To See My Theories In Action - Blog Posts

I need to build some type of skin 🦷

Hyperfixations collide once again o/ I don’t resonate with Aurora’s latest song as much as with Conflict of the Mind, but it still does make me think of Artemis - or at least of how I see Artemis. I’ve always felt like he used to be an hypersensitive, deeply empathic child, who was conditioned to think of emotions as weaknesses that absolutely must be concealed ; and who had to build himself an armor and become an adult so very soon. But even in the first book, every interaction he has with Angeline shows just how much he stills feels, even though he bottles everything up. And even though he’s a dork and can be very obtuse to how much he hurts people, I’m persuaded that you can’t have the borderline supernatural power he has to predict each and every one of his opponents moves during his schemes, without some very strong ability to truly put himself in their shoes and understand their psyches. Sure, you çan totally argue that he got there through study and logic, but I do like to think that he does have high emotional intelligence - he just doesn’t allow himself to use it a lot.

… whaddya think ?

Anyhoo, I actually don’t like this piece very much, I’m still struggling to find how I want my digital art style to look like, but oh well.