#deathbit

(Look at Gambit and Rogue holding hands💔)

Awwwww, Rogue looks so happy for about 30 seconds there.

"I got half a mind to grab hold of the ground and stop this whole planet from turning until reality comes to its senses and puts you back in my life where you belong." - Rogue

Working on more Romy and X-men drawings but I keeping coming back to Deathbit. They really nailed that unsettling look and I'm excited to see more of his full design.

Quote from the X-Men 97 Yearbook (thanks @gambitspotting for sharing a photo of the Gambit memoriam page 😭).

Sketch below cut.

i know they all high fived when they thought of, storyboarded and animated this.

Death, ending and transformation as we see that the cards have changed from his playing cards to tarot. Death also HOLDING Gambit’s card and also his literal new moniker for this period.

The Tower, upheaval and chaos. The height of the xmen’s problems

The Lovers, love, harmony and alignment. It literally being Gambit and Rogue. But also resembling Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden with the Snake coiling them….choices and temptation. The skeleton they’re standing on? Remy now being touched by death, Genosha, their pasts and their issues beneath them.