#...i guess

Imagine that the ball contains a little music-box mechanism that plays a human song -- one and only one human song, over and over and over.

Imagine that Rocky hates. that. song. He hates it a LOT. He hates it with the fury of a thousand thousand suns undimmed by Astrophage.

Now, Grace loves it, and Rocky loves Grace, but. That song.

And then Rocky can't take it anymore and--

someone needs to give the leverage writers room a raise because there's a particular thing they do with saints, like, three times and it's imo emotionally devastating even if you aren't catholic. firstly and obviously, they tell us that saint nicolas..

...is the patron saint of theives.

which, fine, cute, nice thing to anchor a random episode around. but it's not the only time leverage does this, even though the other two are a bit subtler.

if you've watched the dvd commentaries, you'll know that saint bridget...

...is the patron saint of wanderers.

which they say in the commentaries is very much to symbolise where nate is at this point in the show - very much "not sure yet" about a lot of things, but i think sophie's use of it in the order 23 job also ties the meaning to her in a lot of ways, and it's obviously prescient when you look at both nate and sophie's arcs in the latter half of the season.

now, the last of these three, which did make me tear up a little upon first learning of it, is the fact that saint lawrence...

...the italian/spanish form of which, "san lorenzo", of course appears in a lot of place names in southern europe for obvious reasons...

...is the patron saint of restaraunt owners, cooks, and chefs.

the grinning tiger:

Miles beyond the last one I did. I always felt dissatisfied with the hair on that one. I'm satisfied with what I did on this one, though, so consider me redeemed.

This one was speedy, and took only about a week of off-and-on work to do. Amazing what you can do when you're not stressed as hell with schoolwork.

Some closeups:

And me holding it for scale. It's about five inches/thirteen centimeters tall.

This is another base, so I'm going to add some details and paint it once it's been fired. That'll be in a while, though.