Comment on It's Gonna Be Okay by SkunkStarlight
This is just so heartwarming. I really like the scene you made here including the expressions you've managed to make.
Thank you so much.
With Shining Silver Starlight, it is my plan to capture and share plenty of heartwarming moments like this. It's a fun series with powerful heroes, strange magic, and exciting battles and adventures, and it is intended to, at first glance, come across as being about defeating enemies and saving the day. That's what's on the surface, but there is an underlying message of friendship, kindness, pain, sadness, empathy, loneliness, redemption, forgiveness, trust, and hope.
In Lydia Story, for instance, Lydia starts the game out already high leveled, with no need to bother with fighting monsters and leveling up. Most of her opponents are simply outmatched, a fact which has left her arrogant and overconfident. On the surface, it's a story about a knight who has to rescue her younger brother Lars from a villain at the top of the tower, but fighting enemies, becoming the strongest, and even saving Lars isn't really the point. Lydia VanVoder, as exceptional a warrior as she is, has some unfortunate character flaws. She has repressed much of her childhood, having concerned herself only with becoming a great knight at all costs, and having had only herself to lean back on for much of her life, she harbors a distrust of people and an intense fear of being vulnerable or having to rely on others.
Lydia Story isn't about proving herself to Dragon or anybody else, though that is still very much a goal of hers. It's really about growing as a person.
And in this deviation, Skunk herself is at a similar point in her life. Her bitter distrust and fear of others led her to try and make the world afraid of her instead. But this never fixed things or made her happy, and instead she has found herself robbed of her freedom and having ultimately gained nothing but remorse for her actions. Some people would be quick to compound her misery by demanding harsh punishment and inhumane treatment in the name of justice, but that sort of heavy-handed approach is simply unnecessary, needlessly cruel, harmful, and dehumanizing. I think showing kindness and compassion to somebody who can't remember or never knew what that feels like, I think it can do wonders.
With Shining Silver Starlight, it is my plan to capture and share plenty of heartwarming moments like this. It's a fun series with powerful heroes, strange magic, and exciting battles and adventures, and it is intended to, at first glance, come across as being about defeating enemies and saving the day. That's what's on the surface, but there is an underlying message of friendship, kindness, pain, sadness, empathy, loneliness, redemption, forgiveness, trust, and hope.
In Lydia Story, for instance, Lydia starts the game out already high leveled, with no need to bother with fighting monsters and leveling up. Most of her opponents are simply outmatched, a fact which has left her arrogant and overconfident. On the surface, it's a story about a knight who has to rescue her younger brother Lars from a villain at the top of the tower, but fighting enemies, becoming the strongest, and even saving Lars isn't really the point. Lydia VanVoder, as exceptional a warrior as she is, has some unfortunate character flaws. She has repressed much of her childhood, having concerned herself only with becoming a great knight at all costs, and having had only herself to lean back on for much of her life, she harbors a distrust of people and an intense fear of being vulnerable or having to rely on others.
Lydia Story isn't about proving herself to Dragon or anybody else, though that is still very much a goal of hers. It's really about growing as a person.
And in this deviation, Skunk herself is at a similar point in her life. Her bitter distrust and fear of others led her to try and make the world afraid of her instead. But this never fixed things or made her happy, and instead she has found herself robbed of her freedom and having ultimately gained nothing but remorse for her actions. Some people would be quick to compound her misery by demanding harsh punishment and inhumane treatment in the name of justice, but that sort of heavy-handed approach is simply unnecessary, needlessly cruel, harmful, and dehumanizing. I think showing kindness and compassion to somebody who can't remember or never knew what that feels like, I think it can do wonders.