what's the kindest way to say: you took away my friend, my buddy?
(long animatic ramble under the cut :o)
okay. so, this was largely fanon and self-indulgent project, partially because i felt like i didn't make many things solely for myself.
the animatic revolves around two characters, being jonnaay and pili (mocha, pili2, and ace), with the central idea revolving around jonnaay sort of searching (?) for the remnants of mocha in the iterations afterwards.
i've grown to become quite attached to their dynamic, even if there isn't much of them, mostly because of the idea around a successor (jonnaay) who was meant to take up the role of their predecessor (mocha) but failed, as well as their several other similarities and differences regarding their mindset around killing, their faction, etc.
the lyrics are kind of used as this ironic instrument, because the words describe an attempt at being "soft" or "kind" when mocha and jonnaay are both characters that would largely be described as antonyms to both of those ideas.
the idea of "taking away" his friend (mocha) differs from one iteration to the next: in the first segment, it is clown who literally took mocha away, but in the second, it is pili2 who took mocha away as in, taking mocha's place instead. there was also the deliberate choice to show jonnaay glancing from afar at pili2 surrounded by people (end fight when pili2 first showed up), kinda to set an impression that this isn't the same person as before.
ace was the more interesting of the three. ace, because they have memories of both of the previous iterations, kinda exists as someone giving jonnaay his closure on where his friend had departed to, but jonnaay is still shown being reserved because this still isn't his friend.
in this way, the "taking away" also coincides with the idea of iterations like pili2 and ace "taking up" mocha's role but also taking up the space for mocha's memory (ie mocha's impact/legacy largely disappearing from the world other than the memories they has left behind for people)
the animatic concludes with jonnaay sitting under a tree, huddled in on himself, a reference to how bad had eaten mocha's body and buried the rest under a tree, being then the closest thing mocha got to a grave (shout out to @siren-of-fire for talking about this, otherwise i wouldn't have know hehe). whether this is the tree mocha's body is under is for viewer interpretation, but it is meant to be a sort of scene where jonnaay trying to be as, in a way, physically close to mocha as he can, a depiction of him stubbornly holding onto mocha's memory and refusing to move on.
a lot of this is headcanon, if not just outright fanon, but the joys of liking a character like jonnaay is that there's such little actual lore equivalent content that i can just !!! interpret things however i please !!!! and i think it's a lot more fun to think about the "what if"s and alternate scenarios to how things could have gone, especially in a story perspective. plus !! i made this for myself, so lowk who gaf if its a teeny bit ooc. oki ramble over i think, keno out
