#monitsu

FIRST: Sorry for hijacking the Inozen tag with AU stuff. SECOND: I *HOPE* the Japanese text makes sense.

Please translating app, do NOT fail me now. 🍀🤞🏻🫣

I expanded the children scene a bit. (mind you, while in a online Meeting with all my collegues and was supposed to work)

Explanation/Spoilers below:

✧・ﾟ: *✧・ﾟ:* SPOILERS*:・ﾟ✧*:・ﾟ✧

Inosuke was, originally, a human child. He's always smiling and cheerful, even in the face of a terrible destiny.... he's ill and dying. He's slowly being turned into a 'roid to prolong his life, piece by painful piece, but there's no hope for a cure.

To celebrate this, have some happy Zenitsus to brighten your day!

Cutie-pies as little kids. Yes, it's the Repliroid AU... and yet, it's total canon that they're kids together, even if Ino is a machine built 800 years before Zenitsu was born. There's much, much more than meet the eye in this story, you have NO IDEA how psyched I am over it. I'm dying to make this an original and draw it and post it somewhere.

unrelated, but I was listening to this on a loop as I sketched:

Tanjirou: It's Tanjirou!

Inosuke:...

Inosuke: That's what I just said.

Zenitsu: ... *groans*

Inosuke: Do you still have some of this good stuff, Kentaro?

Tanjirou: IT'S TANJIROU!

Tanjirou: You mean the hard candy? I still have some. *smiles* You want one?

Inosuke: *sparkles*

Tinytsu

Please give him something to eat.