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Aydee: "Let me pick you up!"
Brandon: "Uhh okay. Just once. Don't drop me."
Aydee: "I would never~"

21.8.2023

Black liner and watercolor pencils on A3 paper / Paint Tool SAI

I've recently been exploring how the mayjin organization was in many ways a family for those in it partially due to societal factors around cybernetics. Although body modification is commonplace in Tharinas, there's a social distinction between high tech disability aids, cool legs that run fast and using so many augments your remaining organic material wouldn't resemble a body by themselves. The way heavy augmentation creates a dependent relationship between the user and whoever provides and maintains their augments is seen as exploitative due to the history of cybernetics in Tharinas, and because augments are used as means of control in many worlds even now.

Since the Mayjin was founded by an android, two full cyborgs and their technician, it was a natural consequence that most of their later members would be heavily augmented too. The organization unintentionally became a type of family of cyborgs.

And then there's Brandon, who was the first non-member to live with them. He was there specifically to study, and to avoid the fate of one previous Blessed One by starting his long life in Tharinas in a secure environment. Being surrounded by these professional, highly efficient people made him feel like he needed to earn his place, so early on Brandon was very concerned with the way he was perceived. You could say he took it way more seriously than everyone around him did.

So of course Aydee found it absolutely hilarious to make the boy think he's being ridiculed, while actually showing him that most people there are totally chill and he should stop worrying about it so much. Emphasis on "most people". Brandon had mostly interacted with Nicole and Zero up to that point, aka the two with absolutely no chill whatsoever. It's like you can see where his preconceptions came from.

Enough me rambling.

I've done some more traditional art recently. Just saying "fuck it", letting the mistakes exist and finishing the piece anyway has been good for my mental health and in general it's just good for me to drag my standards low enough that making silly stuff like this isn't actively stressful.

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Aydee: "Let me pick you up!"
Brandon: "Uhh okay. Just once. Don't drop me."
Aydee: "I would never~"

21.8.2023

Black liner and watercolor pencils on A3 paper / Paint Tool SAI

I've recently been exploring how the mayjin organization was in many ways a family for those in it partially due to societal factors around cybernetics. Although body modification is commonplace in Tharinas, there's a social distinction between high tech disability aids, cool legs that run fast and using so many augments your remaining organic material wouldn't resemble a body by themselves. The way heavy augmentation creates a dependent relationship between the user and whoever provides and maintains their augments is seen as exploitative due to the history of cybernetics in Tharinas, and because augments are used as means of control in many worlds even now.

Since the Mayjin was founded by an android, two full cyborgs and their technician, it was a natural consequence that most of their later members would be heavily augmented too. The organization unintentionally became a type of family of cyborgs.

And then there's Brandon, who was the first non-member to live with them. He was there specifically to study, and to avoid the fate of one previous Blessed One by starting his long life in Tharinas in a secure environment. Being surrounded by these professional, highly efficient people made him feel like he needed to earn his place, so early on Brandon was very concerned with the way he was perceived. You could say he took it way more seriously than everyone around him did.

So of course Aydee found it absolutely hilarious to make the boy think he's being ridiculed, while actually showing him that most people there are totally chill and he should stop worrying about it so much. Emphasis on "most people". Brandon had mostly interacted with Nicole and Zero up to that point, aka the two with absolutely no chill whatsoever. It's like you can see where his preconceptions came from.

Enough me rambling.

I've done some more traditional art recently. Just saying "fuck it", letting the mistakes exist and finishing the piece anyway has been good for my mental health and in general it's just good for me to drag my standards low enough that making silly stuff like this isn't actively stressful.