What about second breakfast?

I'm glad you remembered me.

i'm always thinking about Solanum and the Hatchling "growing up together" despite being separated by time. the way the Hatchling grows up enamoured by Nomai language and culture and they are able to understand it through tracking Solanum as she grows up and learns the language and culture herself. the way they're both caught in a state of undeath on the cusp of adulthood. and despite the barriers of time and language, Solanum is at the campfire along with all the other astronauts that the Hatchling has known for their entire life.

i've long headcanoned that the Hatchling plays a cello (because of the cello part in 14.3 Billion Years and Morning on the soundtrack), though the instrument i've drawn them with here is designed after a bowed mountain dulcimer. it's more their size!

also, the pen i drew Solanum with in the first piece is mostly because i wanted to draw her in that pose, although having thought about it, it makes sense that kids would be given a more kid-sized version of the staff technology in a way that makes them practice their writing (rather than the keyboard on the staff's tablet) so i stand by it. also also, Solanum's warmer clothes and thicker fur on Brittle Hollow are because of the colder climate!

IDs (copied from alt) below the cut

so, this guy here. i did not like him.

the doll always felt sparse and unfinished, but at the time i made it i probably just wanted it off my desk because it was taking up space -> called it good enough. still, it kept bothering me, especially since the doll is too big and fragile to go into storage.

hence, a remix. i didn't want to reinvent the aesthetic or straight up make a new tree, so i repainted some things & added the lushness i originally envisioned for this doll. also nabbed some crows from a current project to give him buddies, which made my partner go "oo! huginn and muninn! yggdrasil!" and i suppose they are right.

Vincent Price as Clifford Pyncheon -

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