Tylertheidiotic

My objective in here was to cram every single major character from the story in one illu. That means of course Avery, D3rlord3, and Hastur, but also Abel (previous sacrifice who wrote the books) and our dear Narrator Wifies (HE IS AN IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN THIS STORY WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT HIM AS SUCH AAAAAAA)

I think King was the funniest one to add. Could've gone for the eyes, or even his creepy form, but.... nah~

Decided to change the all dark surrounding by two straight dark shapes to emulate doors, so I had to resize the whole illustration. And then decided to make it all golden since they are golden doors and I've recently seen Chinese illustrations with golden linearts and it slaps hard.

Originally I wanted the only visible color to be yellow (plus a full colored Avery), but the red looked too pretty and helped the illustration to pop so there was a lot of messing around with the values.

Also there were supposed to be several different pages of Abel's rambling, but decided last minute to only put the spell over and over and over again.

So. You see where Hastur is now?

Ok now full D3rlord3 because I had to remove details with the other characters and stuff but I didn't wreck my butt to draw all that for nothing. Especially since I wanted the triangles on the helmet to emulate a crown and the various circles to represent eyes.

I see a lot of "Simon meeting Grace and Rocky, and immediately body slams Grace to the floor". I see a lot of "Simon meeting Grace and Rocky and believing that he'd dead/Grace is an angel". There's nothing wrong with either option, both are equally fun to play around with.

But you know what I want to see?

Simon behaving.

Simon cooperating, following every 'command' (aka, Grace asking Simon to let them help). Simon staying in the med bay. Letting Armando patch his wounds. Answering Grace and Rocky's questions even if it makes him uncomfortable. Simon being willing to do anything they ask, no matter how scared or confused he is.

Bonus points if they pull him from the SM-13 and keep it on board. They actually just want to study it, but Simon is fully convinced that it's an unspoken threat. 'Behave, or we'll put you back.'

Give me a Simon who spent the last days of his 'life' fighting those who were giving him orders. Days battling, days growling and snarling and snapping at anything that got too close. Give me a Simon who's tired. Who just wants to be left alone, but who suddenly has this guy asking him all kinds of uncomfortable questions about what happened to him. Who's terrified of Rocky, but lets the alien watch him sleep because heck, he wouldn't trust himself either.

Give me a broken abused shelter dog of a man, who bows his head and follows the one holding the leash because he's too exhausted to fight a losing battle anymore. A Simon who doesn't realize that Grace isn't holding any leash. Give me a Simon who, despite Grace's best efforts, responds to any and all requests with a meek "Yes, Sir." because he doesn't want to know what these strangers will do to him if he doesn't address them with proper respect.

He doesn't want to go back. He never wants to go back. And he'll do whatever these strangers want to ensure they never have a reason to punish him. The first time he breaks, the first time he says no to someone, Simon is screaming, crying, tucking himself into a corner as tightly as he can, all while begging Grace and Rocky not to send him back. And that's when Grace realizes.

Simon doesn't listen because he trusts them.

Simon listens because he's afraid of them.