#tsvirgil

I have over the last few months fallen deeply out of love with the Sanders Sides series and as a result I have not updated any of my projects in some time. At the current point I am at I am only planning to do the final two installments in the cupid au (because I pretty much lost my affection for the ts series right before the big finale of the project!!) and the lust Roman au (as it is my longest running work to date and I want to comple the project as a show of dedication to my younger self) although it will most likely be on a much quicker time scale than I was intending originally! (Instead of the 11 more parts I was hoping to produce it will probably be closer to 5 and I will most likely skip a few parts of the story that weren’t as important)

I feel a lot of affection for the work I have created but not a lot for the actual series so I’m trying to find a way to rework the stories I’ve created for the au’s to become independent creations that I will enjoy continuing to make! (Aside from the Lust au which I feel is mostly a story I don’t feel the need to come back to/rework since it relies so heavily on the source material) Most of my au’s function as stories mostly separate from canon material except for the characters archetypes present in each, so I’ll be working on retooling/reskinning said work to be more original and workable as long term projects! (Since u guys were really invest in my plots which had almost nothing to do with the canon characterization)

I’m currently working on retooling the Zombie au (Which I used as heavy inspiration for my oc Sophia I sometimes post about and her girlfriend) the Cupid au (I’m putting together more creative designs for the characters so that I can hopefully redo the comic- since I’m super in love with the concept) The sleeping beauty au (since it functions entirely the same as a stand alone story- and I could use the designs of my princess characters from that comic I made a long time ago for Valentine’s Day ) and the Super hero au! (Which I never properly defined and thus have a lot of incomplete ideas for, and my only struggle is coming up with better super hero names for them)

The only one of my main au’s I probably won’t rework is the Evil king au- just because I’m not sure how I could retool it to not just be a story about abuse(I feel more comfortable creating a story where everything is horrible and bad and the people involved are just bad for eachother when it’s an au- because there is other work of those characters where they aren’t that way to balance it out- but if it were my own new characters I feel as though it wouldn’t be nearly as fun to read or write)

This is a series of decisions I’ve been trying to wait on for a long time because I have been hoping something sanders Sides related would come out soon that would re spark my interest but nothing so far has happened- and with the way the story is going I don’t think it’s something that is going to happen. I still love all the work I have created for this fandom and I am so proud of all the collaborative projects I have been able to create with you all! I will happily re-read your asks and comments on my comics and I am still really proud of the community I’ve been able to create!

I’m sad to let this part of my life go (it’s taken up a solid 4th of my lifetime) and I understand that a lot of you all won’t follow me to my new projects- because I understand you guys didn’t come here for random oc projects- or original comics. And Altho it breaks my heart to see some of you move on and leave my notifications I am happy I the time with you all that I did!

I have completely run with this idea, and now I’m pretty much resigned to the fact that I’m gonna be making this one next after I finish off the cupid au BUT ANYWAY CHARACTER SET UP FIRST:

Janus is Virgil’s father/the dragon witch, and Virgil is Janus’s son/dragon in training! In this area dragons are an important part of the like,, fairytale ecosystem- and are super respected for their role as the villain in the story/main way couples happen. It’s a really big deal and dragons are in low numbers so every dragon has to be on their best behavior. (Also dragons are like shape shifters, so they are people for monologuing and crashing parties but big monsters for fights and guarding their hoards)

Roman is the middle prince of a large Royal Family, and is generally overlooked by his family. He desperately wants to stand out and be important but he doesn’t really fit in at the castle or in noble society- he’s too bossy and domineering to do well as a trophy husband, but not sure enough to be a knight or hero like some of his other siblings. (Also culturally Princes and Princess both get “kidnapped “ as a means of finding a suitable partner, and the rescue is like an elaborate dowery. Roman is expected to follow this trend as his parents deem him unlikely to find a partner on his own, but they need him to be useful to the family by marrying for alliances)

this au would take place over two main sections:

One section where Roman and Virgil are children (ages 13-16)

and one where they are both adults (they are both in their mid 20s and it would take place over a few months)

The kid section would follow the time when Virgil and Roman first meet+and get crushes on eachother. Janus kidnaps Roman as practice for Virgil, so he can have something to guard and a playmate so he can have some social interaction. Janus is a bit rough with Roman in the beginning (he’s never kidnapped a kid before so he didn’t know better at the time) but once Ro’s left fully to Virgil the conditions get way better. (Mostly because Roman bullies him into being nice lol)

Over the course of their time together Roman sort of brute forces Virgil into being his friend and cleaning up the tower he’s being kept in (bossiness 1 Virgil 0) Since Roman is still young and not yet at the age where suitors go out to rescue people it takes a while for anyone to come and get Roman or even try (and his parents don’t intervene because they think it’ll be good for him, to draw in his own suitors early on and practice being a proper damsel) so the two of them spend a couple years together. (They become best friends and It’s all very cute)

But eventually A knight does come to save Roman, the two are separated and Roman is betrothed to the woman who saved him. At this point it’s basically understood that Roman and Virgil will never see each other again- but Roman promises that they will meet again before he gets married (so Virgil can be his best man and host an epic bachelor party for him obviously.. not ya know cause he loves him or anything)

Smash cut to the second half of the au and Virgil heard through the grapevine that Roman’s wedding is finally coming around! And Virgil decides it about time he kidnap a damsel himself (for the bachelor party obviously and not because he’s jealous)

Are Roman's parents cupids too?

I did intentionally make Virgil extra short in this au, to help emphasize how overwhelmed and over talked his is with the whole wedding thing (it didn’t convey properly in the comic but Logan is taller than Virgil, and I also think Logan is the shortest cupids can really be, where as Virgil is pretty tall for a reaper.) I wanted to really play up how out of his element he is with Roman’s side of the family.

I made a little comic for the superhero au! I tried a new technique with this one (I sketched and lined it traditionally, then colored it digitally)