The irony about genlock 2 is that it kinda ultimately loops back around to Gray doing it to himself
If he hadn’t decided to do that shit he did (allegedly and all that), he could’ve had full creative control and a hot series on HBO max. whatever you say about the man it’s clear that he knew what he wanted that show to be, what themes he wanted to pursue, etc
but instead he tried to speedrun through the success that Monty got and now he’s gotta sit back as his baby gets essentially gutted to become a less charming, way grosser copy of itself
Art done for a scene I wrote for something that I haven’t published yet, excerpt of the text under the cut, but the important thing to know is that Kazu is angrily signing ‘rabbit’ because it’s part of Cammie’s sign name and she just made a bad kazoo joke.
Sign? he mouths. Her raised brow becomes furrowed brows; he doesn’t know any sign, what does he— Teach me?
The oh is visible on Cammie’s face, and she sits up as she raises her hands.
She points at her own chest and then holds up one hand, palm facing the open space to the opposite side, and pushes an extended finger along the palm towards the front of the bed. ‘I’ll try,’ the signs say, and she mouths it at the same time.
Kazu nods, then starts looking around the room. First, he points at Nugget, who stowed away on Cammie’s shoulder when he picked her up, and mouths robot. It’s rather relevant to their line of work, after all.
Cammie snickers quietly and shows him the sign—mimicking robotic movements with her arms. He bites back his own laugh and mouths really? and yes, really, she repeats the motion to emphasise just how really it is. Sometimes signs are just that self-explanatory.
Kazu mimics it in turn and it’s Cammie’s turn to try not to laugh, because somehow it’s funnier when he does it, big tough Kazu doing the robot, and then he’s pointing at the other two beds. Names?
Cammie’s fingers flash through the signs for each letter so fast Kazu doesn’t manage to keep up, the first time, even with names as short as Val, Yaz, Kazu, Chase and Cammie. So she repeats them again, shows him each letter sign for a couple of seconds and lets him repeat it back at her before moving on.
But, she mouths, signing as she does, more fun is—
She signs the sign for ‘chase’, the verb: two pointed fingers wiggling out into the space in front of her. Then, she signs the fingerspell version again to get the point across.
Next is the letter V followed by the sign for dance: two fingers out, her hands being shaken in front of her chest. Val. Kazu looks particularly amused by that one, his gaze flicking past her to the sleeping form on the bed beneath hers.
Her own name is signed as C and rabbit: both hands miming rabbit ears up at the top of her head. Yaz is signed as Y and bird: the index finger being closed against the thumb, up by her mouth, like a chattering beak. And Kazu— well, there’s a certain glint in her eye, if you know her well enough to spot it, that’s followed by her miming a kazoo.
It takes Kazu just a second, brow furrowing as he waits for her to explain what the sign is before it clicks and in an instant his expression shifts to comically annoyed. He opens his mouth to protest and only catches himself at the last second, an aborted sound still making it up his throat.
Cammie’s shoulders start shaking and she has to cover her mouth to stop herself laughing out loud. Looking at his face does nothing to help matters, especially when he signs her own sign name back at her with indignant gestures.
It takes a good minute to compose herself enough to shake her head and cross her hands in front of her a few times—not really, Kazu. She signs K and egg, both mouthing and fingerspelling to get the point across.
Immediately, Kazu’s expression softens again, though he rolls his eyes and pulls her in to give her a noogie that she fails not to start laughing at—but if she wakes either of the others, well, no one complains.
