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[ AU #Dustnard scribble (Nov 2018) ]
A scribbly bit of fluff from firework season 😊
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Scribble of Dustin and Bernard from the Lisa series, as seen in my 'Slightly Less Painful' AU. The two are outside at night, clad in winter coats and scarves, enjoying a firework display. Bernard affectionately rests his head on Dustin's shoulder as he watches the fireworks.
April 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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[ A 'Quick-Draw' Intro to N's LISA 'Slightly Less Painful' AU (2018) ]
⚠️CW: Drugs, trauma, suicide, LISA spoilers⚠️
In a non-apocalyptic Olathe, Dustin takes in his troubled little sister Buddy after their adoptive father, Brad, dies of an overdose. Drama ensues.
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A page to aid with introducing my Lisa 'Slightly Less Painful' AU, featuring some very quickly-done drawings of Dustin, Bernard, Buddy, and Brad as well as a fair few notes. At the top is the title 'N's Slightly Less Painful AU Shit'. Beneath that are quickly drawn pictures of Dustin and Bernard facing the camera and smiling. Next to Dustin, the notes go, ''Like 6 foot 5 or some shit. Jojo-level huge-normous. Big Nice.'' Next to Bernard, the notes go, ''Butt-chin. Never became [censored name]. Don't do drugs, kids (even if your dead girlfriend haunts your nightmares, sad face).'' Below this is a picture of an angry-looking Buddy with both of her middle fingers up. She is wearing an eyepatch over her left eye and has her hair messily tied up the way she does it towards the end of Lisa The Painful. A speech bubble from Dustin reads, ''Buh, Buddy, don't,'' and he is interrupted by her shout of ''Fuck you, Dustin.'' The notes next to Buddy say, ''Not your Buddy, all caps. Edgy 12-year-old. Don't do drugs, kids. (Watch Christiane F.) ... It's not really her fault, though. Sad face.'' Finally, in the bottom right corner, we see a cartoonish dead Brad face with exes for eyes. The note next to it says, in all caps, ''Don't do drugs, kids. RIP. Sad face.''
April 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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[ Assorted AU scribbles feat. #Dustnard (Oct 2018) ]
When Dustin takes in his rambunctious little sister, his life becomes quite the rollercoaster ride. There is grief & sorrow, light & laughter, the hope for a brighter future & lingering anguish from the past...
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An assortment of scribbles from my Lisa 'Slightly Less Painful' AU. In the middle is Buddy, shouting at the camera with her hands balled up into fists. She is wearing her messy half-up-half-down hairstyle from later on in Lisa: The Painful and has an eyepatch over her left eye. Now for the rest of the scribbles from the top, counterclockwise. First, we have an enraged-looking Nightmare Lisa standing at an angle and peering menacingly down by her right shoulder at the camera as she says, ''So you think you can just replace me, huh?'' Next, Dustin tries to comfort a distressed-looking Bernard, who is sitting with his head in his hands. Just visible in the distance behind him is the ghostly figure of Lisa. Next, a seated, slightly slouching Buddy looks up over her right shoulder at someone just past the camera. Her hair is down, and she is also not wearing an eyepatch, so the hole where her left eye used to be is plainly visible. Next, Bernard and Dustin sit next to each other on a sofa, happily laughing and joking with each other. Next, the ghostly figure of Brad in karate uniform stands with his back facing the camera. Next, a solemn-looking Dustin stands facing the camera and holding Buddy's hand. Next, Dustin, seen from his left side, sheds tears. In the final picture, Dustin and Bernard lie in bed together, cuddling and looking content and peaceful. Dustin gazes lovingly at Bernard.
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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[ AU scribble (Oct 2018) ]
⚠️CW: Parental death, grief, substance abuse⚠️
He was the worst, vacillating between neglectful or overbearing, drunk or stoned. And now that he's gone, she misses him. Even though things weren't ideal to say the least... he was her dad.
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Scribble featuring Buddy and Brad from the Lisa series. Buddy, who has her hair in the wild, scruffy tied-up style from the end parts of The Painful, is sitting down looking sorrowful, her head hanging down slightly. A ghostly, smiling Brad next to her reaches out his right hand to comfort her.
April 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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[ March 2025 ]
A Dustnard silly
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Picture featuring Bernard and Dustin from the Lisa series as seen in my 'Slightly Less Painful' AU. An angry Bernard is shouting and pointing at someone; he is comically depicted with a Japanese anger mark on his forehead plus angry fangs. A sheepish-looking Dustin tries to pull Bernard away with his right arm, which is hooked around Bernard's left arm, while gesturing apologetically with his left arm to whomever Bernard is shouting at.
April 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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[ Assorted (Berny-centric) LISA 'Slightly Less Painful' AU scribbles (June 2022) ]
⚠️CW: Drugs, death, trauma, LISA spoilers⚠️
A page where I schlapped down some assorted story nuggets via doodles, as I tend to do!
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Panel on top left. Bernard recognises Dustin from behind and calls out his name in delighted surprise. An arrow pointing towards him reads, ''Berny! Not B'' 'B' is censored because the full word is a spoiler. The bottom text reads, ''At this point, it's been close to two decades since these two last saw each other. They're now both in their mid-late 30s.'' Panel on the top right. Dustin looks on with a stunned expression, and we see Bernard's face wearing a genuinely happy smile. Text reads, ''What really struck Dustin about this encounter... was how cheerful Bernard seemed.'' Panel on the middle left. We see a picture of Bernard as a kid. He has an intense, somewhat angry expression. Also he is not balding like adult Bernard. We also see an evilly grinning kid Bernard holding a baseball bat aloft and saying, ''This one's for Lisa.'' Main text reads, ''Berny was... not a cheerful kid. (At least, when Dusty met him.)'' Small text next to the arrow pointing at the baseball bat reads, ''Not a buzzsaw! The 'buzzsaw incident' went quite differently, you see.'' Panel on the bottom right. Dusty and Berny have a catch-up over milkshakes. Dusty asks, ''Who was Lisa?'' and Berny responds with surprise: ''Brad never told you?!'' Small side notes on the right read, ''Berny got clean and is in therapy! Dusty is grieving Brad's death and just took Buddy in.'' There is a tiny note next to the table that reads, ''CBA to draw this table, soz.'' Finally, panel on the bottom left. We see a fiercely angry Lisa gripping a terrified Bernard's shoulder and growling, ''Do you mean to replace me?!'' Text on the right reads, ''Well, he's cheerful when his dead girlfriend ain't malevolently haunting his nightmares, anyway. Smiley face.''
April 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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[ 'Slightly Less Painful' AU sketch (May 2022) ]
⚠️CW: Major character death, grief⚠️
Birdie tries to console an inconsolable Terry at Brad's funeral.
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Sketch featuring Birdie and Terry from the game Lisa: The Painful, as seen in my 'Slightly Less Painful' AU. They are attending Brad's funeral and so are dressed in suits. Birdie, who is tearful himself, hugs Terry and lets him cry on his shoulder.
April 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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[ Sept 2024 ]
Some AU doodles of a young adult Buddy! Buddy still had a rocky start to life, but at least she got to grow up in a world where she wasn't -the- girl but -a- girl. As a young adult, she mysteriously finds herself more and more drawn to polka dots...
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Doodles of a young adult Buddy as seen in my Lisa 'Slightly Less Painful' AU. In each one, Buddy wears an eyepatch over her left eye, having lost that eye as a child, and also wears an item of clothing with polka dots on it; the text at the top is a quote saying, ''IDK I just really like polka dots I guess.'' On the far left is a large head-and-shoulders portrait in which Buddy is grinning at the camera. Her hair is in a neater version of the messy half-up-half-down style she adopts as a child in the games and she is wearing a polka-dot jacket. Next to that is another smaller head-and-shoulders portrait where Buddy has her hair down and is looking off to her left. She is wearing a sleeveless polka-dot top. Next to that we see a dancing Buddy with the half-up-half-down hairstyle again and wearing a polka-dot shirt with jacket and trousers. Finally, we see a smiling Buddy with her hair down wearing a slightly off-the-shoulder top with a polka dot skirt.
April 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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[ LISA 'Slightly Less Painful' AU ]
Sad Terry scribbles
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A set of scribbles featuring Terry Hintz and Brad Armstrong from the Lisa trilogy, as seen in my 'Slightly Less Painful' AU. A sorrowful-looking Terry sits with his knees drawn up to his chin and his arms around his legs. His eyes are red-rimmed, puffy, and wet. Memories of happy times with Brad appear next to him. First, we see Terry reacting with happiness to encouragement from Brad, and then we see Brad reacting with wide-eyed surprise at Terry having flung his arms around him. (Unbeknownst to Terry, this would've been the first time anyone had actually hugged the poor guy.) Text beside the memories reads, "Thanks, Brad. You're the best." Text beneath the sorrowful reminiscing Terry reads, "I miss you."
September 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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[ Another 'Slightly Less Painful' AU Scribble Page feat. #Dustnard (March 2023) ]
⚠️CW: Death, trauma, LISA spoilers⚠️
In which I splatted down mostly related ideas at random about Nightmare!Lisa, the memory of Lisa warped into the manifestation of Bernard's guilt.
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Top-left corner: Title reading, "AU Scribbles." Next to it is a description, reading, "In which Nightmare Lisa, the memory of Lisa who serves as the manifestation of Bernard's guilt in his nightmares, is uhhh, a bit miffed." "A bit miffed" is in slightly larger, bolder text than the rest. Top-left panel: Bernard looks contemplative and slightly troubled, looking down at the ground and sitting with his right hand against his mouth. He thinks, "I'm... falling in love with Dusty. And I'm not sure what to think of that." Meanwhile, a cartoonishly drawn Nightmare Lisa glares at him angrily from a distance, with a Japanese angry sign over her head. Unheard by him, she growls, "Are you fucking serious?! Cheater! Manwhore! Murderer!" Next to her is text reading, "Nightmare Lisa disapproves, minus 984759628," referencing the approval system in the Dragon Age series. Top-right panel: We see a closeup of Nightmare Lisa's angry, scowling eyes. She huffs, "First he kills me, now he's trying to replace me?! I cannot believe this!" Next to "kills me" is an asterisk, leading to a tiny fact-check. A mystery cartoonishly drawn person with a quiff and a short ponytail says, "Asterisk, Factually incorrect: He did not kill her. He just feels guilty for 'failing' to save her." Hearing this, a cartoonishly drawn Nightmare Lisa responds, "Who the fuck are you??" The mystery person grins cheerfully and says, "N." The N is stylised in the way I would normally write it as my signature. Alt text continues in the next pic! Middle panel: Dustin has a big, happy, toothy smile on his face as he looks at Bernard, whose head is partly visible from behind to the left. Next to Dustin is a simply-drawn sun with rays coming off it, as if to say his smile is like sunshine. The angle then changes so that Bernard's expression is visible as a seemingly excited Dustin looks away at something else. Bernard gazes and smiles at him lovingly, as if half lost in a dream. By his right shoulder we see a ghostly and very angry Nightmare Lisa, who is shouting at him: "Hey! What the fuck, Bernard?? Stop looking at him like that! Stop it!" Bernard either does not notice or is ignoring her. Small text just underneath everything says, "Hahaha my AU really did that meme by accident!" Bottom-left panel: A young adult Buddy leans against a wall with her right foot up against it. Her arms are folded and she looks off into the distance with a neutral expression. Her long hair is neatly combed, and she wears a long-ish jacket over a tunic, trousers, and knee-high boots. The text next to her reads, "Young adult Buddy actually has nothing to do with Nightmare Lisa; I just got some feelspiration and had to draw her." Alt text continues further in the next pic! Bottom-middle panel: Real Lisa makes her first and only appearance on the page. She appears ghostly, but cartoonishly drawn. Wearing a slightly upset expression, she says, "Wow, you've really turned me into a demon in your mind, huh." Tiny text next to her reads, "I know I wasn't the nicest, but I swear I wasn't that bad." An apologetic-looking cartoonish Bernard says, "I'm sorry." To this, a ghostly and cartoonish Nightmare Lisa screams, "Yeah, you should be fucking sorry!!" Right panel: A 12-year-old Buddy wears a disapproving and perplexed expression, the kind that tweens and teens pull when they think you're really fucking dumb. Gesturing with her hands to further express her bafflement, she says, "Oh, shut up Lisa! You're like, dead anyway?" Nightmare Lisa looks taken aback, with an exclamation mark appearing beside her. Then, as the one exclamation mark becomes three, she looks utterly offended, her jaw hanging open and her right hand upon her chest.
April 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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[ AU scribble (Feb 2023) ]
Turns out when things aren't as horrifically terrible for these two, they get along rather well! Surprisingly so! There's a lot of laughter when they hang out, even in the midst of myriad difficulties in both of their lives.
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Bernard and Dustin from the Lisa series, as seen in my 'Slightly Less Painful' alternate universe, are sitting on a sofa chatting and laughing about something.
April 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM