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Daisuke Yokota “Alluvion” 2021,
UV Inkjet Print (StareReap 2.5 print),
100×80cm
THE DIALECTIC-DEATH RIDES UPON A PALE HORSE
@natsukata (since it won’t let me tag your other blog)
THE SEA is a cruel mistress, but only to those idiotic enough not to respect it nor to understand its power. It was only fair for its incarnation to be cold and distant at first - and yet, anyone who would have seen the Entity in that very moment, would have been surprised to see them smiling, an amused light shining in their only visible eye. They stood near the ocean, bare feet sinking in the warm sand, a light breeze ruffling theirs and Astra’s hair. Above them, a seagull screeched. A few meters away from them, a mermaid tail surfaced for a moment before going back into the depths.
“You chose a good moment to come. The weather here is beautiful these days.”
Alluvion also kinda has some damage from something similar to lrb, I fear... I haven't settled on exactly how old they are, but over a century at least, and their travels culminated in one particularly important relationship that they saw to its conclusion. They've kept their distance from other people since then, and this scrap of ruins is the closest they've gotten to a mortal settlement in several years. It's not that they've interacted with no one, but it's been sparse.
But Alluvion really can't not help people, and they crave company way too much not to want more of Vezrik's. As they mentioned, they don't know much about elves (among other things); they've never gotten close to one. They are aware that they live a long time, but that hasn't driven them to intentionally seek them out (yet).
Vezrik's lifespan is kind of uncertain because he's part orc and hobgoblin, which I think are even shorter-lived than humans in the D&D/PF background that was in my head when I created him. But it's not either of those canons, so I can do whatever I want, lol. I'm debating reinjecting some fae stuff into the hobgoblins here since the shift from house spirit to big hulking warrior is only due to a casual aside from Tolkien, so far as I know. But then that requires me to have an inkling of how fae work here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway, it's a thing they'll have to talk about eventually.
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Realizing that you could categorize Alluvion as a living hot water bottle...
This is my most self-indulgent wish fulfillment. Not any of the normal things but "what if there was a really big, nice hot water bottle."
General reflection on Tonic: the structure is a bit amateurish, particularly in the middle chapters, and probably not how I would do it right at this moment in time. If, y'know, I were carefully planning and hadn't just sat down and started writing in a burst after 5 years of inactivity, lol.
But I'm actually pretty proud of the prose quality? I think in some ways it's probably better than a lot of what I've written since, maybe just by virtue of having slightly more engaging things to talk about. I said I'd do some light editing (since I will probably start uploading it to AO3 soon), and honestly? Yeah, very light. There's not a lot I find myself wanting to tweak.
Part of the hold up with the rest is that, at least for what comes after, I do want to plan better and improve the structure. The rest of it is that it took me a long time to answer the question of "How do you move an 8 foot tall slime through a city where very few people have ever seen such a thing without causing a giant scene?" and the corollary question of "Would it be better/funnier if there were a giant scene?"
Rereading parts of Tonic and Fever to maybe do some light editing/start outlining the next chapter, and man... they really are cute... in ch4 especially...
Vezrik doing whatever he can to get a palpable reaction out of Alluvion because he's petty and annoyed that he has these pesky biological imperatives for Alluvion to manipulate, and Alluvion doesn't (at least, not in the ways Vezrik is used to)
Alluvion getting embarrassed when this does, in fact, happen, when they were so zeroed in on taking care of Vezrik
Vezrik getting into it and saying things like "if you stop I'll die" and then reassuring an amused Alluvion that it's hyperbole, "but don't test it!"
(Honestly, all the banter they have in this chapter is really satisfying to reread. Tooting my own horn but the characters I created to have chemistry have chemistry. :v)
Alluvion thanking Vezrik as if he's done them a favor, which Vezrik finds a strange concept, but as soon as he privately acknowledges that maybe it does mean something important to them, he must hurry to shove bread sticks into his purse remind himself that it's not gonna be his business anyway because he's definitely leaving and not coming back, right now