ITS DONE. Another nine sols animatic for my AU that I started months ago that i got some friends to do the voices for. Wanted to play around with Yi and Goumang's dynamic, post-landing on earth.
Yi is @arcanilumia
Goumang is @nye-eclipsion
Obviously Anya is adopted. We all know this. She knows this. She loves her family but knows it is incredibly fragile.
But unlike most adoption stories (say Natsume Yuujinchou) Anya is not adopted into a loving functional family who's main goal is to support and love her until she heals from all the hurt she has been through.
Because Everyone in their family is adopted.
Yor enters thinking she is entering an existing family dynamic of a man and his daughter. She is the step mother, eagerly wanted but a definite outsider. She does not know about how they lost Loid's first wife. They both Never mention her but Anya clearly has Huge feelings about her Mommy that she cannot touch. Because Loid refuses to acknowledge her. Which means she's not allowed to.
She's a wife brought in to solve a problem. The fact she adores Anya and loves Loid (eventually) doesn't make her any less of an outsider from her perspective. To Yor she's the adopted family member.
Meanwhile Loid, the one who brought them all together almost instantly finds himself on the outside of the family. He works too much and doesn't make it home for dinner frequently. He struggles to connect with his 'daughter' and wife. Can't understand either of them despite constant efforts. Something incredibly distressing for him.
Yor instantly connects with this child when he struggled to hold her hand in public. In his eyes Yor and Anya are a family and he is the outsider only there for the mission. The man who is destined to Not be there. He too often fills the role of the outside child brought into a happy family. One he constantly feels he is fumbling or failing. (If I'm not good, if i'm not perfect- my family will leave me. So I have to be. I have to figure out how to be better)
They are a family of adopted members all holding so tightly to each other. Each one of them chooses the others over and over again. Struggles against their own limitations and fears to be a part of a family they're all terrified to really call their own.
But it is that choice that makes them a family. Not blood or marriage or any certificate. That they all keep trying to be a family to the others. I'll be a good girl and study hard Papa. I'll be a good wife, I'll play my role well so don't abandon me. I'll be a good father and husband, I will try to be a good husband and father if you both will just stay with me. Please. I will figure out how.
aaaaaand I'm done. This definitely took more time than it should have, but in my defense
Anyway, I personally feel like I improved over the process of making this. I have a few other ideas I'm slowly cooking in the background, mostly shit so I can practice different techniques/mediums. Mostly Briar sibling stuff, idk I like sibling dynamics
Just my opinion about the ending soooo yeah, spoilers
I may be burned by the fandom after I say this, but I actually liked the manhwa's ending
Not saying it's totally fitting, but it didn't ruin the story for me
Yeah, it's not the same, and there are a lot of cut scenes I hope they at least put in the extras, but hey! Adapting 408 written chapters to drawings is a lot of work. And the manhwa ended with 210, it's barely more than half of it!
There are other 198 chapters of cut content and CONTEXT we don't have in the manhwa
For example, given the manhwa' spacing, the whole Lloyd drinking honey tea, wouldn't have made any sense
They also cut the letter revealing his identity to his parents, which was a nice touch in the novel, but instead we have the actual reunion (if I remember correctly, in the novel they put a time skip between Javier finding him and the wedding; in the manhwa we had the 5 years of search)
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Which is another thing I saw people discussing about, but I think it makes sense since the Frontera Country had been destroyed in the war; it saved Lloyd to have to rebuild it :p
And, it adds to the "the system were his parents all along" too
Idk if people have an issue with that one but I think it was genius, good crying material
And a good strategy to make you re-read paying attention how many times the system made fun of him or referred to itself(? As "us"/ "we"
Anyways, point is, I liked the ending
Was a bit rushed? Yes
But for me in the novel it was also rushed, so they compensate each other
Now, if we ever get an anime, they should combine both. That way they wouldn't end up with a rushed ending again
I think for me the main difference between Alex Brightman's Beetlejuice and everyone else's is that other actors play him as someone who's, like, just this guy, while Alex plays him as a guy who's, like, just this Thing.
the magnus archives: statement of dipshit mcidiot regarding some spooky happenings that absolutely without a doubt did not actually happen. recording by jonathan sims. i hate my fucking job.
malevolent: OARTHUR HIDE THE CORPSE IN THE CLOSET. SHOOT THIS MAN IN THE HEAD. MOVE OARTHUR MOVE!! [soft piano music] LEFT!! THE OTHER LEFT OARTHUR!!!!! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
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