#second foundation

The Second Foundation threatens the Nation and all of Creation!

I drew this to celebrate 200 followers and 1 year since I got super invested in Asimov's books!! I love the turns that the plot of Second Foundation takes, and it has some of my favourite scenes in basically all of literature. I hope I managed to capture some of that energy here-

After reading the sequels this scene (end of Second Foundation Part I) hits differently. It feels much sadder and the Mule feels like an even more alienated character, lonelier than before the sequels.

The First Speaker goes on and on and on about how the Mule is a psycopath and a paranoid and crazy and a loser because he is skinny and doesn't have a girlfriend and how everyone is in fact a potential telepath so his powers are not even that great and blah blah blah...

Before reading the sequels it feels as if the First Speaker's words were the Mule's only concern.

Whereas after the sequels... it's like who knows what the Mule is actually thinking? It is not only the Second Foundation and the Mule's psychological problems. But it is also Gaia. If the Union collapses, will Gaia come after him? What if the main purpose of his conquests was actually to keep Gaia at bay? Not from humanity, about which I don't think the Mule cares too much, but from himself?

And this makes the First Speaker seem like a child who is holding a speech to an adult.

The sequels actually make the First Speaker the immature one who has no idea about the big picture and the purpose behind it all.

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