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(my OCs) NESTE comic strip
🕑 Added 2023-10-17 19:08:16 +0000 UTC[CW vaginal fingering, use of AFAB terms to describe the bits of a trans man]
Had this scene stuck in my head for a while. It should be the first time they have sex, after endless spiteful bickering and taunting by your Celeste truly, which had the desired effect of driving Naoki up a wall, making him break his marriage vows. It's not cute. Hate sex and insults are their love language at first, plus Naoki is... plain nasty and sexually frustrated. Things with his wife haven't been going well since forever, but he was too much of a pious and strict man to consider cheating... until now.
Celeste wouldn't have it any other way. He wants it as rough as Naoki can give it to him – he won't break so easily, after all. And yet, despite every snarky comment aimed at riling Naoki up ("Bet you couldn't fuck your wifey like this, huh?"), Celeste feels comfortable enough to stop him and share his preferences – something he never cared to point out to his previous owners. He knows Naoki would listen. He knows he can trust him, even if Naoki doesn't always trust his own self. Celeste can read him like a book, one he knows by heart.
Wall of text of TRIVIA you can skip but I highly recommend it to fuel the brainrot 🥺
- Celeste’s discomfort with vaginal penetration comes more from his backstory (🤐) rather than from dysphoria (though that obviously plays a part, too). He does like fingering and getting eaten out, and he’s the first one to use AFAB terms to refer to his bits, that’s why Naoki doesn’t hold his tongue in any sense of the term (ba dum tss). He’s extremely respectful of Celeste’s gender identity (if nothing else 💀), and that doesn’t change even when Celeste does everything inhumanly possible to get on his nerves.
- At this point in the story, Celeste still hasn’t even entertained the idea of gender-affirming surgery or hormonal therapy. Both would be nearly experimental on Vampires.
- Celeste is fluent in Japanese. He and Naoki talk the language when they don’t want to be understood by anyone else – especially on the job during investigations. They’re annoying like that.
While Celeste’s Italian (or well, English, since that’s how I’m writing the book) is colloquial, his Japanese sounds way more formal & polite, because he learned it in the past. It gives Naoki whiplash every time he hears it. The good kind. *wiggles eyebrows*
- Celeste often calls Naoki danna, which is a Japanese term formerly used by service people (eg geisha) to refer to their male patrons of higher status/authority. It can translate to ‘sir/master’ but also to ‘husband’ (someone else's or your own), as a legacy of feudal Japan where husbands were supposed to be the masters of the house and also providers to their wives & servants alike. It used to be a deferential word, but in modern Japanese it acquired a fond if not intimate meaning, especially since now it’s also used by hostesses and sex workers in a sort of ‘sugar daddy’ way. Celeste miiight not be aware of this last bit of information. Naoki is. Of course he is, the kinky bastard.
Btw, the first kanji that makes up danna is the one for ‘dawn’ (旦), which is incredibly fitting, once you realize I'm not being subtle at all with the whole endhawks/Icarus and the Sun reference.
- if you're curious about their sexuality, Naoki is pan and Celeste is demi. Naoki, for his part, isn’t aware of this last bit of information. :)))
Anyhoe, this is a bday gift to myself, lol. I haven't had this much fun drawing in so long :') Hope you'll like it as well! And if you reached this point, thank you for reading all this info dump 💜
[about Celeste and Naoki], [about my original story Unlock]
Comments
Loveisinthe AIRA
Thank you 😭😭 They own my heart! I can't wait to show more of them 💘
valjmdo
I love them already 🥺💚
Loveisinthe AIRA
Celeste does know how to play Naoki in the palm of his hand 🥴 He's a little menace, no matter how much Naoki tries to assert dominance 😂 Thank you so much for appreciating my original art!! 🙏💙
Loveisinthe AIRA
I don't think so, love. I'm sorry 🥺 My main goal, after employing the enho zine as a trial ground, will be to focus a lot more on Unlock 😔
Andie
Omg AIRA! This is all SOO FREAKING GOOD! I love reading all the background info to! Celeste def knows how to push all of Naoki’s buttons in the best way!! Your art here is just spectacular too. I love them 🥹🩷
Andie
I can’t wait for all of your zines! Will you also still be doing the kiribakudeku angel/devil and yakuza one?
Loveisinthe AIRA
Ahghghfh what an honor! 🥺 I'm really glad you like the way I've made them my own, and that you're weak for Naoki in particular. Also yeah, ngl, it was HARD to draw this lmao, in more ways than one 🙈 But I'm so happy with how it turned out and that it's receiving so much love! Thank you so much 🥰💘
Meena
Sheesh!! Just looking at it, actually inhaling it, makes me fan myself. How did you survive drawing them!? They are both so hot and even though they are inspired by some other two, I prefer them. Naoki is just so.... 😏
Loveisinthe AIRA
Eheh, in time you'll learn his backstory 💙 You and Naoki both 👀 Along with his progression!! The top surgery will be the first important step and ohhh they'll both have so much fun with it 🥴 Celeste IS the type to want to excitedly show off, but at the same time he can be pretty shy about it, so he becomes snarky as a self defense mechanism. It makes Naoki go insane... again, in the good way 😌 He loves to make Celeste crumble and be honest with him. And lmao, Celeste will try to pick up jp slang through Giada (Naoki's teen daughter) but in truth he has absolutely zero energy for it. He may look like a babey but he's OLD, okay? 😭 He hears Naoki and Giada arguing in jp and rapping unfathomable shit and just stares into the camera like he's on the office. Luckily Naoki appreciates his extremely proper japanese & perfect diction as it is. 👹 And yep, danna meaning husband, too, gives another whole layer to the sexiness of it 😩 Just like "daddy" has its own perks because of the attached issues. And I'm glad you appreciate the demi rep!! But I'll leave you wondering if that slutty front Celeste puts on is only to hide the fact he's actually feeling Every Inch of It (the liar), or also to dissimulate the adoration & how fucking happy he is that this is finally happening - so much that he can't help tearing up a bit... 🫠🩵 Thank you thank you thank you for your commentary and I apologize for this excessively long reply 🙈 Kisses u
Loveisinthe AIRA
Thanks a lot! 💕 Unlock will be an illustrated novel (same thing I'm planning to do with my endhawks Courting Fire zine, only like... three times as big ⚰). I posted the prologue + the first 2 chapters here to give y'all a feel of it, if you're interested! 👁👁
Kaley
Hello I'm back what do you meeeaaaan 🤐 you can't just leave me hanging I need to know all of Celeste's secrets right nowwwww 😭 UGGGH and now I really want to see Celeste's progression of undergoing gender-affirmative care and reacting to bottom growth. I know nothing about this baby but I can just imagine him wanting to show off to Naoki like an excitable puppy, which would NOT go over well 😂 ("Why are you just standing there waiti--where are your pants.") LANGUAGE KINNNK YESSSS I love when a little shit full of snark and sass is suddenly uber polite and it ✨does things✨ to the object of their terrorizing schemes Gods, I know it's steeped in misogyny but something about the word "danna" meaning both sir/master AND husband (in this particular context) really has me frothing at the mouth. It's so perfect ahhhhhhh (Also that sun symbolism?? Meant to be.) SLUTTY DEMI REPRESENTATION YES!! Fantastic and beautiful I love miscommunications and misunderstandings and there's something about Naoki seeing Celeste as some lecherous heathen when in reality it's a front he puts on so he can hide how much it hurts-- It's so goooooooodddd!!!
J L
What a treat to wake up to! I don‘t know if you already explained it but what are your plans for unlock? Is it a story + art? Or a comic? I mean overall, obvi this part is a comic 😂
Loveisinthe AIRA
Thanks for reading it!!!
Loveisinthe AIRA
Me all the while drawing Naoki: 🫦 Thanks a whole lot to you sweetheart! I'm so very happy you like it! 🥹💘
Diamond
OMG! This is so hot!! I love it A LOT!! Naoki is fucking HOT!!! They both are really!! Thank you so much for this!!
Peter Shaw
awww love it Aira! 💖🔥💖🔥 loving the text and trivia wall as well! 😁👏
Loveisinthe AIRA
Kaleyyyyy I can't wait to hear your full opinion about it! I've already read this comment you left five times 😭💘 Thank you!!!
Ren
LOVE LVOE LOVE
Kaley
YYYEEESSSSSSSS OMFG THIS IS SO DAMN YUMMY THANK YOUU 👀👀👀👀🥵💦💕💖💕💖 I’m still at work rn so I can’t gush over all the details just yet but goddamn the shading and anatomy are so fucking beautiful and sexy??? (Also the wedding ring stays ON during sex unf I shouldn’t find that so hot sdfhkl) I can’t wait to read over all the juicy trivia tidbits too ahhhhhhh so much LORE!!! (The bit about using ‘Danna’ already has me gagged but I only skimmed it bc I needed to leave a comment before getting back to work 💀)
Loveisinthe AIRA
Dvgfsbh I'm so happy to hear it! Thanks a lot 🥺🙏💕
Loveisinthe AIRA
Thank you! I put every bit of my heart body and soul in this 😭💜
SpaceNip
ALWAYS YOUR PARTNER IN CRIME BOO!!!
Loveisinthe AIRA
Babey 🥺💘 I'll never thank you enough for being my OC partner in crime
Loveisinthe AIRA
Ahhh you and me both!! 😭 I'm so glad you feel this way 💖
Dandy
FUCKING GORGEOUS OML💖✨ these two give me SO MUCH life 😩😮💨💖
KhajitTink
This is way too damn good
KhajitTink
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KhajitTink
AIRAAAAAAAAAAAAA
SpaceNip
IM HOWLING AT THE MOON AIRA!!! I LOVE THEM BOTH SO MUCH YOU OUTDID YOURSELF WITH THE COMIC STRIP AND THE BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION AAAAAAAAAA ITS SO HOT
Melissa Barragan
This is so hot I don’t even know what to do with myself. 🥵🥵
