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TAYLOR DEARDEN as MEL KING for @lunarfuneral

evolution of mel's crush on langdon

huhu! 🙇‍♀️ this is a piece inspired by a fic my best friend, @snowchildz , wrote for me, and I could not resist drawing something for it 🥹

it’s a very gentle, sweet and sooo well written Kingdon fic and everyone who loves the pair should go read it asap!

thanks to my heart for writing this for me 🫰

(yes I’ve read it at least 5 times already, sue me!)

I somehow missed this moment when I watched it the first time. But I rewatched it, and this scene just hit me. It's so awful. So terribly cynical.

This is the season 1 version of Frank Langdon. How exhausted and burnt out he must be to act like this. How heavy and worn his mask of nonchalance must be.

In contrast, in season 2 Langdon is so open. He worries about Mel, and Robby, and Mohan, and Louis, and his patient with sepsis, and the kid with asthma... He talks about the things he likes. He's still sarcastic, but it's more like... a good kind of sarcasm.

And I love the work that Patrick Ball and the Pitt's crew did on this character. In season 1, Langdon is constantly tense, he moves fast, he always looks hyper-alert, and even his hair adds more sharp lines to his face. He seems like a person who never truly stops and relaxes. In season 2, he's way slower, his gaze is open and curious, he smiles more often, he doesn't look as thin as before, and his hair creates softer lines around his face.

Just look at him, season 1 version and season 2 version