So this is a thing that me and @penelopetheverytrans collaborated on, I did the doodles for the sprites and she put the video together. I hope y’all like it, makes me laugh :)
Had a long, rambling post in my drafts which I'm pretty sure has likely since been obviated by the commentary of others, but it's really interesting to me how Aisha basically picks up and carries out the remainder of Alec's telegraphed character arc after his death. Cherish shows up in the narrative when she does to remind Alec that his "fresh start" as Regent left a ton of his siblings trapped in Heartbreaker's orbit, that Heartbreaker himself is still out there; his character development over the course of the book involves becoming more and more of the kind of guy who'd eventually go back and try to resolve that in a big thematically resonant showdown. Unfortunately, as a direct result of the process of becoming that guy he gets prematurely turboexploded, so Aisha ends up being the one to sink her time and energy into resolving that dangling plot thread. And it's interesting to me because it almost reads like Aisha makes that decision thinking of the world she lives in in terms of dangling plot-threads and unfinished character arcs- narrativizing their own lives as a way of coping? I mean her last interlude is shot full of theatricality, performativity. Theatre motifs abound with the two of them in general. I dunno, there's a meta vibe to the whole thing that I'm not caffeinated enough to really try and flesh out or defend as really truly present in the text, but it feels like there's something there...
I dreamed that brian was trans (& had come out as a kid) and ngl i do think this idea has a lot of potential for making him worse in basically every way
Who is this impish, impetuous, impertinent, impermanent, imperceptible, impatient, importune, impressive, impudent person here?
Hah, rhetorical question.
I will repaint the mask because this gray color in the photographs looks too light, although in life it is really gray. Also, the lenses have not yet been installed.
This is still a fairly bare suit: it does not have the Imp equipment that should be. But I'm happy with how it looks in the photographs even now (which is quite strange with my perfectionism; apparently, spring and good weather make me more complacent).