#Same with Spark! Though this comic isn't as focused on them lol

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Oooooooh YES I want the ramble about the color choices in Little Mist Perfect!!! Ramble away!! Please!!!

ALRIGHT SO

In Little Mist Perfect, I used the background colors for two purposes - character relations and setting the mood. In one case, at the same time.

For light blue, yellow, orange and turquoise, I'm using them to tie the panels to Mist and Spark. Notably, Mist's main color is blue and Spark's main color is orange, so the analogous colors they share are "switched" in their relevance. I use this to show the state of the relationship between the two. For example, in this one:

Turquoise is paired with blue in the upper part and orange is paired with yellow on the lower part. This is the part of the story where the two are closest, everything is going well and there aren't really any issues

On these two pages, on the other hand, everything is going wrong. The former is just Mist spiraling and thinking about how he messed everything up, but on the latter there is actually a conflict - the page is almost fully encased in blue, with only a bit of orange showing.

There's actually another bit of relevant context here! When it comes to Mist's design, the color blue is a sign of his repression - that's why the large blue coat encases the sweatshirt and pants he wears underneath, why the blue scarf is wrapped around the yellow fur of his neck, and why the weight of the lab accident, the incident that (in Mist's mind) is HIS fault, is on top of his head at all times.

So in the latter panel, it is the very act of Mist repressing his own feelings that is in conflict with Spark, it's his inability to accept the events of the previous night that are stopping him from developing a relationship with Spark at this point

Black/gray is a very simple color in here: I use it for Mist's lowest points, the times of crisis and deepest pits of repression

At first they're small, isolated parts of single pages, thoughts Mist can drown out and repress further, but after Spark's visit, when he's being confronted by his inner demons, he can't ignore it anymore - Mist has bottled up his thoughts for far too long and that has come to bite him in the ass.

Lastly, pink!

Pink is fun because it serves both purposes at once:

It sets the mood for some of the romantic scenes, highlighting the romantic feelings shared between Mist and Spark,

But it's also Agate's main color. It's the color of Mist's biggest regrets when it comes to his romantic life. It's the color of the mistakes he fears he'll make again with Spark. It's the color that proves he doesn't know what love is, not because he lacks experience with love but because he is fundamentally an unlovable person

Or so he thinks. Because as much as it's Agate's color, it's also the color shown with Spark's reaction towards him, the color that shows what they feel about him, and they simply do not think of him like that. In his anguish over how Spark must hate him for what he's done, Spark is realizing that they, in fact, do love Mist. He's not unlovable to them, he's perfect.