A thank you to @hootbon for the fourth of a few commissions I put in for Connecticut Clark/Malfina x Kinger/Queener (or Queenie, the community seems unsure)
For me, the fact that the Amazing Digital Circus opted to give Kinger and "Queener" matching avatars implies A LOT, especially if we follow the belief that the avatars act as psychological reflections. Here's my own take:
Studies have found that long-married couples will effectively share a single mind between them. Their brains outsource specific mental and emotional tasks to one another, such as memory, communication, or certain types of problem-solving. This causes the death of a long-married spouse to effectively rob the living partner of half their mental faculties. And due to how our brains decrease in neuroplasticity as we grow older, a long-married mind isn't really capable of re-learning its lost functions.
Kinger's current mental state very much resembles someone trying to function without their other half. There's memory problems, multiple occasions where he has to rely on Gangle or Zooble to point something obvious out to him, and a clear emotional instability.
A thank you to @nonameme11 for the sixth and ACTUAL final commission I put in for Connecticut Clark/Malfina x Kinger/Queener (or Queenie, the community seems unsure)
They have been very generous with their payment schedule with this, and I can't thank them enough for putting a real ending to this wonderful set. Their art is amazing and my heart is full of love to them and every artist that helped make this commission group possible.