I am cringe, but I am free
Doodles of Jack and my oc (still unsure on the name but I was thinking Shade to keep it on the nose ya know)
I wanted to draw a new older design of Jack since I can never settle on a design (He's like 20-ish)
And the way he'd meet Shade would be during a shen gong wu hunt he'd find them in a cave or a ruin where they're just chilling, like a ghost. They aren't very responsive but Jack's like the very first human they've ever seen.
So Jack thinks that hey, this shadow creature guy could make a great henchmen/lab assistant! So he tells them to stay put.
After he gets his butt kicked by the monks he brings them home and realized they are just a blank slate of a shadow person. He slowly begins to teach them how to be a person (he tries his best he's not the great at being a normal person) and slowly over time Shade gains a sense of self and personality and likes and dislikes.
And Jack is super not used to having another person hanging out with him twenty four seven that doesn't think he's annoying and isn't a ghost.
The years go on and they form a really cool duo of evil boy genuis and his shadow monster accomplice!
And it all culminates to one day Jack realizes he really really likes having Shade around. And he's like 'wtf I have feelings? Romance? ew, but-' and so he panicks and tries to act cool and calm. But he fails miserably and fumbles his words.
Shade doesn't care that he's making a fool of himself, they like his dorky side. Shade knew a while back that Jack had a crush on them because subtly isn't Jack's strongest skill.
And the feeling is mutual is just that neither knows how to confront the idea of going from friends, pals, to romance? Jack chickens out and Shade doesn't know that they can just tell Jack they like him and the rest will sort itself out with time. (They think it's hilarious to see him pining)
And they live happily ever after as an evil duo/eventual partners type deal? It's that dynamic of a monster who's never known companionship learning to be happy and seek out happiness with a person who feels like a social reject and rejects society but also really deep down wants friends and joy too <3
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Thinkin about Shadowheart's complicated relationship with faith and how it has been used against her all her life by her goddess and those in power, her having to renounce that faith in order to escape their abuse, then realizing how it makes THIS moment all the more significant and touching
The way this scene also tends to happen shortly after Shadowheart renounces Shar is insane to me. Like do you know how meaningful this is?? She puts her faith in you despite after everything, fully knowing you could fail to resist the dark urge, not because she was told to, but because she chooses to and because she loves you.
so anyway, Durgeheart is my favourite pairing
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Shadowzel nation rise
And this shot? Is so symbolic?? Especially showcasing shadows scar? They were both hurt by the ones who raised them and despite it all they found and chose each other.. only they could understand what the other is going through..
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dabihawks are a perfect ship like they're a blue-red dynamic they're character foils one was the son of a hero and became a villain one was the son of a villain and became a hero they're heavy-handed societal extremes they're perfect opposites they're the exact same they're child soldiers they're animal motif coded there is so much there symbolically to justify the ship but if you asked me the real reason i enjoy them? they are insane. like they are both so freakishly mentally ill and they're dysfunctional and toxic and traumatised and they bug the fuck out of each other and they hate each other and they understand each other's morals better than anyone while still fundamentally opposing each other and i want nothing more than to put those two freaks in situations just to see who explodes the other first
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I'm also still attached to the idea that vampire spawn get tiny little bat tails above their butt on top of longer ears
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