I don’t usually do anything for Thanksgiving. I’ve considered it in the past, but this year I decided to go ahead and do a quick little pic I thought might be fun. It’s a pretty common holiday porn trope to tie someone up on the dinner table, usually with the implication of “dinner” being the guests groping, licking, etc. to the prone person. Here we have Fern serving up Frieren for such a feast.
It’s been a little while since Tatsumaki debuted, so I think she’s had plenty of time to adjust to the Studio. I thought I’d use that for the answer, while also getting to pair her with Frieren, a character I’ve seen partnered with Tatsumaki pretty frequently in other artists’ work.
So, in the show, Frieren talks once or twice about how elves don’t really feel a drive to reproduce which, combined with a genocide that occurred centuries before, have lead to there being very few elves. Now, my interpretation of this was that their longer lives have just lead to them not feeling the same pressure to reproduce most animals in the real world experience naturally. I didn’t read Frieren as being asexual or anything, though, it seemed more like something that just didn’t come up often for her. Sex is not really about reproducing in the Studio, of course, and everyone’s a bit hornier there due to its nature. I thought Frieren’s answer here might be a fun way to frame her sex drive here, and might inform future content with her.
I watched the first season of Frieren back when it aired, and re-watched it with some folks a bit later. Going in I wasn’t super attracted to either of the female leads. I liked them, but their designs reminded me too much of other characters. As often happens, though, watching the show warmed me up to them, and I wanted to do a little something with them. It’s hard to say right now just how much of Frieren or Fern I’ll draw in the future, but I do think it’s safe to assume they’ll show up in my work again.
So I know this may not be the most exciting Ask. However, it’s been a long while since this Subscriber got an Ask, and I thought even if the answer’s not super interesting it might be cute to see Stark get a little flustered. Even if he’d normally be fine being naked for an Ask, I think talking about how he normally wears clothes is making him a bit more conscious than normal of his nudity. A simple Ask, but hopefully a cute one.
I thought it’d be fun to pair Stark up with a warrior from a different world, and Guts seemed like a good choice to me. Not only do the come from similar fantasy worlds (if very different in tone), but it’s a good set-up for the same sword joke I made in the last pic with Guts in it. It’s also the first time I’ve drawn Guts’s face, so there’s that, too.
I watched and quite enjoyed the first season of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. I’m hoping to eventually do a fair bit of art from the series, although I can’t say for sure when. In the meantime, I wanted to do something quick and fun with Stark, who I think is very cute and was a joy in the series itself. I figure maybe he’d enjoy having some fun with some random villagers in a town they’re passing through, possibly to kill time while Frieren and Fern are busy taking the mage’s exam.
