Just Me.

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

Now we all know Scylla would INSIST on being front and center on their poster lol but here we go

shadowhunter families

this took so long to finish you can see my style changing halfway through lol. it was super fun trying to include subtle family resemblances

Meanwhile, Merlin, standing behind his throne staring down the court: Yeah, i’m precious

Imagine the knights and Arthur finding out about it.

I mean the shed is supposed to be drawn into comparison with the thought process that creates an isolating life spent in devotion to taking on burdens for other people at the expense of yourself, which is why the times where shirou talks with other people in the shed are also the times where he is opening up to accept the help of others instead of taking everything onto himself alone

when someone enters the shed without permission, they are passing an important threshold of personal detachment that shirou tries to maintain with the world, a threshold that he inherited from his father and uses to try to connect with him, although even his methods of doing so are sabotaged by kiritsugu's desire to keep him from following in his footsteps (ironically another threshold of detachment, this time from kiritsugu!)

while that threshold can be permeable at times, as it is with sakura (who has become a part of shirou's life so thoroughly that she can pass through the wall, though her own emotional barriers prevent herself from doing anything there) it is only through the invitation of people into his sealed-off world that he is able to accept that he needs to rely on them, too