#jericlaude

[hellothereandimsosorry]

pov your friend(?) is so in love with you (you might be in love with him also but the little guy in your head who gives you all your power who you have to share a body with is homophobic and thinks human emotion and attachment is stupid and weak) that he cuts of his own leg for you and suddenly you feel extremely guilty about how horribly you've treated him and so you go against the little homophobic guy in your head and decide to SLEEP WITH THE GUY WITH THE FRESHLY AMPUTATED LEG.

anyway i love that we got to see jericho give in to his human side. the "dont pretend you care/but i do care" jericlaude parallel is SO GOOD! i think because jericho was really defying his scion to get with claude, he probably indulged himself a bit more than he would if he and claude were actually able to be with each other and didnt have the scion cockblocking them. He and claude dont seem like cuddlers to me but because this is probably the only time they'd be able to be together, i think there was probably a little bit, really just claude curling up to jericho as he fell asleep (while jericho stayed awake, no scion whispering in his ear, with just a crushing sense of guilt)

real talk this was one of my favorite episodes so far, claude is my favorite character and i love love love how much deeper 66 has been going into his character recently its so good. cob brings me so much joy i love when my little guys are just miserable

[66sharkteeth]

Does Claude actually love Jericho? Or is there some Stockholm syndrome stuff going on? And like the same for jericho

no, their love is very real, just very complicated. they both (usually) genuinely enjoy each others company and I think it's easy to forget that when the plot isn't making them be absolute bastards, their default dynamic is playful teasing and banter

I admit, maybe I haven't shown enough of their casual side? But like most unhealthy relationships, Claude didn't fall for this guy because he's a jerk to him 24/7. He sticks around because he's had good times with him and clings to the hope he can have more of those. And likewise for Jericho, tho obviously Claude hasn't been as bad to him.

Now, i DO think that Jericho didn't fall for Claude as fast. They probably had an even unhealthier dynamic in the beginning, when Jericho was very dependent on Claude. Even once he got a face, Jericho had almost 0 knowledge of the outside world, had to hide while he was developing, and had 0 money, so Claude was very much... basically kind of his sugar daddy LMAO. you can laugh, but that's basically what the arrangement was!! Jericho flat out wouldn't have survived without Claude in their early days so I think he played along with Claude's feelings for a while, but it's easy to start caring about someone whose been that big of a part of your life- Not to mention Claude was kind of the first person to ever...actually care about him and take care of him? Aside from Kallie.

But as I hope we've all gathered by now, Jericho's scion isn't really a fan of Jericho having those feelings, so it makes sure he keeps Claude at a distance. If Jericho was just a regular half blank, I still think they would have had an unhealthy relationship, especially in the beginning when Jericho was reliant on Claude, but I think Jericho would have ultimately treated him better in the end and they could have worked things out and ended up actually being good together.

(...which is basically how they end up in college AU)

[stillprettyunoriginal]

Names are so vital. So important and held to who a person is and gods Claude who has known Jericho through being far closer to Simon than himself now; through Jericho and the taking of his FACE through having to take in the mind of bloody fucking Martin. If names bring power, what sort of humanity does it draw out of a person when they’ve seen you try on a good couple. Maybe I’m just in my own head about this but truly, there are versions and layers of learning and change to the Jericho we know now, and after a certain point? If we move past his childhood? Claude has been there for nearly all of them besides the tubs. When he lost Kassie there was someone else and this one hasn’t LEFT through his learning and hasn’t died through him stumbling into the world and overall at his side. He has truly been one of the people closest to him. One of the closest you could get, at the very least, when you wear the face of a tormentor and feel your gut twisted by their own memories of their hatred of you or how you her them, and you can’t remember a world without that hurt. I’m never going to heal from these two I swear it.

(also the taking of Martin’s face is destructive to my mental health rip someone please save me it ruins me every time I remember it, n WONDER he had brother issues dude)

[rinisasnaillle]

i drew jericlaude

🫶 (i’m on twit too i did not steal 💀💀)

[jayce-defender]

WHAT THE FUCK THIS FANFIC IS AMAZING REALLY AAAAAHHHHJFDNDKFNFJ

i cried a little

I'm excited to see the future updates !

Saw demand for CoB fanfics so I’m delivering. I know my target audience so first chapter is Claude angst, but I promise the next one will be wholesome

[66sharkteeth]

Ik you’ve said Claude and Jericho wouldnt be big cuddlers but I feel like if Jericho was hurt or even just had a bad headache Claude would hold him if he had already done everything else for him and Jericho would just randomly lay on Claude like a cat whenever he gets really bored and they’d both complain but secretly not mind it

lol! tbh you can head canon whatever you want but tbh I still don't see them ever doing more than leaning on each other. Oh, and I do see Jericho being the type to put his arm over Claude's shoulder.

Less cuddly, but just on the subject of touch, I see him also absolutely teasing Claude about his height by like using his head as an arm rest and stuff. That's all entirely playful and not serious though to be clear lol

[hellothereandimsosorry]

i love city of blank im gonna post more

[66sharkteeth]

Number 13 on the ask list for Claude and Jericho? :3

13. How important are romantic relationships to your OC? Do they prefer casual sex, short flings, or long term relationships? Do they want to get married or are they content with what they have? Or do they have no interest in romance whatsoever?

Hehe. Yeah, I think they both very casually date/hook-up with other people. I think something a lot of people are shocked to learn is Claude very much has a life outside of the Blan Corp gang (or used to, before he became a wanted criminal). The reason Claude doesn't really get huffy about seeing Jericho with other people (like in the club scene at the end of s1) is because he sees other people himself, though he makes it clear that it's nothing serious so he doesn't get a repeat of that one poor dude from his flashback episode.

Tinder isn't a thing in CoB universe ofc, but like if it was, or in like college AU, Claude's settings would probably be set to "something casual" and "hook ups" while Jericho's would just be "hook ups."

However, that does kinda change for each other. They're def never gonna be the kind to get married and adopt kids or something LMAO but in universes where Jericho doesn't have an evil entity in his head, like college AU, they do sort of "settle down" and accept this is the person they wanna spend the rest of their life with. It probably wouldn't be a traditional "settling down" but it would be happily living together and actually referring to each other as partners/boyfriends.

[66sharkteeth]

So out of all CoB couples, which would be the more "hanging out/date" type and who would be the more "hanging out/chilling at their house" type

not 100% sure i understand the question but i assume u mean like who would go out (like movie/restaurant) for a date or who would just stay home (make dinner/netflix and chill)?

going off that assumption and saying this is college AU or something where all the blank characters aren't in hiding or criminals. of the ships i've seen people like in CoB-

rex x bell: go out rex x lyss: go out rex x desmond: stay in rex x nia: go out claude x jericho: hm... they enjoy both. it depends on the occasion and kind of who made the plans

[3rdblah]

The only trope better than always being there is suddenly being there. Instead of cuddling often or always saying they love each other or being soft and cute they do other things. Things that don’t seem affectionate but are, unconventional love language that doesn’t need physical closeness or blatant vulnerability. And then all of a sudden they do need that. One of them goes through something horrible, and suddenly the only thing the other can think to do for them IS the conventional closeness, suddenly one of them WANTS the open affection and vulnerability they never needed before. On one hand it does help, but on the other hand why do they suddenly need this? How could something mess with them so much that now they suddenly need everything they’d never even thought to want? What could render them so helpless that everything they used to do to show their love is replaced by the opposite? And they still have the way they normally showed affection but suddenly it’s just not enough anymore. Suddenly there’s this damage that needs a bandage bigger than either of them ever thought they could need. How do either of them cope with the fact that this thing managed to change one of them so much? How do either of them cope with the way it changes their relationship?

[66sharkteeth]

Lady Gaga's Bad Romance came on the radio while I was out shopping today, and my first thought was "ah, jericlaude."

i'm ngl, every time a song about a toxic relationship rolls onto my spotify shuffle, it goes right on jericho and claude's playlists lol. that's basically all claude's playlist is

[66sharkteeth]

more jericlaude stuff nobody asked for

got asked in the discord server what jericho would be like on valentines day if he didn't have an evil scion in his head so took the opportunity to ramble about college AU jericlaude for a minute. for those who don't know, jericho and claude do ultimately end up together in college AU, and while they aren't the healthiest duo, they do eventually work out.

but no matter what i still dont see jericho being like... super sappy. I feel like how he handles valentines day depends onnnn the stage of his life. like when he's still a broke college student... tbh... i see him...kinda doing things he should be doing normally lmao. like cleaning up the apartment and considering that his gift. and yes, this probably leads to a big fight lol. i feel like they kinda do the on again off again thing for a while bc jericho drops the ball like that fairly often throughout the college years, but eveeentually he grows up a bit and starts treating him better.

his first real....meaningful gift is probably like getting a nice dinner for them from doordash or something. along w/ like claude's favorite dessert or something and that's when claude knows he's like.....trying more and he gets a little better each year until eventually they're like grown up w/ jobs and jericho can actually get him nice things. claude isn't above material goods so i can see eventually him getting claude nice things he likes like a nice watch or.....other things guys like claude likes. idfk. cufflinks? a fancy pen? i dunno, the man equivalent of diamond earrings

[66sharkteeth]

Weekly thoughts- Ep 178

ooughghhg i thought i'd have more thoughts for this one but my head is just empty. i think mostly just because i'm overwhelmed with work. maybe i'll reblog and add more to this one as thoughts come to me.

i will say i'm a little sad about the lack of engagement with this one? i thought jericlaude nation would really like this one but they did not come out for this week, given it's the least comments an episode's gotten in... a long time. idk if this week's a holiday or what. though the sad truth is the episode ended w/ nia and majority probably just went "alright i'mma head out." poor nia, like, i think most people dont dislike her anymore, but any time the story is focused on her, people just stop caring. which is a shame, because she's up there on my favs. but i get it, i don't usually care about the side characters in a story as much either and usually check out when my fav manga are focused on them.

anyway, as for the actual ep, i thought this was kind of a nice moment with jericho and claude which is why it's a bummer...nobody cared about it this week ig lol. ik there's still some debate about jericho really caring about claude and honestly i'm just...giving up on anyone who doesn't get it by now haha. jericho literally CAN'T spell it out, which is kind of his entire conflict with his scion, and some people just really need things spelled out. but i'm glad the jericlaude enjoyers who did tune in this week followed and enjoyed their soft moment before it went sour. also therapy dog claude.

anyway, sorry this one's sort of negative. it's a rough week for work- there's only 2 days left in the month and i'm not even done with this month's episodes, let alone patreon rewards, despite working 10+ hours nearly every day this month and i'm just tired and burned out and the only validation i get for it are these episodes that people are caring about less every week. i wanna put this comic on an indefinite hiatus on weeks like this but ya know paycheck. plus if i even take 1 week of even less people will read it just making everything worse.

[jayce-defender]

It's okay to feel like that don't worry, and I'm sorry because I'm a silent reader, I'll try to comment on the next episode and what I'm gonna say might sound dumb but

when I see that there's (obviously) already the top comments when I arrive I feel a bit discouraged because I feel like you're not gonna see my comment, plus I generally don't know what to comment on anything, as much as i love it like City of Blank :(

(btw if you remember I'm the guy who made the little "IM IN LOVE WITH YOU" jericlaude tiktok not that it matters but yeah this is probably my biggest time not being silent lol)

uhm idk if I should've had wrote all that sorry for rambling, and on behalf of the silent readers, I'll tell you that : you're amazing and your comic is fucking awesome

Just like anon and a lotta other people, I'll stick with you for another project but before that I'll grab food to munch on while reading City of Blank, the best comic I've ever seen :D

Take care <3

I just wanted to say that even though I'm a mostly silent reader, never really commenting on episodes and rarely interacting on the discord, CoB is by far my absolute favorite comic I've probably ever read. I dont doubt for a second that there are many more out there like me, silently gushing over every new episode and excitedly theorizing with their friends.

Even when CoB reaches its end, I will 100% be sticking around for anything else you make.

thank you. im ngl, there's a big irrationality in me that feels like im only writing this comic for like 15 people sometimes. ik that's completely untrue, but it can really feel like that, especially when i step outside the bubble of webtoon and try to share or talk about the comic anywhere else. i've full on just...stopped posting on instagram, because it's just so defeating and exhausting every time i post. I know there's more than 15 people reading my work, but boy its harder to tell myself that every time I post outside of webtoon. i only continue to post here because i've put no effort into growing this so i don't feel as disappointed when only 20 of my 700k followers on webtoon see it.

ik this completely dismisses my silent followers, which i know there are a lot of, and i'm trying really hard to account for them. but man, it's really hard. and i dont think how lonely the process is helps either. i remember numbers never used to bug me as much when i had a close friend to gush about OCs and ideas with, but now that i just gotta kind of do it all myself and be my own cheerleader with nobody to gush about upcoming stuff to, its doubly defeating when it finally posts and nobody's that excited. i don't know how i can feel so alone when there's a good amount of people who follow me, but the whole thing is an incredibly isolating process and it's just gotten so much worse with declining readership and algorithms doing everything they can to make sure nobody sees my work.

sorry if i veered off a bit, but it's been on my mind lately haha. i appreciate every reader so much, silent and vocal. like no seriously, you guys are literally the only thing keeping me going bc i know we're supposed to "create for ourselves" and stuff, but i think most people at least have a friend or partner that they're gushing about their OCs and stuff with, but i just have you guys lol. so thank you for reading, enjoying, and giving me someone to actually share my creations with.

[rinisasnaillle]

there’s this really good jericlaude one i think it’s called like roadtrip or smt the main theme is “awful together”

where are the city of blank fanfics and fanarts

like bitch there are four (4) fics of Claude Fucking Kastner and two (2) of them are well-written and one (1!!!!!!) ONE!!!! of them is ANGSTY ENOUGH. LIKE FUCK ALL THAT? WRITERS, ARTISTS WHERE YOU AT??

[66sharkteeth]

good for them

i drew jericlaude

🫶 (i’m on twit too i did not steal 💀💀)