design flaw, this is so good, the background color inversions for the
closeups, omg, and roche's sex faces, wow they're good
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shriek there’s another chapter up on AO3 of inclusions, sassaffrassa’s
comics about the Peace-Tied and Major Design Flaw cinematic universe
chapter 3: just shave it off
https://archiveofourown.org/works/37236091/chapters/92970484
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from ch 6 of Peace-Tied
https://archiveofourown.org/works/32023453/chapters/82088557, which in
itself contains a reminiscence from uhhh somewhere within Major Design
Flaw, wherein Foltest is doing Roche’s hair for him:
His worst fucking enemy, and there Roche was opening up to him like– like–
Roche couldn’t even think of what to compare himself to. Offering his heart
on a plate to his own nemesis. It was not only stupid, it was pathetic.
Pathetic, and here he was, washing his own hair and doing a bad job of it.
He made himself pay attention, dutifully untangling the curls he really
should just shave off. He wasn’t here to laze about, he was here doing a
job. He had to take care of himself. No one else was going to do it.
Roche finished off the bath by shaving his face. He normally only shaved
once or twice a week, but here he could shave daily, so he did. The hair on
his face had started to come in intermittently gray, and he disliked how
old and grizzled it made him look. He wasn’t ashamed of his age, by any
means– it was an accomplishment to have survived his teens, let alone his
twenties, and to have gotten so far through his thirties now was nothing
short of a miracle– but that didn’t mean he wanted it to show quite so
plainly.
Staving off the inevitable, he thought, examining his own grim reflection
in the looking-glass. You’re old and pathetic, Vernon Roche, he added
with distaste, drawing the razor up the underside of his chin. And you
know what happens to men like you when they get old and pathetic. They get
slow, and someone kills them.
Especially if they were fucking stupid enough to literally bare their
throat to enemies. Like he, apparently, got off from doing. Like an idiot.
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