WALKING WITH DINOSAURS

“You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance - you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behaviour and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and “continues” to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.”

— Daniell Koepke

Art trade with a moot on twt (HotrodFebreezeB)

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I’ve been doing a lot of art study atm to try and make my work more epic! Especially colours!

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"On that night... I could have killed you. But I hesitated. And I didn't know why. But... for the first time in years, it made me feel human again."

Kairen

-Purple Hyacinth-

Ok now I can officially go on a mini nerd rant here

"Oh so I'm just invisible now?" - Jazz /j

But jokes aside, that is also very interesting to know! Orion Pax is a very bubbly person, seems to be the type that would have many friends, the one that has that shine no one else can replace, but let's look back on a few things.

Jazz, in his introduction, mentions how, "We miss you like crazy back at home" to Orion. Implying there are other bots at home who know of Orion & miss him, but are they really friends or just friendly coworkers that you wouldn't talk to outside of the mines? Now you could say Jazz is a good friend, but we don't know their actual friendship on a deeper level, all we know is that they're playful & a bit touchy, so what does Jazz know of Orion other than being his crush on the sidelines and a friend to joke around with?

We dont know much else other than that. We see how Orion & D-16's relationship grows, we all ask what is D-16's story, but what is Orion Pax's story? Does he have friends or does he believe deep down he isn't worthy of a friend? Considering he always smiles and appears to be happy, but is probably battling his own insecurities. And I might be thinking too deeply, but what if D-16's comment on calling Orion Insignificant brought back memories for Pax? Yes, Optimus admits he was hurt & said it was silly to be upset over it, but to Orion, it must've hurt more than anything, to know it came from the ONE mech he truly considers a friend.

There's just a lot to uncover with both D-16 & Orion, and I might be thinking too hard cause I am a chaotic mess craving angst, but I can't help it, lol.

This brings a smile to my face tysm

Most of the stuff I draw are timeline ambiguous so you can see it as before the time Jazz arrived. Even if it's after though, Jazz is not so heavily involved in Orion's daily life that he'd have a spot here, similar to how Elita isn't present in Dee's piece.

How I'd describe Jazz and Orion's friendship, they're good friends, Jazz was probably the one that catered to Orion's shenanigans the most, that's why Orion considers him his bestest friend. They sort of grew up together and they were a group, Orion has not met this group of friends/family since he's become an Apprentice. Jazz is here, somehow earning a talk with Nexus and claiming an Apprentice spot, because he wanted to look out for Orion. He did everything to there for Orion.

Orion left his community behind but he's here for a reason, I want to slowly reveal everything in time. Regarding his thoughts during this time, the hurt over "Insignificant" is actually super minor to him. He's no longer hurting, he listened and he switched up his behaviour to do better by D. I've almost yet to be able to write a comic about it urghhhhhh there's so much stuff to do.

I wouldn't say Orion has any of those insecurities, he's just curious and a bit too focused on himself to notice how he makes people feel. He has trouble making friends in the new fancy place and that's why you don't see him with other people. D's not the first person he sneaked up on to say hi and you can imagine why most wouldn't appreciate that.

Worry not tho! He'll make more friends as the story goes on!

Just thinking about how different Season 3 Kieran is from Season 1 Kieran tonight.

Season 1 Kieran would have never shared cake with Lauren or looked that relaxed around her. He saw her as a means to an end, primarily. He saw her lie detecting ability and her detective skills and how useful she is, not much else.

He is also far more tense in Season 1. Less free. Less at peace.

It starts to change, right before the Tower Incident. Kieran and Lauren have a brief moment of vulnerability, but they’re still pretty standoffish. Kieran is less settled because he still cannot see a way out of being an assassin, even though they did a lot of work against the Phantom Scythe.

In Season 3, though, he is more genuine, more open, and he has hope. He has hope that his assassin days are at their end. He had hope that he might be free from the Phantom Scythe. And he has someone to be genuine with, someone who will help him and someone he can be more free with.

Through Season 2, Kieran came to see Lauren as more than what she could do for him and his mission. He came to see her as a person worth protecting, a person worth knowing, a person with whom Kieran could let down his guard with, even if it’s only slightly.

That change is so evident in that scene in episode 148.

In the memory, Kieran has his devil may care mask on, smirking and enjoying the scene in front of him, but not at peace, with no hope, and with no connection. He was only an observer. In the present time, he has connection, he has hope, he is working towards freedom and peace.

He has something to live for.

Lol

Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on