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Whumptober2023 Day 8/9: "İt's all for nothing" | "You're a liar"

A combined prompt for the last two days!

This is both Kyle and Minharh grieving their lost father-son relationship, lost through Minharh's own faked death.

For Kyle, it's a betrayal of trust, and five years of enduring and adapting to a life without his dad (and only friend).

For Minharh, he knew he'd have to reveal his identity to Kyle at some point, if the ever reunited. But Kyle saw through his lies first.

This scene would fall right after the end of Chapter 1 in The Deliverance of Kyle Kindall (KK3)

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A Month of Whump 2022: Winter Whumperland - Art masterpost

Thanks @amonthofwhump for the event~!

My favourite arts from this are (as in this post, left to right): 1 || 8, 9, 5 || 10, 12

1. The Nightmare before Christmas (Nightmares | PTSD)

2. Home alone (Unhappy family reunion)

5. Frosty the snowman (self-sacrifice | comfort: warm kisses)

6. How the Grinch stole Christmas (Too late)

7. A Christmas story (can't see | bleeding out)

8. A Christmas carol (head injury | unexpected kindness)

9. The Christmas shoes (main character death)

10. Polar express (tied to the tracks | abducted)

12. The Nutcracker (forced to perform)

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A Month of Whump (@amonthofwhump ) - Day 2: Home alone

Missed holiday | Unhappy family reunion | Comic relief character | Comfort: Home for Christmas

中秋节快乐 zhong qiu jie kuai le

Happy Mid-Autumn festival.

Families reunite or think about each other from afar while watcing the moon on this day. Kyle has personally never celebrated it, but since Minharh started living with a Arkala'ana-Chinese family, Minharh has felt the significance of the day.

Five years ago, Minharh (Sa'a Kindall) was caught in a fire and nearly died. The circumstances meant he had to live as someone else, pretending he had actually died.

This also meant abandoning Kyle. And living as though he were truly dead in Kyle's life.

Holidays come, and Minharh can only think about his family. The only one he has.

The one he left behind.

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This isn't what Minharh had expected would happen this Zhongqiu Jie.

This isn't what Kyle was expecting either.

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A Month of Whump (@amonthofwhump ) - Day 9: The Christmas shoes

Unwanted gift | Medical abuse | Main character death | Comfort: Baking

Kyle and Minharh reconciling after the 'death' of Sa'a Kindall.

Kyle lost his father and his only family.

Minharh lost himself, and also Kyle.

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May 31, 8-Tau A'o Fire incident

"She got us both out. Really, it would have been better for her own safety to just leave, but she knew I’d seen the stuff in that room better than she did. She gave me her oxygen tank since mine got stuck beneath part of the collapse.

"Apparently she knew her injuries were fatal, but bet on it that mine could be survived.”

- Sa'a (Minharh) in KK3, Chapter 40

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Minharh grieving for the son he lost, but it's not his son who died. It's himself who died.

And he left his kid to deal with it, without a word. The circumstances gave him no other choice...right?

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Febuwhump Alt 3: Coma

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In the aftermath of the A'o Fire, surviving...

He suffered hypoxia and burns, which damaged his throat and left him paralysed from waist down.

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Febuwhump Day 10: "I'm sorry. I didn't know."

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Minharh's viewpoint, finding out about some of the experiences Kyle was subjected to.

He'd thought leaving his son behind was a better idea - that Kyle would be safer, and have better experiences than if he had to share in the same "in-hiding" circumstances as Minharh.

He'd thought staying "dead" would a better idea.

Maybe it was.

Or maybe it wasn't...

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Minharh, Xiuying and Jie sharing a cross-cultural, casual, non-celebratory day's rest on Christmas day.

They're outside, enjoying the afternoon sunshine in the changeable early summer weather of Arkala.

Maybe they'll have a break from investigating the A'o Fire incident today...?

Art for Prompt 8: Christmas Day (Christmas celebrations | Spending the holidays in captivity | With found family)

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About this small found family ~

Xiuying Chen 陈秀英 and Jie Chen 陈杰 (Chinese) are a married couple, however share the same last name -- something not practised in Chinese culture -- due to Jie having Arkala'ana heritage.

Jie is half Arkala'ana, an indigenous & ethnic minority in Arkala whose traditional cultural marriage customs see the male person joining their female partner's tribal community. When Jie and Xiuying decided to marry, they decided to honour the minority culture side so as to preserve it. This is why Jie and Xiuying share the same last name. (Jie was previously known as Jie Li 李杰, and likely still goes by that on official Chinese documents.)

Minharh La'e (Arkala'ana) resides with them. He isn't related to them, but they consider him family.

As he's learnt Mandarin since staying with them, the three usually communicate with each other in Mandarin.

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Whump Advent Calendar 2020 - collection of my art for each prompt + extra alt. prompt

This whump advent calendar prompt challenge was really enjoyable to participate in!

Thinking about it, it helped me get back into drawing and feel better about my art 🌸

These prompts gave me an opportunity to practise drawing different poses, challenge myself with different approaches to scenes (e.g. comic) and try drawing characters I've never actually drawn before.

I also liked that each prompt had a three day window - it gave adequate time to work on something for each prompt without feeling heaps of self-inflicted pressure to do so.

Thanks @whump-advent-calendar for putting this event together! And thank you to everyone who supported me with liking/reblogging/commenting along the way! 🌄

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"My Dad didn't really die in the fire, did he?"

When the son you were forced to abandon five years ago discovers that you've been alive the whole entire time.

Minharh is older, his hair longer and his face more worn, but such things happen over time.

Time which Kyle thought had stopped for good five years ago.

Febuwhump Alt 7: Identity reveal

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Minharh, a fading sunset and streetlights across Lake Kano.

Another day wondering how the son he left behind is doing.

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Febuwhump2022 Master list

Here's all the art for the 28 prompts for this month! @febuwhump

Main content warnings: blood, amputation recovery, whump aftermath, trauma

1. Head wound | 2. Failed rescue attempt | 3. Blood loss | 4. Nightmares | 5. "Let me see" | 6. Hypothermia | 7. Used as an experiment | 8. No anaesthesia | 9. Kidnapped

10. "How long has it been?" | 11. Chronic pain | 12. (Alt 4) I dreamt you were alive | 13. Won't regain consciousness | 14. Can't go home

15. Hidden scars | 16. "Does that hurt?" | 17. Self-inflicted wound | 18. Forced to watch | 19. Delirium | 20. Caged | 21. "Help them!" | 22. Restrained | 23. Don't leave | 24. Too weak to move | 25. Muffled screams

26. (Alt 8) "I'll never forgive you" | 27. Shower breakdown | 28. Presumed dead

The art I've included in this post are: (from top, left to right) 1. Head wound | 2. Failed rescue attempt | 6. Hypothermia | 3. Blood loss | 8. No anaesthesia | 20. Caged | 28. Presumed dead

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Febuwhump2022 Day 28: Presumed dead

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Continued from art for "I'll never forgive you"

"I'll never forgive you."

What Kyle really means is, "I'm not done grieving your dying, or the fact that you made me presume (believe) you were dead.

"You lied to me, abandoned me, and in your absence I hurt badly. I'm not over it. I won't be anytime soon. Let me angry. I need to be angry, because feeling this anger is necessary for me to grieve properly.

"I said I won't forgive you, but the truth really is: I forgave you already, but I didn't let myself grieve properly because of it."

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Febuwhump2022 Day 14: Can't go home

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"Sa'a...we need to destroy all the evidence that you survived that fire. 'Sa'a Kindall' is no longer alive. You have to let go. Including of that picture of you and your son."

"...just give me a minute...please?"

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Febuwhump2022 Day 26 (Alt 8): "I'll never forgive you"

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This art is part of a scene idea I have floating around in my mind for later in the Kindall K series - with this one (w/ Yuuki) and this one (w/ Minharh).

Even after Kyle's emotional wrestling with his feelings, and understanding his father's rationale for abandoning him, I imagine Kyle in honesty saying, "I'll never forgive you."

And Minharh's reply: "It's okay. I don't expect you to."