#themys replies

You have no idea how delighted I am at this ask anon. My ego just grew 3 sizes 💓🥹

But jokes aside, it's the result of A LOT of work. Studying hands in real life, but also in others' artworks, studying how they stylize hands, keep what I like, watch a lot of tutorials, and then practice. A lot of practice.

And referencing! When I struggle too much on a specific hand pose, I will either try to find a picture, or take it myself!

Also I just really like hands 😅 So that motivated me to give extra care to the hands in my art.

Like things like:

shows restraint x chaotic menace

Looks like cinnamon roll but will kill you x looks like will kill you but is cinnamon roll

"I am difficult to get along with." x "You're not difficult wdym?"

"I'm a mess, give up on me." vs "I'll take you as you are."

"When my sickness comes, to touch me is revolting." x "Not to me. Not if it's you."

Sorry for the reply time, and first of all, thank you for this question! it made me really happy to receive it ! 💖😊

Under the cut because it ended up being too long (and I probably forgot a lot of things I wanted to say)

And that's very interesting. I think they're both very co-dependent and borderline fusional, especially on Isaac's side. He was clearly in a dual dynamic with his sister, and losing her broke him ("the only person I ever truly loved"), so I see him as clinging to Tyler as his only reason left to live, and being very attached to him. I see Tyler as globally the same, as he had to live through feeling abandoned (his mother "dying" when he was 4), an emotionally (and physically, a lot of the time) absent father, losing his friends group after he tried to do things right, then having his desire for love and belonging manipulated by Gates… He yearns for love and to be able to trust someone (to me, him leaving with Capri like that at the simple promise of a pack at the end of S2 is a cry for help in that regard). So once he does, he will be very intense about it. And I think he'd be very worried about Isaac possibly manipulating him/keeping him out of important things and betraying him "for his own good" as he did back in Iago Tower.

I do think Tyler would be more open to other people in general, like having friends, while Isaac would consider that having Tyler is enough and he doesn't need more.

I see Isaac as generally being the "leader"/dom of the relationship (and I like him becoming Tyler's master at some point, on Tyler's own decision) but if we're talking nsfw, I like him best to bottom and let Tyler take the reins in intimacy.

I can also see Tyler to be the most caring one, in the sense that he's very sensitive and attuned to other's and their needs. Isaac has a terrible life hygiene in my opinion, and Tyler is often the one to force him to take care of himself or at least let Tyler take care of him. Not that Isaac doesn't take care of Tyler (because he does), but he can sometimes fall into accidentally neglecting him because he's too focused on seeing too far ahead (for example: spending days in his lab trying to work on fixing his lifespan when Tyler just wants to spend time with him, and blowing off "I'm doing this for you!!" when Tyler complain).

I think, ironically, while Tyler absolutely need to be able to trust Isaac, I can see Isaac breaking this trust if he feels it's the right thing to do for Tyler, because he's so desperate to keep him safe (think Wednesday keeping Enid in the dark about her vision for her own good type of reasoning).

Now for the dynamics you mentioned:

show restraint / chaotic menace: I think Tyler would be the first one. In S2, he was the most """""normal""""" out of his family, more tempered and more conscious of social norms, whereas Isaac really doesn't care (it's implied he drove Judi's care around Jericho while very visibly zombified…)

Don't bother commenting stuff like that. I've been proship for years, I've been receiving hate messages for years over fictional ships.

Just ship and let's ship and stop treating the block button as a terrible offence. Blocking is fine. Muting is fine. Just curate your timeline, that's what tags are for.

OH HI

Yes I love them their dynamic is so fun to explore it's a shame not more people are into it but aaah I'm glad I'm not alone !!!

And omg I'd love to read it !! Have you posted the intro on Ao3 ? I might have missed it but I'd love to read it ! We need more resurrected Isaac. He's been revived once already, he can do one more.

Thank you ! i want to draw more of them, I just need to settle on an idea bc my mind has just been exploding with them lately. Love them so much I also started writing a post-s2 fic (which hadn't happened in years), will probably post the first chapter on Ao3 very soon !

Aaahh thank you ! ;w; I'm so glad you like my art! wishing you the best as well 💖

I also really love the prosthetic you gave Isaac

And the photobashing you did looks very good!!

Aaah thank you !  ;w; I assume this is about my Wednesday art, thank you so much, i'm glad you appreciate what I have to offer for them ! 😊💖

Sorry for the reply time and aahhh thank you so much for your sweet words ! 😭💖

I think overall I've gotten better at enjoying my own art, or at least being satisfied with it, but there's always moments where I relapse into being frustrated with it, and the constant fight with algorithms does sometimes make it feel like there *is* an issue with the art itself.

But thank you so much. It's true that with the way fandoms operate nowaday, and seasons being released all at once or just 2-parters, the hype dies down faster. And for such a nice ship, it will obviously impact it harder.

You're not overstepping at all, it's true that memes and funny posts will generally garner more engagement (my legacy remains the "Sebastian sneezing" comic, and it extended way beyond the kuroshitsuji fandom especially on tiktok), but it's always a bit frustrating.