So I think it’s pretty easy to imagine how having a suit of armor for a body would deny you many of the simple pleasures of life, but I figured Al could take a moment to talk about it a little himself. I do feel like he’s adapted pretty well to Studio life from what we’ve seen of him so far, and this unique situation he went through may have contributed to him being ready for a more hedonistic lifestyle like this.
Taking the yaoi slot in our four rotating monthly ongoing comics is “Shades of Envy.” The premise of this comic is to use Envy’s shapeshifting to give Ed and Al a bit of a wild ride, set in the Studio so they can have more of a fun dynamic (and more people Envy can turn into, as seen here). There were a few different ways people submitted for this to start, including multiple where Envy became Yuji. In the end I liked this approach as it gave me a chance to show base-form Envy a little, and I tried to give him some good angles before the transformation starts.
So Edward appeared with Inosuke and Yuji not too far back. I don’t really have, like, a specific dynamic or anything hammered out between these two, but I don’t think you always need one. I mostly just kinda feel like they look good together, so I think them having a bit of a casual fuck buddy type thing works well.
I’ve already sort of done a “Mustang puts Envy in his place” type thing with these two, but I thought I might could play into that a little with some banter here.
Not too long ago Zarbon told us about how Vegeta really only does his ass-rating gimmick for the cameras, so here he is in front of the cameras. Al’s gotten some quick action already since his debut, but where he got to top his brother he’s now experiencing the other end. He doesn’t seem to mind it.
Of course I knew once Alphonse got into the Studio through that One-Shot people want to see him and Ed go at it. For that OS I used their end of series designs, but for this I wanted Al to better match Ed so I think this will be more like his default behind the scenes look. Nothing too shocking here with the answer, I imagine, but more just an Ask I hope will be a crowd-pleaser.
So we’ve occasionally done these sorts of Asks, where the premise is built on two characters bearing a resemblance. Once of the points of comparison for Ed and Link, the prosthetic arms, isn’t really present in the Studio, but they’ve still got the blonde ponytail thing going on. I don’t think they’re quite close enough to warrant confusion, though, but I did think the idea of them being seen as a good pairing for a bigger top sounded fun. I actually had something I was toying with for a bit featuring these three characters specifically, and I thought this Ask would be a fun way to test the waters and see if y’all like this dynamic or would want to see more of them.
This is a Lord Tier commission featuring three of this Lord Tier Subscriber’s favorite characters in the Studio. The idea here was pretty simple, with Yuji and Inosuke catching Ed with a pincer maneuver. They wanted to keep this one relatively tame, focusing on the tension and build-up rather than the down-and-dirty action I typically draw.
So mild spoiler for Steven Universe, but Garnet is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, two gems who fell in love and eventually get married later in the series. So with that in mind, this is an Ask about couples dating, double dates, etc. I’ll talk at a later date about a different route I considered for this one, but I ended up pairing her with Winry and Ed. With Garnet’s vibe I had this idea of her kinda toying with them both while she gave her answer, which I hope will help illustrate not only her own habits in the Studio, but her partners’ as well.
So this One-Shot was based on a handful of different threesome pairings. I tried to go with a different dynamic for each one that I felt suited the characters. In the first panel, Pan gets its from both ends from her grandpa and great-uncle. In the second panel we have a reunion of the Elric brothers with Winry. I used their end-of-series designs here, rather than the default Studio looks for them. Then we have an unusual Super/GT crossover, Dr. Arinsu making her Studio debut alongside her brother Degesu and Majuub, who’s a different version of Uub I haven’t drawn before. The threesomes were all listed as two-against-one, with this one having the siblings against Majuub. I tried a couple different poses of them both bottoming to him, but ended up with something a bit vaguer I think. I hope that’ll be alright. Lastly we have Yuta making his Studio debut with the Zenin twins. I focused on him and Maki here, since there’s a stronger connection between them, but Mai’s not completely left out. I thought it’d be cute to see the sisters bonding a bit here, too.
