A Dog Walks in to a Bar...

An attack for

@wunjotheork-art !

Honestly, I've wanted to draw this guy forever. I just wish I hadn't last minuted myself so dang hard, lol

There's some fun parallels in them both being mysads with mentors, tbh 

Featuring an alt version I didn't quite get done in time to submit instead!

Boba

The Artfight barrage begins! Done for

@mithryl-draws

on Artfight!

They sure are based 800 miles away from each other, but jobs mean travel, I suppose. :b

My brain has presently decided it would be hilarious if Sachi met every oni ever, please bear with me.

He sure does look 100% like a weird ork right up until you put him beside an actual ork, at which point he has

never

looked more like an elf in his life.

Anyway I love her, I love her so much. BIG LADY brain is dial tone

AUs are fun! The normal version of the boys, vs a "What if". What if Yuuta and Atsuko had survived, Yomi never happened, both had cushy corp jobs, and Sachi and Izumi grew up with both their parents? Well, Tetsuo and Sachi don't wind up an item, for one. (This is swapping Sachi's backstory with Thomas, our mage's.) Yuuta and Atsuko are alive. Atsuko works as a homicide detective, and Yuuta has a comfortable job with Renraku as a combat mage and security consultant providing magical expertise to protect facilities. The Yamamoto family moved to Seattle long before the Yomi Island declaration. Sachi is a corporate pet artist that handles interior design and lobby art that won't interfere with the building's feng shui. He's still a dog shaman, but that restless independence never formed. His hobby is finding new hobbies. He has been trained as a french chef, gone to school for both art and psychology, dabbled in linguistics, and figures he'll eventually teach art history when he gets tired of interior design. Chronically single, mopey about it, and has frighteningly bad taste in men. Tetsuo hasn't changed much. The conflict with Yui never happened, but the squad was eventually moved over to the UCAS regardless to oversee security as Renraku transitions its UCAS headquarters to Manhattan. They dated, briefly, and ultimatley he found Sachi... boring. Sachi never really opened up--rather, and Tetsuo has always been good at seeing through bullshit, elf socialization norms included. It didn't end badly. There's still mutual awkwardness and feelings, and occasionally they cross paths because of work.

I'm alive! The holidays + daily life stress are throwing a spanner up in everything as usual. Commissions are still being worked on, I guess these two idiots are just my brain's preferred easy dopamine source / stress relief atm.

Aw, missed 肉の日 Ah well. A joke spiraled in to actually marinating more on what weirdness would happen if putting our characters through each others' origins. So... here's Sachi if Yuuta and Atsuko lived. If they'd fled Japan before the Yomi Mandate, wound up in Seattle working for Renraku, and if Sachi and Izumi both had a pretty comfy life up until a runner team attacked the building Sachi was doing work for. He hadn't MEANT to kill the runner. ...but an adept can survive a third story fall. The runner was not an adept.

Quick sketch up of Sachi's dog form.