#brinebear

Someone uploaded the original pic to Youtube with a windows movie maker 3d ripple effect on the butt for 10 hours and it got crossposted to almost every corner of the internets erm….weird(let's say🥸) side

Randy shootrockets to 15 seconds of fame without even knowing it( hes too cozy dreaming n sleeping on Gillis' pecs to care )

But his stardom was extended due to a small group of dedicated fans who pump out collaborative shitty lemon yaoi about him and Gillis( who he mentions ocassionally on the blog. But no one else. Prefers solitude n privacy in general ) faster than explosive diarrhea

Randy still doesn't give a shit

No one knows what he actually looks like bcos that was 1 back-photo so different people have diff versions of him which eventually snowballs into. Like. RPF fanfics n art etc. (Foreshadowing..; -) )

THEN everyone starts to get opinions on how Gillis is written as a puppy love fanboy self-insert.

Two sides form. Pro-Gillis : they want to really flesh the character out, distinct from aromatic artist, and be sensitive about his probably traumatic childhood. Anti- Gillis: they think Gillis was always just gillis-ded( gilded haw haw) thrash

Randy has logged off for a bit of a break bc him and Gillis are gonna do a no commentary( as in; theyre not gonna talk to each other much except to ask for kisses n some other things vital-for-life, bc Randy just wanna like, vibe , n Gillis can respect that ) longplay of ULTRAKILL, a game my friend described as "Youre a robot fueled by blood and youre killing demons in hell <:) "

( he promises to hold Gillis' little hand thru the scary parts so. Basically the whole time🥰)

Without uploading to their twitch stream; its nice and chats a riot but sometimes u just need to lounge in a comfy dress+ catear-set headphones with ur bf…

So bc of this theres a lack of content which causes further religious schism in his vast fanbase

* pokemon voice * a new challenger approaches ! To fill the void in hearts of Artie fans everywhere: ....Randy???? Himself??

Thats right. It got so byzantine and Gillis was almost totally forgotten(even the oldheads' memories of him being babey faded...)

That Randy ended up on the sexyman wiki in record time, as an Apollyon class at that: It was well earned. Even a normie could hardly browse youtube comments without seeing two au Randy's bedroom eye-ing each other as someones pfp.

Randy is busy taking in every sensation from gillis' sweaty " its for gym!!!" plush pink heart bathrobe that he left out to marinate on the treadmill( for show; its way too small for his bulk. He can just like. Stand on it n watch the red timer tick a little bit every day to feel accomplished good for him tbh )

The blog takedown by FBI was mild surprise to Randus: He knew his art was proudly revolutionary after all

And that tyrants can never truly suppress the people's will

So he just focuses on making survival strategies for standing in line at the local soup kitchen for his mother bc shes too old to do it anymore. Wishes Kamal worked there< kamal volunteers elsewhere> and came with him too.....He supposes anyone who thinks Boris is the hottest of the hot is not too big a loss( the feeling of disrespecting him even now by using first-name-basis brings Boris' beloathed shit eating grin to his face - yet inside a pang in Randersons heart; still)

ANYWAY but what actually happened was even more apeshit bc an ardent anarchist aromatic artist fan hacked the display so that the holographic map in a Pentagon debriefing for " ATTENTION! So this is where we come in and attack, men"--

Randys round galooties in crisp high definiton x3600, a sexy pickle green tone

Swaying all under its spell

More various assorted guys pour in bc of its toxic aura

Flies to the spiderweb.

Someone is about to say smth but then the WIGGLE happens and theres a national emergency countrywide lockdown for 10 hours bc the Pentagon is unresponsive

Bad for Randy though bc now the whole subject of his online hobby has become such fascinating taboo to US citizens that he asks Gillis to bodyguard him incase the droves of raving protestors demanding his release from area 51 figure out how he actually looks like.

Clinging onto bf's soft freckled biceps is so good he almost forgets hes accidentally causing some kind of cultural reset,

Gillis is super nervous hes not doing protection well but small bfs content(?Gillis hopes) humming soothes him.

Also internal immigrations office is in paperwork hell as Artie fans mass migrate in unpredictable patterns together, sowing a new epoch of discord

Through all though-life ..life finds a way. Like Kamal likes to quote.

Randy gets weirded out a lil when going to cons with kamal(kamal is roger rabbit again this time with the big bunny ear headband n poofy pants to boot. Hes really holding out hope he can ask out Habit to be his jessica at a con one day. Randy is himself bc hes iconic enough )--

--And theres people cosplaying as a skinny twink ( accurate) and big titted n assed bara( ton of tissue paper packed into there to achieve effect so credit where due to the devil tbh) version of 'aromatic artist' delivering passionate steamy dialog to each other as the audience struggles against god himself not to commit any public indecency

But things are slowly calming down.

Habit found out abt this whole racket thru the TV news and lost all hope in humanity( plus some monsterkind too) instantly. He'd know that stupid ass photo anywhere. He needed weeks to recover n heal

Life goes on.

Randy finally breathes and starts a humble Angelfire page under the pen name "Gandy"( in honor of him and Gillis' future kiddo if they decide to)  and hopes no one finds him out but only time will tell…

Oh uh. Kamal might have been part of that fan scene for a while too( without knowing it was actually Randy who is Aromatic Artist). But Randy still has a crush of medieval proportions on him so. Forgiven, for bonny Kamal- to hark to that gent's infodump; to drinketh malmsey; t'wast an ex'rcise in prosody thee did wish to spendeth thy whole life answ'ring.

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