#fantasy-prone-ann

OK SO I GUESS YOU WANT SKETCH GIRL?

( unrelated but Paige is like.... one of the rare human designs i’m actually happy with other than shrignold lol,, I love my clown doll girl ok )

Anyhoo!! Paige was the first of all the teachers and actually one of the only teachers Red directly made himself. That’s why he sings her song during the open mic night Roy was talent scouting at. In fact, her episode is literally a pilot more than it is an official episode.

She is the most close to how she’s meant to be, but obviously still.... very off. Roy’s influence directly contaminates what her theme is, and as long as she’s built on this horrible contradiction to..... art as a concept.  ( psst. it’s capitalism.) She literally cannot do art without spiraling into a fit of self destruction. 

She embodies what’s happening to the show. I mean, she literally does metaphorically in her episode, so I think it fits that her character does too.

She sincerely tries to teach creativity to the main 3, but gets increasingly frustrated by her utter lack of knowledge on the subject and is actually jealous of yellow’s natural artistic talent. She’s supposed to KNOW how to do this, but she just... doesn’t. It’s like a part of her own heart is missing.

But!!  Being made by Red much like Duck was...... she’s actually the nicest and most normal of the teachers. Especially to other teachers. If any of the teachers are having a rough time with their own flaws, she’s the most compassionate. She’s kinda taken on the big sister role because of that. She’s really trying.

Hi! No prob! I kinda answered this before, indirectly? I think? like it was a different gender identity but Um, basically the answer is pretty much the same! unfortunately? lol Since Shrignold and his religion are pretty much.... canonly homophobic I uh Don’t have the highest hopes that he’d be very open minded about trans rights..?  😬 I mean, that’s how I interpret him at least. All the teachers are negative traits in media in my view on it, and Shrignold just so happens to be a super duper important and really bad one.

Which has always been what makes me love him tbh? His flaw is really just ignorance based. He’s indoctrinated into a religious belief that condemns things that are actually really rad. That’s why I made my take on him gay! To sorta say like, hey, his own beliefs are hurting him too, he’s not doing this out of blind hatred, he just really believes in this whole Malcolm thing.

ohh geez ok I hope I didn’t like get you to watch anything you wouldn’t want to watch!

It’s a really dark short, sorry if it was too off putting.  But aaa I’m not.... quite sure what you mean by that question. How does Claire see the girl on the billboard? Or like, why does she see herself as a girl with a different name?

I guess the answer’s pretty similar actually pfft-- She sees her as everything she doesn’t have! She desperately wants to BE Opal, the girl in the burger ad, because the burger ad depicts this perfect little family whose biggest problem is just not knowing what to order from the menu lmao.  

And ya know, there’s sorta this theme of comparing... yourself to media depictions. They all do it. Which is interesting. omg I literally just caught that.