One more pre-scheduled post as I continue my whirlwind international tour! I’m in London right now, likely getting ready to attend the BAFTA awards. As I write this two weeks in the past, I’m pretty freaking excited.
Thank you for continuing to read along with this story! This was a fun page to draw – we LOVE a dramatic reveal.
Eris’s shirt is actually an homage to the first drawing I did of the very first incarnation of ‘Alex’, when I was ten years old. She’s… obviously changed a lot in twenty-six years, but there’s been a brunette badass with long hair named Alexis in my roster of OCs ever since this one.
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TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1 (Imogen gathers up her papers and picks up her phone)
Imogen: Yep! Yep, yep, yep! We’re good! Sorry, I wasn’t watching where I was…
Panels 2-4 (It’s Eris, Alex’s ex-girlfriend! She’s standing over Imogen in concern, carrying lots of grocery bags)
Eris: Wait, you’re Alex’s new friend, aren’t you?
Oh! It’s the ex! Hopefully it’ll be a better interaction between Imogen and Eris than what we feared.
OH MY HI ERIS ::BLUSHES LESBIANLY::
In your transcript, you forgot to mention the complete and utter “OH S#!%!!!!” look on Imogen’s face. ^_^;;;
odang
Prediction for my own fun: I bet Eris is going to be way more normal about Imogen than Alex’s friends who could turn Alex throwing away a gum wrapper into a lecture on her inability to commit.
Yeah, it’s been a few in-story months since her last appearance! The only thing she said at that brunch was that she was surprised Alex hadn’t sold the house, which came off as a big commitment for the Alex She Knows. She seems like a pretty emotionally mature person, tho – her text messages to Alex in Chapter 2 indicate she knew it wouldn’t help either of them to do the whole “attempt at reconciliation” thing so soon after the breakup, and she kept her distance to keep things from souring unnecessarily. All this second-hand judgment from mutual friends isn’t the full story, and I would love to hear how Eris feels given all the time that’s passed. 😊 Really looking forward to this conversation between them.
I love when people make thoughtful comments like this, it enriches the experience, like by a lot! I agree that Eris is probably gonna end up being way better than she was painted as by Alex’s friends.
Alex’s friends basically painted Eris as a total goddess, so it’s more the friends who strike me as unwilling to let things go than Eris herself.
Bum bum BUUUUUMMMMMMMMMM
I totally thought this was a meet cute scene for a second, even though Alex is the love interest. Doesn’t help that Eris is very pretty and had the sun shine on her face like that.
Anyway, I’m sure this will be an interesting conversation. It’ll be neat to have a more detailed look on Eris’s side of things.
Meet-cute or meet-the-ex? It can be both! (It really shouldn’t be both! But nobody’s ever thought that the heart was the seat of reason…)
And agreed, I can’t wait for the rest of this chapter
Ehh, I think if this were a meet cute Imogen would probably be blushing or have a more shy looking facial expression here. She looks just plain uncomfortable (and possibly anxious) at the moment. Though I’ve misinterpreted scenes plenty of times before, so I could be wrong.
My thoughts exactly! Didn’t realise it was Eris at first