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blood in the water
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(For @malevolentbigbang.bsky.social and @lightlysaltedsalt.bsky.social 's fic "Tricks of the Light"! [Link in replies!] Look out for @\loryska2's post on tumblr and twt as well!)
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![[ID: A comic-like digital page, set within an aquarium tunnel, depicting John and Oscar - John is a taller man with brown skin, long curly hair, a white shirt and slacks, and Oscar is a shorter man with darker skin, missing his left arm, short curly hair, a beard, wearing a cassock and glasses with a gold chain. The first panel depicts John touching a pane of glass and blood seeping out into the water beyond it, almost like an anemone, red fading into the blue water. The second panel depicts Oscar blushing as he washes the fish tank window in front of him and looks over his shoulder, with a shark curling around the comic frame in the background. The third panel depicts Oscar suddenly startling and squeezing the rag as John in the foreground looks sad and forlorn, the pupils of his eyes slightly glowing. The last panel depicts Oscar's point of view as John, with his back to the viewer, still pokes at the glass in the first panel but the shadow of a shark has passed over him revealing a cloak of tentacles following the pattern of light diffused through water. In the background numerous other fish are shadowed - another shark, tuna, a manta ray, a grouper, a school of fish - and seaweed rises up from the presumed bottom of tank almost like John's tentacle cloak. The blood from the first panel still seeps out into the tank from where he pokes the glass. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mf4zlvwy6vgj73uso7m2ksui/bafkreicvsuhohicrydcfjhbnscxewnrhjlaqxglohy6rr4blnq67i4bqmi)
![[ID: Digital lineart and color closeup of John touching a pane of glass and blood seeping out into the water beyond it, almost like an anemone, red fading into the blue water. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mf4zlvwy6vgj73uso7m2ksui/bafkreic6fqn5r2l64yns5grywcpw4fkdwj6xzo7pdt4w7tn4rxxo3qtyva)
![[ID: Digital comic closeup of John and Oscar - the first panel depicts Oscar blushing as he washes the fish tank window in front of him and looks over his shoulder. He has curly hair, and is wearing his clerical outfit with glasses on a gold chain that goes over his ear and back. He’s lit by the dim blue light of the fish tank. The second panel depicts Oscar suddenly startling and squeezing the rag as John in the foreground looks sad and forlorn, the pupils of his eyes slightly glowing. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mf4zlvwy6vgj73uso7m2ksui/bafkreice5ge6t5y5ospwkdnqczzp2phtz2lr5lmqpes7ggmllgfbi5i664)
![[ID: Digital art closeup of Oscar's point of view as John, with his back to the viewer, still pokes at the glass in the first panel but the shadow of a shark has passed over him revealing a cloak of tentacles following the pattern of light diffused through water. In the background numerous other fish are shadowed - another shark, tuna, a manta ray, a grouper, a school of fish - and seaweed rises up from the presumed bottom of tank almost like John's tentacle cloak. The blood from the first panel still seeps out into the tank from where he pokes the glass. /end ID]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mf4zlvwy6vgj73uso7m2ksui/bafkreia6ltqnq5ehaaka63hhj2efuwysmwrh632vllkw4wjy4o5n4iruxe)
