#side stuff

“And what do I have to do with such a suspiciously named fruit?”

There are no secrets with Macaque sooo choose your words wisely.

If G1 Blitzwing had the 3 faces , TFA Optimus would enjoy listening to each one of them reading to him, depending on the story they were reading , it could be quite wonderful.

It doesn't help that a fair few others on board have pleasant voices and ever since he's said he likes being read to they keep offering to read to him. (Hasn't happened in the many parts I've written but I like to imagine him cuddled up next to chosen con at the time and listening to the soft tones of their voice.

Just like this

Excited to announce that Button Boy is getting it's own website!! AND I'm remastering the old pages to be more like a true comic! Here's a teaser for the first page!

I am very glad to hear this!

Hopefully this comprehensive sheet helps with explaining some things. Ultimately, tom is an enigmatic creature… a man of mystery

At one point about halfway through the story I was still toying off and on with the idea of having it turn supernatural at the end - with Tom, Anja, and the pub crew secretly being wolves (the original ending had them turning one final time).  There are still small hints in the narrative that point to where it was going, including Emma’s side story, which was far more important in the original.

When Tom took Anja to visit his sister she often mentioned there being “others” with Anja that she could see.  She claimed they were always with her but that they stayed hidden.  The “others” were originally intended to be the wolf spirits inside her and Tom, and likely the rest of the pack, since wolves tend to stay together (in this case it was a spiritual connectedness, not physically having Ewan and Chris follow her around everywhere :P)

When I dropped the mystical subplot the “others” became Anja’s two sides - her original self before the brain injury, and her slightly different self after - both of which Emma could sense as separate presences.  It was also Emma’s semi-clairvoyant ability to see/sense what was coming...her reference to Anja and Tom’s three future children, who were “with” Anja even though they weren’t born yet.

And by extension, Tom himself was one of the “others” she could see/sense inside Anja, since they were mated and bonded for life.  So when Emma accidentally saw Tom in the hallway, she assumed he was a specter of that entity.  It was only when she slipped back into something close to actual reality that his presence there scared her and she believed him to be the ghost of her dead brother.  She also thought Pop was a future ghost of Tom as an older man, or what he would have been had he survived childhood.