#auranon

Thank you! <3 I’m so glad you’re enjoying this series!

1) Through season one and two, Matt does wear his glasses all the time. He prefers contacts (because he, like me has an astigmatism, which means contacts are always just a little bit clearer than glasses), and he wore contacts during the Kerberos mission. Obviously he doesn’t still have those, so after escaping he wears glasses all the time. As of the break between s2/s3, he switches back to contacts.

2) So when Matt’s crystals first grew out of control, they were very nearly everywhere. I finally found a good visual reference for what I was picturing, which is the Orchid race from the board game Gloomhaven. This is a cropped version of the character art (you can see the full version on the Cephalofair Games website)

Not the crystal hair, sure, but crystals growing out of his skin all over the place. The vast majority of those crystals withered and shrank as he healed, so what he has left look a lot like little plaques (like you’d see with psoriasis.) The most visible ones are on his face, next to the eye that was affected, but those are also pretty small (the biggest is about the size of his pinky nail.) He has some bigger ones, up to an inch or so long, across his collarbone and chest and down his back along his spine. I’m not a good enough artist to draw it exactly, but hopefully this edit gives you an idea.

Microstory Meme | still accepting

[Thanks for sending this in, Anon! Hope you like it!]

“What are these?” Keith asks, reaching out tentatively to touch the tiny light source. It’s egg-shaped and its golden glow pulses slow and steady, like a heartbeat. 

Shiro’s room is pitch dark, save for a handful of these little things floating near them, giving their shared space on the bed a warmth that doesn’t really come from the standard blue-green lights of the castle. Keith likes them, and it seems Shiro does too.

Shiro holds out some of the snacks he’d managed to grab before they’d left the planetary marketplace, smiling. “I asked the mice if there were any candles on the ship. I think we played charades for about ten minutes before they found these for me.”

Keith quirks an eyebrow, wondering if he should tease Shiro for wanting a candlelight midnight snack, but he’s honestly too charmed to do it. “This is...really nice.” 

The ‘candles’ closest to Shiro pulse a little bit faster as the black paladin smiles. “It was nothing.”

hmmmm…. It’s mostly character design and lack of a XBX sequel instead? I’ve played the original for over 70 hours now and I really like the game, but it wraps up with no loose threads. XBX ends on a cliffhanger. Nuff’ said.

Also a lot of people I’ve been talking to dislike the art direction and character design. As someone who has spent a very large portion of the last few months studying the original, I can understand how the ‘generic anime’ approach could undermine some of the darker themes seen in both previous games.

It’s not like we were told we’re never getting an X sequel? Also X has only been out for less than two years, barely over a year for people outside of Japan. It still has life in it.

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