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Drew my sis' OC Nobuko from her My Hero Academia/A Certain Magical Index crossover 🖤😈

She was really difficult to paint, but I think the end result looks so cool!

Oh my GOD this is so beautiful I barely know what to say! You’ve gotten SO many amazing details into this and I’m just going to ramble out my favourites off the top of my head while I flail around joyfully: 

Qifrey’s self-imposed sad wet cat pathetic swag, the first strip of light hitting his (increasingly light sensitive…) remaining eye but he keeps it wide open even so, the ribbon with a mind of its own curling towards the open door…….. OLLY!!!!! The way you’ve perfectly captured the shaggy stage of his depression-born lack of a haircut and his big harrowed eyes behind it, tfw no Qifrey for months :’’’( it's such an excellent and heartbreaking expression. The window of the door looking like a halo around his head in the last frame!!!!! Patron saint of betting on losing dogs (for love) Olruggio of the Torch clocking in to the narrative every day without fail, it ain’t much but it’s honest work etc. Qifrey’s body language is also so pitch perfect here and so true to the manga, the way he’s clutching at his wrist at the end makes my whole heart squeeze.

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But you know what I think would hurt him worse?

When he finds out that Qifrey, through the trauma and the horrible reality of his existence, has warped the situation into being *all his own fault*.

Can you imagine? Olly is aware enough to realize that him making Qifrey promise to stay alive by repeatedly taking his memories was a special kind of torture for him. He knows that this was an incredibly selfish and cruel demand. The minute he knows about it, he wouldn’t hesitate to beg forgiveness.

But imagine Qifrey beats him to the punch. Just- falls to his knees, voice shaking, as he says he understands if Olly can’t forgive him. That he doesn’t know why he keeps on doing so. That he doesn’t deserve that kindness from Olly.

And Olly has to sit there and realize just how much this has so deeply affected Qifreys perception of himself and their relationship. He’s suddenly confronted with how living like this has made Qifrey loathe himself so completely.

I am stronger than the jar

⁠⁠I know what left and right are

⁠⁠smashing the jar will make a mess

⁠⁠I have strong and dextrous hands

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