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if (laughter == happiness) { tickling() } by DivJustice if (laughter == happiness) { tickling() } by DivJustice
Click, click, click…
The sound of electrical devices…
A series of hard drives processing data…
Screens buzzing…
A faint sigh…
Lain Iwakura stared at her surroundings with an indifferent expression in her face.
“Did I fall sleep again in front of the computer?” Mumbled the girl. Her eyes adjusted to the dim light that came from the monitors that could be found everywhere, scattered, surrounding her. She stretched her tired muscles, apparently she had spent another night exploring ‘wired’ the conglomeration of human telecommunication and lost track of time until tiredness got the best of her.
She stood up and looked at the ceiling blankly.
“What am I doing...” Whispered the girl, she had been lately struggling to find a purpose in her life.
Suddenly, one screen began to blink intensely. Curiosity took the best of her and she crouched in front of it, resting on her nude knees that were barely covered by her plain white dress. To her surprise a series of words began to form in the monitor
“It is a purpose what you seek?”
Lain did not reply, she simply stared at the message emotionless.
“It is easy” Another screen showed a new message.
“Join me” A different screen displayed that peculiar request.
“I need you” This time the message was shown in the computer behind the timid girl.
“You need me” Following this all of the devices in the room began to work strangely.
“I know you...” Said Lain “...I can feel it...you are... Masami Eiri…” Exclaimed the girl shuddering in discomfort “How did you find me?”
“There is nothing impossible for me, my dear” The man of a face appeared in all of the screens simultaneously. “And you would be even superior to me if you realized your true potential” The face showed a cruel grin.
“No…” Said Lain, stepping backwards “I already told you I don’t want to follow your desires” Added the timid girl, unable to look to the many eyes that surrounded her.
“It would be so simple, just abandon you form of flesh and bone and become one in the wired. Join me and you will transcend humankind!” Exclaimed the ruthless voice of the man who wanted to tempt the girl.
“I said no! I don’t want to be like that, I have a life on my own, I have friend...I...simply want to live...” Shouted the girl at the verge of tears.
“Is that your decision?” Asked Masami in an indifferent tone, Lain simply nodded. After this exchange of information, he smiled wickedly.
“I see, unfortunately for you, I still need you for my plans. If I will not convince you with words I will make use of different methods...” After that cryptic threat, his image disappeared from the screens.
Lain’s body stiffened, she sensed danger around her. She could feel something moving around her, she did not know what would become of her. Yet her instincts told her to flee from that place, her own house, which had turned into something ominous and harmful. With insecure steps, she went for the door that would mean her freedom.
However, out of nowhere, something lashed around her left ankle and pulled with force, making her fall to the ground full of cables. When she looked around she saw with dread that those same inanimate electrical appendages were crawling at her.
She tried to get free from the one that held her ankle in place, but to no avail, soon, more cables that looked like snakes, wrapped around her wrists and her remaining ankle; forcing her to sit on her ground with her legs stretched and her arms tied above her head. Lain was panicking, more of those attackers came closer to her body.
“Please… don’t hurt me…” Pleaded the girl in a pitiful voice.
“Harm you? Not at all my dear. You see. If you have accepted my offer you could have experienced true happiness” Explained Masami, whose voice reverberated around the bound girl “But I am not mad at you, I am willing to let you experience some of that happiness. You see, laughter is the finest expression of bliss, thus I will make you laugh, even if you do not wish so” Something in that statement made Lain shiver in fear and confusion. What could that man mean by that?
She would not have to wait to find out, soon a series of cables approached her bare and defenceless feet and began to caress them lightly, forcing her to giggle nervously.
“Ehehe...don’t do that...it tickles...” Complained Lain fighting against her bounds.
“Exactly, if you, by any chance, do not like this, I suggest you to abide to my orders unless you are committed to laugh more” Announced the man in a wicked tone.
Lain looked around her, desperate to find anything that would help her stop the sensation clawing and desecrating her pale, sensitive feet. But she found nothing, all she could do was laugh.

The hours went by and the devilish tortured inflicted upon Lain soles only increased: her usually milky feet had turned pink due to the constant constrain. Without a single moment of respite, she had endured all kind touches that tickled her feet in ways unimagined for her. Still, the cables knew no mercy, they touched her feet always changing methods for her not to get used to the sensations.
“PLEAHAHAHAHSE, NO MORE, NOT THE FEET, NOHOHO THE FEHEHET!” Yelled and exhausted Lain who was at the doors of hysterics. Her toes in her right foot were bound by cabled that squirmed in between them. If that was not enough to send her into madness, not a inch of her soft flesh was spared of that suffering, specially her left foot, on which a peeled cable sent low voltaic currents that directly triggered her nerve endings, making her squeal harder in agony.
“I’ll do anything, please stop! I CAHAHAHANT TAKE THIS!” Begged the girl that could not endure the feeling in her soles.
“Unfortunately for you, my dear, I already got you where I wanted, ready to bend at my will. However since you did not accept my offer when you first should, I think you deserve more of this happiness. In fact one I transplant your data to the wired, with me, I’ll make sure to change your code, to make your feet even more ticklish that they already are. Imagine the sensations, all the laughter that you will give me then!” Exclaimed Masami laughing with malice, a laughter that was engulfed by Lain’s maniacal guffaws, who laughed and laughed endlessly all the while whishing for that ordeal to stop.
Yet, the more her feet were touched, she knew that her fate would not be that merciful.

Commision for :iconmurrrk: who asked me for a sketch of Lain Iwakura from the classic anime "Serial Experiments Lain" getting tickled in her bare feet in a very specific way (I was even told how each foot should be tickled). I hope I was up to the expectations post in me.

Lain and all the characters mentioned in the story are copyrighted by Triangle staff studio.

Fun facts:
-I would have never expected to be commissioned to work int his series that was present during my childhood. I have never seen it, but it was one of the first anime to be distributed in video in my city and it was found in many videoclubs.
-The title is something I made uf after a quick search on google, I don't know anything about programming or coding, but I thought it would fit this piece to make a kind of order that said "if laughter means happiness, then the program must tickle the subject to make her laugh and be happy".
-Thumbs up to :iconwaruigi: for correcting me about the name this should have had (I have no idea about codding)


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LGHX Featured By Owner May 23, 2015
Esto es excelente! ^w^ nunca imagine encontrar a Lain en una situación como esta, me encanto tu galería muy buena y creo que este es el dibujo que más me encanto LoveClap 
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DivJustice Featured By Owner May 23, 2015
Admito que no he visto la serie, pero siempre estuvo presente durante el principio de mi adolescencia en varios videoclubs. Así que fue una sorpresa muy grande que alguien me pagase por hacer lo que yo creo que es el único dibujo de cosquillas de esta serie.
Me alegra que te guste, por cierto.
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LGHX Featured By Owner May 23, 2015
Yo tampoco hubiera imaginado una imagen de ella de este tipo eso dice que ningún personaje se salva de recibir cosquillas X3 Encuanto a la serie de Lain es excelente en mi opinión es el anime que más me ha gustado deberías verla algún día.
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DivJustice Featured By Owner May 23, 2015
Lo tengo en cuenta.
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TicklishAndInLove Featured By Owner Apr 25, 2015  Professional Writer
Cool story!
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Apr 25, 2015
Thanks a lot!
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Waruigi Featured By Owner Apr 1, 2015
Just to be "that" guy, and because I'm a programmer, I'm gonna point out that you'd need to add an equal sign in the "if" brackets, as in "==", for it to work, as well as add empty brackets right next to the word "tickling", as in "tickling()", so it makes a function called "tickling" that is called if the condition is met.

:p

Awesome picture, by the way !
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:icondivjustice:
DivJustice Featured By Owner Apr 1, 2015
Thanks for the (I hope) free lesson in codding. What should I exactly write then, because I'm null when it turns to codding XD
Also, thanks for the compliment.
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Waruigi Featured By Owner Apr 2, 2015
The correct syntax would be "if (laughter == happiness) { tickling() }" ^^
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Apr 2, 2015
Fixed it, thanks a lot!
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:iconwaruigi:
Waruigi Featured By Owner Apr 2, 2015
You're welcome ^^
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lupusthered Featured By Owner Feb 14, 2015  Hobbyist General Artist
*cuts the cables and frees her*
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Feb 15, 2015
Why? She's so serious and need to loose a bit :D
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lupusthered Featured By Owner Feb 15, 2015  Hobbyist General Artist
If not for what that guy had planned, I would have left her.
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CamiillaLima12 Featured By Owner Feb 8, 2015
Nicee :DD
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Feb 8, 2015
Thanks!
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DarkShaquille Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015
AWESOME!
Both story and image!

I love me some tickling tentacles, even if they are mechanical XD
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015
Now that you mention it there is a major lack on tentacles in my gallery, I should fix that in the future XD
Thanks for the compliments.
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DarkShaquille Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015
ANother one to like tentickles? Woohoo!!!
You're welcome :)
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 28, 2015
To be honest, I don't really love them, but I don't dislike them either, they are another nice way to tickle a cute girl ;)
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DarkShaquille Featured By Owner Jan 28, 2015
Oh...ok :)
I for one adore it! Something about living tentacles to coil and tickle a cute girl by her feet...
Lovely XD
Same with snakes and spiders (no not into vore. Obviousy!). Tickling is much better in an 'organic' version :)
Generally I dislike tools
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 28, 2015
I see, my "special" liking here are animal licking feet, which means we are not very far away in our passions XD
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DarkShaquille Featured By Owner Jan 28, 2015
Oh, licking XD
Cool! A fellow kindred soul XD
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 28, 2015
Actually if you can read Spanish you'll enjoy my Fantasy Frontier based stories as there's plenty of that there :)
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epluribusunumdeusex Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015  Hobbyist General Artist
Very nice
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015
Thanks!
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zeke2426 Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015
love the story
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015
Thanks a lot!
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zeke2426 Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015
No prob
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AraghenXD Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015  Student Digital Artist
Cute story!
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015
Thanks!
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AraghenXD Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015  Student Digital Artist
Of course!
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codricor1 Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Hey que genial, no estoy familiarizado con la serie pero se ve interesante, por cierto el rostro esta genial la pose me gusta y la historia tambien! X3 genial man :D
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015
Si yo tampoco estoy familiarizado con la serie, por eso he hecho la historia como ha salido XD
Y agradezco los cumplidos, yo que pensaba que este dibujo estaba regulero...
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codricor1 Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2015  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
pues no de echo se ve una expresion buena y muchas de tus imagenes se vueleven mucho mejores luego de leer la historia XD, solo que como siempre el scaner se come los colores como siempre aparte de eso es genial XD
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DivJustice Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015
Ya, lo del scanner no tiene arreglo, por más que utilice el photoshop a posteriori.
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codricor1 Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2015  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I Know that feel bro TwT ironicamente las camaras a veces funcionan mejor
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