softer, softest

His slap leaves her breathless, her eyes widening at the resounding crack. She sways in place. The pain hits a moment later, so sharp it’s almost numb and she brushes her cheek with the tips of her fingers, blinking. Her eyes well.

Breathing unevenly through her nose, she pushes her tongue to the roof of her mouth, smothering a sob. A traitorous tear rolls down her stinging cheek.  “You’re a horrible, evil man,” she whispers. “And I won’t let you touch me.”

His lazy smile fades.

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No matter how much time passes, I'll still periodically return to the universe of ASoUE and draw something.

And recently I had an epiphany. I remembered the final credits of the movie (2004), and I somehow wildly wanted to see such a cartoon. I think that ASoUE are ideal for adaptation in animation, especially in the style of these very credits.

Это вдохновило меня нарисовать их мир буквально из бумаги. В голове я представляю себе анимацию-перевертыш, где все намеренно сделано из бумаги, картона, обоев и других материалов, которые легко горят 😏

Thanks to Alice for the animation style examples

The Baudelaires are children's drawings on scraps of book pages. Olaf is a doll from a paper puppet theater. Aunt Josephine consists of calligraphic elements, and Esme is made of clippings from fashion magazines. And so on.

I also imagine how the logic of the world adapts to the material from which it is made. For example, paper gets wet and swells when in contact with real water, and cut things can be glued together with glue or tape, if you find them between the pages.

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Count Olaf’s Various Finery Disguises.

Here are some illustrations of the several costumes Count Olaf wore during the events of the first seven books from “A Series of Unfortunate Events”.