(belatedly) thank you. it's a concept/emotional landscape that remains very precious to me. i think there is something so sacred and beautiful about the passion and enthusiasm that characters can inspire in someone... regardless of medium.

there are many concepts, fragments of stories, and specific dynamics that have tugged at me, over the years. the most formative of them burrowed into me long before i ever felt i had the skill or mental faculties to even articulate what i liked about them, let alone depict it.

some of them i return to frequently, such as pokemon—long after i've lost interest in the modern official franchise. when i feel like it, anyway.

but others... it can take me a while to feel like i know what i want to communicate about something, whether i first saw it 1 or 15 years ago. and when a composition does fall into place for me, to that effect, i do everything in my power to honor exactly what i was feeling, whenever such a thing first sunk its teeth into me.

my vision, crystallized. there's a bioshock piece from 2021 i'm still extremely satisfied with, as an example. and i often end up feeling like i have nothing left to say about a particular topic, afterwards, which is what happened here.

sometimes it takes multiple attempts. sometimes i end up finding more and more angles to ponder in the process.

regardless, i am always happy to share whatever i've made. someone out there may feel similarly, even if i never hear about it. and there is no higher honor to me, personally, than finding a stranger on the internet whose specific love for something harmonizes with your own.