Akane & Junpei

This piece is inspired by the game Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma. It’s the third game in the Zero Escape series — the games involve escape-the-room-type puzzle solving and a narrative of time travel and multi-timelines.

These two characters, Akane and Junpei, are in all three games and have a complicated relationship — childhood friends who find themselves in a life or death situation where everyone has complex motivations and secrets to keep.

Water features in most of the games, and I wanted to try to convey the complexity of their attachment to each other through the feeling of sinking through the depths.

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