notes

started drawing this long ago and lost steam… i love making these two disasters. i love making YURI SPECIFICALLY a disaster

b: (cupping yuri’s face) look – i can fit the whole world in my hands!

(shot of just bernie’s cute happy face)
b: :D

y: (stares at her - he’s stunned actually but recovers easily to make it look more blank)

y: sorry?
b: ?
y: i don’t get it

b: wh- how can you not???
y: explain it to me (<— actually just playing dumb)
b: nvm
y: no now i have to know

b: (not rly looking at him but still holding his face) it’s like. you know! i’m holding your face!
y: mhm
b: in my hands
y: yup, im following

(cute closeup shy bernie) b: and you are my world. so, um-

b: by holding your face, i’m- (she looks at him)
y: (yuri being really actually visibly stunned this time and bernie sees it)
b: (!!!!!!) i mean like

(they both keep getting more n more flustered as bernie talks. zooms out more and more w each panel until they r super tiny)

b: your face is like a proxy for your whole self, you know
b: im not saying ur face is my whole world

yuri: ok

b: it’s a synecdoche

y: i got it

b: so im holding you
y: yup yeah

b: um

(silence. they are just red but still in that position.
y <— plan backfired on him
b <— please help her)