m on a cruise ship so i haven’t done much posting but have this concept i came up with. and expect things when i come back from the high seas :D
Steve Harrington was born with three soulmarks, littered across his body as randomly as his moles. They had always been there, faint lines etched into his skin.
The first one the doctors saw was on his wrist. It glowed a faint blue, signifying that this person was already alive and out there somewhere in the world. The second was on his shoulder, a thin black line that began to glow when Steve was about one. And the third was on his knee, staying dim until he was five.
They were all shaped into sleek X’s, staying that way until Steve was 17 and started dating Nancy Wheeler. That was when the one in his knee turned from and X into a check, glowing a like green when he first spoke to Nancys little brothers friend Dustin.
The second changed when Steve started his job at Scoops Ahoy, the moment he talked to his new coworker Robin. It had lit up a bright neon green, and he was so excited to have finally met his soulmate…. until Robin told him she was a lesbian.
And the third? The one on his shoulder that was already blue when he was born? It lit up the day Eddie Munson came walking into the Family Video with Dustin on his trail to get a movie for a “Hellfire Bonding Night” whatever that meant. The moment Eddie said his first words to Steve, the mark lit up a deep green color, shining so brightly through the store that Steve was almost blinded.
So Steve had three soulmates. One was a child, one was a lesbian, and one was the Town Freak. That was how Steve learned that not all soulmates were romantic. Some were platonic, some were familial. And some? Some told you things you didn’t know about yourself. Like how you could fall in love with the last person you expected.
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soon it'll be dawn again
transcript under the cut ⏬
page 01
Fig: no way? - you're still up?
Riz: Wh– yes?
Riz: Why'd I not be.
page 02
Fig: I me~~ean - that took.
Fig: whole day.
Riz: Yeah?
Fig: 'm beat.
Riz: you should sleep.
page 03
Fig: nah. my guy's still up
Fig: I wanna hang out.
page 04
Riz: That's really nice.
Fig: Hah! - Nobody ever expects an Archdevil rockstar to be nice.
Riz: … yeah. - 's just budget work tho. (the stuff I'm working on) - I've heard it's boring.
page 05
Fig: yeah, but you do it…
Riz: It keeps things going, right? - Nothing happens if nobody sits down and - does the thing.
Fig: That's right… - though. Yeah.
page 06
Fig: sometimes it's someone else who - doesn't want the same thing to happen.
Riz: … - mm.
page 07
Riz (off screen): …It took me a long time to get that not everyone likes doing what I do. - 's probably because you guys are so nice– - or. - kind.
Riz (off screen): to anyone too, not just. - the people you /love/.
page 08
Riz: that's not how it is elsewhere. - The world's– not. hostile. - but 's not like it's kind.
Riz: So I'm doing as much as I can now…
page 09
Fig: Hey.
Riz: ?
Fig: Go dig some dirt with me.
page 10
Riz: [blank speech bubble] - oh you meant like - actual dirt. (not incriminating information)
Fig: o yea.
Fig: there's clay in the backyard soil. - sometimes when I'm sun deficient or something I go touch dirt for a bit.
page 11
Fig: here u go
page 12
Riz: uh
Fig: now we make a thing! - 'm pretty good at freehanding a bowl.
Fig: I'll show u
page 13
Fig: just– yep, flatten that out as evenly as u can, then–! - actually ur nails'd be so good at cutting out the strip. [larger than usual space] wait. - wait. wait u can carve patterns with them! we HAVE to try
Riz: uh - What. do I carve?
Fig: anything!!!
page 14
Fig: and– yep just seal the inside uh. seam?
Fig: yep that works - okay time's up! all contestant hands up
Riz: [blank speech bubble] - okay - wh. what's next?
Fig: haha - watch this.
(sound effect text): FWOO—MP
page 15
Riz: WH– DON'T JUST DO THAT???
Fig: Now it's fired!
Riz: THAT WAS NOT SAFE
Fig: (actually it's just dry. if u add water rn it'll dissolve)
Fig: ok catch!
Riz: [blank speech bubble] - careful!!
Fig: dw no need haha
page 16
Riz (thought bubble): oh - it's warm…
Fig: now I want you to throw this.
page 17
Fig: u gotta do it - c'mon
page 18
Riz: wh– - It's like 3AM right now
Fig: oh it's not /fired/ fired it's not gonna make a loud noise
Riz: And then just? leave a pile out here?
Fig: pour water over it & it'll be gone I told u
Riz: but
page 19
Fig (off screen): RIz.
page 20
Fig: I've done all this before.
Fig: Can you trust that at least?
page 21
Riz: no, I– - I do. - I trust you.
page 23
Riz: okay what happens now
(sound effect text): glob
page 24
Fig: we do it again!
page 25
Riz: wh. [larger than usual space] What do you mean. (this clay's too wet also)
Fig: see! you're already learning
Fig: [blank speech bubble] - there are flows that are futile to fight. - The world changes.
Fig: Things change.
page 26
Fig: I've learned my lessons with "forevers". - But - as an artist
Fig: I can give you one thing: - You can always do it again.
page 27
Fig: most of everything depends on the rest of the world, - but this. - making new. - that's yours as long as you want it.
page 28
Fig: So?
page 29
Riz: Yeah. - Yeah! - let's make another one.
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i might get bashed for this but
im honestly excited for eve. DONT GET ME WRONG, the girl BOILS my blood. she literally frustrates me sm and i got so PISSSSEEEEDDD when she showed up in tbh.
BUT!! bcs of her appearance AND the ending of tbh, im looking forward to how jlb wrote her in tgg. did jlb give her a redemption arc? or will she make us despise eve even more than we do now? will jlb, the woman who made THE inheritance games series, manage to make us FORGIVE eve?
knowing me i just might
all im saying is i wouldn't mind eve being in tgg. i jst hope she doesnt come and make us hate her more than we already do. i hate her enough cmon eve u cant make me hate u more than this shit.
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I wonder if these upcoming blubbery pages in GTW feel gross enough…MAN I’M TRYING…I need you to feel it under your fingernails and in your pores. I don’t know how successful it is, but I keep trying to push it with every following page. People on patreon can tell me lol…everyone else can tell me a month later.
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