One Step From Your Grave

Cats had nine lives, but only one Death, like everyone else.

Puss in Boots had always laughed at the notion. He didn’t need a creepy shadow warning him about lethal danger, he was a legend.

Until his spare lives ran out.

Then the wolf appeared.

Puss slowly pushed his drink away. His Death sneered:

"Now you’re paying attention."

"Why… aren’t you moving away?"

"I will, once you sober up."

A claw tilted Puss’ chin up.

"When you do, you’d better remember this," his Death growled: "I won’t let you ignore my signs anymore. If I get this close again, run."

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goforthequill

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In the front, we see the back of Death the Wolf's hand starting to turn to gold, along with the sickle he is holding (the one with eight crossed-out cat heads engraved on it). There is a vein popping on the back of his hand, and another in his speech bubble. Jack Horner's soul is vanishing around the sickle: the man is wearing a disgruntled expression and asking: "Did you seriously carve crossed out kitty faces on your weapon?!!"

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goforthequill

7 months ago

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goforthequill

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kabru. it's as simple as that

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goforthequill

1 year ago

The sun is setting over a greyed-out transparent Hope's Peak Academy in the background. In the front, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu and Hajime Hinata are half-turned towards each other, with their hands not quite reaching; Hinata is holding a silver ring in his left hand - the one furthest from Kuzuryuu. The two boys are floating over a half-full (or is it half-empty?) huge stemmed glass spilling its contents: a transparent liquid that spirals around the two boys as a watery dragon. The boys' clothes look different where the liquid dragon touches them: Kuzuryuu's striped black suit turns into the light brown Hope's Peak uniform; he is also wearing a black eyepatch with a curled up white dragon on it over his right eye, two rings on his right hand, and a third ring on his left pointer finger. Hinata's casual white and green clothes turn black where the dragon touches, and a hint of long dark hair can be glimpsed behind him. The stemmed glass is slowly breaking into pieces against a black background below Hope's Peak, cracks climbing up the stem and reaching the side of the glass where the liquid is gathered. The words of the fanfiction title, 'The Broken Cup,' are also breaking down like shattered glass.

Cover art for my Danganronpa fanfiction: The Broken Cup (strongly inspired by Makoto Shinkai's movie Your name)

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goforthequill

1 year ago

It’s Not In The Stars

Every mortal had a soulmate. Death didn’t.

"So?" Puss’ red rose twirled between his claws.

"So, you should stop pursuing me, and go back to your soulmate," Death growled.

"Kitty and I have an open relationship. Sweet of you to worry, though," Puss purred.

"I’m not supposed to mingle with mortals! This is why I don’t have a mark!"

"That doesn’t sound like a ‘no,’" Puss caressed Death’s chin with the flower. "I don’t care what fate has to say. But I do care about your answer."

Despite his suave voice, the rose trembled in his paw.

Death took it.

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goforthequill

1 year ago

Celebrating the OTW’s 16th Anniversary

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goforthequill

1 year ago

Monochromatic, full body pencil drawing of Puss in Boots and Death from 'The Last Wish:' the two characters are standing back to back and looking contemplatively at each other over their shoulder, and share a shadow. Puss is standing akimbo and holding his sword with both paws, his weapon points straight up. Death is holding a golden hourglass in his left paw, and his right arm is fully turned to gold, along with his sickle with the crossed out cat lives engraved on it, which looms behind Puss' feathered hat. Everything but the golden elements is black and white.

Cover art for my fanfiction The Golden Hourglass!

It was about time I drew Puss and Death together.

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goforthequill

1 year ago

Full body charcoal drawing of Puss in Boots standing akimbo with his sword pointed at the viewer, wearing a menacing expression with slitted pupils. One of Death's sickles is at his back, with the handle in his belt. Puss is partly obscured by Jan Serpent's looming shadow: she is holding a knife in one hand and a net in the other.

"Hand over that sickle, kitty cat."

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goforthequill

1 year ago

Pestilential Tide

Death waited by the riverbank of Hamelin.

A black tidal wave rose and collapsed, narrowly missing the tabby running from the giant swarm of rats.

Wild-eyed, claws out, the cat growled around the ancient rat trapped in his maw, swatted fiercely at the rodents that came too close, shook off the ones that jumped on his back, without slowing down.

Puss jumped into the river, claws gripping a drifting log. The rats tried to swim to their captured leader. They got swallowed by the wild currents like black foam.

"You’re giving me a real workout," Death shook his head fondly.

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goforthequill

2 years ago

archiveofourown.org

The Golden Hourglass - Chapter 7 - Cinder_Quill - Puss in Boots (DreamWorks Movies) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter 7 is out!

Aaand the chapter count went up again because I had to cut a chapter in two due to an upcoming tone shift, oops. Let's see if I can stick to a decimal.

I hope you like the chapter!

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