Maddie wasn’t snooping.
She honestly wasn’t.
She really was just trying to be a good big sister and help her brother and future brother-in-law out by dropping off a package for Buck that had been sent to her house due to cheaper shipping (“why is it like twenty bucks cheaper, you live twenty minutes away”). Buck and Tommy’s place was on her daily commute to the dispatch center and it just made sense for her to take the package over to them since neither of them had the time since coming back from their weekend getaway to Vegas two weeks ago.
Both of them were on shift but she still had a house key from when she’d been watering their plants while they were gone. So it should’ve just been a quick in and out and she’d be on her way home.
And then she stopped and got the mail. See she really was just trying to be a good big sister— truly, she was. The mailman had been pulling away from the curb as she pulled up and in the spirit of being helpful she stopped by the mailbox to grab their mail.
And out of habit in grabbing her own mail she started flipping through it as she set the package down on the table in the entryway.
And that’s when she saw it.
The envelope.
The return address was a P.O. Box from Las Vegas, Nevada with it addressed to Mr. Evan Buckley and Mr. Thomas Kinard of Los Angeles, California.
And printed in big black lettering across crisp white paper, right above Buck and Tommy’s names.
REGARDING MARRIAGE DOCUMENTS
Maddie stared at it.
And then she stared at it some more.
She put the mail down in the mail bowl and blinked, scrubbed at her eyes to make sure she just didn't have something in her eye and blinked again. She picked the envelope back up and stared at it again.
Yup— still there.
MARRIAGE
She put the envelope back down and hummed for a few moments before she pulled out her phone and pulled up Buck’s name.
Maddie: Hey… when you went to Vegas, did you happen to get married?
Buck responded back almost instantly.
Buck: …
Buck: why would you think that???
Maddie quickly snapped a picture of the envelope and sent it back to him.
Buck: oh
Buck: uh… hahah surprise?
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I just saw one of your fave games is What remains of Edith Finch and I’m so happy! I feel like its a lesser known game but i loved playing through it. I’m so happy to know more than just my small friend group know about this game!
Sorry this isn’t a question. Also want to say that you’re art is amazing and the development of the designs is so interesting to see. Also the way you draw intimate scenes have so much emotion to them. I love the Aj and rarity kissing comic so much, you can just feel their love for each other ;w;
Thank you so much!
I highly, highly, highly recommend What Remains of Edith Finch to anyone interested in narrative game experiences/"walking simulators." It's one of those games that was handcrafted with nothing but love. Every room you explore is just... real. The way the light flows in and makes the colors of the living room, the kitchen, the bedrooms glow. Playing the game is like walking through your childhood home as an adult and seeing how the dust clings to everything you once touched. Also genius-level gameplay mechanics, ones that can make you completely empathetic with the character you're embodying or feel completely complacent in their tragedy. It's really not fair to call it a walking simulator because it's so much more and so much smarter than that.Everyone talks about the fish one.
The theme of death and memory and storytelling and the burden of invisible trauma and self-fulfilling prophecies is so affecting too. The ending made me cry.
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