I’ll never lose the LOVE FOR LEE.
Fan Arts…very image intensive…some NSFW.
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Oh my sordid doujinshi spirits! Various art gifts made for me, and doujinshi by me, based on Balladbird Lee.
Balladbird Lee, by Caroline Monaco.
The first of my Lee’s [I say mine because--Nightow's Lee is neither gay nor harbors true resentment for Brandon Heat!]. This is one of my favorite Lee pics, by [name removed at artists request]. We were working together as Elegant Madness, and making Gungrave doujinshi–and this was the pic that graced our website; those were the days. Caroline and I both disliked Brandon Heat–and the shipper fujosi made it sooo annoying with their mantra of BrandonxHarry ‘OMG THERE LUV IS PUR‘. Truth was…who cares? Brandon Heat was your typical seinen construct [silent anti-hero becomes the hero in a world of crime] and boring to boot. You know why he never talked? Because he was stupid. Whenever I wrote about Brandon, through the eyes of Balladbird Lee – Brandon was ‘the mute marine’ and despite Lee’s constant attempts to be Harry McDowell’s right hand man, Harry always relied on Brandon…up until the day Harry shot Brandon!
Another annoying thing I hated was the Harry/Lee or Lee/Harry sets. Sorry, Harry McDowell is a straight man–he’s a player. He loves his pussy…and Brandon loves Maria; how can you ignore the obvious straight romantic subplot of an anime??! So if Harry and Brandon couldn’t be together, we had fujosi pairing Lee with Harry. 0__o. No… I don’t see Lee as a potato queen.
So Crat, who did you pair Lee with? [you sick slasher you!!]
That’s right, Bunji Kugashira bitches! Gungrave’s Kugashira [or Madness, as he was called] was your typical Japanese lone-wolf hit-man, straight out of Graveyard of Honor–with his dark sun glasses, brown bomber jacket, solemn sense of honor, and astute anti-social behavior–he was every fan boy’s favorite character. My Kugashira was still all of the above, but also a scruffy ill mannered closet case who insisted he wasn’t gay, but never passed up a free blow job or an op to get into Lee’s ass. Here, I had two men–one so dangerous he could openly live his life as a homosexual mobster, and the other just as deadly, yet played as if he were straight. Guess where I took these two character types? Hey, if you create something original, why not get paid for it. 
I wrote plenty of porn based on Kugashira and Lee, but I also wrote a large amount of non-porn that focused on these two. Most of my artist friends seem to really enjoy the porn, and so over the years, I collected quite a bit of fan-art based on my fictions.
My fic, The Randy Problem, is about Lee acquiring Bunji’s help in taking out mob boss Randy, for Harry.
“I’ve no issue with Brandon Heat. I could care less about him, but the truth is that Brandon’s going to support Big Daddy, because that’s what he’s chosen to do. When the time comes, Harry might have to go up against Big Daddy, and it’s going to get messy,” Lee said.
“Listen, Aniki don’t talk about this shit with me, ok? If you’re fishing for info on where he stands with the Big Guy, you’ll have to ask him,” Bunji sighed.
“I know where Brandon stands. He’s not my problem. My problem right now is Randy,” said Lee, and lay back down, hair still sprawled around him.
“Randy is Harry’s problem,” said Bunji.
“Harry’s problems are my problems—”
“Our problems. We’re all a team, or don’t you remember?”
Bunji leaned over, hand on one side of Lee, body on the other. “Harry says it’s time for Randy to go. Only he can’t say this to Aniki because…Randy does what’s best for the family. And so will Aniki.”
Lee grinned up at him. “And you scoff at my desire to share power with you….”
“No offense, but balling you, and working with you, are two different things. I prefer the former because, as a whore, you’re less dangerous.”
“My, aren’t we well-spoken all of a sudden?”
“Yeah, I ain’t as simplistic as I let on—”
“I never for a moment suspected otherwise.”
Bunji brought his lips to Lee’s. “Take your pants off, I want to fuck your ass.”
“Not today Kugashira, I’m not that easy.”
Bunji laughed, and his breath tickled Lee’s tongue.
“Oh yeah? Well, you better get that easy, because you need a trigger man. You can’t take Randy out yourself, because you’re the one who needs to bring Harry to Corsione with some story about Randy. Which is?”
“Randy’s stealing….” Lee pecked the tip of his nose against Bunji’s.
“I suppose Bob’s cooked up some meaty evidence.”
“Bob’s quite the chef—”
“So the Big Guy comes to you, because you’re his friend, and you two tell Don all about how Randy’s been screwing the family.” Bunji shifted his attention to Lee’s open shirt.
“Your grasp of the situation turns me on—”
“You got a problem already squints, because when Corsione makes the call to take Randy down, Brandon won’t be there—because he’s with Big Daddy and his wife.” Bunji settled his chin down against the buckle of Lee’s slacks, and with his hands, took hold of Lee’s breasts and squeezed tight.
“I know this,” Lee panted.
“Then you also know I can’t work on my own. I got strict orders not to.”
“I’m the same rank as Brandon Heat—”
“Yeah, but you don’t give orders to Graves,” Bunji interrupted.
“Let me finish….” Lee jerked his hips to force Bunji’s attention back to his face.
“Ok, here’s the new plan. Don’s lazy. He’ll order me to take proof of Randy’s betrayal to Bear Walken across town. Harry gets worried for me, and so calls on the Graves top lieutenant-”
“—to make sure your bony ass is delivered in one piece.”
“Only I’m going to be safe and sound at Bob’s, while you seek out and eliminate Randy.”
“We both say he found us, and I had to kill everybody.” Bunji smiled up at Lee, before resting his cheek against Lee’s cleavage. “That’s a good plan.”
“Thank you,” crooned Lee, fingers twining into Bunji’s hair.
“There’s still one problem with it, though,” Bunji said thoughtfully.
“What?” Lee asked.
Bunji spoke up, “Your pants aren’t off yet.”
That’s from The Randy Problem, which is in ‘Collected: Gungrave Parody Fictions.’
The artist here is Jurty – great artist, easy to commission!
This next pic was the wrap-around cover for ‘The Sentence Rule‘, a short AU fic that featured Lee and Kugashira in their late teens. Yep, this is the one where Lee has braces, and Bunji just got out of Juvenile Hall– again.
“Don’t it turn you on that I’m a convicted felon?” asked Bunji.
“Please, you went to Juvenile Hall. That’s hardly what I call serious time.”
The Sentence Rule is also in the ‘Parody Collection‘.
Stakeout was the only short story in the Gungrave Doujinshi Anthology my circle sponsored; co-written with Jexia6, the cover illustration for that story was drawn by DoriAN, aka, the art director for Dramaqueen LLC. (LOL) This story takes place just before Brandon arrives with Bunji’s hamburger–in the anime–Bunji is on a stakeout…
Bunji was so drained right after, that even though his eyes were on the window, it really didn’t register. Lee pushed up, and leaned in for a kiss. Bunji obliged, still groaning, “That was so hot, so fucking goddamn hot!”
When their lips met, Lee forced some semen still in his mouth into Bunji’s who quickly shoved him off with a raunchy grin, “Oh, you fuckin’ whore!”
Lee laughed gleefully.
Bunji glanced frantically around the room. “Where’s that cherry rubber? I’m gonna put it on my gun and fuck you with it.”
“Oh, no you’re not,” Lee giggled and made a break for it, but Bunji wrestled him back down to the mattress.
“I’ve got my gun cocked again, and it’s ready for you. I shot you in the mouth. Now I wanna shoot you in the ass. You’re gonna love it,” Bunji promised as they wrestled.
“You’re too big,” Lee objected, “and you have a job to do–the stakeout, remember?”
“I can do two things at once,”
“Go shower first, you pig. I’ll watch the room for you,”
“Oh, that’s right. You can’t stand my stink. Let’s just see how much you hate it. Maybe I’ll just rub it all over you until you give in and let me fuck you,” he laughed, struggling with Lee.
Lee was formidable only because he was taller than Bunji, but when it came to brute strength and wresting skill, Lee was outclassed. Bunji raised his arm and slid his armpit all over Lee’s chest and shoulder, and chin, rubbing in his body oils.
Lee was laughing so hard now it hurt.
“What the hell are you doing, Kugashira?” he screamed.
“Marking my territory,” said Bunji in a low, lascivious voice. “No one else can have you now.”
Lee snorted and laughed, “No one else will want me now!”
On top of those, I got my fair share of pics featuring just Lee:
There’s so many more–I couldn’t possibly post them all here…but thanks for looking at my strange obsession with Balladbird Lee.
If you want to pick up my print or digital doujinshi – do it here. There’s two Gungrave yaoi books, another Gungrave that’s all ages, a Trigun and Wolf’s Rain reissue in digital format only [I ain't printing anymore!] and the Gungrave book 3 Times [fiction/color illustrations]. [/pimp]
