No matter how desperate or dire, never pray to the gods that answer after dark.
I've always wanted to draw this scene, and I've been trying to practice backgrounds so the forest setting was perfect. I also really like the way the 2nd panel turned out!
“If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”
“It is because I love you that I won’t.”
I love these dialogues from Addies and Luc in the invisible life of addie larue. It totally represents two different perspectives on love.
Addie, like many people, thinks that love is purely selfless and good. (While she herself can have selfish actions or thoughts) Luc thinks that love is selfish, or at least can be. (Because to say that Luc is purely selfish would be quite hypocritical given all the events of the books and what he does there. Luc is much more complicated than that)
But I like that these two sentences summarize these two visions of love.
Love is selfless. Love is selfish. When in fact... it can be both, separately or together. Love can be something uniquely good and positive. Just as it can be negative. And sometimes it's both together. They are simply different forms of the same feeling.
All this to say that I hate when people try to say that love must be pure, good and selfless. It's bullshit. Whether in fiction or reality. The difference is that in fiction you can explore relationships with toxic connotations without risk, unlike real life or if there are red flags, you obviously have to just run to protect yourself.
Justice for romances like Luc & Addie, Jane Eyre & Rochester, Heathcliff & Catherine (Wuthering Heights), Coriolanus Snow & Lucy Gray Bird (The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Christine & Erik (The Phantom of the Opera), Thomas & Edith (Crimson Peak), Hannibal & Will (Hannibal), Hannibal & Clarice (Hannibal), Raistlin & Crysania (Dragonlance), Sarah & Jareth (Labyrinth), Qu Xiao Feng & Li Cheng Yi (Goodbye My Princess), The Darkling & Alina (Grisha), Mare & Maven (Red Queen), Julian & Jenny (The Forbidden Game), and so so many others...
Not without kidding, there are so many examples in general, but also that I know and love that it is impossible to cite them all !
I was replaying and when Addie demanded G and MC to study with her all I could think of is Finley calling her to study in strangest hours like at 3a.m,between classes, 2 hours before morning tennis practice, during lunch...
Addie will wish she never asked to join her lol
HAHAHAH hilarious!!!
Can totally imagine Addie dragging herself out of bed out of competitive fervor though. Like fak me I can't say NO, gotta keep the enemies within sight, can't let them be studyin' without supervision???
Whenever Addie feels herself forgetting, she presses her ear to his bare chest and listens for the drum of life, the drawing of breath, and hears only the woods at night, the quiet hush of the summer. A reminder that he is a lie, that his face and flesh are simply a desguise.