If you had to make any of the sangreste members fat. Narratively. How would you
good question! and thank you for asking <3
this is challenging as narratively, gabriel and nathalie are both strict devotees of asceticism---diet of small pleasures and bigger failures, peppered with a reality they mentally trade for another, much like eating a 3/4s cup of egg whites with pepper and wafer-thin 45cal toast slathered conservatively with sugar free jam and pretending it tastes just as it did on saturday mornings growing up with thick slabs of bacon and scrambled eggs with whole fat milk whisked in, baked into white little globs, and slices of toast jeweled with jam.
that is to say—to me, disordered eating is hard baked into them.
but it's good to deny yourself. the absence shows you're stronger, more willed than most. You're in control of the reality you weave. They're Saint Catherine of Siena.
emilie, on the other hand, is the natural extreme of every movie star. she would mainline ozyempic, nathalie!! 🔔 would you mind helping me with my shot? she’s fae, she’s whisper-light, she’s always moving, she’s a haunt. she’s also canonically ill of a wasting disease, something that's carving out a space from where there was something.
the cards are stacked against us. like, these three would not see fatness as anything but negative. but here's what i see.
nathalie: love the idea of a bulky, pre-agrestes nathalie. if you're meant to be taking down men above your weight class, you're going to need the weight---and losing that to fit into a whole new industry dealing in thinness, long hours, and sedentary days with light steps elsewhere, well. it's like snow melt. muscle > fat > skinny. love, also, the idea of her gaining weight post s-5. diane nguyen style?
emilie: simply put, she's not ever going to do this. i feel. the general public do not love fat women. you could argue, however, narratively, she's somewhat of a fertility goddess. or, some of her medications might cause weight gain.
gabriel: i don't know. he's my narrative vessel to think about nathalie naked. the only thing i can think of is a pudgy young gabe, because have you ever met a guy who used to be fat? some men in my life have taken great guilty pleasure in showing me "how fat they used to be" compared to now, and it's all about, to them, the idea that they Got Better. They Took Themselves Seriously. god, how could they have ever let themselves get that far as a teenager? and yet I feel like I always see something deeper in their younger eyes.
