#pupleon

this song gives me twin vibes. wanted to draw these people. whatever. go my art

first time drawing leonnnnn kinda nervous 😗

i dont exactly love how this turned out but eh. i think the letters could be better and i cant say i really like how i drew cami or mai but whatever. also leons hair is so fucking big but in my defense in his official art he's a cabezon ok.

HOWEVER i think this is a big improvement when i compare it to some of my past drawings so its not all bad. yay 👍

please dont ask abt the random filters or the background. or the newspaper cutout i. genuinely dont know ok.

ok so. the way i chose them is is not parallels but opposites of the parallels (<- just saying shit)

i mentioned in an old post that i think mai and puppet are like yin and yang and so are mai and cami. so i wanted to include leon this time to complete this and elaborate a bit on that. so now watch me explain it in such an awful way that you won't understand what point im even trying to make 💗

to ME cami and leon are parallels to mai and puppet. kind of like a "what if the twins were playing for the bad guys" or something. and i think the parallels are puppet/cami and mai/leon (contrary to some tags i wrote on one of loops' posts. i thought it over and reached a different conclusion)

this is mostly cause i think their personalities are kinda similar (at least the personality ive seen given to leon by the fandom since his actual personality is...? uhm. smiling and extending his arms or something), with mai and leon being energetic and off-putting while cami and puppet are calmer... and off-putting (not that puppet isn't energetic, but i'd say they're calmer than mai, at least s2 onwards but i might also be remembering this wrong lol), not to mention that both puppet and cami have a connection with the shadows and the shadow world or whatever.

mai and puppet are yin and yang i'd say since the whole puppet/fred & mai/freddy always made me associate puppet with darkness, negativity and other yin attributes & mai with light, positivity and other yang attributes. and i also think the same applies to cami and leon for a similar reason.

so it was definitely because of that and totally not because i wanted to tag as ship art and favor some ships over others!! (...partially!)

tldr; mai/puppet & cami/leon are parallels and also yin and yang so i put them with their parallel's opposite. cami(yin)/mai(yang) & puppet(yin)/leon(yang). whagever . this shit is so ass

uhhhh. random alt versions with cami and leon switched and also upside down . woo!

Ok little things yayyy yahoo yayyy

Leon has a white little streak on his hair and you might think “oh yeah vitiligo does that sometimes” and if you think that she got you. She dyed it manually to look more interesting and say “oh yeah vitiligo can do that cause blah blah blah” to whoever notices because He's ANNOYINGGGGG. He already got segmental vitiligo (the rare one) he does not need more quirky stuff can his greed be quenched already.

I also gave her a bunch more piercings because once again his greed is unstoppable and he wants to look so eyecatching it's crazy

I gave them matching earrings. sniff. sniff. sniff sniff sob. I also tried giving more texture to Puppet's birthmark <3

This weird line is from an IV! Both they and Mai have it, and it came from being hospitalized :P

their shoes are absolutely pristine and clean because they don't walk LOL. stop making Leon carry you around this is not princess treatment its backpack tratment. Carries them around like a bag of potatoes and likes it because people turn to look at them, absolute weirdos put that lemur on a treadmill NOW

ANYWAYS in the timeskip of hope i think they end up a lot better.... for one mai and puppet sort out the whole shared eye thing and get freed from the chains that are shared senses (puppet can feel pain again waooooooo thank you jesus). And thru that Puppet also learns that his problems with emotion and empathy are NOT a magic thing and instead #an undiagnosed personality disorder.

He gets better as in he's not harassing random people anymore and he does feel a lot more human with all of his senses back

Leon is still weird :D as in he has the survival instincts of a peanut, and he mostly still does things to make ppl look at him. However comma, he DOES get better at taking care of his body and his health mostly under the guise of "I can't really help Pup if I'm not healthy" so he’s not doing bizarrely dangerous stunts anymore!! Hurrah for self-preservation via the wish to help the ones you love!!!

He also chops off all his hair and starts showing his face more, because after his friend group goes through like ten trillion trials and tribulations, they collectively kinda conclude that they need to stop being weirdly secretive little shits and stop making decisions “for” other people without actually asking them what they want. The biggest offender here is Tony of course cause yeah his entire thing is lying to people and refusing to admit that his mental health is in freefall, which ends up causing crazy strain with the people he loves.

But it also applies to this snake (in a way lesser extent). Leon wore his hair like that originally to “not freak Eak out,” and what it actually achieved was just making Eak feel guilty, like Leon was hiding half his face out of “shame.” (which is crazy assumption tbh that snake is incapable of shame i think)