#gestrals

"They will never understand, one day, this place will be full of casinos and everyone will listen to jazz."

There's more than one gestral with dialogue raving about jazz. Monoco's theme, Golgra's theme, and other gestral-adjacent songs in the soundtrack are very jazz influenced. Why are the gestrals so into jazz?

My theory is that real Verso, being a musically-inclined kid growing up in the late 19th century, probably loved jazz. It was the up-and-coming music of that era. Of course he made all his cool gestrals love jazz.

I imagine jazz at the time had the impact that hip-hop has today - it's a new and unique sound that makes grumpy old people wrinkle their nose and say "back in my day, they used to make real music". Imagine Verso coming home with a newly purchased jazz record, carefully tucked between 2 classical records so as not to cause a scene, being intercepted by Renoir arriving home, who just sighs and says "Don't play this while your mother is home, you know what she thinks of this garbage."

As promised, here's the second part of the episode! And to those who had read the first part the moment it came out, I have upgraded the graphics in that part, so enjoy their antics!

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Here are my little contribution to this huge collective piece !

I'm so happy I could draw Sophie for @fernast513's cute Gustave !! (Go check their art it's so good !!)

And the Gestrals were just so funny to draw !!! Also I was so afraid we wouldn't be able to have every musicians represented I took a whole bunch of them x)

I wanted the solo violonist to stand out so I made her a watercolor brush.

I also worked a lot behind the scene, mostly making sure everyone could be credited and laying out all our little messages to the devs and musicians (which I won't display here for obvious reasons). It was tiring but I'm so proud I could help making this real !

Huge thank you to Vyh for the idea and organising every things and to @shinpm for dealing with the printing and making every thing look so cool in the end, and let's not forget @fernast513 for all the little things he did !

And of course thanks to every friend dans le dessin who made their little part. I'm so honnored and humbled by this experience ! ♥

Trente-trois milles merci les amis !

Been bringing it up a lot but I think a common thing people forget when discussing Verso’s ending is that Lumière was gommaged BEFORE not AFTER the choice is made. Picking Verso can’t be genocide because you can’t kill what’s already dead. It’s about letting them stay dead or remaking them.

Then I realised a part of why Renoir kills the expeditioners rather than just letting the nevrons deal with them is that when he does, their chroma returns to Aline rather than being trapped in their bodies

So what if, at one point, trying to assist Aline, Renoir attempted to kill the gestrals so that their chroma would also go to Aline and help with her waning strength

That didn’t end up working, because Gestrals don’t necessarily stay dead, and the reborn gestral is the same person albeit missing memories. In that case when a gestral dies their chroma remains within their body, just dormant until they’re reborn