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My favorite coworkers who fight 365 days a year are coming back soon

Got a new graphite brush pack! Ils' WIP

Can confirm Benji regularly crashes out on comms

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This scene from RN is soooo funny I had to redraw the screen cap.

Benji is over it already

3 apples tall 🍎

In terms of her living, I've always thought of Ilsa having a place in the Orient Express scene (you know the one with the hand reaching for Ethan 😭) the shock of her being alive and then the jump straight into action would have been awesome and heart pumping. In this scenario the fight scene with Gabriel would have to be restructured in a way where she escapes but Ethan thinks she is dead (the Entity could be tricking him).

Another scene I wished she would appear in that is more plausible is the airport scene. If we HAVE to go with the story of her 'getting back into trouble/the game' might as well full send it with her helping Ethan since they are both technically in the same boat of 'the world coming after them.' (for different reasons). Ilsa often devulges into helping Ethan anyways, despite her loner nature, he is the one person she has a connection with, and in a way it's her buying time with him because the only way they can be 'together' is at work. Doomed coworkers

Ethan and Ilsa go it a pair to the airport, looking for the key. Ethan begrudgingly lets her help. There's kind of this reminiscence/just like old times vibe to it, akin to the opera heist. They have a good back and forth. Then they meet Grace and of course she outsmarts them both in different ways, with her pickpocketing and deception. Meanwhile, at some point Ilsa diverts Jasper and Degas to help Ethan, and then they realize over comms that they just encountered Ilsa Faust, known former MI6 disavaowed agent, wanted for 50 million dollars, who is STILL alive and not killed by mercenaries. At that point they are chasing both of them and that is the plot thread that continues through the whole story. I know McQ had his reasons for where he decided Ilsa fit in the script, but man, I feel like we missed out on a lot.