[comic] Close To You (part I)

skitters out of the woodwork

If you've been following my activity on socials (or if you attempted to contact me at any point during the last week or so) you may have noticed I got sucked into this 26-page long self-indulgent comic and didn't see the light of day until I finished it.

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Some context:
This comic features Elias (the horned fella that belongs to Odi) and Michel (my guy), with a tiny cameo of the other D&D party members Niko (sleeping face down on the moss) and Horatius whomst we all just call the captain (peacock feather hat dude). You've probably seen Elias and Michel going around in my galleries so I'll take the opportunity to TL;DR them.

Michel is my monk who got pulled into the kingdom we're currently in in Odi's campaign. He rizzed too close to the sun and fell head over heels with Elias in like session 2 - Elias being an NPC who turned out to be a spymaster/torturer/ancient guardian creature perhaps? bound to a shady king and advisor and very plot relevant. Anyhoo they ended up getting together in a way, but then Elias sent the party off in a mission that almost got them killed and when they returned Michel called him out for putting them in danger by not trusting them with enough info. Their relationship was on ice for barely a session before the party adopted Elias for part of the next mission and I caved and made Michel check in on him.

The first bit of this comic is kinda how that went, with some tweaks and omissions (including the moment Elias' glamour wears off in page 8 and his scars start showing. They talked about it and it was cute but I couldn't be arsed to include another 3 pages of dialogue in the comic), and the extended version (very NSFW and available for the higher tiers) is based on something Odi wrote to expand on the in-game "fade to black" moment after Elias pulls Michel into the tent.