dang stick figures look a lil different
Purple
Chose a cooler purple opposed to the warmer magenta purple used in the show to portray him as a more level-headed, grounded character
Styling is very ruffly/roughly historically based, a little old-fashioned but still comfortable and airy
Lanky, aerodynamic, optimized for flight
Pretty tm
Pinker eyes - connection to his mother
Elytra (I interpreted them as bug wings w/caps)
Green
Warm/earthy green + plant theme, also a grounded character
Styling loosely inspired by 90's hiphop aesthetic as a reference to his love/skill with music (and the headphones lol)
Stockier build and on the shorter side, athletic, quick
Hearing aid/HOH!Green as a Mozart reference (more musical genius references, yes I know Mozart wasn't actually HOH)
Accent color is an earthy, brownish red (complement to green)
Reuben
Good boey
Red
Short king, I thought it would be funny if he was short since he's always ready to fight
Styled him very athletic, a little boxer-ish, fighter
Accent color is yellow, for the ribbon he got from monster school
Other accent colors - light sagey green (complement to red, and to cool his design down a touch), warm orange (analogous color, and the Secred fan in me won't go away)
Orange/Second
Laid-back, artho sort of styling + wrist brace on his drawing hand
Hair a bit of a mess, braids and wraps here and there - generally an easy, chill design (sort of like the sleeper powerhouse trope, doesn't look like he could kill you, has no idea he could kill you, but totally could)
Accent color gray - reference to the pencil/drawing tools and the gray background of the drawing/animating program he was born in
Hollow head necklace to reference he's the second coming of the chosen one
Blue
Down-to-earth farmer aesthetic, with some alchemist thrown in there (I meant to give him some plants or potion ingredients constantly sticking out of his pockets, but I forgor oops)
Accent color is a pastel yellow (and Yellow's is light blue), they are a pair do not separate
Yellow
Brighter yellow contrasted by earthy tones and neutrals
Styling is vaguely formal (nerd), but I leaned more slightly steampunk, engineer vibe
Accent color is blue (we've been here)
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when i first saw the wuthering heights casting announcement it seemed completely inexplicable, like a bad meme-based fan casting. but the more i think about it, the more i understand how it came about. jacob elordi has, of course, starred under emerald fennell to great acclaim in saltburn (2023), and it makes perfect sense for fennell to incorporate him into her stable of actors as she builds her career. meanwhile margot robbie has worked extensively with fennell, working as a producer on both of fennell’s current feature films and is a producer on this one as well, and i suspect she asked for the role with the deliberate intention of breaking her burgeoning barbie (2023) typecast and recalling the intense psychological thriller work she received an academy award for in i, tonya (2017). more than that, both of them have proven themselves more than capable of giving strong performance when their director has a strong vision, although i haven’t seen either save a bad movie through strength of performance alone.
and in terms of the director i completely understand why emerald fennell would want to do a wuthering heights adaptation. both promising young woman (2020) and saltburn (2023) are revenge thrillers with a strong sense of and aesthetic for their settings, and strain almost overbearingly for situations of sexuality and implicit or explicit sexual violence to establish their themes of gender, power structures, and obsession. it makes perfect sense that her first real foray into adaptation and period pieces would draw her to a classic gothic novel, which shares many of the same traits as her previous work.
nothing about this announcement is inexplicable. my current qualms about the project are, first, i have no idea how good fennell will be at adaptation, which is a skill in and of itself. but secondly and perhaps more significantly, critics have noted in her work a tendency towards aesthetic for aesthetic’s sake, not putting in the work to earn plot twists and letting the premise speak for itself when it really doesn’t have enough meat for that. this is a common enough weakness in directors, but my main concern is that when directors take this weakness to their adaptations of classic tales of the gothic, we get painfully sincere halloween decorations and not much else
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