hadn't heard of this book before, but definitely getting it now - thanks for sharing

that's surprising! you're so good with complex perspective, i almost assumed that you used grid paper to help. your cluttered compositions in restaurants and rooms and city streets are so, SO good

this looks great! do you always draw on grids by default?

fucking right? i try to accept linguistic drift, and they probably just mean "he's clean-shaven and has a hairless chest" but i don't think i'm ready to swallow "twink" as a descriptor for a guy whose shoulders are five heads apart and whose upper arm is as thick as the woman standing next to him

love the choice to use turtle anatomy on the head and feet! this looks great

this is a great insight. there's a real sense of tragedy when she's what's left, as opposed to the loudly signposted protagonist from the get-go.

this is a great analysis

if anything, i think the base game told you that marika was "guiding" you (indirectly) - she wants someone to free (kill) her, and has set a bunch of things in motion to try to achieve that (e.g. recalling the tarnished to the lands between, making hewg smith a weapon capable of killing her, etc.)

i don't recall marika telling me anything directly in the DLC - the most explicit missives i got about stopping miquella came from saint trina and ansbach, neither of which are really any authority on the goodness of miquella's action. (nor is marika, for that matter.)

at the end of the DLC, i actually felt sad - like my violence was pointless and unnecessary, done mostly to get more power for me than anything else. just like...every pointless war led by all the other bosses i'd killed before this point.