page 1407 – Plot Points Flying In All Directions
Incoming art rant again, but a BIG part about why this page is later than usual today is because I thought it’d be cute to slap some screentone onto the second panel, both as a call-back to Astrid’s Christmas comics from a few years back, and also (wait for it) to get things done more quickly. As always, trying to take a short cut only resulted in everything taking way LONGER than if I’d done things the normal way, and I blew multiple hours trying to spruce things up that weren’t working instead of just starting over from scratch. because, you know, that’d take too long. Figures.
Anyway, before anybody asks, Astrid is NOT going to be a player in the rest of this plot arc. I just realized how frickin long it’d been since we saw her in a NON-holiday capacity and wanted to take the chance at a cameo when it presented itself. Trust me, there’s already enough characters lined up for this thing as it is.
May has had her internal organs interrogated? Does that mean she has modular anatomy and can be harmlessly vivisected?
This is Far Out There. The answer is far more ridiculous, and Blitz either didn’t think of what that would result in, or is happy to substitute whatever idea he had with what we come up with if it’s better.
For example, no, May and Ichabod do not have modular anatomy. Instead there’s a type of psychic plankton that can be injected into certain internal organs (any major other than the Stomach, either Intestine & Heart/Veins) that temporarily gives them something akin to sentience and a memory of said organ’s past. And, to understand the communication from said organ, specialised technology is needed.
And, yes, “Any Organ” includes one’s skin. And it takes a while to wear off. Likely one of a dozen reasons why Ichabod feels like that adventure wasn’t worth it. Another being that they didn’t pay.
I love how THAT’S what qualifies as predictable creative decisions from me at this point 😀
Considering the body mods that regular people have been shown to have done just for idle trendiness purposes, it seems everyone in the future is modular. Although that probably doesn’t mean that their body structure is any different than ours is now, just that it’s a million times easier to change out organs due to better medical tech. We’re already, in RL, working on tech to 3d print tissues to produce genetically identical replacement organs, no more than a few decades off and we will all be modular humans. For FoT people it’s probably something they can get done in a 5 minute procedure at a booth at the mall.