Snakes Lair || Hakka's reign

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Title: Hellfire Gala 2021, the carpet (design variant)
Artist: Hakka ( prue84/prue84 )
Fandom: X-Men (comics)
Pairing: Warren/Elizabeth
Characters: Elizabeth Braddock, Warren Worthington III
Rating: G
Tagline: Who is escorting who to the Hellfire Gala? Is it Elizabeth Braddock the partner of X-Corp CXO Warren Worthington III, or is Angel the partner of Captain Britain at her first debut to an official event?
About the manip: There must be a timeline out there in which Krakoa happened and Warren and Betsy had the chance to heal their relationship after the return from the Age of X-Man, so they went to the first Hellfire Gala together, as the second power couple of Krakoa and mutantdom.
Notes: Since the last time I rambled about them in June 2021, not only Betsy and Warren didn't interact, but Betsy met and alternate!Warren who is engaged with an alternate!Betsy and then ended up in the arms of another, while Warren vanished after X-Corp was cancelled.
Notes 2: Most useless manip ever. But I've been in a very bad mood because of Warren current status in the X-Corner (well, last three years were a prolonged drought but Dark X-Men was the last straw) and I had the urging need to do something for him, since canon doesn't.
I'll die on the Warren/Betsy ship.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): Took way more hours than it's worth wasting on an idiocy like this. The work behind the scenes is more than what you'd expect when you have to characters that you have to paste near each other.
Betsy's ribbons were cut on one side, so I had to replace them. Also, I changed a bit the pose of her legs, which are open wider in the original art.
In the first version, Warren and Betsy weren't this close, so I had to move Warren's right arm because it was seen behind Betsy - now the hand is just floating with no sense (even if you don't see it). General corrections here and there to mask spots that needed to be hidden (on wings and the inner jacket).
Also, I had to trace over all the borders.
Had fun in adding my and Mr. Dauterman's names in the background, as if we had been sponsors of the event. :D
Eventually I made another version in which I heavily modified Warren, but that will debut in the future (when, who knows).
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
No AI involved. All made with a mouse, not pens involved (that would've have shortened the time). Also not background removal apps or other apps involved. Just Photoshop CS2.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Further headcanons. In this part, a reflection of Warren’s most significant loves in a 5+1 parts format ficlet.
Krakoa-canon compliant, up to the date of the posting.

Posted also at Livejournal, Tumblr, AO3 and SquidgeWorld.



I don’t plan to update it, should Marvel remember that Warren is an A-character and (gods save us!) pair Warren with someone new, but never say never.

Title: Hellfire Gala Dauterman's Angel and Captain Britain
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: X-Men (comics)
Pairing: Warren/Elizabeth
Characters: Elizabeth Braddock, Warren Worthington III
Rating: G
Tagline: Captain Britain and CXO Angel reunite at the Hellfire Gala.
About the manip: After like two years since the last time these two were in the same bloody comic title (Betsy meeting an alternate!sexy!Warren and feeling all insecure around him not counting), this panel had me smiling like an idiot. They both look so gorgeous near each other in the Hellfire Gala looks (Warren seems to modeling for a shooting in here, he found his inner!model standing near former model Betsy, I guess) and all that was in the panel (Emma Frost, Bobby Drake, a guest, Jean's telepathy, balloons, people) was in the way. Their magnificence deserved better.
And so I humbly tried, hoping I haven't ruined too much Dauterman's lines.
Notes: Well, nowhere the comic implies they even said hello to each other (I'm mildly angered about it). Just let me indulge myself? I mean, nowadays a Warren/Betsy fan has to do with what little is given. So, I’ll pretend they were hanging out.
This manip has actually been made because after I saw this panel my shippy heart missed a beat and I wanted them alone (and not in the middle of a crowd).
Notes 2: I feel this is rushed (I leave any manip of mine to decant some weeks before feeling ready to post them), but I wanted to post this before Planet-Size X-Men and X-Corp #2 are released, in the (vain) hope that the panel meant that they do talk and the scene is show in one of the titles above (making therefore this manip obsolete and useless). I mean, in Excalibur Betsy's back almost touches one wing (and it's doubtful it belongs to someone else's rather than Warren) and, since the Gala is re-told in all of the titles, I hope this means that at sometime they do interact. (please, Tini: you promised you'd deal with the whole Warren/Betsy elephant in the room! I refuse to acknowledge you meant it with the Betsy's in Queen!Betsy's body founding an half-naked alternate!Warren hanging around in the Queen's rooms like the glorified handsome lover he is).
Notes 3: Transparent png because backgrounds are overrated. You are free to take it to make icons, have fun with adding backgrounds. I did waste an embarrassing huge time on this. with this waste of time of mine! I would like to be credited or at least let me know, so I can see what you did! And if you need a frame-less version, just ask: I added it because it looked too empty without it.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): Abused of the copy/paste and clone stamp tool, plus the help of other Dauterman's arts (see credits under the manip), to turn an actual panel into some kind of pin-up. This is what I did while fighting with a mouse that keeps hiccuping: removed the flute from Betsy's hand and therefore reconstructed a small part of her chest plate; fixed what was missing of Betsy's sleeve after removing Emma Frost from the scene; removed the flashing light of Jean's telepathy on both foreheads, added Betsy's floating telepathy butterflies and, especially, redone almost all of Warren's left wing (and partially his covered arm) because there was a guest in that spot and also a telepathy balloon to cover his magnificent wings.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart, Tumblr.