(If it's not clear, the blue sketches are meant to be memories that Hero is picturing as she talks. The final shot is more... symbolic, because I didn't picture this conversation in the dark, but they've bonded so deeply in the dark that I felt it a good way to shift from "I hate you" to "You're my best friend.")
Listen okay, listen, okay, Target Audience absolutely gutted me and I'm overflowing with sadness for these two. If I tried to write every intense feeling I have about this comic, I'd never get this posted, but I cannot overstate how much I love it and how severe of a reaction it got from me.
If you dunno who these characters are, I BEG invite you to go read The Property of Hate! It's a webcomic by Sarah Jolley and it's full of so much charm and whimsy and excitement, I just, aaaagh! Start here! -> Chapter 1: The Hook
The dialogue in this fanart is paraphrased from a beautiful scene from Bojack Horseman, which you should also watch if you haven't. I tried making the details fit Hero more, or I blurred them out because I felt like she might not really say all that to begin with. RGB is the one who uses big words like "vulnerability", after all. Though this whole monologue might still be out of character for her, but you know what, when I read this chapter, I almost immediately thought of that Bojack scene and how fitting the final lines are, and that's why I drew any of it.
It was all for the sake of, "And now... you're here, and I hate you. But you're my best friend, and you need me."
I am going to force myself to stop typing and just hit post now.
