H: “Hey, it’s okay, hey…”/H: “Remember what we said?”
C: “How did you always know what to do?”
POV: You’re splitting for the first time since the only person in your life who knew how to help you through it died
Through the course of my research on BPD I’ve learned a lot about the process of splitting and how horrible it is for the person suffering. Chanel is borderline and I wanted to depict it honestly; her hair’s chopped short and she has an infected tattoo. Lucky for her she still has someone in her corner to help her out.
Now, she still does, but she feels much worse about relying on them because most of her really close friends (the only people she trusts to understand) are other Spider-People who have lives of their own. She’s learned to cope by now but the first time after Hobie’s death and before the Spider Society was ROUGH.
To all my cluster B folks, I love you. This will always be a safe place for you.
I do love making me comics and it's been a long bit since I did. So I'm doing one with Cy, how long it will be I'm not sure but I'm having fun regardless 😁
beyond the obvious ‘late 80s xmen comics’ inspiration, here’s some more of my inspiration/ref for Cass’s hair/style! I think i might redesign her casual look soon, it’s pretty clear to me that my modern sensibilities are preventing me from giving her some essential 80s flair (chunky fuckin earrings, satin, higher waisted pants) but i can confidently say her hair has just gotten closer to what i imagine it being the more i draw it
Disclaimer: I'm constantly changing the songs in this playlist. However the general lore will stay the same.
Summary: These two songs represent Ansi's childhood that she spent together with Hobie.
My Reasoning: I chose Moon River because the song has a nostalgic feel to it. The lyricist for Moon River states that the lyrics "are reminiscent of his childhood." This song also sounds like two kids playing make-believe, similar to how Ansi and Hobie used to play as kids.
I chose We'll Meet Again because it felt like the perfect goodbye. Neither Hobie nor Ansi knew if they'd ever see one another again but they liked to believe that one day they would.
Lore: It was September 21. Ansi was only eight years old at the time. Her father (Benjamin Taratella the assistant director of Alchemax) was tinkering away at his home workshop when he accidentally opened up a portal to Earth-138B. Just as he was able to close it, a small boy came hurtling through.
Stranded in a completely new and unfamiliar place, seven year old Hobie Brown immediately started to cry. Poor Benjamin didn't know what to do since his daughter rarely ever cried.
Ansi was enjoying her mid morning snack when she heard the cries coming from her father's workshop. So with cookies in hand she made her way to the basement, annoyed at whatever disrupted her snack time, to see what the noise was.
To her surprise she was met by a teary eyed young boy and her father frantically attempting to calm him down.
Upon realizing that the sounds were coming from the boy she immediately opened her mouth to let him have. However, she decided against it after remembering how her mother popped her the last time she told someone to shut up.
One thing she did notice about the boy, aside from the irritating sounds he kept making, was the way his eyes, while teary, never looked away from her box of Fudgetown cookies. So she offered him a cookie saying that in exchange he wasn't allowed to cry anymore for the rest of the day. (She was a very blunt and straightforward child. T'was the autism)
Hobie was so shocked by Ansi's rude offer that he immediately stopped crying. He was irritated now. He argued that he couldn't control how he felt and so the deal was unfair. Ansi, however, had completely ignored his words. She was much more interested with his weird voice and his strange paper-like aesthetic. So of course she spoke her thoughts aloud.
This led to a back and forth fight of Ansi calling Hobie weird and Hobie saying that he wasn't which grew into a physical fight. (Thankfully Ansi's mother had come home at that point and broke the fight up. She wasn't happy with finding a random boy in her house. Much less one who was fighting her daughter right in front of her husband. Benjamin knew Ansi could hold her own so that's why he didn't do anything.)
Somehow despite this terrible first meeting they soon became completely inseparable over the two years that they were together. (Unfortunately for Ansi's parents this meant there were now two trouble makers in their house.)
Sadly, the day came when Hobie finally had to go home. It was a very tearful goodbye for the both of them (more so on Hobie’s part than Ansi's.)
Unfortunately, before Ansi was able to fully process this her entire life was turned upside down. This was the start of the worst years of her life.
