#aso skip

But in A Starstruck Odyssey, the angst is about the slug being a prince who's been pressured to fulfill a grand destiny that he wants no part in, and finding a new family when he takes over the body of their shitty captain

help i love them. i want the brain slug prince and the psychic princeps to become best friends

[id: A digital drawing of Skip and Zortch from A Starstruck Odyssey. They are touching foreheads and Zortch has two fingers of each hand against Skip’s temples with their eyes closed, while Skip has his eyes open and is staring directly into Zortch’s face. Skip has a black eye, a band aid over the bridge of his nose, and a dressing on his right brow. His hair is messy and he is unshaven, and he has on a leather jacket and a jetpack. Zortch is heavily accessorised, mostly in gold with piercings, bracelets, and hair clips. They are also wearing a red snapback cap backwards. The background is a vibrant pink-to-purple gradiant, and there are geometric lines behind Zortch’s head, representing their psychic powers. /end id]

On some level I think I always understood that a ship could never really love an anchor.

“I just remembered- I just felt a memory inside of me that… that Skipper was sad that he is not a father.”

[Image description: a lyric comic drawn in pen and ink with Never Love An Anchor by The Crane Wives, focused on Captain Norman “The Skipper” Takamori from A Starstruck Odyssey.

The first panel shows him from behind with the words “there are times where I still wonder about you.”

“You are someone I have loved but never known” shows him glancing over his shoulder as two children run past, drawn in shades of gray to show they’re just a wishful thought.

The next two panels are a close up of one of the kids laughing to accompany the line “and you’ll never see the reasons I had”, and a close up of Skipper frowning to match the line “for keeping my claws away when they were close enough to hurt you”

The next panel shows Sundry Sidney, Riva, and Big Barry Syx talking, each taking a line in “I am selfish, I am broken, I am cruel”.

The final panel on the first page is a now-possessed Skip frowning, looking thoughtful. The line in that panel is “I am all the things they might have said to you”.

The first two panels on the second page are of the still-possessed Skip looking in the mirror smiling, to go with the line “do you ever think of me and my two hands”.

The next three panels show Skipper being angry with various crew members, one of the two children by his side in each channel. They are still drawn in gray. The lyrics are “and wondered by they never soothed your fevers, and wondered why they never tied your shoes, and wondered why they never held you gently”.

The second to last panel, for the line “and wondered why” is him working in his room, the two imagined children chattering as he works.

[GUNNER CHANNEL]: "He’s smushed his face against the glass! He smushed his face against the glass and he's blowing his own breath on it!”

hello i would do anything for skip

[id: Digital art of “Skip” from A Starstruck Odyssey. He appears to be a middle aged, mustachioed Japanese man, with several injuries; a bleeding wound on his right brow (viewer’s left), a black eye, also on his right, and a cut on the bridge of his nose. He has his hands and face pressed up against a glass pane and is staring out of the window at the stars, directly towards the viewer. Reflected in the glass you can see an array of stars, tinted from red to blue. He has an awestruck expression, and his breath is frosting the glass in front of his mouth. /end id]

self reflection

[id: Digital art of Skip and Norman Takamori from A Starstruck Odyssey. The viewer looks over their shoulder as they stare at themselves in the mirror - the pupils of the reflection’s eyes are bright green, and he’s looking at himself with a remorseful expression. He is wearing a black jacket and pink t-shirt, with military tags hanging out in front. He has fading injuries on his right temple, the bridge of his nose, and right eye. In the foreground, the back of Norman’s head can be seen, with a small patch of his hair shaved with somewhat messy stitches showing. /end id]

[id: A sketch of the same scene zoomed out, where after serious contemplation Skip kisses his reflection. He is leaning with both hands on the sink, has his right foot popped up behind him, and his eyes closed. Above his head, text reads, “MWAH!” and a small heart pops up next to his foot. /end id]