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Published: 2019-03-07 17:35:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 33778; Favourites: 570; Downloads: 0
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What do you think is the story behind this one? I have my own ideas, but it's always nice to hear yours.

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stsanchez [2023-11-10 03:38:24 +0000 UTC]

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Realmwright [2020-01-25 21:04:02 +0000 UTC]

I imagine that they're siblings, maybe only a couple of years apart in age. They were always really close.
Their family owned a small chain of pizza and pasta places. Both kids washed dishes when they were younger, then drove deliveries when they got old enough.
She has been away at college and he graduated high school only a few months ago.
Both of their parents were closing up one night when a robber forced his way in and shot them when they wouldn't open the safe.
At only 18 and 20, the kids have had to grown up quickly.
They're more than okay financially because they kept ownership of the restaurants, but neither of them want to stay and work at any of them because it's a constant reminder of their parents.
"Big" sister has convinced her "little" brother that he shouldn't put his life on hold because of the tragedy - he should go to college because that's what their parents would have wanted for him.
Now she's going back to school and he's leaving the only home he's ever known.

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ShiftyMiles [2019-03-10 15:24:24 +0000 UTC]

depression or anxiety? but this is a beautiful work tho :3

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Gerundive [2019-03-09 21:11:10 +0000 UTC]

Your an amazing artist

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Lindblut [2019-03-08 16:55:16 +0000 UTC]

Woow, such an amazing athmosphere!! Really great work! I love the lighting and the soft expression on their faces, too!

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ailil [2019-03-08 16:39:33 +0000 UTC]

First drawing I ever see from you... and this speaks volumes to me...

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Sereida-Arts [2019-03-08 14:08:36 +0000 UTC]

Impressive, as for what you ask. I think there's a long journey ahead and the boy doesn't want to go, but she's encouraging him to go...

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Destructo-ray [2019-03-08 09:07:12 +0000 UTC]

He never talked about himself. I think that was what bothered me the most about it.
I mean, I'm not the touchy-feely type, usually. Growing up in New York, being fairly well-off, and being as smart as I was, it all left me pretty... normal, I guess.
But every once in a while, you'd need to share something, ANYTHING with a friend. I know I had my share of late-night crying sessions with Samantha in high school.

Not him, though. Never once did he come to me with his problems, never once did he admit to some dark secret, never once did he just ask me to tell him everything was going to be okay. I worried about him a lot, but if someone isn't willing to open up, what can you do?

That's why I was so shocked when he finally broke.

"Rachel?" he said.

"What's up?" I responded, casually. We were just walking home from campus together. We'd done it every day for the last two years, since we lived so close to each other. There was nothing special about today, no event that caused this change, so I wasn't prepared for it. I assumed he was just going to talk about something silly, something safe, like what we always talked about. Cars, and movies, and gossip. Stuff like that.

"I... uh..." he stopped in his tracks, and my heart sank. There was something in his voice, something I'd never heard before. A slight inflection, barely noticeable, but to my ears that had been trained by his upbeat tenor for the last two years, I recognized this as a voice I'd heard only once before, when he thought I wasn't listening, talking to his mom.

I turned on a dime, searching his eyes to see what was wrong. Even behind his glasses, tinted with a bright orange glare from the sunset over the bay, I could see emotions plastered on his face I'd never seen there before- sadness, regret, shame, and something strange, something like... relief? It was as if he'd been building up pressure by bottling up his emotions for as long as I'd known him, and suddenly, the floodgates had burst. Where once was a bland, if earnest smile, or a blank monotone, I could see and hear the hurt as clear as day.

"Oh, no," I breathed, unconsiously, as he dropped his gaze down to his feet. His upper lip trembled slightly as I ran the two short steps over to him, grabbing his hand.

"What is it? Oh, you know you can talk to me about anything, right?"

"I..." he trailed off again.

"I don't know," he finally admitted.

I let go of his hand, putting mine on his cheek, gently nudging his face towards mine in the hopes of reconstituting eye contact. 

He breathed a shaky breath as he forced his gaze away from his shoes to look me in the eyes. "There's so much, Rachel. There's so much I want to say, and so much I've been worrying about, and I thought I could handle it on my own, but it's just- It's just-" He was hyperventilating, and he clutched his head, taking an involuntary step backward.
 
"Hey!" I shouted, grabbing his hand. "It's okay. It's okay. Breathe, okay? Just breathe in, and out."

He closed his eyes and started breathing more slowly as I began guiding him towards our favorite tree, only a few feet away.

I thought for a second. He didn't really have any close friends, besides me. If this was his first time opening up like he was, I needed to make sure he wouldn't be too scared to try it again in the future.

"Alright," I said, and plopped down next to the tree. I patted the ground, motioning for him to sit next to me. "Come on, I want to hear all about it."

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CallMeDaddyPlz [2019-03-08 07:53:48 +0000 UTC]

"I think you have a pimple near your eye" 

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MilkyHibo In reply to CallMeDaddyPlz [2019-03-08 09:13:10 +0000 UTC]

LMASKSJSS

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Aleen-KanaGo [2019-03-08 06:10:15 +0000 UTC]

Amazing mood and expressions! It seems to me the young man is living through some unhappy event and the girl is comforting him. 

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Xeonhack [2019-03-07 23:20:55 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful work. Just wonderful.  

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Omario2d In reply to Xeonhack [2019-03-08 00:47:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! very kind


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Fotoref [2019-03-07 20:45:10 +0000 UTC]

Great job!

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Omario2d In reply to Fotoref [2019-03-08 00:48:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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FougereMarchant [2019-03-07 18:59:37 +0000 UTC]

She could see from a distance something had happened. He had not responded to any of her texts, not that unusual... but now, he walked heavily towards her.

'What happened?'

'Shadow died last night... He'd been ill a while, and we all knew it was coming, but i did not think it would be so soon...'

'I am so sorry to hear, i know how much your dog meant to you.'

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Omario2d In reply to FougereMarchant [2019-03-08 00:48:32 +0000 UTC]

awh thats so sad!

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FougereMarchant In reply to Omario2d [2019-03-08 01:00:44 +0000 UTC]

Your picture is also very sad..

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