#human together

Huffing a bit at her seeming uncaring while distracted, he stood and strode over to her side. “Alright, I’ll bite, what’s got you so… distracted…?” Finally able to see her work, his eyebrows raised in surprise. “Is that Connor… with a fish?” “Yep.” She nodded with a smile. Indeed it was, strokes of cool colors depicting the android surrounded by flowing water, a small freshwater fish suspended in his outstretched hands. “Connor recently told me about the first time he ever did something outside of his programming: he saved a fish that had fallen out of a broken tank. A dwarf gourami specifically. So, I wanna surprise him with this,” she explained.

“Well, drawing isn’t the only art you can do with paper. Maybe you’d like to write? Origami? Ooh, I think you’d be great at that, here!” She tore out a page from the back of the sketchbook, handing it to him. She’d seen him idly fiddle with quarters with great precision, so she knew he liked to keep his hands busy in some form. Connor eyed the thin sheet, turning it over in his hands a bit. He quickly found a couple resources to show him how to make origami in his internet database. After pressing and creasing the paper for a while, he had made a simple classic: a crane. Once finished, he presented it to Hannah and gave a couple tugs of its tail, making the wings flap. Hannah giggled. “I love it!” Connor grinned at her praise. She handed him a few more sheets to experiment with, and his folding and her drawing kept them both busy for the rest of the evening.

Before Connor even made it to Markus, Hannah was already running up to him, calling out his name, and greeting him with another tight hug. Connor hugged her in return, but soon took notice of a bullet graze on her left arm, an injury from the barricade attack, and pulled away slightly, inspecting the wound. “You’re hurt…” She shrugged it off, happy tears pricking at her eyes. “Who cares, that doesn’t matter!” “I do. Here…” Connor tugged off his tie, then wrapped it around the wound. “Before you lose any more Thirium.” "Oh… Thank you." After a bit of flustered silence, she stepped back, nodding her head towards Markus. “Okay, let’s go.”

finally able to post my pieces for the alliums and dahlias zine by @platonic-qpr-selfshipping! thanks for organizing this, and everyone else please check out all the wonderful work from the zine!

Hannah finally smiled, outreaching her hand towards Connor, and he met her halfway, as they held each other near their wrists, their way to find comfort in each other. The two then sighed, their anxieties now quelled with this talk. “Thank you, Connor, and especially you, Hank,” she quietly said, resting her head on Hank’s shoulder. “Yeah… thank you both…” Connor echoed, relaxing comfortably into the couch. “You’re both welcome.” After a few beats of silence, Hank spoke again. “So... is anybody getting up anytime soon?” “A few more minutes. This feels... nice,” Hannah admitted. “Alright then.”

breaking in the now somewhat unnecessary new tablet with chapter 10's drawing! unable to relate it to any of the september prompts but its still a fun one because this is technically a redraw after over 3 years! the piece i redrew i pretty much didnt like right off the bat and deleted it very soon after it was posted back then, so im glad to bring it some new life with the chapter art! original is below the cut!

“That’s where I recognize you from! I used to see you with him in the galleries when I worked for Stewart Bordeaux.” Another memory quickly came to her, practically jumping in excitement when she realized it. “I even remember running into you last week! At Bellini Paints?” A look of realization brightened Markus’s features. Frankly, he had nearly blocked out that entire terrible day, but he did recall that encounter: walking out of Bellini Paints just as she was walking in, the two of them locking eyes for a moment. With many androids sharing the same faces, he was never entirely sure if that was Hannah, but knowing that it was her delighted him in a way. He nodded, smiling. “I do remember that, yes…"

you thought chapter 8 would be wholesome connah moment, BUT IT WAS PAINTER FRIENDSHIP INSTEAD GET PRANKED listen ive drawn markus only twice and i wanted to draw him again, i even messed around in ps to do that cool android memory filter effect

Tears started to well up in Hannah’s eyes. Upon noticing them, Kara then pulled her into a warm, motherly hug. It made her tears spill over, and she returned the gesture after a moment. Alice joined in on the hug with her mother, and a worried Connor sat down and placed a tentative hand on her back. “I-it’s kinda scary,” Hannah vented, voice muffled into Kara’s shoulder. “With all this going on… I just hope everything’ll be okay…” “I hope so too,” Kara said, swaying her a bit and petting her hair. “For all our sakes.”