hello! Here to drop off some promised recs, we're still looking around and trying to find stuff we think you'd enjoy but we hope you like these in the meantime :) (these are rather soft on the whump scale sadly, I'll look for some more intense stuff. Do let me know if there's any specific tropes you'd like for me to keep an eye out for)
(some of) my own fic stash
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38332081
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29374692
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63400513
https://archiveofourown.org/works/30982970
as for the pencil sketch: we'd love something with Aurelia!, either regular or Familiar Vessel AU, or whatever you wish really, feel free to go crazy I trust you with her :]
…the young vessel, unlike its mature counterparts, has little in the way of natural defense. For these first stages of life, its body plan must carefully mirror the mold into which it was born - the chitin of the host's original body protects their void from the outside world until they can maintain a shape of their own, the protective, malleable "skin" that allows a Vessel's body to behave like a body, rather than just the glob of void it technically is. While Void is known as a horrifically caustic solvent to us, residents of the Above, to a creature of Void, much the same can be said about the Voidless air we breathe…
...while an elder vessel may quite happily persist outside of the Abyss, those whose skins have not yet toughened must seek out any coverage that they can to keep themselves safe from the caustic atmosphere of the world outside...