It’s D&D time babey~
D&D AU
JP is a tiefling who grew up in a library and took on being a cleric after a lot of research into who he wants to be. He’s still not quite sure.
Mikael is a half-elf bard who just wants to play music! He collects instruments and spends his time learning new ones.
The two of them meet when they both join a caravan.
I’ve been drawing Mikael and JP as old men for a long time and I love it every time I come back to it! I wish 22 year old me made them old for the whole comic, but what can you do!
Old Man AU
It’s been 25 years since the apocalypse hit Toronto. Mikael is a bit of a hermit that lives out in the suburbs in a house he made his own, while JP lives in the downtown core where most of the population works hard to sustain what’s left of the city. Mikael is a bit of an enigma, but his path crosses with JP. Cue the whole story of canon Dead City but with old men and less sad stuff happening.
Did this one for MerMay2019
Mermaid AU
Mikael is a red dragonfish who lives on the coast near a small town. He’s friends with some locals and has a good life, but doesn’t know any other merpeople. JP is an orca and lives in the ocean with his pod. JP met Mikael as he was travelling through the coast and he almost immediately fell for him.
I’ve drawn them as merpeople many times before, but it looks like this is the only sketch I ever actually posted.
Here’s another Dead City AU drawing!
Alien AU
Mikael is an alien who was flying around space looking for a place to call home. He landed on an island up north in Canada and found an empty cottage to take up residency in. That summer, JP drives up to his private cottage up north and finds an alien has invaded. In his personal space.
Some sketches from back when I made Mikael and JP into DnD boys. Check out their character sheets here~
Continuing on with my AU themed illustrations.
Robot AU
Mikael is a robot who is given to JP to help him relax more. JP works too long and too hard and needs constant reminders from Mikael to take breaks and rest.
The next set of illustrations are Dead City AUs
Skargarden
This isn’t quite an AU, but how Mikael and JP came into existence. Dead City was an AU that we ended up liking better than the original. Skargarden was a deviantArt group about animal inspired characters, kind of like gijinkas. JP is an alligator, and Mikael is a strawberry hermit crab. Every so often I’ll get the itch to draw their original designs again, and I had a real fun time drawing this one!
So I hope y’all like it! I’ve got more Skargarden doodles throughout the years: https://jpawlik.com/blog/tag/skargarden/
Some sketchbook clean-up pieces! I like JP with a little ponytail~
I love me some vampireAU y’all!
Mikael and JP in their safe house from ch15-32.
