Crossover greatness with @meadow-roses and @masterfuldoodler once more! :D
My poor sweet Five the past few days has been having Major Character Development as she is bonding with Felix as her parental figure healing from a really bad injury (including those fresh scars on her wrists…) on the planet Anturoun. Where she can relax and be safe! And mentally after YEARS have the capacity to air out a lot of her dark and tangled mind, in a place she feels safe in, with a person she feels safe with.
This morning, she was telling Felix about some of her trauma so he could help her pick up the pieces, and after a major PTSD flashback to a time when she thought Sam had died, they went to make leek omelettes and have a breather. Felix brings up his brother Anthony once more, as a potential help or even cure for what Van Ark (evil scientist who experimented on and tortured Five, giving her power ups she didn’t want 😔) and she finally voiced the thought that she thinks his serum is the biggest thing that gives her worth as a runner, because she physically cannot let people down anymore— and then her selective mutism came and held her throat hostage from all the emotion as one of her forced coping mechanisms. And then Felix just had to step in and lovingly prove her wrong and give her a hug and then she can try to start getting out the things in her head— good thing Felix knows sign! And then his words bring her voice back yippie!
ALSO this was Very Epic to write because in Keepers, where Felix comes from, it’s an allegory of the Gospel, and in it God reveals Himself in a different way, while Five is from a fictionalization of this world with the zombie apocalypse, and she’s a Christian. And throughout this story, she keeps going “This dude is so Christ-like it’s insane” but has not yet brought up Jesus because it’s always in moments when she’s sobbing because of trauma probably. But she recognizes the Truth when she hears it and it’s helping her so much to be encouraged this way after years of hardship! Wonder when she will bring up her faith and then his hmmm…
I love them and their relationship so much 😭
We are collectively going to ignore all the mistakes because this is my first comic ever and I am learning 😌 It can have mistakes as a treat. Also everyone be AMAZED at the dialogue Meadow wrote for Felix here through Christ because it’s absolutely insane and I’m losing my mind over it in the best possible way.