I just want one of those super villains that have one very odd moral standard for no explainable reason and the hero is like;
‘Why aren’t you following me?’
‘I don’t jaywalk.’ Villain says as he stands at the edge of the curb with a blank face.
‘You don’t jaywalk.’ Hero repeats flatly.
‘There are rules even I follow,’ Villain sniffs, ‘now let me find a zebra crossing.’
And then sometime further on in the story someone tries to pretend to be Villain and Hero figures it out.
‘How did you know it was me?’ Imposter says impressed as they reveal their true form.
‘Villain may have done a lot of shitty things like mind control and murder,’ Hero gets into an appropriately heroic fighting stance, ‘but Villain would never, never jaywalk.’
Villain, tied up in some elaborate manner shakes his head and smiles, ‘As expected of my arch-enemy Hero.’
‘Thoth and the Chief Magician’, 1925. Evelyn Pau
ALIEN Art by Karl Fitzgerald
The temptation, when adapting a really iconic detective, is to delve into his personal backstory. That's the devil talking.
“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend
immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand
the weird schrödinger's emotion that is "that character death was narratively satisfying and emotionally impactful and ultimately the best way to handle their character arc" simultaneously with "noooo but I wanted them to live :( :( :("
Takes a guy who's obsessed with saving people even if it risks his life and a guy who is literally allergic to asking for help in any situation and puts them in My stew puts them in my fucking stew and stirs it
another piece for that art assignment i was talking about the other day
medieval manuscript commission for @/kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
angel of stars!!!
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