Scrap Baby! Final part of my Halloween collab art! Genuinely love this drawing, had so much fun making my Elizabeth design, as well as drawing the Scraps for the first time ever!

i can't believe i havent posted this absolute ICON in my tumblr yet

thinking about Michael’s lack of autonomy.

He is constantly surrounded by motifs that he is not in full control of his own destiny. He looks like his father and is cursed to follow in his bloody footsteps. He served as a useful tool to William, going down to the sister location bunker only to get his organs scooped out to be used as a skin suit by a robot. He doesn’t ever catch a break. Even in his “afterlife” he is bound and determined to do something to help the situation he think he caused.

Michael Afton, like we see in his own reflection, is a shadow. A shadow in the narrative of the series. He isn’t even given a chance to speak 90% of the time. What we do hear of him is bleak. He’s worn down. He’s tired. And yet he keeps going.

I used to not like the decision for Michael to stay behind in the burning building of pizza simulator. But after reflection it really does feel like Michael’s biggest choice of autonomy in the whole series.

He didn’t mean to kill his brother.

He likely didn’t want to do his father’s bidding but felt compelled to.

He likely also felt bound (and responsible) to “undo” the damage done. (Why would someone keep coming BACK to a place where he knew he could be KILLED?? For a bad paycheck? I don’t think so.)

Michael chose to stay because it was the first real CHOICE he’s made in a very long time.

He could’ve dragged his decaying corpse behind out of that building. We know this.