Lys Noire Page One | Page Three

Lys Noire: Page One | Page Three

And here’s Lys Noire, Page Two! Faster than I thought it would be.

Lys Noire is an AU fancomic I am making, based on the incredible Daughter of the Lilies comic by @bludragongal. You can follow along with the tag #lysnoire

TRANSCRIPT:

Titlebox: LYS NOIRE An Alternate Universe Fancomic for Daughter of the Lilies

Orrig: Ve have a client

Lyra: Finally. One more day without a job and I’d be bored enough to yank my own teeth out.

Orrig: Vere is Brent?

Lyra: Don’t know, don’t care.

Thunder: *Thunders*

Brent: GRUMBLE GRUMBLE –Last time I ever take a lost pet job GRUMBLE

Thistle: Oh! You’re soaked! Here, I’ve got a towel, you should go dry off.

Titlebox: (Thistle also got Orrig a towel)

Orrig: Dav.

Titlebox: (It was less sparkly)

Some Notes: 1) I… uh… Yes, there was a point where I said to myself, ‘backgrounds are stupid, the last panel is going to be shoujo sparkles instead’. Sorry not sorry. And then I cackled as I finished the page and my family stared at me.

2) The way I see it, Brent takes all of the missing animal cases. Every once in a blue moon that might be something interesting like an exotic pet, but mostly that’s little old ladies or kids who scraped together a few coins to ask a detective to go find Fluffy. Brent grumbles and complains the entire time but he’s not fooling anyone because he also volunteers every time (and in case you are worried, Mr Scruffypants has just been delivered safely home)

3) OK, I actually get kind of anxious about misrepresenting other people’s characters on the weirdest things– other people are like “this is my headcanon” and I’m like “THIS IS PROBABLY OOC DON’T HATE ME”. Figuring out what’s on everybody’s desks was like that for me, but here is my current theory as to what each member of the main cast would keep on a PI desk:

Orrig: Pretty basic, current paperwork and some family photos

Brent: Is always a huge mess, he can never find the paper he’s looking for

Lyra: Depends on her mood. If she’s angry, the desk might be dominated with gun maintenance supplies. Happy, paper and stationary and letters. Bored, and she actually cleans the darn thing. Rest of the time, probably lots of bottles.

Thistle: This one I feel pretty confident about. Books, plants, a cup of tea. I kind of see Thistle as being the best at typing so the typewriter sort of ended up on her desk.

4) Last page I thought drawing water was hard. Turns out that drawing wet clothes is much harder– and when I tried finding reference photos and tutorials on the internet, what I found was rather more… NSFW than I was hoping for. Other hard things to draw on this page: People walking, towels (how is this hard???), typewriters, that coatrack that ended up getting covered by speech bubbles anyway, the whole thing because drawing is hard and artists are basically wizards

Just a couple of notes:

1) Oh my goodness, thank you everyone who’s liked my art these past couple of days. I am overwhelmed! Hopefully you like the actual first page when it’s finished, probably sometime next week? (I draw super slow)

2) When this dieselpunk AU fancomic goes up, it’ll all be under the tag #lysnoire

3) I decided to title the fancomic “Lys Noire” (French for Black Lily) because I was mashing different titles together and tried “Daughter of the Lilies Noir” because film noir, and “Black Lily” just sounded like a pretty cool DOTL fanfic/fancomic title.

4) I just now found out that there is a kind of lily called a Black Wizard Lily. (OK, it’s actually the Black Asiatic Lily, there’s just a company that markets them as “Wizard Lilies”-- BUT STILL)

Another Dieselpunk!AU Thistle, up in spite of my scanner being a pill.

Lys Noire Page One | Page Two | Page Four

Lys Noire Page 3. Re-uploaded; last time I was lazy and posted a photo of the page instead of using my scanner (mainly because said scanner is too small for my sketchbook and it’s a pain to cobble multiple scans together) but I just haven’t been happy with the image quality so I decided to do it again.

TRANSCRIPT:

Orrig (v.o.): Vas raining bullets outside, like sky vas at var. Maybe vun ve vere losing.

Lyra: So, what is this case anyway? Eaugh, not another referral from DeBries.

Brent: Ugh.

Thistle: DeBries? Who’s that?

Brent: Another detective agency– bigger.

Lyra: And they all have sticks up CENSORED.

Brent: If they referred something to us, it’s a case they wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole.

Orrig (v.o.): This kind ov veather is bad news for detective. Regular clients don’t come out vhen they need boat to get around.

Orrig: DeBries or not, I vant you on best behavior. New client should be here soon.

Orrig (v.o.): So, day like this, the only clients who come are clients who are desperate.

Lyra: Fine. But if they think I’m the secretary the way the last guy did, punching him counts as my best behavior.

Thistle: I’m not sure it works like–

Lyra: Do you remember the one with the monkey that stole Brent’s gun? Ha!

Brent: Hey. That wasn’t–

Lyra: You should have seen his face!

Brent: Shut up!

Angela: (Listening to all this from the hallway) … Swell.

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Most film noir mysteries start when a beautiful femme fatale in a red dress walks through the door. I’ll let you decide if I succeeded in making my dwarf OC beautiful, you’ll have to take my word for it on the red– but is she a femme fatale? We’ll see.