#axons

[zoinyoi]

[winter-wise]

Compared to Sirène and the Mask Keeper, She Who Seeks the Stars is smaller, and less elaborate in design. She has a hollow where Alicia's missing eye is, cracks over her face and no mouth.

And I've realised that's the point. Renoir didn't want Alicia to suddenly have two eyes. He didn't want to portray her as unscarred. He didn't give her a functional throat instead of a damaged one.

He didn't want his daughter to be nondisabled. He just wanted her to fly.

[sky-kiss]

I don't look up. You know. Because I'm a fool. So, I never noticed the axons are painted on the roof of Renoir's Atelier. Sirene showing off the Reacher on both ends of the room.

Hauler is not there, or I've missed her. Presumably because Renoir said, "If I paint Clea up there she's absolutely gonna torch the atelier."

[exactlyasitwas-blog]

Nevron Takeover Day 3

Axons

Verso's First Visit to Sirène - Watercolor 16x12"

[silliestcolressfan]

why did he choose specifically the axons out of literally everything they've encountered together,,,,

[mrskillingjoke]

Claire obscur spoiler

So let's Talk (again) about the axons. Not about their meanings for the individuals but for their meaning for Renoir.

I kinda think it's telling with what of an Intention Renoir painted the axons.

Siréne is beautiful. Convincing. Charming. Lullabying. Her music and dance fills you with joy. Everyone arounds her dances with her. Everyone staring to Long at her is hold in her Charm.

Renoir is succumbed by His wife. He clearly Loves her. She is His ultimate temptation, He can't Look to Long at her because He would lose himself in His Love for her. He Made himself to her tisseur. A helping servant completely Out of His own will.

To be short He is a lovesick dumbass, but we Love him for that.

Alicias axon is full of Hope. All the Hope Renoir Put in her and her Future. As If Alicia was Always to afraid to try. To much dreaming about Things without doing it. To afraid of consequences to try it out.

But He has Hope for her, reaching her Dreams, get over her fear. He is so concerned and still Just wants the best for her. He Made himself to the green orphelin, trying to give the reacher all the Help she can get, without going too over it. He is Just silently inventing and learning and showing the reacher/ Alicia new Things to consider.

He is a father, who tries to Help His daughter without interfering with her own choices.

The next two axons are a bit more... Meaner, honestly. Renoir is clearly concerned about His Kids, but while Alicias axon showed His Hope and alines His Love, it's Not so easy with the other two.

About cleas axon we don't know much. For example how Renoir painted himself by her to Help her. We know that clea didn't liked it and tried to get rid of her. We know how it looked bit Not how it behaved. I have two theories about it.

One is that her axon showed His deep concerns about her doing everything on her own. Carry a literal city on her shoulders. Carrying too much for Others, being a people pleaser. Be strong but need to Rest from time to time, because it's too much.

The second theory is that her axon Shows His Trust in her. He allows her to carry a whole City, because He can Trust her. Knowing she will Care for them and being responsible. He thinks she is a calm and Safe space He trusted with all His Heart.

These both theories don't have to stand alone, it could be both of them. Having her axon being Trust fits with the other axons meanings, but He is her father and still will be concerned about her all the time.

Now versos axon. Again He is almost definitly concerned. About His son, being alone with His Feelings. About his son Not talking to him. Seeing Verso pretend to be Something He is Not.

Renoir painted him with facettes. Sadness, angryness, happiness. Masks but also depths. Like shadows in a painting.

More importantly He Stands as Visage in Front of Verso and protects him. As If He Sees Verso as fragile, important, needed to be protected. Or as having a Feeling of guilt, for Not protecting him sooner. Not seeing versos issues. Not listen to Verso talking.

So versos axon could Show Renoirs protection, His guilt or His loss.

Aline - Love, he'd lose himself

Alicia - her fear, He want to Take away

Clea - trusted her with too much

Verso - protecting Out of guilt, out of loss

These are at least Just a few Things i have thought about the axons. Seeing them Out of Renoirs perspective and what it means for His character.

[bpod-bpod]

Signal Management

To lay a new network of roads, you need someone to interpret the plan and direct the construction. In the developing brain, as the dense network of connections forms, this navigator role is in part played by Cas adaptor proteins. A new study has found that without them to relay external signals to the growing internal cell skeleton, major wiring pathways in the developing mouse brain go awry. The team showed that Cas proteins (green) are present within growing brain cell protrusions called axons (red in the developing brain section pictured). In neurons, they help ensure axons bundle together properly, holding hands as they cross the brain. In support cells, they help prepare the landing zone so projecting axons hit the target as they reach between thalamus and cortex brain regions. Understanding these guidance systems helps explain how developmental brain disorders can arise when wiring goes wrong.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Jason A. Estep and Alyssa M. Treptow, and colleagues

Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, Department of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in PLOS Genetics, November 2025

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[knuffi516]

When Gustave was alive and also confronted Sirene, i think he would see Sophie...