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Added 2016-05-04 04:04:17 +0000 UTCI really like Iori and how her attitude towards losing her son clashes so starkly with Duane's towards losing Mikaila (and Rahm's towards the same loss, though we haven't seen how he deals with it yet). Iori really clings to her faith in order to cope with hardship but in quite a different way from Duane. Granted, she's Gefendur and he's Ssaelit, but he's too eager to take suffering into himself as punishment while Iori sees it as a temporary roadblock on the way to inevitable transcendence.
Someone had mentioned last update that it seemed a little weird how calmly she related this story. But it's because she's at peace with what happened. She doesn't fall into paroxysms of grief.
Like Sette, I think Iori lives in the best world.
Comments
OMG, the feels! O_o
wystarya
2016-05-04 14:30:38 +0000 UTCFermented red pepper sauce. Great with flat bread and chicken eggs.
Ashley
2016-05-04 14:14:21 +0000 UTCThat's true. It's been about ten years since it happened.
Ashley
2016-05-04 14:13:08 +0000 UTCThanks so much for following along, Alexandra! I really love drawing all different types of people. It makes a world feel so much more real and alive. Cookie-cutter people are part of what keeps me from enjoying most popular entertainment (movies, most tv shows). Everyone is a beautiful actor with flawless hair, perfect features, and a contoured body. It kills my suspension of disbelief.
Ashley
2016-05-04 14:12:45 +0000 UTCI want Iori to cook for me, damn. She's always got the most delicious looking food in her epic kitchen. Also, you mentioned Sette's determination to live in the best world -- that's an idea that has clung to me ever since I first read it. I love it and find it inspiring (even though she was using it as basically an excuse to be a liar all the time lol). And to see that similarity here in Iori is wonderful. People deal with death in many different ways. And Matty, ohmygosh, can I adopt him?? He's simply adorable.
Sastrei
2016-05-04 12:09:39 +0000 UTCAlso I just wanted to comment on how much I love your versatility when it comes to drawing different looking people. A lot of artists, myself included, can draw approximately one kind of body/face/ethnic type well and fumble through anything outside our comfort zone, but I really appreciate how both the young, pretty characters and the older, bigger, or buffer characters are drawn equally well. You're a truly talented artist and writer, Ashley! Thanks so much for sharing your work with the world :)
Spider
2016-05-04 04:30:45 +0000 UTCWhat's that she's jarring up?
Spider
2016-05-04 04:28:01 +0000 UTCPresumably she has had longer to come to terms with it than Duane too? She seemed younger in the flashbacks at least.
Jeremy Ball
2016-05-04 04:24:44 +0000 UTC
