Gift: Just Real, That's How it Should be

I've always thought that if a couple never fights as in fights with tears or anger or jealousy or hurt that they never bond as much emotionally. It's one thing to be there when someone's sad or happy but to stand through hate, anger, hurt and all the ugly spite and insults another can throw let alone the harm they can cast upon you if you're in the same room, that takes real effort. Almost everyone either caves in, runs, or just ignores the problem.
We may fight sometimes, but only ends up making us closer. If someone has the balls and devotion to actually STAND there and TAKE it all just JUST to finally get to the bottom and FIX it rather than ignore the problem or call the other stupid and leave them to stew in their misery, then they truly care for each other.

To love to the extent you aren't blind to another's flaws and you don't just mock them, but actually teach and help them, try to make them gradually fix their errors or bad habits -as long as they too are willing to be helped- that's real love. Love should never be blind to the flaws, love should embrace them, fix what can be fixed, and leave what is permanent be. Let the permanent flaws become the ones you do small things for, help them gradually, but you can never cure what is too big a part of them.

I've been with Mal over a year, and I've been with Robin for nearly two -the 5th of next month will mark two years- and both have their flaws that can't be helped, just like I do. I love them and hate them simultaneously. Hate when conflicts happen due to the flaws, but love them how they are for they are genuinely good people.

I chose to depict what often is these character's biggest flaws, or at least the biggest ones I see.

Sarabun: Her agonizingly unpredictable Khoal Ahhoam temper that sparks often over some of the stupidest crap and she cannot help it, it's a part of her that she's hacked at over many years, but it's still gonna flare up no matter how much she thinks she has it in control.
Rob-bun: His bad lazy streak, though I'd chose pride, but that only appears on rare occasions and isn't near as bad as his lazy streak. Robin often gets lazy when he should be working or doing more things. Due to being alone four-hundred miles from home he is often bored or lonely which makes his self-conciousness even worse and he begins to try to pick himself apart out of feeling like he's a unproductive person, even though he has accomplished a lot and will continue to strive for his degree in college.
Mal-ki: More or less it comes down to him not able to be serious when he should be or being too childish/playing around when the timing is worst to do it. It's the inability to take me or Robin serious that gets him into the most trouble. He also tends to waver like a teeter-totter. His bipolar disorder makes him go from one extreme to another, often hindering him and making it near impossible for him to stop once he's started. When arguments happen he either gets angry as hell or cowers and claims he's failed. Neither are good responses, and they've landed him some bad fights with friends and/or me and Robin.

But his heart, like Robin and our own are in the right place. We all strive to be better people, these flaws are a cause of fights, but through those fights comes understanding, and if we can connect and understand each other, things will truly be real, flaws, scars, bad habits, all will be washed out by the more apparent good.
It takes years for things to happen sometimes, and in a little over a year things have calmed down, we've grown less fickle or spiteful. We rarely fight and we understand that there's some things we cannot change about ourselves, just learn to live with. We won't let them rule our lives, merely coexist.

We're three amazing people when you get to know us, we have our off days and I'm the most social of this trio, but we're all real. We're not perfect, we're just real.


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So proud of this, I don't want any critiques on the anatomy, the message is what matters the most to me.

(Also no Mal-ki doesn't have paw pads he has fluffy feet, like rabbits have. ) Sorry for the fadedness on his pic. I was so lightly sketching him as he was the last added to the pic.
This took forever and goes from edge to edge of my sketchbook.

Sarabun belongs to me
Rob-bun belongs to Eclipse8
Mal-ki belongs to flakyftw
Bunki species, characters, and designs belong to me