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nerdy-the-artist
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“Better To Put An Idea To The Page And Draw It Badly Than Never Set It Free.”

“Better to put an idea to the page and draw it badly than never set it free.”

The comic begins with a shot of our protagonists from behind. Raven Beak is a tall, armored Chozo with an ornate headdress and a red cape with embroidered stoles. His pauldrons are flared and his eyes are red. Grey Voice is an old, grey Chozo with an appearance similar to that of a hawk or an eagle. He has yellow eyes and wears brown robes. Raven Beak speaks first: "Thank you for joining me, old friend. There is a gift that I would like to impart upon you."
Raven Beak kneels, producing a long, rectangular black box with an ornate clasp which he presents to his comrade. Grey Voice looks on, intrigued.
This panel is a top-down shot. The box is open, revealing red velvet lining and a corkscrew-shaped blade with a navy blue hilt.
Grey Voice is astonished. We are granted a view from below, the lid of the box obscuring the bottom half of the screen as Grey Voice's face peeks over the lid. His beak is slightly agape, his yellow eyes studying the weapon in front of him.
Our view is now behind Raven Beak, the back of whose head takes up the lower right side of the panel. Grey Voice is situated on the left side of the panel, holding the now closed box in both hands. Grey Voice speaks: "Raven Beak, I cannot accept this. It is too precious to your people." Raven Beak responds frankly: "It is for our daughter. She is of my people."
The "camera" is still behind Raven Beak, but our view shows the scene from the exterior of a hallway, as though the viewer is watching the engagement from outside the room in which it takes place. The characters are backlit, as though the scene's lighting comes exclusively from the open doorway. Raven Beak is much taller than Grey Voice, so the latter must look up to address him: "I appreciate the gesture, but she is much too young to wield this." Raven Beak replies: "It is impossible to be 'too young' for a blade, Grey Voice. Kra hul, she is destined to be a warrior."
We now view the pair from the side. Grey Voice offers the box back to his compatriot, looking a little weary. Raven Beak continues to refute the shorter Chozo: "You could not refuse this gift, even if I approved." Grey Voice starts up with a rebuttal, but is soon cut off: "Come now, don't be-" "Such an act would upset the ancestors."
All color drains from the panel. Grey Voice is conveyed in simplistic shapes against a dark grey background. He is completely white. Dead silence fills the air.
Still achromatic, the only thing that changes in this scene is the building sweat dripping down Grey Voice's forehead and the fact that he breaks the silence: "What." Raven Beak promptly responds: "They would reconstitute your biological matter in pursuit of vengeance for your disrespect."
Color returns to the comic. Grey Voice and Raven Beak are now depicted very tiny on the bottom left-hand side of the panel, arguing in earnest. The background gradates from yellow to grey. Grey Voice begins the interaction by stating: "You're giving our daughter a cursed relic." Raven Beak elaborates: "Not cursed: sacred." "What's the difference?" ""Curse" implies the retaliatory mutilation is malicious." Grey Voice is exasperated. "As if it isn't in this case?!"
We are looking at Grey Voice from behind Raven Beak: all we can see of the latter is his red cape cascading from his shoulders. Grey Voice is talking now. "Though I should not discount the possibility that you are merely yanking my plumes, I beg clarity on the matter... are you telling me that I'm risking my life talking to you because some long-dead warrior is sentimental???" Raven Beak chimes in: "Don't be rude, now."
We are granted a front-facing view of Raven Beak. The top half of his helmeted face is obscured by the upper boundary of the panel, his face shrouded in shadow. His glowing red eyes break through the darkness. He begins his lecture: "That is my great-great-great-great-great grandfather you are insulting, brother in blood. Please choose your next words wisely: I am duty-bound to defend their honor by way of a duel if you disdain their legacy... and I would not like to leave our daughter short a father."
The panel takes a very light-hearted tone in terms of coloration, with a desaturated salmon pink background. Raven Beak holds his hand up, eyes closed in a friendly gesture, as though to defuse the situation. He is filled completely in grey as opposed to being rendered in full color agaisnt the monocolor background. Grey Voice inquires from offscreen: "Are you threatening me?" Raven Beak responds rather casually: "No, I am politely asking you to consider the spirits' wishes. A "threat" would entail me drawing my weapon, pointing it in your direction..."
"...and commanding you to accept this gift before I snuff the flame of your eternal being, drawing upon the embers to light the torch that I will personally use to champion your essence straight across the innumerable stars and back to the yolk of the world-egg." The colors used in this panel are noticeably darker and more saturated. Raven Beak is leaning forward, his glowering face taking up the entire left side of the panel as the black speech bubble takes the right. His visible eye is glowing fiercely. The text on his speech bubble is white, with the word "personally" rendered in red for emphasis.
The background returns to a fluffy pastel hue: this time, a lovely mint green. We are viewing Raven Beak from behind, as he takes up the bottom right corner. Grey Voice is located center-left, depicted smaller to convey distance. He looks to be in disbelief. "I can't believe you're doing this to me..." "What?" Raven Beak replies.
"Threatening me!" Grey Voice shouts. His neck stretches cartoonishly out from his shoulders, his face closing in towards Raven Beak as the commander shrinks back into the right side corner.
The camera is behind Grey Voice now. The background is dark, and we are staring up at Raven Beak's intense form, colored dark grey to communicate extreme tension. It looks like our militant elderly protagonist is about to explode. "Was my firing arm not affixed to my side during that engagement??" Grey Voice yells back, "You are impossible. Just give me the damn blade!"
The tone shifts immediately when Grey Voice accepts Raven Beak's gift. The gradient background descends from orange to dull purple as Raven Beak gingerly takes Grey Voice's wrinkled hand in his own, clutching his compatriot's digits within his armored grasp and taking care not to nick him with his pointed talon caps. A close-up of Grey Voice's face is shown in the top right: an astonished yellow eye and raised, wrinkled brow convey his surprise.
The gradient background descends from wine red to a muted, glowing yellow. Raven Beak's helmeted visage is situated on the left-hand side and lit gently from below. He waxes as he begins transfer of the boxed blade to his cherished friend. "Many and one, blood of my heart..."
Raven Beak continues his heartfelt speech as we view the pair from the distance, the scene bathed in black and white. Our protagonists appear as dark shadows in the distance atop a grey and white gradient background, the sunrise of their alliance giving hope for the future. "Across the river of war and toil has this relic come to rest on easy shores... to join us in the hearth of our souls' labor, passed eons from old hands to new, falling roost in our-"
"Yes, yes, my thanks extend across the endless sea of night. Now go back to your ship." Grey Voice interrupts Raven Beak's bleeding heart and whips around, clutching the box close to his breast as his aging face flushes red. Grey Voice lies on the right side of the screen, walking away from a comically simplified expression of Raven Beak in the top left.

Raven Beak is an individual of science. He's also a sentimental warrior poet who is not immune to superstition. How will his daughter learn to gut her enemies if he doesn't pass down the family heirloom? Also grandma will be disappointed if the sword doesn't go to Raven Beak's first-hatched.

Started late 2023.

Extras:

A sketch writ upon a medium grey background. Raven Beak grips Grey Voice's shoulders with his armored talons, exaggerated sweat bullets visible on the forehead of his helm. Grey Voice is visibly rattled. Raven Beak says, "Grey Voice, I can feel nonna's baleful gaze fixed upon the back of my skull as we speak. Take the fucking blade." The last sentence is italicized for emphasis.
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