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Aren Kuboyasu please lend us your strength so that we too may end any conflict swiftly and unscathed. 🙏 Bless.

Stardew AU be upon ye 🫴

Au where Saiki never met his friends in high school and completed short degree to enter the corporate workforce as soon as possible, which landed him a job at Joja HQ. It was fine for a while but the bleak thoughts filling his head from the surrounding cubicles drove him insane enough to resort to moving out to Pelican town. (Farm inherited from Kuniharu’s dead parents, rip) His dream of pursuing a normal life wasn’t dead! He just needed a different environment. And what said “normal life” better than honest living on a farm where no one can bother him?

Enter Saiki’s life on a farm where everyone bothers him, including but not limited to: forest creatures, the undead, and some old guy in a tower.

Aren probably wouldn’t take too well to the aggressively antisocial guy who just moved in. He does however end up warming up to him after witnessing his compassion when it comes to wild animals (Nendou & Kaidou) that trespass on his farm. Even more so once he catches Kusuo doing smth petty to get back at Morris for making Kaidou cry. Anywho Aren accompanies Kusuo on random side quests in the mines and insistently offers his help with farming duties cuz he feels bad that Ku’s doing everything alone.

After the thrill of having all this alone time has faded, Kusuo finds himself out of his depth without needing to parent his parents 24/7 and with wayyy less voices in his head than in the city. But there is a growing void in his chest that he can’t identify nor acknowledge. After all, the idea that someone like HIM needs other people in his life to be happy is illogical. This is what he’s sought after his whole life! But his heart just isn’t getting the message.

Maybe that’s why when three nuisances begin terrorizing him on his own land and helping out without him asking (one more than the others ;) ), he doesn’t resist that much. Not even three turns to 10, turns to more than he can count on both hands, and when they drag him to events that months ago, he would never be caught dead attending. And through time and careful persistence from the oddities of this small town, Saiki finally learns to embrace his own.

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I love writing Aren’s dialogue to be as dramatic as possible. He is my silly guy and I am sending him hurtling down the stairs in a laundry basket.

And cuz I was rewatching the anime: more horse propaganda

lol right back at ya, I love how much your art just POPS and your interpretation of the characters in your writing! Those punkyasu posts drove me literally insane and I think it’s pretty clear that au is my main kubosai muse atm. (I am not kidding btw I literally have an 18k word doc that’s purely punkyasu au ramblings/scripting for short comics and a 3.5 hr playlist specifically for writing and drawing kubosai titled Riding w/ the Espers.)

Kuboyasu: Man, I’m such a good partner; waiting by the gate with my motorcycle so I can make sure my future husband gets home safely.

Saiki: …horse 🫵

If it pleases the court, I offer chibi kubosai inspired by horse photos I see on Pinterest as penance while we wait for the storm (finals) to pass.

BOOM‼️ I’m alive!! I AM still doing Saiki k stuff, life just got WAYYY busier and I was forced to lock in and finish this acrylic commission that I TOTALLY haven’t been procrastinating on for months what are u talking about,,,

Anywho certainly not my best work but I’m not mad about it… yet, at least…

Me picking u up outta the enclosure <3

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[Set after Kuboyasu and Saiki have started hanging out just the two of em’]

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