Doodles I Made While I Was Sick

this was basically the prison arc right

A lil redraw of one of my first cotl comics, can't believe these satanic sillies have kept me drawing them for a year, praise the Lamb

Original comic---> Warning old art

hc that tubbo is REALLY insecure about his missing eye, so he wears an eyepatch in new l’manberg and absolutely hates it. it’s too big and garish, it rubs up on his wounds all wrong, he hates seeing himself with it. it makes him feel weak. ranboo notices (of course he does) and thinks that tubbo deserves to feel handsome again. they set off after a cabinet meeting to see if ghostbur has any books on prosthetics.

it should be noted that ranboo has no fucking clue what they’re doing. in the weeks after the plans inception, he has amassed over fifty handcrafted glass eyes, of which exactly zero will work. they’re too big, too small, not the right color. he even managed to make one with a rectangular pupil before they thought better of it. it's a shame, too, that was his best one yet. they're tired and frustrated and the eye collection is really starting to creep him out. ranboo considers asking for help.

ranboo remembers the tumultuous political state of new l'manburg.

ranboo thinks this may be a one-man project.

it really shouldn’t be a surprise that tubbo finds out. they've been practically attached at the hip since ranboo joined, and he was never any good at keeping things from tubbo anyway. they're popping over to ranboo's to get supplies for whatever adventure they're going on today, and the little chest labeled SECRET DO NOT OPEN is too full, propped open with dozens of lumpy glass spheres. tubbo notices (of course he does) and gets halfway through a i can't believe you have an eye fetish before he realizes. ranboo thinks it's a bad sign when he goes silent and an even worse one when his eye goes all misty and aw shit he made the president cry.

he's stuttering through an apology when tubbo's one eye meets their two and he asks is this for me? did you make these for me? ranboo nods and tubbo smiles like a kid on christmas, watery and bright. they've missed that smile. before he knows what's happening, tubbo's tackled them into a hug, sending both of them careening to the ground. ranboo vows there and then to give the man anything and everything he desires now and forever, just so he can feel like this again. not a veteran, not a politician, just tubbo, carefree and kind.

yeah, that sounds like a good life.

as quickly as ranboo went down, he's being pulled back up with tubbo insisting that they try every single eye, previous adventure abandoned. they spend the day like that, going through the chest, laughing at some of ranboos earlier attempts, and screaming with excitement when one managed to fit.

he looks beautiful. more confident, brighter, somehow. they burn his eyepatch that night. ranboo had already gotten him a better one anyway.

Ive been thinking about this trend but instead of metaphorical items and junk its just me attempting diff artstyles

(btw thanks for @desklamper for compiling this) (Artists: @bamsara @runningwithscizzorz @konjkitkatty @donutfloats @acis-arts @aveloka @lambment @unwri-ten @stychu-stych @dogiperson + me at the end)

may i offer you something ? water ? food ? my heart ?? a whole life together ???

i’ve seen some ppl say they are excited for the c!eret + c!techno + c!tubbo teamup that’s gonna happen tmrrw, bc they both betrayed c!tubbo and maybe this can be both their final redemption point for them. i have. an issue with that.

the thing is that c!eret EARNED their redemption. c!techno has not. idk about you, but I didn’t forget that c!techno let c!dream out of prison (“yeah but it was just business–” I don’t care, he still let the most dangerous person on the server out.)

also it irks me bc c!tubbo interacts with both of them different. c!tubbo definitely trusts c!eret more now than he did after the final control room. what has c!techno really done to earn c!tubbo’s trust? he literally let the guy who was gonna kill him last year out of prison. not to mention that c!techno caused doomsday. c!eret has apologized several times for their betrayal, both through actions and words (they were literally one of the ppl there during the disc finale to save c!clingyduo.) as for c!techno, he hasn’t apologized at all.

and i did not forget when c!techno took the syndicate on their little fieldtrip to snowchester just so he could threaten c!tubbo’s home. again. c!eret + c!techno are the duality of redemption. one actually worked toward theirs, and the other hasn’t even begun to start his.

Two lovers have reincarnated throughout history, destined to find each other and fall in love all over again. There’s also this third guy that reincarnates alongside them… we don’t really know what he does.

i'm going back to this moment with c!dream and c!techno and their discussion about church prime.

dream starts out by saying that he put the bell in church prime and techno questions whether or not dream can actually profit because he doesn't believe, calling dream a heretic and dream doesn't dispute the fact he doesn't believe. (which is interesting because it tells us two things 'primes' only go to believers and dream is not a believer, despite having seen a god with his face.)

what he does dispute, after a moment of thought, is the profit aspect, saying he might not believe but he's profiting off those that do. he even does a literal evil voice to say this. and techno's response is, 'but you're not', pointing out that everyone else is profiting off dream.

so, two things, right.

one, it's the hesitation and insistence at first from dream that he is, in fact, profiting off people complete with Villain Voice but when techno pushes the matter further, dream ends up relenting pretty quick and agreeing with techno that yeah, people are profiting off of him. both techno and dream have a history of backing down when the other says (techno at the green festival, for example) and it's interesting that dream seems intent to play this role right up until techno is like 'nah'.

two, techno says they're 'profiting off dream'. not that dream merely doesn't profit because he doesn't believe which would actually make a little more sense (because he's simply missing out on primes by not being a partner/believer). but no. techno says 'it's actually everyone else that's profiting off of you.' there's an implication of use that's really interesting to me because it won't be the last time that dream brings up people profiting off him going forward. he paints the torture as business. the fact he's alive at all is because people have something to gain from him. neither techno nor dream are wrong when they say people have profited off dream. and it's interesting and maybe a little more impactful coming from techno, someone else who has a history with being used by others.

just some thoughts.

Gosh, I'm sure I'll get some discourse on this, but I'll just delete it if I do-

I feel like people forget that L'manburg tried to kill Technoblade.

Like, when they talk about the Tommy/Technoblade betrayal, some people act like Technoblade should have just walked away and shrugged off that Tommy joined the people who tried to murder him. And who still WANT to murder him. Like, remember, after the failed Execution, Quackity talked about how they needed to put killing Technoblade on the back burner because Dream was a bigger threat, but they still VERY MUCH WANTED TO KILL TECHNOBLADE.

Did Tommy know all this? No, he couldn't have known it. He wasn't there. And I think Tommy choosing to go back and make amends with Tubbo was the correct thing to do for himself. I don't think it was the best choice to abandon Technoblade in a crater surrounded by enemies that want him dead, but I do think that Tommy NEEDED to reconcile with Tubbo. That was always a step he needed to take. That's his Tubbo.

But, like, why does it seem like some people just wanted Technoblade to shrug and give Tommy a pat on the back and let him keep the axe? What kind of rational person hears "Actually, now that they'll have me back, I'm going to rejoin the group of people that dropped an anvil on your head! Their companionship is more important to me than your safety" and reacts positively?

Did Tommy say that, word for word? No. Again, he didn't know about all of the hurt L'manburg caused Techno. But that's the message his actions send. Tommy chose Technoblade's would be murderers. Tommy chose the people that would definitely try again to murder Technoblade.

Why would Techno take that positively? Why wouldn't he be angry? Why wouldn't he feel like Tommy doesn't see him as a person, only a means to an end? Whether you think his reaction of blowing L'Manburg up was correct or not, how could you expect Technoblade to be anything less than hurt and angry at that?

It confuses me.

silly little guys i tell ya!