I tried to draw some full on sobbing but nothing looked quite right. Still, they absolutely do, all three of them rely on each other emotionally quite heavily. The stress and exhaustion can add up fast and sometimes he can barely hold himself together (his body is super reactive to his emotions). I just think about situations where that stress and feeling just kicks in while you’re doing something else, and he has to desperately try and hold it together until they get back to the observation cell lest any trigger happy guards or on edge scientists decide this is clearly a threat and take action.

That’s quite a lot of character eheh, bit more than I am comfortable with drawing.

Sorry for a more silly reply, my other plan was to put a hoodie on the word Safe Haven hahaha.

I’ve explained it in detail here ^^^

^^^ And here was an aftermath doodle of Bella and Lucas (in a more game accurate style eheheh)!

TL;DR: Neither Bella nor Lucas survive the Hour of Joy. Doey is bunked with Bella when it happens, with Lucas out in the prison at work. Lucas dies almost immediately to being trampled, Doey tries to wade through the crowd with Bella to find Lucas only to lose his grip, and Bella is trampled as well.

While I like to doodle occasionally a world where Bella and Lucas survive, in the canon of the AU they don’t as by the time the player arrives we’re at roughly the same place as canon! It’s been ages since I touched upon this topic, thank you so much for the question!!