Comic - Nothing left to say -- (Patreon)

A ton of my ideas come to me while I'm slipping into sleep, this is one of them.

This takes place after 15 yrs. Lilith is heir to the throne, Persephone is set to become leader of the royal guard, and Justin is happy to be a diplomat for the kingdom. Julien and Uncle talk about stepping down in the next few years, the kingdom is stable and, like Karl's brother, they've invested in working with humans to bring income and advancement to their people. Hell, I even have Skipper go back with Julien and his family as a way to repent for what happened with Kowalski, he replaces Clover as the muscle.

It's Skipper how sees Kowalski first, washed up on the beach and frantic. He reports to Julien first who orders the guard to keep the penguin from leaving the beach, Lilith and Justin to stay within the kingdom, and Persephone and the guard in training to follow Skipper's every word.

He'll deal with the uninvited.

Kowalski is overjoyed to see Julien!
He immediately starts rambling over how he made a mistake, that he returned to New York and mostly everyone was gone. Private had become a leader of a new squad, Maurice had his own family with Darla, but Julien was gone. He continued that Doris never loved him, never let him be himself and kept him from everything that made him him. He doesn't even know how long he's been gone! He thinks it's only been five years at most, spending all his time at sea, he has no idea. And it shows, Kowalski is much more aged, a greying streak over his right eye, meanwhile Julien looks almost exactly the same, save for a wrinkle here and there.

Julien lets him ramble, silent and calm. Kowalski eventually begins to apologize, he never should have left, never should of kissed her, he doesn't even understand why he did it all. He's close to tears and begins to go on about missing Lilith, he has no idea about Persephone, and continues to go on about how badly he's messed up. He reaches out to Julien, that's when he speaks for the first and last time to him.

Leaving Kowalski to himself, Julien tells Skipper that he's done, he can take over from here.

I went through a lot of different ways this could go, the original idea had Julien slap Kowalski when he reached for his paw, but I think this is much more powerful. Julien has been through a lot with what I do with him  😅

I find this more healing, Julien definitely sees how life has treated Kowalski but it was all Kowalski's own doing. Julien has nothing left for him, not even pity. it's a bit dark, mostly for Kowalski, but what else is there? It's almost insulting, that he could leave and come back thinking they could go back to the way things were.

It's obviously very venty on my part lol
Sorry for the long read I really let my hands go XD

Good end for Julien and his family and friends!
Bad end for Kowalski. 😂