Choose your Jestyn…
Inspiration comes from a line in a video I watched: Butterflies are one of nature’s most improbable beings. Just imagine—a creature that begins as an egg, grows into a caterpillar, then spins itself a sealed cocoon, like crafting its own personal mummy. Inside that cocoon, it undergoes a total upheaval: its old body completely dissolves into a pool of liquid, only to be re-scripted by its genes, rearranged bit by bit, and finally break free as a butterfly that stuns the world. Someone once cut two cocoons in half and swapped the halves—each still developed normally and emerged as a butterfly. No one knows whether the butterfly that comes out is the same caterpillar that went in, or if it carries any memories from before. From beginning to end, it constantly constructs and reconstructs itself. Such is the fantastical, villainous nature of the butterfly.
Drawing from this idea, combined with what Pipi said about Jestyn—how he underwent a great, crushing transformation, and how his puppet body, even when damaged, can cling back together and heal—I’ve shaped Jestyn with a butterfly motif.
