Tale of Meredith Wight 3
Ever since starting this reboot, Terra Wight has been one of the characters I’ve been most excited about. The different take on the Wight Family as a whole has a lot of implications on the nature of this timeline. And I’m not going to explain any of that, and instead just say that after only writing a handful of lines of dialogue she’s already become one of my favorite characters to write.
Sorry that this took over a month to make. Designing a new character from scratch with a new art style was pretty tricky for me. I think this style has legs though. I might stick with it for a while and flesh it out.
HUH. WHAT. ARTHUR? BUT.. M..
wait are Sam and Merry just straight siblings then instead of cousins.
As for where Max is/if he even exists… well, I guess we’ll find out.
But: Hi Terra! Nice to meet you! I like you already!
Yup, siblings. It’s been kinda fun skirting around the corners of revealing this. Alaster and Sam had plenty of screen time together without actually revealing the switch. I even was able to slide past the reveal by having Cerene say that Jericho picked up sandwiches for “your folks”.
I mean the consolidation was hinted at with how this limited information was handled, I would say. Sam said her whole family gets ribwiches but Cerene only mentions one set of “folks” when listing who had been in for them.
This is, however kinda the tip of the iceberg when it comes to strategically withheld information, and I kinda picked this story to tell right now because of how much of that ground it cover.
Ohhh, I KNEW I should have read into that line more. Still, it’s interesting to see how Arthur will… BE in this version of events. I can see from the hair that there are at least SOME similarities to where he was left last time around. Also MOM CONFIRMED, we are go for mom. She seems lovely. And I can’t help but notice that that is not a hawaiian print shirt, but the Kuin family symbol.
….Now that I know the Wight kids are siblings though, all I can think of them is them tormenting each other like this:
https://greetingsfromeboncreek.tumblr.com/post/646688178509611008/and-with-this-update-i-get-to-update-my-bingo
Oh hey, I just realized that with this update, I get to update my bingo card! We have a mom character now! (Also Sam did get the ribwich, invalidating that square, we saw several trees and flowers, demon plague is definitely still a thing, and Sigvaldi has made allusions to the old timeline.) I’m considering making a second or new card though- a lot of these squares aren’t as… mm… INSPIRED as they could be, lol. Also like, of course the demon plague isn’t going anywhere and there’s going to be necromancy shenanigans. Why wouldn’t there be, this is Suppression.
https://greetingsfromeboncreek.tumblr.com/post/647585835087167488/march-31st-was-as-my-tumblr-dash-informed-me
*Slides in another fanart/commentary ramble* Happy Easter!
Well that’s certainly a reading I wasn’t expecting. That works really well. Gives follow through to some dead end plot points that don’t completely add up. And to think I was sentences away from pulling something like that off.
But 2010 Deg isn’t 2021 Deg. I don’t think I would have been in a position to pull that kind of story off intentionally back then. This accidental narrative works better than anything I could have done on purpose on this front.
I’d love to hear some of the other theories/headcanon you mentioned having. This has really given me a lot to think about.
Edit:
I keep coming back to what I said and how I said it and feeling insecure in all the ways my vagueness could be taken the wrong way. I guess part of me just feels like the phrase “some of my best friends are ____” is too rotten for me for me to express something stupidly simple that I really could have just said instead of trying to dodge it in ways that sound worse. So let me translate the weird parts of what I said into something less stupid.
I’ve got more trans friends than I had a decade ago. I probably wouldn’t write a trans character without talking to a few trans people and I could to that. You got my thinking that a trans character could be a good fit for this story and considering kicking up some conversations. I held back from say THIS part specifically because I didn’t wanna imply thoughts were plans.
https://greetingsfromeboncreek.tumblr.com/post/648005187616800768/in-my-defense-i-was-literally-asked
Well that came out… WAY longer than I thought it was going to. “Oh, I don’t actually have that much to say about other characters!” I thought. “It’s just going to be all bullet points!” I thought. Oops. In my defense though- you did ask for it. (Also this includes more than just trans headcanons, being a general LGBT writeup lol.) Sorry in advance if it feels a lot like “gender and sexuality for babies”. It’s not that I doubt your intelligence, it’s just that this can be a sensitive topic for a lot of people and I’d much rather start from the top and explain it carefully than risk misinterpretation.
And it’s ok! I totally understood what you meant, and I’m pretty sure I get what you’re feeling. In 2010, I didn’t even know what LGBT meant, let alone interpreting characters through that lens. As a grew up though I met more people and a lot of my friends learned more about themselves (and I did too, even though I’m not trans. It’s nice and builds self confidence, in my opinion, to be given the option of something else and then getting to go “Actually, I think I’m happy where I am, thanks though!”.), so I’ve been putting more consideration of those groups into my readings of different works as I care about them and their representation as much as my own. So it’s less “Oh, some of my best friends are ___!” and more “I want my ___ friends to feel happy and seen!” And I totally get that you don’t have any specific plans- I don’t write these as a “YOU NEED TO DO THIS” sort of thing, just as a “Hey look at all these words I did because I like your webcomic.” Sort of thing.
You’re not kidding, that is a lot. But it was a fascinating read. I’d say that Sam and Arrie is definitely intentional. There’s many reasons why I wrote their relationship as a complete symbiosis where they put a lot of themselves into each other. I can’t wait to get more of their history and dynamic onto page, but beyond a shadow of a doubt it’s possible and expected to read that kind of connection as romantic.
You raised good points with Charlie and Junior… they both have room for self discovery that they deserve the time to do.
As for the rest, I’ll rattle off some quick thoughts that might be a bit loose…
I’m not going to declare anything up front about Narron but as the only unmarried member of the council people do make assumptions.
I’m actually trying to decide if I should bring Mara back or not. This might be playing my hand a bit but… Terra is Mara’s mother. She’s not a character plucked from nowhere in the timeline. So I’m still trying to decide whether to bring in Mara as the 5th Wight kid, or roll her story into the other Wights. Merry’s story even accidently said “brothers and sisters” rather than siblings. She’s only got two sisters if I go with the Mara plan but why would she have no siblings to play with if she had Mara as a little sister? Do I change Mara’s age? Is that even a remotely similar character? (Ok, I’ll stop doing this publicly now…)
As for the little skull as the secondary Wight logo. It was actually a mark for the spell casters of the family. A little “look at me I’m a necromancer” kind of thing. I could definitely see that having developed into a gender role thing in the family over the years, but Max and Arthur’s generation didn’t have any girls.
But to jump out of in comic stuff… I tend not to talk about my “history with the LGBT community” firstly because it doesn’t feel like my story to tell and secondly because that thing I put in quotes was the best way I could come up with to articulate it… and I don’t like how that sounds. But I’ll power through to get to my point.
Back in high school there was a club called “the gay straight alliance” (which I’m not sure was a great name even at the time) that I wasn’t technically a member of, but the venn diagram of that club and my friend group was basically a solid circle. But that friend group was a year ahead of me and graduated ahead of me leaving me with a pretty boring senior year. I’m not great about keeping in touch with people so I don’t know what any of them are doing these days.
And speaking of these days. I’ve got my internet friends with our discord. That community expanded lately. 2020 being 2020 brought internet people together and we’ve got a new discord that’s a reunion of people I haven’t seen in years on top of many friends of friends made over those years.
I’ve always been a high ranking mod on my server, I wasn’t the one directly in charge but I had all the same powers as the server’s owner so I could clean up after him if he did something silly. So on that server it was like having people over to my house. This new server is someone else’s house in that same vein and I’m now a guest, even if many of the people are the same.
So what I’m attempting to articulate here is that in the past I’ve engaged with my LGBT friends in my space but in this new server, I’m much more in their space than my own. I’ve got new LGBT friends, I’ve reunited with people who are in a different place on the self discovery front than when I last saw them.
So it’s still pretty new being in that space. And this is literally my first time talking about the server as anything other than “I reconnected with a bunch of my old internet friends”.
Yeah, I… definitely wrote a mouthful there! Woops! Still, it’s really nice to hear that a lot of what I wrote isn’t completely out of line with how some of the characters were intended. I realize some of them are off the wall, but hey, that’s fan interpretation for you.
I didn’t realize that about the skull symbol! Now that you’ve said it out loud though, it’s way obvious. I guess I just didn’t pick up on that little visual clue the first time around. It happens!
And yeah, I totally get that about Mara. She’d be… an awkward fit nowadays. What’s done with her is totally up to you, but I definitely see why she’s not exactly an option this time around. If she was… it would be an entirely different character. So ehn. No big deal if she has to sit this timeline out.
And yeah, I’ve heard varying comments on “Gay Straight Alliances”, but some people do support the term/that specific type of club because it gives kids that aren’t ready to or cannot come out the ability to interact with and gain support from similar people without necessarily saying anything about themselves. But I digress, lol. I definitely know what you mean about gravitating toward different people- though I can’t say much of my social circle has changed due to the pandemic. I uh. Don’t have a lot of friends in my local area to start with, so all of the ones I do have were already on discord. Whoops! I’m glad you got back in touch, though! It’s always nice to reforge old bonds.
(I finished the headcanon stuff and put it up on my blog and posted it here, but I don’t see the comment? If it’s under approval feel free to delete this, but if not and it just didn’t go through let me know.)
thanks for saying something. it got mistakenly caught by the spam filler of all things.
Can’t really blame the filter, tbh. I do put in a lot of comments and 80% of them contain links to other websites. I bet that looks real suspicious to a spam filter!