beautiful sunshine man

As tempted by @generalized-incompetence's final Deck The Halls chapter: Dirk and Todd engaging in sofa snuggles.

I did a series of these because variety! Pick your fave! Third is kind of a joke tho. Anyway as a result they're not exactly refined, so sorry about that.

(If it's not obvious (which, given the picture quality and the quantity of random sketchy lines, I can imagine that it isn't) Todd has a hand in Dirk's hair in all of these, as in the wonderful source material.)

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[ID: Three sketchy pencil drawings on paper, all of Dirk and Todd on a sofa. The first has Todd sitting on the left side, facing slightly towards the centre, with his right leg up and his left leg hanging over the edge of the sofa. Dirk is leaning against him with his head on Todd's shoulder, legs along the rest of the sofa. Todd has his left hand on Dirk's hair.

The second drawing has Todd lying along the sofa with his head against the arm. Dirk is lying parallel to him, pushing the boundaries of "beside" into "practically on top of" and smiling. Todd has his left hand on Dirk's hair. Todd also looks a bit disgruntled which was not intentional but seems to be his default expression when I draw him.

An art based on an adorable fic by @riotmaidstone

I just needed some heart eyes Todd staring at Dirk being Dirk 🥰 and this fic was the perfect inspiration.

Darkness has come to the land of Wendimoor…

Look at these babies!! 😭😭😭

Remember the first time watching this scene and just going

Oh.

Like... its not that easy... or graceful hopping up to sit on a car roof

So I'm imagining that Dirk gets out of the car first and immediately just starts trying to sit up on the roof, and is jumping and sticking his legs up and scrambling to get a hold and Todd is just like wtf.... he just said he was getting gas and now he's like... doing weird ass shit again, so he waits like 30 seconds before he goes out and is like.... what are you doing and Dirk is like getting gas and Todd is like yes I am, my card is in my pocket Todd as he's still hanging off the side of the car and Todd gets his wallet out and just starts to pump the gas and Dirk finally gets onto the car and it leads into this scene where he's all like oh you, being my assistant already... so sweet...

Like I dont know the exact calculations for how high someone can just like backwards hoist themselves onto a surface like a car roof, but I'm pretty sure it's not as easy as just a good hop lol though I am a good like... 7 inches shorter than Samuel Barnett so who knows... or maybe he walked up the hood of the car and sat down

Yep, nailed it, got it in one, Poncho.

(tried my hand at colored pencils today bc it would have been homophobic to draw Panto in black and white)

The obvious answer would be that it's Blackwing related, that Blackwing was close enough to a hospital that she doesn't want to be somewhere that people are going to be annoying about her leaving or whatever.

But since we don't have a lot of info about Bart's backstory, I believe there was like a brief mention maybe in the comics that she had gotten started with the murdery stuff pretty young. I don't imagine she'd have gone to Blackwing immediately, so there had to be a portion of time as small child Bart was being found around dead bodies/being seen killing people whether it's inadvertently or directly. Small children killing people don't go to prison, they get institutionalized.

So imagine little sweet baby Bart, doesn't know why the deaths keep happening around her, she's not violent, things just happen and people just die, and now she's stuck in a place with people that keep asking her why she does the things she does, and trying to get her to stop and be better, but then people keep dying, despite everything they put in place, and her freedoms get smaller and smaller and nobody can give her any answers to why she keeps doing this.

Until one day, there's a visitor, a CIA government visitor that tells her they can help her, that she's not bad, she's important, she's essential to the universe, so she goes with them and swears never to go to another stupid hospital again.

Like the Dramatic camera angle change

Theyre walking side by side together and then the moment that Todd starts speaking the camera splits and they separate and it's dirk vs todd

Gosh it hurts me so much