speaking of the vees i cannot stop thinking about this shot
both because it's visually delightful, and because there's just something so adorable about Velvette stating 'I'm the backbone of the Vees' and rather than being something more overtly 'badass' her background is a collage of mostly 'check out how cute and cool my boyfriends think I am'
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with hera's perspective and sense of self, i always come back to the opening scene of memoria; there's just... something in the sound design and the wording that makes it so clear to me. the way she misremembers - the fact she misremembers - herself at the table with the others; that she subconsciously considers herself singular, human enough, occupying the same space. with the idea in memoria that memory is the part where you come in, your biases and subjective experience altering your perception...
in hera's mind, minkowski says "you weren't here with us [...] we were over here, and you [...] were over there" but minkowski - the real minkowski - would never say that, because she would never see it that way. hera was there with them, from minkowski's perspective, as much as hera is ever anywhere. it's hera that feels like she wasn't. hera who hears their voices the way they hear hers - not a product of her mechanical nature, but the sense that she's on the other end of a comms line, always physically somewhere else apart from the others, on the other side of an impassable barrier. (something you can notice even in am i alone now? when eiffel speaks - it's always been there from her perspective.)
she experiences physical loneliness. i can't shake how that makes me feel. there's a difference between existing differently and existing apart from the world, and hera's experience is so clearly defined not by her lack of physicality as a neutral characteristic, but by the isolation it causes her to feel. it's why it matters that the confrontation in the finale allows hera to finally be seen and interact physically on the same terms as everyone else. it's why it matters that eiffel regards her with some physicality, that he asks are you there? even when it seems redundant. hera is always there, but it's equally true that she's never entirely been anywhere.
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