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Date Posted: July 23, 2026

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Richard’s great at acting crazy bc his eye acting is bonkers, right?

Imagine Thorin’s walking around Erebor with those gold sickness whispers in his ears like in the actual scene but he sees movement out of the corner of his eye

He whips around and shouts to see who’s there but doesn’t get an answer

He sees movement again and chases after them, shouting out “THIEVES!” (as a callback to Gollum)

As he runs (and run here is used loosely bc of how heavy his coat and crown are), you get glimpses of his reflection in the gold around Erebor. He stumbles and chases the intruder, getting closer to the throne room.

There’s a brief moment where Thorin gets a better look at the thief and he thinks it’s his father (which cracks open the gold sickness to bring back the Thorin Oakenshield Gandalf first found for the quest). He calls out to him and gives chase again, this time more desperate. He takes off some of the gold items he’s wearing in his haste.

Finally, he catches up to his “father” in the throne room where he sees his dark figure between the pillars. Thorin picks up a torch to see better and approaches.

In the growing light, more features come clear on the figure. The coat. The crown.

“Grandfather?” Thorin asks in horror. We get a flashback to Thror’s beheading but from Thorin’s POV and then a shot of it reflected in young!Thorin’s eyes.

In the present, Thorin’s steps closer with the torch and we realize no one’s there.

It’s a gold mirror.

Thorin’s not seeing his grandfather but himself.

The torch drops.

We return to the rest of the shot where Thorin throws his crown with realization.

AND THIS IS THE ONLY THING I CAN THINK OF

Guards! Put the blond man in spandex in situations!

Welcome to the Star Spider Grace AU Pilot! Here’s the previous Initial concepts . Me & Sam have been brewing this concept and now we’re both into too deep. Dunno how many chapters I will draw but anyway-

NEXT (ISSUE #1 / ISSUE#2 (already on my ko-Fi!)

Fics inspired by this concept:

I spent almost an entire work shift drawing this tooth-rotting fluff

basically the amazing digital circus