93% Stardust, Nikita Gill
i really wanted to do so much more with this, so there may be a follow up comic later if i feel up for it. i love the ipre crew.
[ID: a grayscale comic showing each member of the IPRE crew alongside lines of a poem. “We have calcium in our bones”–Magnus is looking upwards with a small smile. “Iron in our veins”–Lucretia is looking over her shoulder with a neutral expression. There’s a table stacked high with books behind her. “Carbon in our souls”–Merle is glancing to the side, smiling, shelves with books and lots of potted plants behind him. “And nitrogen in our brains”–Davenport is behind the controls of the Starblaster, smiling contentedly. “Ninety-three percent stardust”–Taako is leaning on the railing of the ship, looking into the distance with a smile. A starry night sky is behind him. “With souls made of flames”–Barry and Lup are standing in tall grass at nighttime, holding hands and smiling at each other. “We are all just stars”–a photograph of the whole crew, posing and smiling, amid papers and a feather quill strewn on a desk. The only person not smiling is Lucretia.
The voidfish, a large jelly fish with spots inside its bell and along its tendrils, takes up a whole frame. Then we cut to Lucretia, her hair shorter now, as she sits at a desk, facing away from the viewer. A portrait of herself is hanging above the desk. We cut again, this time to Lucretia standing in the foreground, only her torso visible within the frame, as Davenport, wearing a tux, stands in the background looking concerned. The last frames zoom in on Lucretia’s sad face as she closes her eyes, and then, written on a plain white background, it reads: “…that have people names.”]
