Little things in Episode 86 that I'm not entirely sure people noticed (or even saw because Tumblr compresses the shit out of our panels smh) but I don't want them to remain entirely secret because I'm an impatient little freak who wants to brag a little and also see people losing their minds over this shit-
This is the first panel to trigger Apollo's suspicions! Imagine your girlfriend coming through the door when you THOUGHT she had been at home and sleeping off a hangover this whole time! But now she's wearing some mysterious red fur coat that she DEFINITELY didn't have at the party! (and would later appear in the tabloids!) This is probably one of my favorite panels in the entire episode, just because of how it's framed and lit. It's like a horror movie in daylight.
Getting Persephone's hairstyle, shade of lipstick, and jewellery / outfit right in all these callback panels took a loooot of time. But the fun of it was that it gave me the opportunity to redraw a lot of those old scenes! Some of them are so old that even Banshriek wasn't working on the comic yet 😭
Apollo is eating the breakfast that Artemis cooked in Episode 47! Let's just say there's a reason it looks like that- 💀😆
Remember this? Welp, if you guessed it was that time Kore accepted Hades' Fatesbook friend request in the middle of the night and Hades proceeded to write a love letter before putting a hit out on Alex, you'd be right, oop-
Now THIS one is a big oof. If you'll recall from Episode 66, after Apollo snatched Kore's phone, Kore went on to say that she was worried about Alex who hadn't responded to her texts or shown up to class. Which is indeed a problem that she's concerned with in and of itself. But what's shown at the end of that episode is that she was also being ghosted by Hades - and as we now see from Apollo's perspective, it was her texts with Hades that she was trying to protect.
Here are the text messages Apollo was sending to Kore while waiting to pick her up!
(and to the folks who are concerned he never left and just waited outside all evening, dw, he did leave after he dropped her off LOL his car isn't exactly discreet and he wouldn't dare get caught on Hera's property 💀😅)
From another person's perspective, Persephone's actually pretty frigging scary!
Sooo it turns out he didn't just send her dog pics. Therein lies the danger of those alluring late night conversations u.u
(also, all the timestamps shown in every phone screen and text exchange in this episode are accurate to whatever time was depicted during the original episode! formatting all the phone screens was easily the most tedious part of developing this episode LOL)
We never actually saw it in the original scene, but this was indeed the face Kore made when she said "I love you" back to Apollo.
He saran-wrapped her meal :(
Attentive viewers may notice the 'film grain' effects on top of the memories are absent in this final shot. We are no longer in the past of Apollo's memories, but in the present. Clotho and Lachesis are weaving new memories as we speak, and Atropos can be heard cackling menacingly in the shadows.
This is indeed the same outfit we just talked about in another post! idc what anyone says, that fit SLAYED (although I'm JUST NOW realizing I forgot her earrings and face make-up, oops-)
Cat owners can vouch that cats don't make good guard dogs.