several weeks late maxlie week 2026 day 2: swap/alternate universe

playing with the idea of everything being the same pre-constant but for whatever reason, maxwell and charlie swap places as king and queen respectively and charlie becomes the first ruler while maxwell is relegated to the darkness

100% zoom under cut

I was thinking a few things with the roadmap art specifically with the wilting rose/or rather how Maxwell lets go of the rose. and I like to spin that into him rejecting the second life he was given as Maxwell, if that makes sense. but also, how impossible that would be, how They would never let go of him, how even if he let's go of something that represents him, Charlie, his identity, his past life, he's still a thrall.