#i wanted to wait to do another sketchdump so i could post this one but i didn't want to wait till the trend was ove

[disposal-blueeee]

from this thing on twt

[serrj215]

Marriage

"Do you want to get married?"

Raven always judged herself as someone that was hard to shock but when that question hit hear ear she almost choked on her breakfast. They had just ended a long patrol that that took them well past sunrise. They both decided that breakfast had to happen before heading back to the tower.  Witch brought them to a little 24 hour diner just south of downtown.

"Rae, you good?" Beast Boy was half out of his seat before she waved him off.

After she coughed and regained her composure. "I am fine!" She took a sip of tea to wet her throat" Where did THAT come from?"  

"The family over in the corner" Beast Boy pointed with his chin. Raven turned her head to glance at the corner booth. A Young man and woman were having breakfast taking turns entertaining a little boy with brown hair sitting in a high chair.

"That must be nice" Beast Boy said to himself.

"You, have thought about this?" Raven questioned her friend.  

Beast Boy had no idea why this stray idea came out of his mouth. He was going to try to cover it up with a joke or but when his eyes met hers the truth just escaped. "Don't most people?" He took a sip of his orange juice though a straw "Marriage, Family, Kids, home, hearth, bundled cellphone plans, that jazz." he continued.  "Don't you ever think about that?"

"No" Raven said simply returning to her meal. Beast Boy smiled weakly and she could almost feel him retreat inside of himself. A small wave of embarrassment hit her.  A stiff silence filled the rest of the meal. Raven knew that Beast Boy had shared something personal with her, something genuine. His usual defenses of jokes and puns were left out of the topic.

The server came and Beast Boy gave him his card. He started to get up from the table when Raven reached out and grabbed his wrist. Unsure what to do he sat back down giving Raven a confused look.  

"I didn't mean to be rude" Raven started pulling her hand away. "Beast Boy I spent most of my life thinking I was going to be the gateway to the end of the world." She said examining her fingers. "There were many ideas that I did not think about."

Raven could feel the shame in Beast Boy felt start to subside and blend into concern.  

"Raven, you got your whole life in front of you. You can do anything you want, have a relationship, get married, go to college, have career, kids, travel, open an ice cream shop. " He said with a smile.  

"An ice cream shop?" Her eyebrow raised

"Water slide test pilot?" He smiled "If you want, You can do any of those things, or none of them, or something completely different."  

"Can you really see me as the 'Happy little homemaker?"

"If that’s what you want Rae.  I am not talking about little house on the prairie, no one says you got to be the one staying home with the kids, or that you couldn’t have a career"

"Are you saying that you, would be okay at home all day cleaning, cooking and taking care of babies?"

"If that’s what works for my family, and if you ever tried my Tofu loaf you would know I am a great cook"

"Pass. You have thought about this often?"

"Sometimes" Beast Boy looking into his OJ.

"I can’t see it." she stated after an awkward pause. "It's hard for me to look forward too far, like if I did the universe would punish me for wanting something more.  I am alive, my friends are alive, asking for more somehow feels greedy."

"Want to know what I see?" his eyes came up to meet hers again.

Beast Boy grabbed one of the discarded straw wrappers. Quickly twisting and tying it into a loop.  Before Raven could react he scooped up her left hand slid the hastily assembled ring onto her finger.

"There your married."

"Beast B-"

"Rae I got enough imagination for this whole diner, I can spare some for you now go with it!" 

Before Raven could protest any further Beast Boy had already weaving his story for her. 

"You didn’t go for a traditional wedding, you decided for something small, like that Shinto wedding we saw when we went to Tokyo. You looked stunning in dark blue kimono. Your new husband couldn’t believe how lucky he was to have you."

Beast Boys eyes lifted from her hand to her eyes as he continued the story. "You and your husband get an apartment it’s a shoe box but it's close to your school. He works from home while you get a degree. He will stay up late with you to help you study and makes sure that you remember to eat. Takes you places like the park or the beach so you can see the sun now and again between lectures and term papers."

Raven just sat there dear in the headlights stunned as he continued to paint this picture for her. She had opened a floodgate of emotions from him, when he stated he had enough imagination to share she believed him.

"You get a job and you need to travel all over. It's okay cause his work all he needs is a laptop and wi-fi. He is up for the adventure with you. You both live out of suitcases for a while. Not sure what hotel or city you are both in half the time, but it’s okay the most important thing is that your together. " Beast Boys voice got a little dreamy, his mouth was narrating the flight of fancy his head had gone on.

"Maybe a few years later you buy an old fixer upper. It's someplace out of the way, two stories, lots of room for your books, and a big kitchen. It takes you and your husband a while to get it the way you want it. The people at the local hardware store know you both by name." He only paused to get a lung full of air "It's important to him that you have a place where you feel safe, away from too many people so you don’t have to keep your guard up 24/7 and that you have places where you can be alone to put your head together and when he gets on your nerves"  

Raven was completely lost in this shared daydream. Eager to hear where it would lead next like the next chapter of a novel.

"It might be a little unexpected but you both have a kid. The tyke is a little ball of energy you both can barely keep up with, running all over the yard, and climbing up trees. You tell him bedtime stories about when you and your friends took down Cinderblock or Mad Mod."

"Here you go!" The waiter came back with Beast Boys Credit card and put a cardboard to-go container on the table. "From the management. Congratulations I hope your both very happy together" He said smiling opening the container to show two cupcakes with white icing.  

Before either of them could yammer out anything to correct him the waiter had rushed off to another table.

"Well dear, we should get home the kids are waiting."  Beast Boy's grin took up his whole face, obviously amused by the waiters mistake.  Raven was not, and was dreading the possibility that this might hit the internet before they made it back to the tower.  

Raven put up her hood and walked away briskly out of the dinner.  But later the ideas that Beast Boy put in her head kept surfacing.  He was right she could have any life she wanted.  The things that she had read about, the things that she never dared dream about were now all possible.  The image of the family stuck with her.  For some reason though every time she pictured her and her husband and a child. The young girl had these wonderful bright green eyes. Just like her father.

This is another one that was a false start from @bbraeweek17 I never did make that prompt for May the 5th, so this could be a really late submission. I am finding that comming back to some of my older stuff with fresh eyes has been helping. Also I did barrow a few things. @xaphrin did a wonderful fanfic about Beast Boy finding Raven in a Kimono http://xaphrin.tumblr.com/post/90965914456/kimono and @shock777 did amazing picture of them both in traditional Japanese garments.http://shock777.tumblr.com/post/148571610963/massive-bbrae-sketchdump  (11th from the top)  So I liked the idea of different kind of wedding. (Remember kids cite your sources) 

[beedalee]

what are the stories/projects you work on or involved with?

EDIT 2019: FOR AN UPDATED LIST, GO HERE!

Oh gosh, it’s been a bit since I did a rundown of them… (I need to update my project lists tbh… ugh..) I’ve been working really hard on consolidating my characters and stories these last few years so I’m rightfully proud of my progress.. Even if no one can tell yet but me!! >8//); 

Despite how many we have, only a few of them I seriously want to bring to completion and/or publish first and foremost. The rest are really just for fun until I/we feel like they could become something bigger. Also, Dye has involvement in most of my stories whether it be a full collab or just helping!

It’s a long post… so, BELOW THE CUT WE GO!

Collaborations 

(with @dyemelikeasunset)

Ocean of Cycles: Our 4th Collab- Dye’s world-building project that I have the honor of helping flesh out. While we have our OCs and want to make it RPG ready for others to play in for fun, and we think making a book of the completed world-building someday would be fukken awesome, it’s largely a stress relief and creative outlet for Dye and I, so we’re not in a rush nor can Dye’s schedule allow for full-time work on it. Like Dye, I would like to do mini-comics about their adventures myself as well!!

Picture This Imagine That: (sorry this art is 4yrs old… T//w//T) Our third collaboration; Started small but became our means of reconciling our identities and coming out. After we came out some years ago, we put this one down to handle real life stuff and grow up a bit- but we do still fully intend to draw and publish their stories, we just took it offline and pulled back to a much more relaxed pace until it’s actually ready.

Solaris: Our second collaboration. Originally an Avatar: The Last Airbender fanstory, transplanted into an original universe. I’d really love to bring this one to life as a comic, but the plot hasn’t been finished yet! We love this one  to bits though and I’d consider it a likely choice down the road sometime.

White|Outlines: Technically our first collaboration, a soft slice of life about troubled supernatural teenagers. My branch in the same universe/highschool as Dye’s SalaDays story (No, the SD cast doesn’t really interact with mine)  I made this because Dye used to have the world open for RP, but we’ve long since closed it off. (That’s more geared toward OoC now) I don’t really have plans for pursuing this one outside of for fun!

Unlucky: A fun slice-of-life meets shounen kind of story set in a tightly knit chinatown. Dye helped create the bulk of this verse for a lot of homeless/floating OCS, like Quinn and Airi from my old beckoning cat magical girls team, Jake and Evelyn from anirangers, Tyberius and Farah from wwp’s “D’Amatos” godfather-parody show… stuff like that. It’s a bit more on the world-building side right now but I hope to draw things for it soon.

I also play around in or help with some of Dye’s more solo works like Kingdoms or Romaine Hearts, as well as a few offline projects that aren’t super involved/developed yet.

Magical Girls: 

(yes it gets its own section)

Forecasters:  My lovebaby of a story, featuring weather magical girls. My only active personal project that I want to make into a full blown webcomic right now. It’s 99.7% offline atm, I started this in 2013 after we put down PT. There’s still a lot to do, but I’m really excited about this one. It’s like my self-imposed college final project and/or legitimate story pitch I guess? I wanna post promo art for it so bad but I want at least the first two chapters drawn before that so bear with me…

Starless: Alien powered magical girls. Created from old (2008) tokyo mew mew OCs! The story’s been a bit ambiguous lately but I am very fond of this one and would consider it one I’d like to complete/draw for someday if the plot lets me WRITE IT lmao. Dye is helping me by adopting some of the characters!

Minor  MG Stories: (click the link in the last bullet to see pics of these)

“Book Keepers”: Literature theme college magical girls, collabed with Dye. Currently just a loose idea with really fun fleshed out OCs, but not a super high priority.

“Candyland”: NEW! Candy themed magical girls. A tentative title for a bunch of OCs I’ll be posting soon enough so I guess I’ll add them now. Some of them are old af, some are super new. They’re just an early concept and a bit of a style-experiment.

Cheers!: Drink-themed magical girls. A very old team I don’t really plan on doing anything with right now, just currently trying to redesign them to my liking.. -stares holes into them- LET ME LOVE YOU

Cosmic Club! another design prompt with no story.. YET…. I love them and they seem v popular so it’s possible! We’ll see how it goes.

Even more magical girls over here in this list but are all in a similar ‘concepts only at this time’ status (Lucky is on this list but is no longer a magical girl series)

My Projects:

Shards of Moon: A fateful fantasy epic about birds and songs. Formerly Anathema, the first fully fleshed out “serious” story I wrote… It was terrible! It was merged with another story that had no characters, so all my oldest OCs live here now. I’m very very fond of this one but I’m letting it percolate very slowly. It’s a far off goal for now, but it is shaping up to be a story I’d like to tell.

Sleep Tight: About a little girl and her boogeyman and conquering fear. The second story I wrote in high school. This one needs… a lot of rework and a bit of gutting- I haven’t decided the direction I wanna take it yet, but I don’t mind waiting. (I mean, look at what happened to Shards of Moon- I was so sure I’d trash that whole story and its characters.)

Superglue: I have like NO new art for this one yet lmao.. Young superheroes dealing with past actions they ran away from. A third high-school story that has changed so dramatically it’s not even remotely similar to its first version. It’s basically a baby story with old re-homed OCs in it because I felt sorry for them. ;w;;; I don’t know how far this one will take off yet but yeah

Others:

I’m gonna get ta’ play in @caiterprince​’s universes with Dye too, including the WIP Magical Girl Academy as a means to flesh out more magical girl designs (Eden is the most familiar, but I’ll have more soon), and a few cameos in Plainer in Hindsight and Weaver’s Debt eventually

Fancharacters like my SU gemsonas, my ponies, and my Tokyo Mew Mew OCs are purely for fun. If I want to write an original story about the characters (which has happened, see Solaris and Starless) I’d transplant them first.

I have a few other concepts laying around- placeholders like “fairyverse” or “spacewitchverse” where I throw similar-theme homeless OCs but don’t have a single story idea for, it’s just.. there. for now. So I won’t bother going over those. 

AUs (like elf gfs Band AU) don’t really count as separate unless they become canon. (i.e. what happened with Solaris)

If anyone’s really curious on the development of my worlds and ocs, I honestly highly taking a peek through my sketchdump folder on my DA. (start at the bottom, its infinite scroll) You can find pretty much everything I’ve ever conceptualized in these. I started to sort dumps by story- there’s actually quite a bit of storytelling / oc growth nestled in there if you’re into that sorta info-binging. I-I think it’s kinda fun tbh…. I do apologize in advance for any slurs or problematic wording you may find in the oldest dumps, I’ve been cleaning it over the years but might’ve missed something.

That’s about it for now! (-sweats violently- no more pls i have… too many children.. -wheezes and lays down-)