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A black and white comic cover.
The title reads "Hourglass of Decenniums"
The cover is black and the drawing on top is drawn with white lines. It shows an hourglass and in the top part is Ike from Fire Emblem and in the bottom Soren from Fire Emblem.
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comic page 1
Shows Ike fighting with his sword. The entire comic is drawn in black and white except a bunch of things that are drawn in red.
Here it is the red blood on his sword that transitions into his cape towards the bottom panel that shows him with his back to the viewer.
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Page 2
Ike realizes he got wounded and he is inspecting the blood on his hand in a shocked manner.
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Page 3
Ike collapses while Soren calls out to him.
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Page 4
Three panels showing a mysterious figure in a black cloak emerge. She reveals the red mark on her face to make it obvious that she is Almedha from Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn.
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Page 5
Almedhas hands. She is cutting her hand with a knife and is letting the blood trickle down.
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Page 6
Almedha is letting the blood trickle in Ikes mouth who is laying on his back on the verge of dying.
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Page 7
Almedha leaves while Ike tries to call out for her to wait before he blacks out.
He wakes up and Soren calls his name.
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Page 8
Panel 1: Soren grabs onto Ikes hand and says "Be careful! Your wound could open again!!"
Panel 2: Shows Ikes face while Soren yells at him "You had me worried sick Ike!!"
Panel 3: Shows Ikes face. Soren continues yelling. "I thought I had lost you, stupid!!"
Panel 4: Shows Ikes face. Soren continues yelling. "Just because you are strong doesn't mean you are invincible!!!"
Panel 5: Ike leans his head against Sorens chest and says "Soren... I'm sorry."
Panel 6: Soren buries his face in Ikes hair and runs his hand through it and says "...I don't know what I would do without you."
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Page 9
Panel 1: Soren is holding onto Ikes head while looming over him. The background shows they are in a tent that is illuminated by a lantern.
Panel 2: Close up of their faces.
Ike says "Soren?" and Soren says "Hm?"Panel 3: Close up of their faces.
Ike says "Did you see someone in a black cloak when I collapsed?"Panel 4: Soren to that says "Hm. Don't think so."
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Page 10
Panel 1: Ike lets himself fall back onto his back and says "Ah whatever. I'm gonna crash again."
Panel 2: Soren takes Ikes hand into his own and says "Yes, you do that. I will be here if you need me." To which Ike smiles.
Panel 3 is a transition of Ike closing his eyes while the black cloaked figure vanishes into the distance.
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Page 11
Almedha reaching out her bloody hand. Text above reads "Sleep came easy that night, but the taste of iron still flooded my mouth."
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Page 12
Panel 1: Shows Ike and Soren laughing in a wheat field.
Text reads "Neither Soren nor Is spoke of that day or that hooded person I saw again.
Not until many, many years later, that is.
As the years passed by, fully expecting that I would eventually grow old whereas Soren stayed young..."Panel 2: Shows the 2 of them laughing.
Panel 3: Shows the 2 of them eating.
Panel 4: Shows Soren with a new book and Ike looking down on him fondly.
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Page 13
Panel 1: Shows Ike in front of a mirror looking rather disturbed.
Text reads "The same face always stared back at me"Panel 2: Ike saying "Soren"
Panel 3: Shows Soren but the text is Ikes dialogue. He says "How many years has it been..." to which Soren flinches."
Panel 4: Shows Ike turning around saying "Since we left together?"
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Page 14-15, spread page.
Shows Ike in front of a rift, on the other side are Mist, Titania, Boyd, Rhys and Oscar.
Text reads "And the rift between me and everyone else would continue to grow with each passing year."
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Page 16:
Panel 1: the backs of all of the other main characters
Panel 2: Close up of their backs and Soren in the distance
Text reads "But when everyone else is gone, you'll stay. Right?"
Panel 3: Close up of Soren
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Page 17
Panel 1: Ike and Soren traverse through the desert. Ike looks amused at an exhausted Soren.
Text reads "I will always be by your side, Ike."Panel 2: Shows them in front of Goldoa smiling at each other.
Panel 3: Top down view of them meeting up with Kurthnaga in a hallway.
Text reads "We traveled to the land of Goldoa to seek out Kurthnaga and learn the truth."
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Page 18
Kurthnaga excitely welcomes them. The red of Ikes cloak transitions into Almedhas face mark at the bottom and on the right Kurtnagha "emerges" from the red of his cloak to directly face Soren.
The text reads "Many a year has passed... and many a beorc has ceased to exist. yet here you are. Breathing. Standing. Living."
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Page 19
Shows Ike amidst smoke that comes out of a black dragons mouth that is behind him.
Text reads "All thanks to the blood coursing through your veins."
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Page 20
Shows Ike and Soren embracing each other in the night sky. In the front is a flower field with spider lilies and 2 skeletons are lying in it.
Text reads "For once, just this once, allow me this selfish desire: May the one I love most embrace me."
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Page 21
Shows the 2 of them during the night sky in the mountains within a flower field of white lilies. Text reads "Thats all I ask"
and "end."
Hourglass of Decenniums, a 21 page long Ikesoren fancomic!
I’ve been working on this little thing for the last 5 days and am very excited to share it.
I also prepared a pdf with the comic for you to download for free! (but the option to tipp me is there wink wink) -> Link
Have fun reading and let me know what you think!
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