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threewaysdivided · 2 years ago

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Jade could move like smoke, shape herself into whatever she needed to survive and leave people with nothing but a smile. ‘Like a Cheshire Cat’. Not Artemis. Something in her refused to bend that way, refused to form a smooth mask over what she felt. Too much like Alice - unable to believe impossible things. She’d made herself a stone instead.

On this week's Work In Progress Wednesday Deathly Weapons excerpt: 3WD has read Lewis Carroll and is going to make it the Crock-Nguyen sisters' problem.

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#young justice: deathly weapons #WIP wednesday #writing update #Chapter 19 #Flashpoints #we interrupt your scheduled Danny-Wally drama to bring you an Artemis retrospective (and also the worst-best OC I ever made)#expect some Through the Looking Glass references in a later chapter too #There's actually a lot of interesting things you can potentially read into #in the relationship between how The Cheshire Cat/Alice interact in the Carroll books #and what that might imply about Cheshire/Artemis' dynamic in YJ #given that Jade diegetically picked that as a name and there's some light Alice-related symbolism around Artemis #also the fact that Artemis fits the 'Alice' profile AND lives in Gotham AND has a sister who goes by Cheshire #AND YJ apparently had the rights to use Jervis 'The Mad Hatter' Tech #And they DIDN'T do anything with that in the sequels?????#well... I suppose that would be too much intelligence to expect

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