Wdym you hate Stratt? Without her you don’t get a story
Omg I love this piece. Grace the hanging man, content with his life but cannot avoid the changes coming; the ship his noose, the rope that binds him to his fate; the blood red stars beside him, Olesya and Yáo the angels haunting him in the background. Eva Stratt, the one who holds it all on her back, the world is literally on her shoulders, the Petrova line on her neck. She will not falter, cannot afford to move, and yet still she glares at us. Eva challenges us, daring us to ask if we could do better, if we could hold her burden for even a fraction of the time.
Eve, the mother of sin, who held the world in her hands and was cursed for not knowing.
Eva, director of the task force, who now holds the world, and still must curse man to save it.
In the end, it always falls on a woman. I could never hate you Eva Stratt
[ID: Planet Earth is centered, the weight on the shoulders of the hunched figure of Eva Stratt, her hands raised to grip and balance the large globe. She wears a brown, enveloping coat and her orange-red hair falls over her shoulder, covering all but a slice of her face. One bright red eye is visible in a half-lidded glare. She is crouched on an icy plane, completely frozen mountain peaks rising to either side. Above the mountains and behind the Earth/rest of the image is the darkness of space. The dark is dully-flecked with mostly gray stars, only one dot actually bright enough to be called white, near the top. Close by this point, an eight-pointed red star (Sol?) blazes. Three bright red, diamond-shaped stars back sketchy black silhouettes across the center of the image -- two smaller ones back human figures, arms folded over their chests, legs together and pointing inward, the figures angled in mirroring poses. On the left is Captain Yao and on the right is Ilyukhina, her hair streaming back from her head. The much larger central red diamond backs the silhouette of the Hail Mary space ship (wide solar array crossing at the top; three 'legs' of the living module and mechanisms of the ship, which are almost twice the array's length, extending down ; overall making a crucifix-like shape). Inverted and overlaying the Hail Mary, primarily, as well as all of the other elements in the image -- being closest to the viewer -- is the figure of Ryland Grace. His feet are by the 'legs' of the Hail Mary in such a way that is he were upright, Yao and Ilyukhina would be at his shoulders. Instead, he 'hangs' down (not subjected to gravity), eyes closed, wearing his glasses, a yellow raincoat, a dull brown striped shirt, jeans, and white sneakers. The points of the bright red star behind Grace and Hail Mary, between those two and the Earth, extend beyond the screen up, left, and right, and the red line is directly behind Grace's unconscious head, thinning until it reaches Eva Stratt, right at the top of her shoulder. The bright red star behind the Hail Mary is between Eva and the Earth, too. /end ID]
