#*lynette

A little sketch. Near end/post-Wandering Souls Lynette. Came to me because of the "Little Twinkle" fic.

Lynette and then a version with the fur coat she grows if she’s stuck “shifted” for too long or it’s the winter season.

After bringing in the newest bit of scrap metals and other junk, Zhang was contently tinkering in the solitude of his “workshop”, doing what he does best. Making bombs.

“Hey.”

But a voice interrupted that silence. “Hm?” He cast a glance to see who it was. It was her. Lynette. Standing in the door way. She looked better since the last time he saw her. And dressed from the looks of it. A top covering up all those nasty scars.

“So Chilong… is it?” She asked. But as he was about to reply a sharp ting, a snikt, made him hold his tongue. He noticed her rubbing her wrist then glints around her fingers. Those claws. They retracted for a moment. “Or is it Jiahao?” The claws sprung again.

For a moment, his eyes went wide. A tool tumble from his hand and clattered to the floor. How does she know that?

“Or is it Zhang? Doesn’t matter.” She shook her head. “Helios trusts you, I trust you. Just don’t delve into my past again and we won’t have problems.” There was full venom in her voice. He swore there was a slight haze appearing around her yet those slats on her arms were close. Then that rhythmic snikt of her claws popping in and out was growing louder. “Got it?” Even more venom as her eyes narrowed on him.

He took a moment to calm himself, to get his mind thinking. Seemed as she cared more about her past than his identities. No hate when mentioning that one name. Just anger he could feel when mentioning the past he knew he accidentally gleaned. He locked eyes with her and nodded. “Got it.” Need friends, not enemies.

Been wanting to color this for awhile. And little scene idea for a future chapter. Some of her colors are still up in the air but think I have a solid idea for now. Changing a few things about her arms since she shares some mimetic properties with the Ferrojinn a.k.a. shroud. So she can change the color on them at will. Usually sticks to black with those blue shimmers after getting freed. Use to have those ADVENT colors.

Also she would more accurately look like this from ideas I’ve been having on consequences of her being in her shifted form for too long. Beginnings of that fur coat.

Try my best not to spoil too much as I haven’t gotten to that part in the fic and I’m still figuring out somethings. But with some fics I’ve done, some stuff has been spoiled.

But everyone’s got an (un)healthy amount of PTSD and other trauma. And then unintentionally psionic bond(have to work on the concept and small fic still) forming which just makes Lynette unreasonable hostile to him somedays. She’s not fond of psionics with all the pain they’ve caused her. And yes, she is absolutely miffed she’s a psion but her powers are inaccessible after the incident that led to her back and spine being damaged and replaced.

From the “What Ifs” I did, it will be canon she is intentionally and semi-unintentionally taking advantage of him. Pulling at his guilt from not being about to sever the spontaneous bond and then his trauma from Kyon. And sadly Zhang’s brain just goes on autopilot after she’s pressed the right buttons after prying at him for some time. He’s not entirely sure how to approach it as it goes on.

Gonna take some outside help *cough*Helios*cough* to point to Lynette how messed up everything is to get her brain clicking. But things will get better. With lots of awkwardness.