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♦ Anger Management WiP ♦
🕑 Added 2024-07-23 11:01:06 +0000 UTCSo, while I was in the mountains, I went back and started finishing a few sketches I had lying around and this was one of them <3 I've started rendering it but it's currently waiting for me to finish irl work things and some shop planning haha
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Anyway, Rick and Justus are close friends who occasionally try to kill each other. At least once per book, one of them gets prissy and nearly kills the other, but it's all gooood hahaha they would never ACTUALLY do it (... or would they?)
Justus has been in this line of work since he was thrown into the world, but unlike Rick, he had a pretty good guidance and a good attitude about it. He was an excellent leader, he never once tried to make anyone believe he wasn't a criminal, and he largely didn't have an issue killing to protect his business (because, at the end of the day, to him, that was the nature of the field). He's very stoic, very calm, very composed, and you won't actually see him emote much, even when he is angry.
In a lot of ways, Justus had all of his morals really thought through at a very young age and he ruled the criminal world of Western New Rosea. Surprisingly, he was very loved by his partners, very praised by pretty much everyone he worked with, which allowed him to be pretty safe against any law and any authority that tried to take him down.
Rick, on the other hand, had no chill and only occupied the crime scene for mental health reasons, which made him like the anxiety-driven rabid cat of the group.
He was simply far too emotional and far too sentimental to ever be in this line of work and it absolutely showed in every single one of his reactions, a personality trait Rick hated and wanted to erase desperately, but Justus saw right through it. In fact, Rick's morals were why Justus liked him, it was why he kept him around, but he absolutely despppiiiised Rick's attitude to the core of his being bro :,D By the time he realized how genuinely chaotic Rick can be sometimes, it was already too late and Justus committed to being his field dad, so he had to roll with it
He found Rick useful enough to kinda want him to stay alive (and also felt slightly bad for him since they had some shared life tragedies), but deep down he fantasized of running him over with a semi-truck. I like to think he found him too adorable to waste though <3 like a scruffy cat he grew far too fond of to let go even though it keeps trying to poke his eyes out
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Fosc X
YEE the scribble in the back is just a random guy getting his coffee hahaha he's just gonna be blurry since he's far in the back, so I just painted him together with the backgrounds without the linework ❤️ And he iss! I mean, Justus has a lot of layers, so I'll definitely let people get their own opinions on who is what type of a person when they read the books, but I like him a lot haha ❤️ So there are more people with tattoos, I just rarely draw them haha, Justus is the most tattooed one definitely though! Maggie also had some tattoos but ah, the bad thing about Grimport is that it's always cold, so you can barely ever see anyone's tatts unless they are super obvious like Justus' haha haha AND YEE these are roman numerals! And they are actually his wedding date to his wife! 🥹❤️ most of his tattoos are sentimental in nature like that ♡ YYAAS black cat + crow or a raven is what he is to me 🤣❤️ and you got that right! He was taught back in the underground to always wear gloves not to leave fingerprints anywhere, and he's always paranoid about that do he rarely takes them off. He also wears them because his knuckles are very scarred from his underground days - he went through knuckle conditioning like many other people so he'd have an easier time fighting, so now his knuckles are very thickened with scar tissue and his nerves are pretty screwed up on his fingers. He just didn't like people seeing them in fear they would know he had a pretty rough background
anammorar
Am I the only one who thinks the scribble in the background was supposed to be a person, but was not drawn since is not their time, yet? I have been theorizing tahr for days in my brain & now had the time to write it down 😂. Anyway, Justus seems like a nice guy. I think he is the only one I have seen with tattoos? - I see a Roman numer over his neck 👀✨. I wonder if that number means the number of the Mafia clan, or a specific time of the day, or something else. Rick being a cat?! 🤣 I can see that. I though of him as a combination of a, let's say, "black cat + crow" combination. Tho, Rick does not have tattoos, yet uses gloves. I bet it is to not leave any fingerprints on the crime scene? He's being very cautious
Fosc X
LMFAO i'm so glaad hahahah 🤣 i love this dynamic too, it's probably one of the most fun things to write about haha and Rick really was just too annoying for his own good sometimes so Justus gets a pass there 😭🤚 AYY OMG THANK YOUU!!! i'm so happy to hear that!! ❤️❤️❤️ Yoo and same, I love his fancy suits just waaayy too much 😩🫶 like my guy is just meeting a bunch of raggedy criminals, he doesn't have to slay thiis hard but here he is lmao
FiishFinity
HAHAAHA the entire description had me in grins the entire time lolol. Poor Rick being so despised but valued by Justus. Lolol I love that kind of dynamic though. Hate/but need and now it’s a weird family of annoyances but acceptance between them. lol. I love that. And oh my gosh bro. When I saw this art, I literally gasped. Haha I love LOVE the framing here and honestly, totally would have thought this was finished! Mannnnn you are so freaking amazing bro. I love this so much and seriously, this is my ultimate favorite attire on Rick. Haha love the red tie, black fabric and those amazing signature glasses so much! HAHHA everything about it is amazing bro ahhhhh!!!!!!
