When All Else Fails

I’ve finished the last game in Blackwell series a few days ago and I just want to say it broke my heart

But I liked it so much…

Ghost friend can’t really hug back but it’s the thought that counts

Unavowed came out recently and I was pleased to see our favorite detective return in a small scene. This comic has nothing to do with that and it’s no spoiler, I just thought it was funny.

Sam Durkin has obviously Seen Some Things™️ and Some Stuff™️ and he's done with it.

Remember that Afterlife!Reunion sketch? I thought, in the end, making it a single illustration with no dialogues would have been more effective.

Drawing hugs is so hard. Why.

@iamabagfullofcats you wanted to be tagged /o/

I DID AND I AM GRATEFUL

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

you just can’t stay mad at that face

Joey: I've had about enough of this pipsqueak.

Rosa: Dada?

Joey: . . .

. . . . .

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OH NO SHE'S CUTE

Little Blackwell fancomic for pride month! About coming out to your family, I guess? Tbh i was unsure about drawing this… I dunno, these characters are very dear to me but they’re not mine. I don’t wanna offend anybody. Is the idea of Rosa falling for a girl so strange? 

I ended up drawing it thanks to @generouslydecadentwinner who encouraged me <3 it’s an AU but… well, Rosa needed to be alive for this to happen however for all i know canon!Rosa has lots of boyfriends/girlfriends/genderneutralfriends in the afterlife

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I LOVE THIS! <3 Good to see Rosa branching out from her usual humdrum routine to entertain a little love, and I don’t think it’s such a big deal that she might fall for a girl. I’m biased, of course, because girls are AWESOME, but I digress. This is a good good comic. 83

also just . . . that last page

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Saving souls takes its toll

b-buh

my heart

A request from @maripr and I am so glad they made the request. The Blackwell series is one of those games that just changed my perspective on storytelling in games. Seriously I would pretty much buy the game series on steam for anyone who wanted to play it. It is that good. I chose to portray Joey and Rosa from the last game, The Blackwell Epiphany, because that was my favorite of the five games.

I LOVE IT

THANK YOU SO MUCH

maybe to her face he would actually be a jerk and say “EXCEPT [long list of random stuff] but we all know he’s constantly in Proud Father Mood towards Rosa

Whats up dudes i loved Blackwell too much. Rosa is my favourite i love her so much shes so relatable and cute and god!!!!!!!!!!! SHES SO GOOD. I love her voice actor also. I love everyone else too, especially Durkin and ofc Joey and Kelly from the first one bcs shes rly cute. Even tho shes rude. Thats ok. I still love her and would give my soul to her and-

I feel your feels, @harvestlocks. I feel your feels. <3

“ You were right. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so.. ” “ Free? ” I messed up the lighting but its a sketch so???? Idk but yeah im gonna draw more for this babe of a game bcs my love for its… like not dying before i do. One of my fave scenes, it was so immensly creepy

AUGH THIS SCENE TORE ME UP

Where’s the lie?

The only comforting thought I had at the end of Blackwell was that Rosa and Joey were going to see each other in the afterlife at some point. So yeah, reunion comic. Very sketchy since today I have no strength to do anything else, but it should be readable anyway. I think I’ll draw more one day or another.

. . .

I have never, in my entire quarter-century-ish on this Earth, embodied this gif

more than I do at this very moment.

Do you Remember?

Lauren carefully snipped a bit off of her- admittedly dead- plant. She just couldn’t bring herself to part with it. Rather absent mindedly she started to hum, placing the scissors down on the counter top. After a moment she stopped to pull out a cigarette. “Hey, Joey.” She lit up. “Did I tell you that I’m teaching Rosa to dance?”

She inhaled deeply, turning towards the stove, “Just like you taught me. All that ‘real dancing’ stuff.” She placed a hand on the edge of the stove, “Do you remember? I was cooking breakfast, and you got so worked up when I didn’t know how to 'really dance’… I refused to leave the pancakes alone, and the radio wouldn’t work with you right there.”

Lauren sighed, “You used your tie to pull me into a dance and you hummed… Something, hell if I remember. Then you eventually stopped humming. There was no music, but we kept dancing. And the pancakes burnt, and the smoke alarm went off.”

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I wanna draw Joey and Rosa reuniting in the afterlife and discussing life and bestowers, when I have time and patience to do so. Question: would Joey cry like an idiot when he sees Rosa again? Choose the following: A) absolutely B) definitely C) undoubtly

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

where is d) all the above, and also might just hug the (un)living stuffing out of her after having a full lifetime to experience physical closeness with other people all over again and with renewed appreciation for it

i might headcanon that joey never realized how touch-starved he was from his time as a ghost until he received a warm and friendly handshake from a friend, and he might have cried a little.

^ i imagine him experiencing rain for the first time in years and freaking out I also think he would be overly phisically affectionate to those he cares about and was secretly sad that he couldn’t do that as a ghost

*shrieks*

at the same time though he’s still fighting inside himself between this newfound love for his renewed physicality and his ingrained “manly man” attitudes from before he died, so he’s trying to navigate how much physical affection is too much and probably weirds out some people on occasion, but eventually he kind of finds a happy medium where he can give hugs and handshakes and shoulder slaps and noogies and handholds with friends and family he’s found and made and he’s so grateful for it.

and sometimes he thinks of how he’d just like to hug Rosa once. and that the first time he was able to hold her, she was going cold in the snow outside Grace Church.

Thank you, I didn’t need my heart anyway. (Who am I kidding, I love painful stuff)

but then just imagine after he passes away after his second chance, surrounded by friends and family, slipping away peacefully in his sleep. It’s less turbulent than the first time (not that he can remember the first time so well), and is almost like slipping into a warm bath. Everything heavy falls away, and all that’s left is just him, and there, beyond, but not too far away, is the Gateway. The door to Eternity.

And there, sitting not four feet away, is Red. She looks him over, his age spots, his wrinkles, his impeccable clothes, and she grins. “Looking good, Joey.”

He isn’t surprised to see her, because it seems the most natural thing in the world for her to be here, but at the same time, he is utterly floored. “Kid.” The word isn’t even quite a whisper. Next thing he knows, he’s closed the distance and caught her in a hug, sweeping her up from her seated position to twirl her around and laugh until his lungs are burning.

# i love everything about this

Thank you. Me too. I’m gonna cry :’D Imagine him meeting everyone he helped to save after that! An Lauren, who is much happier than what he remembered. And reconciling with Patricia

oh man. so much hugging. so many tears. <3 Lauren might not be 100% comfortable with it, but I think she’d push through just because she’s glad to see Joey again, despite their rocky parting and her snarky protests. Patricia would have some Words for him, but I think she’d grudgingly accept that her end wasn’t his fault and that he’s not really a bad sort.

And Joey and Rosa would talk for so long about their adventures, about the life he led after the events at Grace Church. He probably made a pilgrimage one day every year to the church and the cemetery, a hot cup of coffee in hand, untouched until it could be sipped once on the bridge, then poured out for her. I think she’d be touched, but would grouse jokingly at the waste of the coffee. There’s so much to catch up on, but they both know they can’t linger at the doorstep forever. The three Blackwell Bestowers and their Guide finally link arms and stride into the light, unafraid.

I see this as sort of like the series finale for Scrubs, Joey seeing all these people whose lives intersected with his for better or for worse as they line the pathway into Eternity, where they’ve all been waiting. Some have a kind word for him, others not so much, but it’s an affirming look at the good he did, and it brings back a flood of memories from the three lives he led, two alive, one dead. As it all washes away into the blinding brightness of Eternity, it finally feels like Joey’s coming home.

Everything about this is wonderful ;w;

Should you decide to draw any part of it, I demand to see it. 83 Because it can only be GREAT.