#red rabbit

I was gazing in awe at your bullseye / rabbit imagery recent andreil work and realized that the tags did not include anything along the lines of "red rabbits." i looked because the imagery there fits the themes and imagery of that fic SO well that i thought it might be intentional.

it's decently well known n popular in the fandom so you may have already heard of it or tried it. but if not! its a really impressive immersive project and digs into some of that haunting, hunted prey imagery/theme.

aaaah thank you !! and yes i actually have read Red Rabbits and i absolutely loved it <3

i didn’t tag it bc this wasn’t intended as fanart for that fic specifically, even though I can absolutely see why it made you think of it. the parallels are definitely there!!

when i was drawing this, i had a different story in mind. in my head it was more canon-compliant, set after the first three books when andrew and neil are finally starting to build a life together after everything. then one day neil just… disappears.

and andrew had no idea what happened. did neil leave because of old habits, paranoia or fear? was he taken? is he even alive? he has absolutely nothing to go on which is why he’s surrounded by darkness. he’s completely in the dark, emotionally and literally. there’s this quiet, settled despair because everything was finally okay and then suddenly it wasn’t.

meanwhile neil is in actual danger. the rabbit imagery was meant to show him as hunted prey, trapped behind something man-made, caught in a situation he can’t escape.

so that was my thought process while drawing it, but i really like that people can bring their own interpretations to it. i think that’s one of the coolest parts of making art. and honestly your connection to Red Rabbits makes perfect sense to me, even if it wasn’t the original inspiration.

RED RABBIT CH 3 PG 26-29

At long last!! Thank you all for your patience while I dealt with a barrage of life changes these past couple weeks! It makes me extremely sad when I'm too busy to draw for you lovely people.

As I reward, my readers get one free slushee redeemable only at Red Rabbit HQ

Down the rabbit hole ❤️ 🐇