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So I realized after I posted I didn't draw thier goggles... that's okay. Cause I finished everything else on time. I like to think Herman and Bob-bob are talking silly alternate universe stuff.

Woaw, I forgot to cross post here but I spent all of Saturday just trying to get these out of my head and on a timely manner on twitter. So i was working on all of these and posting them ASAP - it went from just two parts to three because I was being ambitious even if i was just doing lineart. No screentones, no coloured lines, just og lineart.

There are personal details missing but I also really wanted to tell a slowburn fanfic kinda story ...to a point. I had ruminated over how to tell this story with no dialogue just vingettes like the trope used to start it "5+1". So dear ghost-reader my brain started with simple little things I liked in the fiction I read.

Basics like Waterboy slowly gaining confidence, Robert's seemingly natural comfort around Herman, and them just casually hanging out because they're in the same place at the same time. I like Robert realizing his feelings first and just being awkward about it, give or take my own headcanons to add to his struggles. I also wanted to show the passage of time with Herman's hair growing as well as him being drier unless there's nervousness. He'll always be a bit of a soggy froggy to me even if it goes down to a moist towlette.

Moving from left to right in the first image...of course there's Waterboy and Robert at work, i thought up WB gathering the stones to talk to Robert during a particularly rough day and cheering him up like Robert did for him. The middle image is Robert and Herm talking during a BBQ/kick back I konda imagined at...whereever that one official pool image takes place. Maybe they're having a slightly quiet moment inside out of the sun ,i just wanted that sweet connection. The final lineart is them early morning post a Friday shift, just running into eachother somewhere and getting breakfast to go, thought it looks like Herm had a later night, he's happy to talk to Robert about going to that show he was looking forward to.

The second part, with Herm dripping water onto Robert? Me mostly putting the tall man into situations that stress him out. Like I do think that Herm can gain confidence but he's not used to his own body in his 25(?) years of life. He knows how to make himself smaller and is trying to learn how to just be more himself outwardly. Which will still lead to tripping over your own chunky boots from time to time aaand into your boss.

[[Heh rock on Herman, your metalhead fandom iterations will live deeply in my heart.]]

As for Robert, man knows what he wants over all as time goes on and he's not going to be quiet about it. Dont remove him from the situations , he's right where he wants to be.

Thats about it for this part. I'll eventually post the previews for the NSFW part buuut it's easier to just see on bluesky or twitter. And of course the reminder I'm a whole ass adult who does post nsfw on a whim.