope dabbing isn’t still a thing in whatever future bnha is set in, anon hahaha

Anon said:yo i love it when you color your sketches, so pretty!!

OH BOY thank you so so much!!!!! :O

Anon said:I love you and your art so much?? like??? you’re so perfect?? just keep doing what you’re doing because you’re doing fucking amazing

I’m the furthest thing from perfect you’re gonna find, anon haha but thank you so much for the compliment!!

Anon said:thank you for always making me smile.

And thank you cause this ask made me smile, anon!!

Anon said:your coloring skills are improving!!! gosh your art is visibly getting better lately (not that it’s even been “bad”, there’s no such thing!! i’ve always loved it). i don’t know if it’s a good idea to tell you this but i mean it as a genuine compliment!

Are they really??? °O° I wouldn’t have said so, honestly haha but I’m super happy to hear that, thank you!!

Anon said:Are any of your OCs romantically involved? Or are they all just good friends?

Yes and no, depending on at which point in their respective story we’re talking about haha Josh and Chris are in love with each other, and so are Max and Leo (well, their situation is a bit… uncommon, but if I were ever to write their story they’d be together in the end) - I once posted about Gabe and Hector, and by the end of their story they’re in a poly relationship with a girl named Erica I’ve never posted about. Luca has a love (?) interest of sort but he’s not been posted about yet hohoho maybe sometime in the near future. Still deciding about Isa and Ana’s relationship, but maybe. Who knows? That’s about it as far as the ones I’ve posted about go :D

Anon said:your ocs are adorable!! esp ana, I want to know EVERYTHING ABOUT HER (and, yeah, having new ocs is super exciting, like you said! just– being able to figure all that stuff out, actually mould a character of your own– it’s a lot of fun!!!)

Anon said: What are Ana and Isa like? From that drawing, I already think I would want to be friends with Isa! She looks like lots of fun!

She is!! She’s sort of a jock, a bit of a dummy and really loud, she’s easy to make laugh and got the type of laughter that makes you wanna laugh with her so when she’s around the mood is always a good one! She’s not exactly a social butterfly, but she’s got no problems with socializing, knows by instinct how to bend her behaviour to fit with all types of people and has the incredible ability to have every and all awkward situations fly right over her head, she just doesn’t notice them, and that makes it hard to be anything but relaxed when she’s around. She’s actually how she and Ana got in the group, since she’s gym buddies with Leo! She also really really likes ball sports :D

Ana’s an introvert all the way through, on the other hand - she’s really witty and sassy when she feels comfortable enough, and sarcasm is her preferred way of communicating, but if she doesn’t know you/ too many people she isn’t 100% comfortable with are around she comes off as timid and closed off, smiles politely and barely utters a word - people assume she’s the subdued and shy type at first so once she starts opening up it’s always sort of a shock haha she’s got a scientific mind and while she isn’t a “gifted kid” like Chris she likes to learn and study a lot, which is why she ended up having a real great relationship with Chris specifically out of everyone in the group (they like to nerd out together) (Josh isn’t particularly happy about it, the jelly idiot) 

Anon said: I love seeing you drawing and getting asks about your OCs. They have so much personality and it makes me super happy. I hope you’ll feel like sharing them with us more often!

Thank you so much!!!! I’m really really happy people seem to like them too!!!! :O

Anon said:you draw the children so long i love it :0

!!!!! :D thank you!!!

Anon said:Did you now that the voice actor of Tenya is also the one of Kageyama ? (I start Haikyuu because of you by the way, thanks for this and for all your great art !)

I did know!!! There’s a lot of hq va’s in bnha, that’s always made me happy haha

Anon said:Love the new Haikyuu art! Although it’s sad that someone made you lose motivation to draw BNHA :/ Daishou is one of my faves, too. He’s such a doof, love it.

OH BOY I love Daishou so much, I’m glad you like him too! Aside from how much fun he is to draw (and color! he’s a green haired boy and that matters lots to me haha) he’s got so much personality and he’s such an interesting character! I honest to god disliked him with a passion during the nekohebi game, actually haha but that’s how it is with most of my hq faves, after all hahaha glad you liked the doodles, by the way!!!

Anon said:DOGS? SHOUTS? LUCA IS MY KINDA GUY

THANK YOU FOR LIKING MY ANGRY SON !!!!!! :D

Anon said:I love Luca! Where did he get his scar?

A fight with some punks back when he was a teen that ended up escalating when knives became a thing that was being used :O he comes off as the dangerous sorta type which makes good people steer clear and bad ones come looking for trouble/ pick fights with him cause they assume he was picking a fight cause of his resting bitch face. Well, he’s an ass so let’s say that at least half the times he had been picking fights, and it’s not like he runs when someone tries to fight him anyway… that’s not the only scar he has, it’s just the most visible one haha

Anon said:I’m kinda freaking out about Luca and the others being italians! It makes me love your OCs even more ahah Btw, don’t know if you’ve already answered this or if it’s too personal but… are you Italian? (Or what nationality?)

Yah I am! :D and I’m super happy to hear you like my kids!!!!!

Anon said:Hello! I just wanted to let you know that you inspire me a lot! Your blog is honestly such a happy, fun place to be. You draw so much stuff, so much cute and sweet stuff regularly and I aspire to be like that! I’m extremely slow at drawing, and I lose motivation or get distracted from drawing easily, but I’m hoping for a day when I can make a blog just like yours; a place where I can regularly draw things that make me happy. I hope you have a wonderful day!

I’m!!!! so happy to hear that!!!!! And yeah I 100% understand the being slow and getting discouraged easily, I used to be (and sort of still am) like that too :O my need to be faster is what had me end up with the style I have now, actually haha I hope you’ll find a comfortable style that’ll let you be as fast as you wish soon too, anon!!!

Anon said:I don’t think you understand how much it means to me that you drew an asahi! He’s my fave and he looks precious and pretty in your style! Thank you for this gift :’)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m glad you liked him, then!!!!!!! *O* thank you!!!!!

Anon said:Thank you for drawing Noya! Im sorry it was sort of cause of a shitty anon, I also really enjoy your bnha drawings so im not trying to be all “waaaah go back to hq”, but im happy to see my lightning son and also find out hes in your favs? Yay!

YAH HE’S THE BEST ISN’T HE he’s been one of my top 5s since he first appeared, he’s such a good I’m glad you liked him!!!!!!!!

Anon said:FRAN YOUR NEW HQ ART IM IN LOVE!!!!!! YOU DRAW DAISHOU LIKE A LITERAL SNAKE HES SO SMUG ITS SO GOOD!! AND YOUR OCS!! I WOULD HONESTLY READ A BOOK ABOUT THEM. OR A WEB COMIC. BOTH ARE GOOD. SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS IM JUST EXCITED BC HQ!!!! AND AWESOME OCS!!!! (can you tell that i have a weakness for other people’s ocs, esp when done well) (which you certainly have)

THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENTS OH GODS !!!!!!!!!!!! Especially about my ocs, that makes me so happy oh boy ;O; !!! And and and I’m super happy you liked Dai! He’s honestly so much fun to draw, for me hahaha

Anon said:I’m sorry that people are being assholes, sending good vibes! I love all your art, I hope you have a good day

This to you and everyone else who’s sent the same type of ask, thank you SO much! You guys are all so incredibly nice and supportive, bless all of you ;O;

Anon said:Dave!!! :D

Dave indeed!!!!!! :D :D

Anon said:your art is Good

Thank You !!!!!!!!

Anon said:omg i love your ocs so much

SOB thank you?????

Anon said:I love how the collar on Kiri’s coat in the ‘Them boys’ post is reminiscent of his pauldrons

……………………………………………….. that was totally on purpose. Yep. Definitely. Hmhm.

Anon said:Anon from before showed me your stuff today and just wanted to say wow I love your stuff what even your art is so good I fuckin love kiribaku and oh my god I swear I must have gone through your whole kiribaku tag and I’m gone your art just made my day

GOSH I’m glad you liked them???? thank you for such a nice message aaahhhh !!!!!!

Anon said:Im cry omg i just realized ur url is franeridart fjhfhf this whole time i thought it was friend art bddnjx

You’re the second person that tells me that in the span of just a couple of days omfg hahahaha it’s cool tho, I wish that was actually the url, it’d have been such a soft one haha

Anon said:hi Kaminari can skateboard he has a skateboard in his room

Kaminari in his room also has a dart board, a basketball and a dj console, and that’s only the stuff whe can see so actually, considering in his likes there’s “cool things” I think he’s the type of boy that tries to pursue any hobbie he might think would make him look cool, so either he has no clue how to use any of the cool things in his room above a vaguely amatorial level or he’s still pursuing all of those interests! Which would actually be super cool! Incidentally this is my preferred headcanon too so, yeah, as far as I’m concerned he knows how to skate. And play basketball. And darts. And also how to dj. He’s a cool kid haha

Anon said:Bless you and your super cute kiribaku ^_^

Bless you for the super sweet message, anon!!!! ;O;

Anon said:THAT JIROU IS SO TINY AND ADORABLE I’M DYING LOOK AT HER SIDE BY SIDE WITH KAMINARI AND BAKUGOU OH MY GOD

Hahahaha I might have actually accentuated that a bit, but she’s about 20cm shorter than the both of them and in a chibi style that’s hard to keep accurate hahahaha but yeah I love my pocket sized girl she’s the best

Anon said:Im so fucking happy because youve been posting (almost?) daily for a few days now

That was my own poor attempt at something similar to inktober, actually! I’ve had a few days through the month I wasn’t at home at all so I couldn’t draw all 31 days, but I think I got close? Maybe? I’m glad you enjoyed it, tho!!

Anon said:you deserve all the love in the world

I’m f sobbing so do you, friend ;u;

Anon said:do you like as*noya?? or, which are your main pairings for asahi and noya :)

I do ship as*noya, but I prefer Asahi with Daichi and Suga (ot3) or with Kiyoko, actually :O while my fav Noya ship is with Tanaka~

Anon said:I have recently fallen totally in love with kiribaku as a ship, and your art is always my favorite to see in the tags. Thanks for drawing those two nerds, and I hope you have a good rest of your day!

Thank you!!!!! This fandom is super full of incredibly talented people, I hope you’ll enjoy it here hahaha

Anon said: I first found your blog searching the Bokuroo tag.I was very happy because it was one of my all time OTPs,but they didnt have much content.Then there you came,with amazing art.Time passed and you watched BNHA.I was absolutely captivated by BakuShima and then I checked your blog and it had BakuShima!!I told myself “this person cant get any cooler”.But today i found out about TetsuKami and I checked their tag and yoU ALREADY MADE FANART OF THEM!!Officially ,you are the coolest person on Tumblr tbh

We seem to have really really similar tastes in ships, anon!!!! that’s so great omfg !!!!!!! :O and I’m super happy you like my stuff still afer all this time hahaha

Anon said:Could I draw some fan art of your ocs?

Oh my god yeah!!!!! please do link me to it if you do!!!!!

Anon said:BLESS YOUR BEAUTIFUL SOUL FOR MAKING SUCH AMAZING ART

BLESS YOU FOR BEING SO KIND, ANON!!!!!!