THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO JOINED MY MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE artist collab on Magma!!!! Here's all the drawings
Everybody is so unbelievably talented, I cannot put it into words <33
Featured Artists (please check them all out, they're all so cool!): @soulswordlesbian @driftershunt @jedimitsopolis @therealarticle @safehousebooze @misha-69innit
[ID 1: Screencap of Paris in profile as she looks intently at something offscreen. the overlaid article title says "Cute, nearly 3-pound killing machine cat has returned to Texas".]
[ID 2: Screencap of Donloe wearing a cozy looking jacket and framed by a bookshelf. the overlaid textpost says "Where's that tweet about people still living long fulfilling lives even through the fall of the roman empire because i think about it constantly".]
[ID 3: Screencap of Grace in winter gear mushing a dog sled and looking overwhelmed. the overlaid textpost says "i can't do this anymore! i mean i can, and i will, obviously, but i can't fucking do this anymore!".]
[ID 4: Screencap of Benji with his head tipped back and mouth open, looking disheveled. the overlaid textpost says ""You're losing blood" no I know exactly where it is. The floor. Don't ever underestimate me".]
[ID 5: Screencap of Bledsoe looking at Ethan. the overlaid textpost says "Having someone match your wit or your weirdness without hesitation is actually so fucking comforting and fun".]
[ID 6: Screencap of Briggs holding up a black and white photo of Degas. the overlaid textpost says "Walking around my neighborhood wearing my sick as fuck custom T-shirt that says "I STEAL EVERY FRIENDLY CAT I MEET WITH NO REMORSE I DO IT ALL THE TIME DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK I BEEN HERE FOR YEARS KEEP THAT BEAST ENCLOSED LEST YE FACE MY LIGHTNING CAT GRASP" and smiling politely while my neighbors' indoor-outdoor cats gently trot down the sidewalk towards me as the neighbors themselves read my shirt with a growing sense of panic.".]
[ID 7: Screencap of Luther looking over his shoulder with an exhausted/frightened expression. the overlaid tweet says "god had to nerf me in some ways because he knew i would be too powerful".]
[ID 8: Screencap of Ethan looking seriously at someone offscreen. the overlaid textpost says "(guy who is cursed) yeah I'm sure all of these things that are happening to me are just the consequences of my actions".]
[ID 9: Screencap of Ilsa and Ethan in Venice, with Ilsa smiling at Ethan. the overlaid textpost says "i really love when a character, calmly and completely earnestly, is like i’m not important, i’m no one really, just a blade that people use and throw away. no one remembers me for long after i leave their life. and then you look at the evidence and it turns out that every person who meets them becomes permanently obsessed with them, for better and for worse, and the character has somehow completely missed this fact".]
Having Paris thoughts. When Benji passes out in the Vault, the way she wakes him up by pulling/twisting his ears seems so... innocent. Especially when you consider that Paris most certainly has a lot of experience of keeping someone awake during, say, torture.
So it must mean that she's deliberately trying to use methods that would hurt him the least. She wouldn't even slap him. She is in a completely new for her territory of to saving a life, of being gentle. And she's trying so hard.
Ok, look, I normally hate redemption arcs for evil female characters because they always follow the same thing
There’s a child. Or a love interest who demands she become ‘good’
But not Paris. Her journey to one of the good guys did not demand she change at all. She stayed the same deadly, revenge focused character she had already been - and everyone around accepts that. No one tries to change her. Ethan promises she will get a chance to kill Gabriel and gives that chance to her. Benji adores her exactly as she is. When she says ‘I kill people’ his response is not ‘but you don’t do that any more’ or ‘you have to change’ it’s ’I can work with that’. He doesn’t want her to change. He won’t ask her to change. He can work with her exactly as she is.
It’s was so refreshing. At every step Paris makes her own choices and no one pushes her to be someone else.
And there is no child and no ‘hero’ character for her to fall in love with. Her journey from bad guy - who thoroughly enjoyed the work - to one of the good guys - who still really enjoys the work - is entirely her own choice. And her love for Benji and the others is not a demand from them, but a response for a mentor who doesn’t demand things, who gives her trust and care, treats her kindly and will not betray her.
I just love that. It all could have been so predictable but Paris stayed Paris all the way.
And Benji did his usual thing of getting the angry and dangerous and damaged character to love him. He did it with Ethan in GP. He did it with Ilsa in Fallout and now he’s done with it Paris
