If you've clicked this, welcome to the extended artist's note. I wrote this initially as an exploration of my OC's thoughts on Amara pre-game, since I felt the game neglected this topic. How would she feel about her? Would she hate her for choosing to save an innocent life, despite all that followed? And if she would have done the same, does this mean she must by extension hate herself?

Amara never came back either, and I'm sure part of Razia wonders if she simply never intended to. If maybe her own child didn't matter enough to her to warrant a return. That question of where Amara is and how she's doing haunts her, and Simon is sitting right next to her, watching her suffer for years, with answers to her questions that he can't provide.

This is my first time attempting a comic, and I knew from the start I wanted to try a limited palette. Blue for freedom and power, orange for fire and painful memories. However this also made distinguishing characters somewhat difficult in the last half... lessons have been learned.

The entire comic was actually spawned from the hand-cage sequence in page 4, and essentially built around it. Unfortunately I think this shows, as the subsequent pages are all weaker in pacing and content. I planned the dialogue and decided page count before actually thumbnailing all 8 pages, which was a mistake and affected the pacing. So in essence, every page was thumbnailed and drawn from scratch immediately after the other, rather than thumbnailed altogether to ensure narrative flow... do not do this 💀 as a result, I feel the dialogue is slightly stilted and crammed in/rushed for the last few pages.