#ryuusei x sae

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Understand My Ship Meme (6/?): 🧊🐲 Edition

Here's RyuuSae, feat. the most blursed colouring I've done so far. I regret nothing. 🫡 Requested by @chrollosnenfish!

I'm cool with Sae and Shidou as a pairing! They're a guilty pleasure, in terms of fanart and fics - people depict their relationship and related activities as SPICY. And I buy it. They're very hot and cold coded, and those characters tend to be explosive when they collide.

I see their canon relationship as somewhat one-sided. Sae endures rather than encourages Shidou. Some of my placements are vague because of that: I think Sae would refuse to be spooned, lend his clothes, or to acknowledge Shidou for the most part. But Shidou is VERY insistent on expressing his affection. I think the prodigy of Real Madrid will eventually warm up to the love bug. Who wouldn't? He's genuinely enthusiastic and devoted. I hope we get to see them together again sometime in the future.

Thanks again for the request! I had fun putting it together. Open to doing more, including for characters I've already covered.

Credits: Gibbarts for the template. Manga panels are from chp128 | chp131; colouring by me (Sae | Shidou). It'd be a shame to leave it gathering dust... so here's a clean version of that Shidou panel with some redraws. No credit needed: have fun colouring/memeing.