A comic for the tltbb! This was drawn for @ace-and-ranty ‘s fic Undetonated. Read it! You’ll love it!
[Photo ID begins: The first image depicts a digital painting of a spaceship. The spaceship is outlined in whites against a black starry background. The ship is badly damaged with a trail of purple and blue smoke coming from the busted engine. Several pieces of debris float around the ship. A faint blue light emanates from inside the ship. The bottom of the image has the blocked outlined title that says “ Undetonated / Story by Ace-and-Ranty / Art by Melli4uhbees “
The second image depicts a 6 panel comic with a black curving shape splitting the screen with several large white letter “A”s to indicate screaming. The first panel depicts a zoom in of Commander Wake’s eye. She is a light brown skinned woman with red messy hair pulled back into a loose ponytail at her back. She is shown to be sleeping but opens her eyes in surprise with the next panel after it is intersected with a “crash” sound effect. She then sits up. She is shown to be wearing a grey three-quarter sleeve shirt and patching pants tucked into black boots. One arm is bandaged. Her shirt has ridden up slightly to show stretch marks across her stomach. She twists around to get up and her hair falls out of its band. She stands looking confused and surprised before her face falls in annoyance with the final panel. The background is a grey of the inside of the spaceship with a soft blue light emanating.
The third image depicts a comic page with 4 panels. The first panel is of Comm. Wake from the back as she looks down at a broken cryo-chamber containing a shrieking infant Gideon. The baby is very chubby and of the same skin tone as Comm. Wake. She has a small tuft of hair at the top of head. She is partially covered by a blanket.; The front cover of the cryo-chamber is shattered on the floor. There is an upclose shot of the side of the cryo-chamber with a screen that says “Power source compromised. Emergency Ejection initiated.”. In the next panel, Comm. Wake leans down to brush away some of the glass and lid and examines the infant up close. The final panel for the page is a close up of the baby. She is crying and has her small hands balled into fists.
The fourth image depicts a 7 panel comic. The first image is of baby Gideon, face in a firm pout with tears in her eyes, which are a soft golden yellow. The adjacent panels are of a black background, a whitish blue sink faucet dripping and a Comm. Wake with a soft looking expression. The next panel is of baby Gideon resuming her shriek crying. The adjacent panel is of a gushing waterfall and Comm. Wake underneath looking both surprised and fed up. The final panel shows Comm. Wake, with a disgusted and slightly angry facial expression, holding her wet shirt away from her chest. She says “ Reproduction is a plague.”
The fifth image depicts a 5 panel comic. The first panel is Comm. Wake bends down to pick up baby Gideon from the cryo-chamber. As she does so she says, “Fuck’s sake, you’re floppy.” Comm. Wake gently lifts Gideon to her chest. Gideon continues to cry and takes a hold of a handful of Comm. Wake’s hair, as Comm. Wake shifts her in her arms to take the weight off her bandaged wrist. The final panel shows Comm. Wake sitting down with her back to a wall, with Gideon still in her arms. The other side of the wall shows a panel of screens and keyboards for an oxygen and recycled air system. The first screen reads “ O2 Supply Low / Approx. 672 hours of Recyc Air remaining”. The second screen reads “Artificial Gravity functioning 100% capacity”. There is a small emergency oxygen tank, above a vent, next to the screens.
The sixth image depicts Comm. Wake holding up infant Gideon, who has ceased crying for a moment to give another pout. She is still holding onto Comm. Wake’s hair. Comm. Wake has an analytical expression with a hint of irritation. She says “If I break your neck, I will not be sorry.” The background is mostly grey and the two figures are softly backlit by a pale blue light.
The seventh Image depicts a 3 panel comic. The first panel is of Comm. Wake setting Gideon on her lap and began to attempt to remove her shirt. The next panel shows Comm. Wakes back which is covered in a healing burn mark, as she has removed her shirt is now visible. The final panel has Comm. Wake from the collar bones up looking off screen with a tired and vaguely dissociative expression, as she leans her head against the wall behind her. Gideon’s hand can be seen resting on her chest. She is breastfeeding off screen.
The final image depicts a 2 panel comic. The first panel shows from left to right, a storage area, an open panel with pipes and wires connecting to the recyc air station, and a silhouette of Comm. Wake and Gideon. The Storage area contains 3 shelves holding an unlabeled box, a stack of folded fabrics, a first aid kit and a few discarded supplies, an upturned box that’s labeling states that it contains 20 rations, and a stack of 8 ration packs. The shelves appear very empty. The screens on the oxygen station read “o2 Supply Low / Approx. 672 hours of Recyc air remaining” and “ Artificial Gravity functioning at 100% capacity. Comm. Wake is saying “At least you had the goddamn sense to be born fat.” The second panel is divided in half by a curving ark of the command center of the ship. The top half shows empty space and several far away stars and speech from Camm. Wake saying “ You’re gonna need it.” There are 5 backlit screens on the control panel, 4 of which have messages. They read from Left to right “ MAJOR ENGINE DAMAGE DETECTED”, “FUEL SYSTEM MALFUNCTION”, “COMPUTER SYSTEM OFFLINE”, AND “NO SIGNAL / COMMS DOWN”. The remaining screen for navigation has been damaged and is cracked at the bottom and shows several bars of color.]
[Video ID: This is a 53 second animation with 8 animated scenes and additional credits. Read entire transcription below cut.]
[Scene 1: The drawing is of a green, swampy lake with partially submerged trees. The scenery is backlit by a murky yellowish light. The phrase “ I saw the dead small and great” written in yellow rises from the water. A black snake swims between the words and off screen. The scene fades to black with the yellow light source fading last. The song “Murky” by Saint Mesa plays in the background
Scene 2: The background is of another swamp scene, this time showing a partially submerged graveyard, bowing stone statue, and mausoleum. There is a partial view of a headstone in the foreground which the script is partially cut off of the name “ Nonagesimus” so that only the “simus” is visible. The structures are overgrown with moss and a few weeds are growing out of the water surrounding the gravestones. An alligator rests on a concrete outcropping and slides into the water, another second alligator climbs back on top of the outcrop to take the last one’s place. A figure cloaked in black enters the screen from right to left obscuring the background and transitions the screen to scene 3.
:Scene 3. This image is of an American Plantation style mansion that is severely run down and also partially submerged in swamp water. There are more trees in the background and foreground. The biggest in the foreground is covered in moss and has two nooses hanging from a branch covered in moss.The mansion is decrepit with several boarded windows. A window on the second flood of the mansion shows a black silhouette that flickers away leaving an empty backlit window.
Scene 4: This image depicts a drawing of a slightly zoomed out scene similar to the mansion in scene 3 but this time showing an intricate, iron fence with tall concrete, moss stained columns.There is a tall, hand painted sign with a white background and red letters that reads “Is Your Soul Prepared?” turned at an angle. The sign is also moss covered and the paint is dirty and fading. Harrowhark Nonagesimus stands behind the fence, one hand holding onto a bar.. She is a small, brown-skinned woman, dressed in a long black, long-sleeved dress and a black wide brimmed hat. A dark figure rises from the opposite side of the fence and shambles towards Harrowhark.
Scene 5: This image depicts a drawing of the fence from a side view where the bars are not fully visible, except as one solid black line with the concrete column behind them. Harrowhark stands to the right of the fence. Ianthe tridentarius faces her from the left side of the fence, the dirty sign behind her, facing the viewer. She is a tall,extremely pale woman with long blond hair, and a golden skeleton arm. She wears a greyish white sleeveless crop top that cuts off above her navel and a matching grey-ish white floor length skirt. She reaches up towards Harrowhark with the skeleton hand.
Scene 6: This image depicts a close up of Ianthe’s golden skeleton hand reaching through the bars to take Harrowharks’s hand and pull it through to Ianthe’s side of the fence.
Scene 7: This image depicts a drawing of Ianthe, from the bust up,as she leans down and kisses the back of Harrowhark’s knuckles. Ianthe’s eyes are closed and appear quite sunken and bruised purple. Her cheeks are gaunt and her lips are dark greyish blue. She has the appearance of a corpse. As she kisses Harrowhark’s knuckles, a chunk of hair slides from behind her shoulder to her front.
Scene 8: This image depicts a drawing of Ianthe from the bust up, with a view of the sign in the background. The art style is slightly different from the previous animation in that her skin and the shaws that shape it darken and appear to be moving. She is looking up from having just kissed Harrowharks hand and raises her head slowly. Her expression is neutral. Where her face is directly facing the viewer, she opens her eyes and smirks threateningly. Her eyes are a soft purple with cloudy light blue pupils. The screen goes black.
Final Credits: The credits flip through to the beat of the music, with a black screen in between. They are handwritten in a mustard yellow on a black background. The first reads “Based on the fic by BloodlessSmirk on tumblr / link in description”. The seconds reads “animated by Melli4uhbees” . The third credit scene reads “ Characters from The Locked Tomb Trilogy by Tamsyn Muir”. The fourth credits scene reads “ Song used is Murky by Saint Mesa”. The Final Credits read “Created for The TLT Big Band 2021.”]
This is a still image set to gif I made of the same images :)
[Photo ID:In the first image Harrowhark Nonagesimus stands beside a large window on a spaceship, the edge of a red planet is visible in the bottom of the window. Harrowhark is a nervous looking young woman, wearing an oversized tan colored coat, and is fidgeting with her hands.
Second image: Harrowhark Nonagesimus stands in front of red curtains and a golden ballroom. She is a nervous looking young woman in black and white skull face paint. She is wearing a black high neck dress top with bone accents and balck sheer flowing sleeves. She is fidgeting with her hands in front of her in the same exact way as the previous image.]
[Animated Gif ID: The first image is of Harrowhark Nonagesimus. She stands beside a large window on a spaceship, the edge of a red planet is visible in the bottom of the window. Harrowhark is a nervous looking young woman, wearing an oversized tan colored coat, and is fidgeting with her hands. The text above her says “How do you become someone…” The screen glitches in multi-colors and black and white bars to reveal Harrowhark now in full black and white skull face paint, wearing a high necked black dress top with bone accents and sheer flowing sleeves. She has the same nervous expression. The background is of a golden ballroom partially obscured by red curtains. The text now says “you’ve forgotten you ever were?” Her eyes flick to the viewer before the screen glitches back to the original image.]
[Photo ID: Image depicts a drawing of Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus reflected in a framed mirror. Gideon Nav is turned to the side to show off a full-sleeve tattoo. She is a muscular young woman with red hair and yellow eyes, wearing a red tank top and black shorts. She is smirking at the viewer. Her tattoo is of a long sword piercing an open-mouthed skull surrounded by beige-colored chrysanthemums and clouds. Harrowhark is a small young woman, leaning against a wall in the background. She wears a black shirt and dark blue bone accented corset, and wears a pair of bulky black headphones on her head. She has several pieces of jewelry and is pulling at a necklace. She has a light smile on her face.]
[ Photo ID: This image depicts a tattoo design of a longsword piercing an open-mouthed skull through the eye socket. It is surrounded by several beige-colored chrysanthemums. This is all set on a background of grey clouds with a glowing lightsource from behind the skull. Beneath the clouds is a soft blue.]
