Big heart & an old soul

every autistic person watching this episode of dungeon meshi:

once more to see you.

While this image may be burned into Sahed’s mind

The further this goes and the more opportunities Julia misses to talk about this, the harder it becomes for me to keep reading calmly. Sahed has honestly shared everything about himself with Julia (well, now). But she is still keeping the most important secret from him. It seems to me that what hurts even more is not just that she is hiding this from him, but that he has the chance to help, yet she's depriving him of that... and most likely he will find out everything when it's too late to change anything.

On the other hand, I understand that Julia believes in a happy outcome. She believes that her problem will be solved. That's why she decides not to worry Sahed and probably thinks to tell him AFTER. Something like, "Well, here's the thing—I almost died-died. Funny, right? But everything's fine now, so don't worry!"

So, this is something I put together for the folks over on Ao3 for the longfic series I've been working on since the beginning of May, since people were curious about some of the concept art and/or (very) rough visuals.

Sherbet's Gate is basically a take on the idea of Pomni getting stranded in Candy Canyon Kingdom. While it takes inspiration from and shares certain elements with @totallyottie99's Peppermint Bandit AU, it is going differently than their AU concept, so sorry for those wishing to see an adaptation of that. I thank them for really kicking off the idea and bringing it to life, because I'd probably have kept this story to myself if it weren't for their work.

Also as a heads' up, the plot does predate Episode 3, so a lot of things and/or characterization probably won't match up to canon.

Virtually everything here is relatively spoiler-free for the plot, and someday in the near future there will be more images, and ones that are polished and actually have color!

I'll try to keep up with messages or questions the best I can, sorry for any late replies!

The actual fic is linked below too.

Happy holidays, have some Gummiguy! 🐊

Ekko drawing Powder in his notebook was so cute!

But you know who else does that too?