tasty-butter

I'm fascinated by how the animators for TADC handle Caine's impossible anatomy so well. There's so much to balance and they've somehow engineered a solution for his expressions to hold during speech.

mom, would you wash my back?

- he's holding Zooble in a way so that their parts don't fall out

- he's not squeezing Gangle so that her fragile ribbons don't get tangled

- he's not putting too much pressure on Ragatha so that she doesn't get ripped apart

- he's only holding Pomni and Jax firmly because their bodies are solid and rubbery

And this scene is right after the torture too. You would think he would be more violent, but no. He wanted to hurt them, not break them.

Caine wanted them to listen. And because they never did, he made them feel what he felt when they poked at his biggest fears and insecurities.

Following the Waking Up In Hospital route, because that’s my favourite :D

After they wake up, Jax has this weird-length patchy beard. They both hate it, but when he’s finally allowed to shave it, Pomni doesn’t recognise him.

It’s Jax who goes looking for her. Pomni can hear weird shouting through the walls for a couple of days beforehand, but when a nurse accidentally leaves her door cracked, she finally recognises the voice and yells back. He finds her room in twelve seconds flat.

Jax’s mobility is significantly worse than Pomni’s, from being bedridden for far longer. His arms improve fairly quickly with manoeuvring the wheelchair, especially when he starts wheeling around with Pomni on his lap.

Before they try solid food again (their stomachs need time to readjust) Jax embellishes all of their blended meals with cocktail umbrellas. Pomni doesn’t know where he gets them from.

It’s only just after she’s showered that Jax can smell Pomni’s scent. He relishes in it until the chemical smell of the hospital takes over again.

Why talk to a therapist when they have their equally as fucked up, trauma-bonded, situationship to talk shit with?

It’s weeks before either of them has the guts to broach the subject of their relationship. They try to kiss and bash noses instead. It’s memorable, if a little painful.

The one time they had physiotherapy together, they trash talked one another the WHOLE time. Their sessions didn’t overlap after that.

They like to make obscure circus-related references around the hospital staff. They have entire conversations in code.

Jax steals a TV from one of the other wards and they spend an entire night wrapped around each other in Pomni’s bed. Pomni considers it their first ‘real’ date, but Jax promises he’ll think of something better.

seriously that would fulfill my life's purpose though, if you actually do it I will never be able to thank you enough

Haha!

Both of those comics actually branched off of the same idea I scrapped a while ago. Technically I wrote the 'snake bite' story first, but I didn't like how it was turning out, so I scrapped it, and it turned into the poison dart idea instead. Just recently I decided to go back and rewrite the snake bite idea into what it is now.