Crazy how you can pinpoint the second Rex Glass becomes Peter Nuyerev in the very first episode of the penumbra. Because he starts out as sweet and sickly as he is with Nova Zolatovna- “is there room in that window for two?”, all the purring and the flirting and the running his tongue over his canines-ing.
But you can see - right when Juno tells “Rex” to punch him again - the walls start to fall a bit. He’s just a little too concerned, a little too hesitant, unwilling to keep up the grandeur in the face of this private investigator who Peter suspects is too masochistic for his own good. They crumble when Juno tells the truth about his brother, I think because Peter doesn’t know how to react with true, hard-won honesty without returning it in kind.
And the walls creep back up later, sure - we know he’s ready to go long before Juno snaps the cuffs on his wrists. But I think it’s important that we did get to see the real Peter Nureyev in the first episode. Juno did too. I truly believe that that’s the reason he doesn’t really give up on Nureyev in season 1. Because he might not believe that he knows who Peter Nureyev really is, but deep down in his bones, he does.
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another jupeter piece and some recommended songs from my jupeter playlist!
I have synesthesia which means my brain associates certain audio and music with different colors and shapes, so I worked a lot with the colors on this piece and especially the background to kind of translate some of the visualizations I get when I listen to these songs together! If you read the lyrics of both you’ll see why I heavily associate them with juno and peter!
I have another piece that I’ll hopefully post circa S3 that goes along with There’s No Secrets This Year (the most jupeter song ever) and a comic for Waltz in E-Major, Op. 15 “Moon Waltz” by Cojum Dip that I really want to work on soon! My playlist is still a work in progress and I’m currently in the process of moving my spotify accounts around but as of right now the full playlist link is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6SP3sUjzSTBCPhouCe4xXY?si=277Hd2pqTGmRzPLcSx6dvQ
I organized it partially by season so hopefully it’s easier to understand the character connections of the songs. (The first song of the playlist is an instrumental guitar piece that my dad’s guitarist is doing as a side project which is super cool and you should definitely check out his stuff (and also please send some streams his way) If you love vocal-like sexy guitar riffs and weird time signatures and video game-esque music, Vision Swords is for you lol)
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A lineless digital art painting of Juno Steel and Peter Nureyev from the Penumbra Podcast. Juno's face is visible in a profile view as he holds his blaster in his outstretched hand. Juno is a short Black and South Asian person with dark brown skin, a scar across his nose bridge, and black hair that is lit with purple lighting. Juno has short locs and a high undercut with a star design shaved in. He is wearing a tan trenchcoat, a white button up, and black tie. He is also wearing a cochlear implant, hot pink star earrings, and hot pink acrylic nails. Peter stands behind him with his face partially obscured. He is a tall South Asian man with medium brown skin and dark shoulder length brown hair. He is pointing his blaster and wearing a black suit jacket with gold details. The background of the painting is hot pink, neon purple, and bright blue. The background colors mix in with one another in a perspective blur from the center of the painting. [end alt text]
Thank you so much for the support while I’ve been on hiatus! I’m going to college this fall for Robotics Engineering and I’ve been dealing with some pretty big health problems as well (I literally just got out of surgery today lol) which has left little time for art (fanart or otherwise) 😅 Love ya!
