Has this been done yet? Anyways, stay safe out there!

daily sketch 3/9/24 + 3/10/24

two day catch-up, did the sketch late last night and decided to flesh it out tonight!

daily sketch 3/7/24

AHA I KNOW YOUR NAME NOW I CAN REFER TO YOU AS SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHITEASH IN MY HEAD

W - We Could Be Friends by Freelance Whales

I - If I Were To Write The Song… by Cartel

L - La Vie Boheme by RENT Original Broadway Cast

L - Low Rising by The Swell Season

I - If Only by K.T. Tunstall

A - A-Punk by Vampire Weekend

Introduction

I’ve been doing a re-read of the Locked Tomb - although technically it’s a re-listen, because I like the audiobooks - and I stumbled across a particular passage that hadn’t stuck in my memory before that made me rethink my understanding of the origin of Blood of Eden. Ever since Harrow the Ninth and especially since Nona the Ninth, there’s been this common interpretation that the BOE are descendants of the trillionaires who abandoned Earth and that’s why John is at war with them. I’m not so sure that’s true any more. 

Here’s why. In Nona, when the whole business with Crown/Corona infiltrating the barracks kicks off, there’s an interesting exchange between Camilla and We Suffer about the Oversight Committee that includes this statement:

“Hect, what you must understand about Blood of Eden is that we own things in common, we share responsibilities and resources in common. She could have moved these resources at will…but I must make one move at a time. And above all, I must place the safety of…Blood of Eden’s continuity…even above the mission.” (Emphasis mine.)

This took me aback somewhat, because the emphasis on militant communal ownership doesn’t really fit with the idea of “descendants of trillionaires.” I suppose one could say that it’s been ten thousand years, cultures change and drift over time…except that, as I’ll get into later, the BOE seems very very insistent on cultural preservation, so it would be a bit out-of-character if they changed that stance on this one particular issue. 

And that’s what made me think: what if the BOE aren’t the descendants of the trillionaires? What if they’re the descendants of the non-trillionaires on the FTL ships?

Jackie! ✨🖤