#leopikids

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milestones

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three of them 👁️❤️

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keeping up with the youths: your weird dad vs your cool uncle

[ leopika kids ]

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mini me [leopika kid]

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baby girl

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hand-me-downs

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war flashbacks…

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your face, always with me

/fankids

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kurapika painstakingly translating a hundred million picture books into kurta to help his kids learn to read and write in his dead language

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Hey ! I love your last drawings of Leopika expecting their first child ! It's so soft! Do you think Kurapika would deliver at home ? Or like at the Hospital but following a Kurta ritual of some sort?

Thank you 💓 I know some people get icked by pregnancy stuff, which is understandable, so I try to be as thoughtful as I can when I depict it. I’m happy reading you liked them!

This is an interesting question, because the parents-to-be are a doctor and someone who was born in a forest, lol … but obviously whatever Kurapika wants to do would win.

I think Kurapika would absolutely want the experience to be as close to what he remembers in his clan as possible, which probably means having the child at home. It’s likely that for the Kurta, there was a more ceremonial and sacred aspect to the event that he would want to feel connected to again.

I don’t think he’d be scared (he’s probably seen at least one childbirth before), but he definitely would feel safest and most comfortable in an environment he can control.

(but poor anxious Leorio… the hospital will be on speed-dial)

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fankid fluff, don’t mind me

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according to my au timeline, if (canonically..?) leorio and kurapika were born in 1980 and 1982 respectively, their kids were born in 2009 and 2011…. theyre gen alpha T___T

imagine a child telling kurapika he’s a skibidi sigma rizzler from ohio

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Hi your leopika kids are always brings so much joy to my heart………do you think gon and killua ever babysit them?

yes of course!!!!

(thank you for the ask and sorry this was in my drafts for 100 years!!)

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Hi!! I love your leopikids sososo muuuch!! I’ve been following you for a while now and I was wondering if you had an approximate age in which Kurapika passes and why, or some general lore on this. The kids seem so young it’s just 😭 sorry if you’ve answered this before

I love your art an insane amount and I’m not even joking 💚🫶🏼

Hello! I’m so glad, thank you for the support 💖 I really really appreciate the kind words :)

I have a rough mental timeline for the AU…

(I wanted to give them post-canon time to travel, heal, and chill out before truly “settling down”!)

married — kurapika is 25, leorio is 27

first child, azure — kurapika is 27, leorio is 29

second child, strella — kurapika 29, leorio 31

kurapika passes away — kurapika 43, leorio 45 (— azure is 16, strella is 14)

I imagine Kurapika still passes from Emperor Time. Even if there are a thousand technically canonical possibilities to reverse its effects, I think its presence looming over his post-canon life has very interesting (angsty…) implications.

- the idea of him knowing his life is still worth living to the fullest even if he doesn’t know how much time he has left

- the guilt of bringing a child into the world knowing he will leave them early, like his own parents did (is there selfishness in his desire to have a family?)

- not knowing how long he will get to watch his baby girls grow up and it destroying him inside… being overly emotional at generally mundane milestones (“what if this is the last first-day-of-school I’m here for?”)

I think for me, Emperor Time keeps the story in my head from being too “happily ever after”, just wrapped up perfect with a bow and a white picket fence (which is valid for future!AUs! Theyve been through hell!). But Kurapika has scars that run really deep, and maybe they don’t heal perfectly… maybe they ache and gnaw at him as his life grows bigger and bigger around his grief… But maybe the pain is easier to bear now, with his people by his side. :,)

…not sure how to end this answer on a happy note, but anyway, thank you so much for the ask! 😅

(I HAVE drawn leopika old together once before, maybe in a sub-AU of the AU they grow old together and die in each other’s wrinkled arms as god intended….)

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Thinking about ur fankids standing on Kurapika's feet when he dances with them babies

me too, thank you for this anon ;w;

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leopikids — 15th 💗🎉