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I absolutely loved your trucy comic! I just wanted to ask in your opinion why would trucy pick phoenix instead of zak, I too believe she would pick phoenix but I wanted to hear you thoughts on the matter.

i have Opinions on this, many of which i still can't quite articulate? like. "in the trope everything is a performance, while the attention and care phoenix is genuine." "she's had more of a childhood from 8 years old onwards than before 8 years old." "zak abandoned her, had used her to be able to abandon her, without telling her." "phoenix has felt more like a father than zak had ever been." Among Other Things. i have a lot of thoughts on trucy in general tbh.

one of the aspect of it can p much be summed up with this thread liz @/enemies2lawyers wrote on twitter! here it is (read it i love this thread a lot):

“when zak tells Trucy “I love you” it’s a fall off the tongue kind of phrase. it’s easy, instinctual in the way that performing is to both o

[coralreefskim]

I really love the Trucy comic! I am curious tho, why is she afraid of her father in your interpretation? Personally I see this comic as one possibility for the way Trucy and to an extent Phoenix feel about Zak, but I’m wondering about your thoughts.

i think she's less afraid of zak and more afraid of what his presence Implies? because despite zak's disappearance ruining phoenix's career and bringing so much instability to trucy and phoenix's lives, she's experienced a lot more Genuine Familial Love with phoenix than with zak.

it's a little bit like. say, you've had a terrible past. but you've healed and moved on from it and are in a happier place. years later someone from that past tries to take you back acting like the terrible things never happened. it's a bit like a loss of that stability? if he took her away she would lose all of that

[coralreefskim]

How does your most recent post fit in with the way you think AA4-1 went? Like, did Zak try to beat Phoenix to get Trucy back?

yeah that's basically it! in my head he used the letter (which he was gonna personally give to trucy if she followed him) and the whole 'i will defeat you' thing as his guise (which aren't lies, just not the whole truth). the game doesn't mention (iirc) why phoenix takes the necklace from him after the game, but i wouldn't be surprised if they were betting on things other than money. wouldn't be surprised if zak's revolved around trucy.

i noticed during phoenix and zak's conversation in the borscht bowl club was Very Vague on zak's part. he doesn't outright say things as they are (a prominent example would be phoenix asking if he's leaving without seeing trucy and zak replies w smth like, "it'd be better if i didn't." which isn't a lie at all.)

i know phoenix has his magatama w him at the time, but we don't know what Exactly would trigger it, and considering how zak was with the gramarye family (who canonically can detect tells/lies) i reckon he was able to avoid it with whatever he learnt in tell spotting from his mentor

[coralreefskim]

might be a liiiittle late on this but regarding your shadi smith + trucy comic, who is trucy exactly crying over at the end? haha i like how open to interpretation the entire comic is but i guess i just wanna hear what you were thinking writing it (especially the parts where trucy blatently calls him a stranger. i wonder if she already chose to cut her bio father out of her life?)

thank you! with the trucy shadi comic i very much lean towards 'death of the author', so feel free to pick whichever part you like and leave the rest.

in my mind she's crying about a Lot of things, kind of a mixture of herself + her childhood + the fact that things turned out this way. not to mention she's keeping up a performance throughout the whole thing (what shadi got right, which messes her up a bit because this man hasn't seen her in 7 years but can see through her still), so she's shattering after holding herself together. i don't think she cries much throughout 7yg (unless you count the crocodile tears) so this is sort of a long time coming.

for the 'stranger' part, it's a little bit like. she Wants to consider him a stranger because that's basically what he is, but in spite of what he's done he was still her biological father during her formative years. calling him that was more for herself than it was for him.

[coralreefskim]

PLEASE tell me more abt the trucy door comic 👀👀👀👀👀

ok. this is as non-canon in the aa that lives in my head as it gets but i like to think that pre 7yg zak had thalassa's picture in the locket. trucy knows this. trucy does not know that he swapped it out for the current picture. she doesn't have her own pictures of thalassa so she's forgotten what her mother looks like. and in the page where she's shutting the door the final thing she sees is the locket.

[coralreefskim]

For your Trucy door comic, I imagine that Zak had sort of staked out their home for a bit to get a sense of when Phoenix usually left for work and approached Trucy specifically when he knew Phoenix would be out

OH THAT'S FUCKED UP

[coralreefskim]

uhhh yeah what's up with that Trucy comic??? It's ballin as hell, but is she like a different person, or does she not want to go back to Zak or what?

it's canon compliant, takes place the night before zak's murder - it's canonical that trucy hides her emotions from other people except phoenix (even tho that aspect of her character isn't explored much), so even if she sang trope gramarye praises i don't think she'd want to go back to zak. kinda like divorcing the trope from the family in a sense?

[coralreefskim]

Hey! Just wanted to say I love the Trucy comic. I think my favorite part is in page nine. Trucy's glare. It just goes such a long way in expressing her emotion/how serious she is. Thanks a bunch! Can't wait to see more ^^

THANK YOUUU i just think trucy should be allowed to express little an anger. as a treat