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2023-12-30
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Perfect Souls

Summary:

A comic based around a Palamedes quote that makes me cry sometimes.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

“Camilla, we did it right, didn’t we?” Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn’t speaking to anyone else in the universe. “We had something very nearly perfect … the perfect friendship, the perfect love. I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.” Camilla Hect stared at him stolidly, and then burst into tears.

 

EDIT: Image links broke :(( for now you can view them here until I figure out how to fix it: https://www.tumblr.com/days-light/739544900677386240/click-for-better-quality-we-had-something-very

 

Page One of the comic, in grayscale with a black background. The quote "something very nearly perfect" is white text, with one word above each of the four panels. The first panel shows Camilla and Palamedes at Canaan House, studying a tooth on a table in front of them. Cam has her eyebrows raised at Pal as he smiles at the tooth. The second panel shows Cytherea (disguised as Dulcinea) lying in a sickbed with a smug face and Palamedes standing angrily over her, holding her keys. The third panel shows Camilla's bleeding hands holding the fragments of Palamedes' skull left from his explosion. The fourth panel shows Cam in the bathtub in her New Rho apartment, crying over a recording device. The recorder plays the words "we are one flesh" and "I am your end" after clicking. The background of the panels goes from light to dark in descending order, and all of the panels have a rough and jagged outline.

The second page of the comic, in grayscale with a black background and white text. It has two panels: The first panel shows Camilla's body engulfed in flames with the words "the perfect friendship" above the panel. The second panel, with the words "the perfect love", show Paul's face backlit by flame. They have a slightly relieved expression and short, choppy hair. Both panels have a rough and jagged outline.

Notes:

Hope you enjoy, I've been dreaming of drawing something like this ever since I read Nona so thank you for the very open prompt! Happy holidays :D

here are the full-quality images on tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/days-light/739544900677386240/click-for-better-quality-we-had-something-very