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Sangfielle Season One Epilogue: Duvall, part 2 (one more part after this, it’s big so it’s on its own)
Sangfielle Season One Epilogue: Duvall, part 3: Weald and Woe (modified)
Following the passing of a legendary cleaver, sometimes the Course crashes into the Heartland to claim their body as a prize, flooding the landmark with visions of endless possibility. to activate this ability, die.
I know episode 56 has barely come out, but while I was listening, this drawing was beamed into my brain like an eldritch horror protagonist glimpsing the beast
thinking about how chine gets the vulnerable fallout on the jade moon while listening to an old song from blackwick and watching everyone else (including duvall, of course) dance.. and how that’s gotten as a way of healing? how they had the song they request written in their fable book……. and how they don’t hesitate to rip that page out
(and how they spend the rest of that night waiting outside the captain’s quarters for duvall and the next morning is marrowcreek and then, well,)
Austin: You know, or the next day. You got another week on this boat, so. All right.
Dre: Austin, really quick. Is this a place that can just do Mind Stress or can this do Mind Fallout as well?
Austin: It can do Major Mind Fallout. It’d D8.
Dre: Oh, okay. I need to…
Austin: Yeah. You do.
Dre: Um…
Austin: Talk to me about Chine on the dance floor.
Dre: [sighs] I don’t think—
Austin: And also the song that Chine requests.
Art: Ha!
Dre: Right. So, I think the song that Chine requests is…it is a song that is kind of like “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” not in terms of like, that’s what it sounds like, but…
Austin: Mm.
Dre: There’s like a bunch of different nursery rhymes that are to the tune of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”
Austin: Mm-hmm.
Dre: Like the ABC song and “Baa Baa Black Sheep” and probably more that I’m not thinking of. So it’s a song that when people hear it, they’re like, “Oh, I know that. It’s ba-ba-ba.”
Austin: Right, right, right.
Dre: But like, every three people will answer that in a different way.
Austin: Right. I love that. And do you— are you asking for a particular version of it or are you just asking for the melody?
Dre: Um, Chine requests it not by name—
Austin: Mm.
Dre: —but by tearing a page out of their fairytale book and the melody’s written in it.
Austin: [laughs softly] Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I think that they, you know, the bandleader is like:
Austin (as bandleader): Oh, yeah, we know this one. Of course, of course.
Austin: And like pushes the page back. Like, I don’t need the mu— we know this.
Dre: Yeah.
Austin: “We’ve heard versions of this that existed before you were even born,” type, you know? type of stuff. Since that is in fact true, it seems. So what do you— what are you paying with? Is that— or is that what you’re…or I guess, yeah, what— yeah, what do you have left to pay with? God.
Dre: I have the thread of the Mother-Beast.
Austin: Oh. There you go.
Dre: yep.
Austin: They, uh… [amused sound] They take that from you. What are the intr— uh, Jack, who is gonna use the thread of the Mother-Beast to replace a broken string on their instrument?
Jack: It’s gonna be one of the viola players. Those are nasty bastards. [Austin, Dre, and Art laugh]
Keith: The players or the instrument?
Jack: [laughs softly] The players. [Austin laughs] It’s a violin that can sound like a cello? No thanks.
……. (cut out their trying to figure out which fallout chine is trying to heal) ……..
Austin: I think as that song plays— when did you first hear that song? When did Chine first hear that song?
Dre: Um, as a child—
Austin: Mm.
Dre: —at a community holiday celebration.
Austin: Okay, sure.
Dre: So probably another very large like public dance like this one.
Austin: Right. Right, right, right. You should take Vulnerable: “You feel small, shaken and scared. You cannot use Mind Protection. Ongoing.” There is…you know, the experience of having that hit kind of moves you emotionally to that sense of vulnerability of being a child. I mean, both the joy of it being this kind of big festival moment, but also that sense of…that’s such a different person than who you are now, do you know what I mean? And those emotions are tied to a version of yourself that did not have a big poleaxe and the ability to transform into a wereshrew. [Dre laughs] And there’s a sort of misfire emotionally happening here. Or maybe it’s not a misfire. Maybe this is emotions working the way they should. Is that in touching that— in hearing that song again, you’re moved to a place where you’re able to really feel not like the invincible Cleaver, but like, you know, young Chine of Blackwick during a harvest festival or whatever. And yeah, so, Vulnerable. All right. Day comes to a close, Broken Quartet breaks. The next day, we only have one thing scheduled. It’s the false war tournament. I don’t remember who’s left in. I think, Duvall, did you lose?
a father’s day portrait, taken sometime between days 3 and 9 on the jade moon
good morning i looked at this for three seconds too long and had the very ridiculous thought that duvall wouldn’t have known he was a dad yet on the jade moon and if chine is insistent on giving It to duvall (apparently in both versions of the scene) then their having thought fondly of duvall as a potential second parent isn’t that far fetched??
(and they answered my post mortem question but cut the “if chine was acting rationally on their beliefs, when did they decide raising It was no longer their purpose?” part out (i can understand why lol but i didn’t think they’d touch any of that question), so they had their chance to establish a different reason….)
the exact expression i made when i realized that animating chine’s face means i’ll have to do some sort of weird freckle mapping instead of randomly applying the pointillism brush in every frame:
welp. started the process of sizing chine up… much left to be desired, but at least with everything else already drawn to build off of it’s going pretty fast (lesson learned: at least thumbnail all of the thing before focusing in on one part, because…consistency)
tomorrow i'l be good and instead of refining any details i’ll finish the scene so that when i add details it’ll be consistent (repeated as a mantra as i try and fail to sleep)
this morning i was thinking about sapodilla and that conversation at the start of the Oratorio (where art says ‘i abandoned my… friend… for this’ made me go back and relisten with an ear for chine/duvall and my brain has been cursed ever since)..and what that would have looked like from duvall’s perspective?
imagine: duvall is in his interview getting nervous, and then it’s lights out. everyone gathers together, (duvall has been completely dissolved), they make plans (duvall is in the process of being rebuilt). he comes to, the party is split and they came here mostly for his painting, so of course he’s not in the group to rescue chine, but he’d been so looking forward to finally having some time together when he found out the whole party was going to sapodilla…
he’d been too tired in blackwick to seek them out, and then the egg was stolen, and so much (so much) has happened.. and chine might be dead in a dungeon while he looks for a painting, but the cards have been dealt, and anyway, maybe he’s dead too (only a few hours ago he was nothing - when the bees built him did they bring him back? if you’re not the same person you were when you did the thing, is your memory of it real?)
