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Smalls and Grey!

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An unlikely little pair who spend their days running across the multiverse to escape the pursuit of Smalls' much older twin, and find healing along the way.

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Smalls: Originally known as Nightmare, he became trapped in stone within his original universe 500 years ago. Upon getting free, he's met with confusion, fear, and panic. He doesn't understand his brother anymore, he doesn't want to die. He's young and unhealed from the abuse he suffered that he feels only happened just yesterday, and lashes out accordingly, trusting no one and closing himself in. But since finding Grey, and slowly learning more about all these worlds and a life free of his past torment...

Grey: Originally known as Sans, his tale is as old as time. And while rotting away in his corpse of a universe, he ends up finding the catalyst that gets him out of his dying world; a little, goopy monster by the name of Nightmare. The two don't trust each other, of course, and the kid is wound up so tightly that even Grey's most benign movements is met with hostility. But...neither of them have anything else. And when the kid's brother comes knocking, Grey grabs the kid and the two make their first escape together. Now, he's Smalls' guardian, teaching him and helping him escape from his twin. And his new name was given to him by Smalls. It sounded WAY better than the other options...

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about time i got around to drawing again, and of course it's for my son ajshsksh but I adore smalls and his newfound freedom with dust/grey, and hopefully i'll get around to drawing more of the two!

while I can't decide if they'd both still be goopy (they were originally born from the fruit of the tree of emotions; after nim died, the tree started to wither and it's fruit falling from its dying branches. from that rot was born the twins, knowing nothing but an echoed vengeance and having no sensible soul to guide them onto a better path), i did want to make them stranger as twins

I hope it went really well!!

thank you!!

grey had resigned himself to his 'victory' over the human, as hollow as that now was after so long of nothing. and smalls had been on the run for quite some time, just barely staying ahead of his now older twin who was relentlessly hunting him down.

it was a complete accident, stumbling into grey's universe, and right off the bat they hated each other: smalls trusted no one and was pretty severely hurt, starving, and over all terrified. grey, on the other hand, was suspicious of the child and at first assumed smalls wasn't actually real until the little guy had rudely told him to stop being a creep.

like, the guy on the top of his beef list is killer. why? smalls thinks he smells. but also like...he doesn't like killer very much, like he knows too much and is dying to say so. killer freaks him out.