Chris can barely form a thought, his mouth running dry as his pupils dilate at the scene before him. Fear, there's fear cramping down his lungs as his eyes flick over the bloodied instruments on the table, clearly freshly used. [...]
"Th-This is -" Chris stutters, gulping around the bile in the back of his throat. Chris wishes Jill hadn't come; he wishes she was far, far away from here, somewhere on a different continent. She didn't need to see this. She didn't need to see a room like this ever again.
Jill stares at the table in the middle of the room, eyes hard, ears flat, voice cold, "They call them operation theaters. But - " She aborts her sentence, the words "It's more like a torture chamber"hanging in the air as the thing in the cage shifts again, it's breathing ragged. [...]
"It's -" Chris starts, voice low, heart aching as he catches a glimpse of blue, terrified eyes, "A man." A man, yes, but a young man. A boy.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
did an unnecessarily deep dive into the layout of the atelier for Art Reasons and thought i might as well draw it out if i ever need it again so . here is how the atelier works to the best of my understanding
hope it can help other people too 👍 adding some more stuff below for extra reference
color coded and numbered ver (for better visualising)
notes:
manga layout from 'wha reproduction selection' notes from shirahama
anime art from @ kusanagi_art (official artist) on twt and screenshots from the anime (not included)
layout based mostly on the anime arts because its the most consistent (manga art seems to occasionally omit the round storage building, dorms, and/or the common room)
Need to say that bc based on old posts i saw ppl seem to think the round building is the dorms bc it points at that in shirahamas notes but based on the anime interior art the dorms are absolutely in the double story square building (the windows match up exactly)
theres more layers with the elevation of each building too but idk how to represent all that. its best shown in the anime ref of the outside though . ill try typing it anyway
main room + spire testing chamber + ollys bedroom = standard 'ground' level
dorms + spire bottom floor + common room = most sunken
Fun Fact did you know we have never seen qifreys room. which was the one reason i did all this research. i spent so long and it literally has never appeared ever (ollys room hasnt either but at least we see his workspace goddam)(i feel like qifreys room is abt to be a hydrogen bomb of pain in some way)
EDIT 1: stared at some more screenshots and did a couple fixes and change, gonna list them out below
the windows in girls rooms in the dorm are supposed to be on the outer side (facing the fields) so fixed that
two stairs leading up to girls rooms
dorms and main room are actually connected through the spire and not the round building !! idk if its consistent in the manga but in the anime its definitely connected through there (cant believe i missed this earlier lmfao its been fixed)
so the round building next to kitchen is not connected to the dorms so that might be the storage instead? qifrey does go to collect cocos uniform from there
qifreys room does not appear anywhere in the main dorm room (even in the more visible layout art) so it has to be elsewhere, and shirahamas notes for it no longer apply (rip)
the bigger dorm building actually doesnt have any entrances besides in inner one from the spire But the small building next to it does (and the two of them seem to be connected by a hallway) so the small building might be a common room? renamed it to that for now
qifreys room could either be in the round building or the common room, im leaning towards the latter so im putting it there for now but ill change it if we get a better look at either locations
the seating area and bookshelves from ch8/ep6 i originally had in the main dorm building could be in the common room instead? tho in the manga u can see the deck of the upper floor so i dont knowww
this is not a definitive guide in any way so feel free to point out mistakes and all that! (holds out hand) lets understand this atelier together
working on the end of white lillies. finally. it only took another rewarch of jjk (that is not complete, havent seen anything new yet) to get me going. i want to make this a real piece of literature with my own characters etc with this as the backbone, but i need to finish it before i can create my own universe. and i feel it is time.
