#sore morel

[winter-wise]

Sore Morel behaves as if he's better than the ruling dead (who are hallmarked by their queerphobia and other discriminatory practices) and yet his able-bodied cis daughter has a smile that could fix the world but his nonbinary child with an atypical body is 'filthy' and 'corrupted'.

[littlebirduncaged]

One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to fiction series is when the writers try to raise tension early on by killing one of the main characters in the first or second episode… but, because it happens so fast, they’ve given you no reason to actually give a shit about the character or their death. It’s often extremely obvious they were just created for dramatic effect and their character as a whole comes off as flat and uninspired, like not even the writers could be bothered to care about them.

In Our Wars Have Ended, though, Jon Ware did this so beautifully and it’s one of the only times I’ve seen it pulled off successfully. Despite only being in two episodes, Dogged Morel had so much life to her already, and her character was so important to the story. She was the only thing keeping her father from flying off the handle, and in many ways was holding the company together. She was shown to be important and loved by other characters, especially Timmer. Not only was she one of the three main characters, but she was arguably the most important of the three, being the barrier that kept the other two from killing each other. And then her death was so genuinely tragic. It felt so real because the story genuinely seemed to be going in one direction, and then was forced to change course when she died and the company fell apart.

Dogged isn’t a loss that the other character will grieve and then move on from, continuing on with their life as it was before. The story would be entirely different if she hadn’t died. Her death wasn’t a plot device to raise tensions, her death was the plot.

Anyway I haven’t stopped thinking about this for weeks.

[bugpurity]

i think sore morel being told his fav special daughter thinks he killed her is going to heal him and make him normal and nothing bad will happen #joy #happiness #hiswarhasended(withjoy)

[dogged-morel]

some owhe doodles that i shared in the tsv discord but forgot to post here (inkblot, lively, and past sore + dogged)

[freezerfridays]

the morels + inkblot

(definitely not my final designs, just some quick doodles to cause I wanted to practice drawing more varied faces)

[theboombutton]

Noticed something interesting in episode 1 of Our Wars Have Ended. You know how Catigern Morel gets really pissed off about the High Mischief having a dead leg?

But... that's not true, actually. We're introduced to the High Mischief walking across the room after closing a window:

And then later he gets up to introduce himself to Dogged:

Is Sore Morel is playing up his distaste for the Dead to use as an excuse to justify his sometimes erratic behavior? I don't think that's it - he seems genuinely upset about dead things later in the episode. Did he just not notice it earlier — even though it presumably would have been much more obvious while the High Mischief was actively walking around on it? Did having his PTSD triggered by the Mischief's story sensitize him, such that he had a sudden strong reaction to the leg even though he had noticed it previously?

[kha00s]

BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER'S SMILE CAN FIX THE WORLD 😭😭😭 Oh Sore Morel is such a compelling character.

Despite it all he does care for them. It doesn't fix anything but he does. I can't wait till we find out why he chose to become a father.

[i-still-dont-know-a-username]

huh Sore's attempted deal with Your Grace sounds familiar. Requesting to be released for proper burial rights and making false promises of return, I swear that rings a bell! Where have I-

O H.