Stuck With You

Stuck With You is an open-ended seven-page comic was made from the 1st of January to the 18th February in 2020.

The comic depicts the interactions between Sylvester Phoeniths and Miles Vance when they find themselves trapped in a cave together. The tension of the situation warrants an outburst from Sylvester, with Miles being found in the middle of his panic. The comic was primarily made to explore the dynamic of a hostile, distressed Fantoccini and how they handle a predicament like this.

The events of this story are not canon.

Page 1
The scene introduces a vast rocky brown cave in which the two characters appear to be trapped inside of due to thick metal bars sealing over the only entrance into the chamber. It is implied that Sylvester and Miles had supposedly taken cover in this place before it turned out to be a trap set by Fantoccini hunters.

The comic begins with Sylvester pounding his fists against the bars in a fruitless attempt to inflict damage on the trap. Curled up with his back turned to him, Miles expresses discomfort towards Sylvester's rage. There is no way for the two to determine how long they may be residing within their confinements as Sylvester establishes that they are officially trapped with no way out.

Cussing aggressively with resentment towards the ordeal, Sylvester snarls to Miles on how upset he is with being trapped in a cave with him, expressing bitterness towards the child and implying that he would rather be in captivity with anyone else aside from him as he insinuates that, due to Miles's youth, he would be useless in providing help towards escaping from the cave.

Page 2
Sylvester begins expressing disbelief over the fortune that he currently has to have been encased in a cave with a child. He attempts to provide the bars with one more futile punch as hard as he can manage to. Then, he describes the predicament and how he's wary of the hunters that may come to collect their catch.

Page 3
Sylvester begins inflicting the blame on Miles for ending them up in this life-threatening situation. Sylvester claims the unfairness and provides the child with the harsh reality of how he will be killed and Miles will be freed.

He furthermore begins to state that he believes that having helped Miles fending off mountain lions is what resulted in this situation taking place. Miles starts getting upset cries.

Page 4
Sylvester realizes that he had upset Miles, and turns around to confront the child with a more subdued behaviour. His prior outrage has now become silent as he comes to crouch behind Miles - catching his attention with a light puff of smoke in his direction. The boy looks over his shoulder and finds himself fixed in the Fantoccini's gaze.

Page 5
The Fantoccini grabs Miles briskly with a sense of hostility in his tone. This immediately startles the boy into assuming that Sylvester is going to harm him.

Page 6
In a turn of events, Sylvester instead sweeps Miles up into a comforting clutch against his chest - coaxing him to keep his strength in the devastating situation. He subliminally expresses his own fear, which encourages Miles to try and comfort Sylvester with the hopes of them both being rescued from the trap.

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The open-ending comic concludes with a bittersweet sense of hope, and is now up for the reader to interpret its end.

Trivia

 * This was my New Year's Revolution idea; to make a comic and not bail on it.