#theemmerichscurse

[linashirou]

wanted to be silly about this one for so long...

so you could understand part of their dynamic

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"I suppose we're just a couple of traumatized nerds with too much weight on our shoulders..."

amazing commission that @bttswt11 (twt) made for me!

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Yesterday, I don't exactly remember how or why, but I felt motivated to create my own version of The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. Honestly, I came across so many versions before making mine that perhaps that's one of the reasons why my motivation lasted as long as it did XD.

It was challenging to mentally prepare myself to replicate the positioning of Gustav's faces. It was a real struggle trying to figure out how Hal's glasses would behave in that position, and even though I used the BJD as a reference, I couldn’t quite translate it "successfully" into the drawing… I still don’t know how to draw glasses, sorry.

Lina’s face was tricky because I found that the original reference had a longer face than hers, so I had to make adjustments.

Now, I’m super happy with what I created (which is rare), and I want to explain some of the choices I made *smiles*. This drawing was made using bases and references in Krita.

Hal:

His clothing is a photograph of a motherboard that I pixelated in certain areas and stained with a watercolor texture brush. Then I duplicated the layer and saturated it to give it the orange tone but still preserving the green. I also used a square texture pencil, imitating the decorations in the original painting, and finally applied an oil painting filter. (I also did this on Lina’s dress and the layer with the oranges.)

Lina’s dress, the cape, and the cosmos

These elements follow similar processes. I drew the hair textures for both Hal and Lina myself. The stars, grass, and flowers in Hal’s hair are brushes. The sunflower and roses are PNGs, and the background texture is another photograph.

Symbolism

Hal’s tunic: The motherboard is obvious. The orange color seems to take over the green of the motherboard, symbolizing Lina’s presence in his life.

The grass: It’s filled with blue roses, representing Snake. (I’ll always make this representation because I adore Snake, and even though I ship Hal with Lina, Snake will always be present near Hal.)

Hal’s head: It features daisies, which could also be interpreted as sunflowers, referencing the two women in his life. These are on his head because they are his biggest concern. The large Sunflower on the ground represents Sunny, pixelated because she also knows programming.

The orange cape: Inside the cape is the cosmos, an important symbol for my fic. Hal’s parents met at NASA, and one of my big headcanons about Strangelove and Hal is that she would have taught Hal to observe the night sky at an early age (inspiring his interest in extraterrestrial theories, as mentioned in the MGS2 codec, even if it was a joke). The image of the starry sky is also linked to Lina through her birthmark, a characteristic that is both positive and negative in the story and one of the traits she shares with me. For this reason, it’s near her (and also have stars over her hair) ("It was as if the cosmos had marked you to show you were the one.")

Lina’s dress

It features daisies ("Margarita" in Spanish, my IRL name), which are summer flowers that bloom in June, my birth month and my Hal’s fan birthday. These are pixelated, symbolizing Hal’s presence in Lina’s life and her career as a programmer. Daisies represent purity and true love, and they had medicinal properties.

Oranges on the cape

The oranges symbolize food, tied to Lina’s role as a chef, her work/facade she initially adopts to hide from the antagonist. They also symbolize fertility, virtue, fidelity, optimism, energy, and creativity. Additionally, in color psychology, the color stimulate appetite. (And that's a fact as food, because they activate the gastric juice)

At Lina’s feet

There’s a neural programming network, reminding us that she is an AI programmer. The same function is carried out by the code above it.

This also serves to highlight a little, yet significant, detail: Hal is an engineer, skilled in both hardware and software, capable of building a Metal Gear (like Huey); while Lina is a programmer, AI developer (like Strangelove) who is obsessed with response times.

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Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Otacon (Metal Gear)/Original Character(s), Hal Emmerich/Original Female character Characters: Otacon (Metal Gear), Solid Snake, Sunny Emmerich, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Hal Emmerich Additional Tags: Adventure & Romance, Slice of Life, Adulthood, Implied Sexual Content, Developing Relationship, Red String of Fate Summary:

Hal has met a strange woman online. After a few months of chatting, she offers to meet him in person.

Is there a reason behind this meeting? Will this be the end of his laid-back life after the SOP incident?

[All Chapters are completely re-made. Thanks for keep reading! ] (Illustrations by @VenomWalter_art) (All Metal Gear characters belongs to KONAMI. All their rights reserved)

[linashirou]

I know no one cares, but I'm so happy with the change that TEC is having. Makes me happy just to think about the new stuff I'm putting in

A beautiful gift from @ neverbegameover.bsky.social

Love how Lina delicately holds Hal...

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Happy New Year to you and to my fic, "The Emmerich's Curse" which was born as an idea in a New Year's eve shift at my restaurant two years ago!

And I hope this 2025 I fulfill my dream to go to the @mgscon.com 3!

And thank you for being a witness of my little project!

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Asking myself a lot about repeating themes in some chapters. Even though, as humans, we used to talk some stuff quite often without wanting it, specially when this stuff is related to traumas or things that are significant to ourselves...

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We have to keep celebrating, isn't? I added a new sheet! what could possibly tell us?

theemmerichscurse.straw.page

Commission done by the talented @devilzukin7-johnny-cage (There's still a background one, but I will upload it on new years eve)

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I think that this song could reflect Lina's POV about Hal…

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I made a strawpage for TEC!

Because it is getting 2 years old, I want to talk and share with you. Please take a look and comment! Everything is welcome!

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I'm so happy to announce that the chapter "Dating" has this beautiful, amazing head illustration! I really love how handsome Hal looks and also Snake and Sunny 💖! She's so pretty! Do you want to know what is happening? Read the fic!

As always, this was made by the talented @VenomWalter_Art!! Please consider him if you want a beautiful commission!

[linashirou]

Today in my random yap about TEC. As I already said before, TEC has a lot of my own life. Hal and Lina knows each other online and this actually happened to me with IRL Otacon. We meet online in the MSN era (2000). We had a long friendship in the net (around 4 years chatting!)

And even if I had a partner at that time, we always had this *vibe* around us. We meet IRL in 2005 because he used to travel to my region due health problems and we started a relationship that last until now!

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Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Metal Gear, Metal Gear Solid Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Otacon (Metal Gear)/Original Character(s), Hal Emmerich/Original Female character Characters: Otacon (Metal Gear), Solid Snake, Sunny Emmerich, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Hal Emmerich Additional Tags: Adventure & Romance, Slice of Life, Adulthood, Implied Sexual Content, Developing Relationship, Illustrations, Fanart

A NEW CHAPTER IS UPLOADED! REMEMBER THAT I’M RE-WRITING THE FIC!♥

[linashirou]

Is there someone your OC didn’t like at first, but then got along with later?

Did your OC bear witness to anyone’s full character arc?

Ask game!!!

Hi!!!! thanks a lot for asking me ♥♥♥

As Lina already got that two question, I will give them to Daniel Carr, the main antagonist of TEC. SPOILERS AHEAD!

Is there someone your OC didn’t like at first, but then got along with later?

Armstrong. They used to have problems because their different perspectives, but later on, they realized that their convictions and belief where similar, so they work together but for their own goals.

Did your OC bear witness to anyone’s full character arc?

Yeah but here is another, big spoiler: besides Lina's one... He meet Huey after DD. I will not give more details to not giving a full Spoiler.

(Reference made by @notpink-ri)

[linashirou]

For Lina! What is the worst thing your OC does in their story? Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?

Is there someone your OC didn’t like at first, but then got along with later?

This has some spoilers! be warn!

What is the worst thing your OC does in their story?

God! this is a tough question... I think that probably (and this is a Spoiler) I think the worst thing that Lina do is actually have to use a gun against people (non lethal bullets because Snake gives her tranquilizer munition) but it was such an stressful situation for her and for Hal too...

Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?

This is a huge, huge spoiler. But besides Daniel (Who is the main antagonist) I think that Armstrong didn't respect her. They both look at her as a piece in a puzzle to be used.

Is there someone your OC didn’t like at first, but then got along with later?

I think this happens in a low level with Snake. Because he didn't trust her in the beginning: he thought that Lina was a spy. And she was cautious with him because she didn't want to be hated by him, but the fact that he could kill her by accident, don't leave her with a good impression about him...

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Today I got this gift!!!! It's so cute!

Thanks to @ iruta.okamikingu on Instagram!!! 💕💕💕