#honestly if that's on purpose i'm LOSING my fucking mind over the storytelling of that.

[moe-broey]

Deeply unserious about this guy.

+ doodles on the same page

PLUS!!! Concepts of me trying to figure out how I want to draw him dressed down, which was the inspiration behind this doodle dump in the first place. Looking at all his designs, even including the Day of Devotion alt, he really doesn't have aspects of his outfits that can be extrapolated into casual dress like you can with Alfonse and Sharena (the white overshirts, the blue undershirts, mix and match -- and that's not even factoring in other outfits at least Sharena has been seen to wear outside of the game!)

I think the rotting flesh gradient is gonna be SO fun to color whenever I get around to it 👁️👁️ Meanwhile can we fucking. Put some clothes on this beast

[ropebunnykant]

thinking a little more about episode povs & how the multiple important raymew conversations that we don't get to witness the conclusions of fit into that framework.

in ep4 we don't see what happens in the flashback after mew first pushed ray off bc ray doesn't want to think about that! if something more than a chaste kiss happened between them in that video (& we never see the video bc ep3 is nick's pov & nick doesn't give a good goddamn about raymew), ray isn't telling us about it. we don't see the details of mew's rejection beyond the initial "i can't do this", we don't know what he said or how he framed it or how firm he was bc ray doesn't want to remember any of it, though there's also another level here bc within the episode that's actually mew's flashback, & the rest of the conversation they had then isn't really relevant to the conversation he's having now with top.

then in ep6 we don't see how mew initially reacts to ray giving him the recording bc top has no clue whatsoever how mew initially reacted! top didn't even realize that anything was wrong at all until the bedroom, which is also part of why we only find out mew even knew via flashback. the reaction that top understands is the one that mew planned & staged specifically for him. top doesn't give a damn about ray & he either can't or doesn't want to imagine mew's immediate reaction, beyond general shock, to finding out what top did or to hearing the audio -- he doesn't even show us mew actually listening to it, & the flashback cuts off before ray can tell him what the recording is -- & so we don't get the rest of that conversation, even though something definitely happened between them, bc ray loses it & also mew apologizes over it in the next episode. but top doesn't want to know about that, so we don't see it.

& then in ep7. ah, ep7. mew leads the conversation towards him finally giving ray a chance, so he can rebound with the one person he knows loves him more than he could ever love them, the person who he thinks can't hurt him & would always forgive him anything, the person he knows will bother top the most bc "i was jealous of ray" was the only explanation he had for cheating & also top still thinks they have a history mew isn't admitting to (JOJO SHOW US THE FUCKING VIDEO I'M LOSING MY MIND HERE) -- anyway, i'm not surprised mew didn't show us the end of that conversation. i honestly don't think there's any way it could have gone that paints mew in a good light, that maintains his conception of himself as the totally justified victim. plus, the way that him & ray are both taking advantage of each other? that's not the story mew wants to tell himself about them. of course he only gave us the bare bones from which we can draw the conclusion that they're together, more-or-less, & we don't need any details beyond that, but we are going to cut directly to top looking miserable & show his fantasy of dancing with mew morph into a scene of mew dancing with ray, don't read too much into that or anything.

& then their actual relationship is all from boston's perspective, who saw this train-wreck coming a mile off & has no interest in looking away from any of it or in giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. ray's pathetic, mew's just using him, they don't fit together & never have, they're not being honest with each other or themselves, this whole thing is going to crash & burn so hard. & maybe boston's too cynical! but maybe he just sees them more clearly than anyone else is.

THIS EXACTLY!! i’ve been saying since ep3 that we are missing Very Important raymew information, with the flashbacks and the confrontation and the getting together. and it’s purposeful!! storytelling wise yes but because all of these episodes are from different povs. and it’s why i’m SO happy we got them together from boston’s perspective because he is the only one that sees them clearly, aside from maybe nick but nick honestly doesn’t given enough of a fuck about them to be prominent figures. boston, for as much as he’s pissed at them, does care about them and they are important to his life — and he knew damn well this was gonna go up in flames. HE EVEN PREDICTED RAY TWO TIMING!!!!