Okay, okay, the fic Worthy of Devotion, is in and of itself also worthy of my devotion. You don’t understand, it’s so good. It’s Fox/Riyo with Riyo as Chancellor and Fox as her personal bodyguard and you DONT UNDERSTAND!!! It’s BEAUTIFUL! It’s clone-centric, and has a goregous build-up, slow burn, little PTSD, addresses the clone slavery angle, and the effects that has on a mans self-worth, it’s just phenomenal. @hrtiu did some serious work on this one and I absolutely love it. This scene, this scene and Fox’s “I’d like to see you try” (which I won’t tell you when it is but just know it is executed FLAWLESSLY) have stuck with me so hard and are just ✨chef’s kiss✨
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Exactly one week ago, I visited France for a day. I'm extremely bad at French, even though I've been learning it in school for 4 years by now. But when I saw this comic, I immediately fell in love with it and I just HAD to buy it.
So here's a little review of the graphic novel so far!
The art style is simple, yet gorgeous and really effective at expressing what's going on. And the colors are extremely vibrant, working together to create a wonderful harmony. Page one alone is a good example for that.
The story is, without spoilering too much, about a teenage girl going to a new high school, while struggling with mental health issues. Said, can be interpreted as undiagnosed DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). It shows real life issues and scenarios that people with this rare dissociative disorder can find themselves in. And it does that in a very simple and easy to understand way as well. (The fact that they used the main character's hair to be able to seperated the different alters by just looking at them helps a lot as well. Though canonically in the story they of course don't change) Even in French. But I think this comic is also available in English.
I really like to see that something like DID finally has some representation outside of movies like "Split". And I'd love to see more good representation like this comic. Because representation matters!
I can't objectively judge how accurate this representation is, though, since I'm not in a position to do so. But based of my own research, it's so far pretty realistic.
I'm about half way through it (no spoilers please!) and I'll prob review the second half when I'm done reading the comic. So far, these are my fav panels/pages.
(Little spoiler warning of course)
For anyone's who's interested about learning more about DID or mental health in general:
I can highly recommend watching Sci Show Psych, Patrick Teahan LICSW and, for German speakers, psychologeek. All of which can be found on YouTube and partly even other social medias.
And of course, reading scientific papers (using Google's filter option) about those topics or even the DSM-5 (which can be downloaded for free on the internet) can never hurt. Just make sure to use good and reliable source. And always be a bit sceptic when reading things on the internet.
Edit/Update (though I might include this since this post is still getting likes, etc): The second volume of Elles seems to be, from what I've heard, pretty misinformative about DID. For more on this, see this ask I answered.
For more reviews, discussions, original stories/series and more, check out my master list of series.
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