Also also—love the way you write natural/realistic dialogue. All your dialogue sounds so natural—but—here especially. It was one of the main things that drew me in when I started reading the comic, but can be easy to overlook cuz—by design—you almost don’t even notice it. But that definitely doesn’t mean you should take it for granted
Okay normally I roll my eyes a bit at this kind of analysis but stripping off all the leaves, the parts that actually photosynthesize and support life, and leaving behind only the flower, the part that’s pretty and appealing, when discussing trying to make Mars be normal? I see how it is
I like seeing chloe doing chloe things. tho I thought she was getting thwacked in the face in the second panel
taking this from the yuri angle is kind of interesting. she’s had more sexual tension with pepper and even with clair than with mars. but her relationship with pepper seems more platonic right now, even though they are touchy. she is definitely jealous of the way mars is spending time with achilles, but this page kind of makes it sound like she is bothered specifically that they do kinky stuff together. but I dunno, I still get a strong vibe that they are more like schoolyard bros or whatever, best friends yeah, but bros.
it sounds a lot to me like chloe has been through this before. like she’s been through losing a friend before to the friend finding a partner. and I mean presumably, chloe HAS been through this before, with ares. on some level she def still seems to remember ares. I wonder if that’s part of what’s fueling her anxiety now?
honestly I’m probably overanalyzing all that. she probably just doesn’t want to lose her best friend. that’s scary enough
also, I feel like chloe has a unique dynamic talking to achilles, which I like. instead of it stopping the conversation every time achilles doesn’t understand a metaphor or turn of phrase, she just continues. I feel like she’s not doing it on purpose, but I still like it. he’s just talking, she’s just talking
I’m going to keep rambling now bc I can. I like that chloe doesn’t have a house. she should probably have one. but that kind of feels like a betrayal of her principles. I want her to resist the system, even though I’m not totally sure why she is, or why she should. I also feel like chloe is like a part of nature. like in this page, she so casually interacts with nature in a way we don’t really see other characters do, except mars climbing a tree, or carving the cool S (I think she did that?) nature is her house. and when she does interact with it, she’s making her mark on it, not pussyfooting around it. she’s like a bear, or something. it also plays with the idea that she is more an animal than any of the other animals who all do people things. except maybe peachy. but who tf knows what’s up with peachy.
and this all also speaks to chloe’s feelings about the plate, bc it’s a piece of having a house: maybe something she does actually want, but not under the circumstances clair dictates.
this definitely says more about me than the comic but this is the first time ive thought to myself “wow thats a really shitty thing of chloe to do”. excluding general rudeness and belligerence, everything else i’ve seen of her so far has been, at worst, somewhat emotionally justified – this is emotionally motivated, but not in a way where i feel particularly sorry for her, it’s just kinda cruel to the other two . i love the way this comic shapes its characters, it’s impossible to feel just one way about them
This is fucking heartbreaking. I’m assuming Chloe’s strong aversion to Mars’s proclivities has something to do with the nature of her trauma, even if she doesn’t realize it. Chloe herself seems to take pride in going against the norm/being a rebellious little gremlin, so I want to believe there’s something deeper than being concerned with the “weirdness” of it. And her venting at Achilles about this is like a knife in the gut. :achilles-onedge:
But she is.
Ah. Thank you for the clarification. That really clears things up
Also—Chloe doing the whole “they love me, they love me not” thing while verbally (to an extent) debating the nature of Achilles’/Mars’ relationship
Also also—love the way you write natural/realistic dialogue. All your dialogue sounds so natural—but—here especially. It was one of the main things that drew me in when I started reading the comic, but can be easy to overlook cuz—by design—you almost don’t even notice it. But that definitely doesn’t mean you should take it for granted
Yeah!!! Thats exactly how i felt when i first got into HFHH.
(touching the dirt and rubbing it between my fingers) Hm…Toxic yuri was here…
Why did she circumsize that thang
She ripped bro off (whats next, asking the tree to leave a tip?)
i hope Chloe and Mars can be weird together someday :sailors-valentine:
ill give achilles even this one is fairly easy go over your head like a branch that already out of reach what shes talking about the You Know
when you’ve got your proof but you’re still not satisfied
Okay normally I roll my eyes a bit at this kind of analysis but stripping off all the leaves, the parts that actually photosynthesize and support life, and leaving behind only the flower, the part that’s pretty and appealing, when discussing trying to make Mars be normal? I see how it is
Also she still discards it even after all the changes, and we can see a tiny leaf left behind on the stump still on the branch.
oh so youre JEALOUS…
I like seeing chloe doing chloe things. tho I thought she was getting thwacked in the face in the second panel
taking this from the yuri angle is kind of interesting. she’s had more sexual tension with pepper and even with clair than with mars. but her relationship with pepper seems more platonic right now, even though they are touchy. she is definitely jealous of the way mars is spending time with achilles, but this page kind of makes it sound like she is bothered specifically that they do kinky stuff together. but I dunno, I still get a strong vibe that they are more like schoolyard bros or whatever, best friends yeah, but bros.
it sounds a lot to me like chloe has been through this before. like she’s been through losing a friend before to the friend finding a partner. and I mean presumably, chloe HAS been through this before, with ares. on some level she def still seems to remember ares. I wonder if that’s part of what’s fueling her anxiety now?
honestly I’m probably overanalyzing all that. she probably just doesn’t want to lose her best friend. that’s scary enough
also, I feel like chloe has a unique dynamic talking to achilles, which I like. instead of it stopping the conversation every time achilles doesn’t understand a metaphor or turn of phrase, she just continues. I feel like she’s not doing it on purpose, but I still like it. he’s just talking, she’s just talking
I’m going to keep rambling now bc I can. I like that chloe doesn’t have a house. she should probably have one. but that kind of feels like a betrayal of her principles. I want her to resist the system, even though I’m not totally sure why she is, or why she should. I also feel like chloe is like a part of nature. like in this page, she so casually interacts with nature in a way we don’t really see other characters do, except mars climbing a tree, or carving the cool S (I think she did that?) nature is her house. and when she does interact with it, she’s making her mark on it, not pussyfooting around it. she’s like a bear, or something. it also plays with the idea that she is more an animal than any of the other animals who all do people things. except maybe peachy. but who tf knows what’s up with peachy.
and this all also speaks to chloe’s feelings about the plate, bc it’s a piece of having a house: maybe something she does actually want, but not under the circumstances clair dictates.
this definitely says more about me than the comic but this is the first time ive thought to myself “wow thats a really shitty thing of chloe to do”. excluding general rudeness and belligerence, everything else i’ve seen of her so far has been, at worst, somewhat emotionally justified – this is emotionally motivated, but not in a way where i feel particularly sorry for her, it’s just kinda cruel to the other two . i love the way this comic shapes its characters, it’s impossible to feel just one way about them
This is fucking heartbreaking. I’m assuming Chloe’s strong aversion to Mars’s proclivities has something to do with the nature of her trauma, even if she doesn’t realize it. Chloe herself seems to take pride in going against the norm/being a rebellious little gremlin, so I want to believe there’s something deeper than being concerned with the “weirdness” of it. And her venting at Achilles about this is like a knife in the gut. :achilles-onedge: