Fun fact: In order to write this, I tried to actually reference the actual Book of Genesis so I could get a good sense of the diction I should be using, but my internet was bad that day, so the pdf wouldn't load, so I gave up and wrote it how I would write a creation story. It's probably better off this way, since, while I often joke about this religion being Fantasy Catholicism(tm), I do want it to have somewhat of its own identity outside of being a thinly-veiled allegory for Christianity, and it's similar enough to the Book of Genesis anyway, without me emulating the diction.

I really wanted to make this room look both overwhelming and hostile, and remarkably empty (for a bedroom) at the same time. I'm not quite sure how well the vibe gets across. I also specifically wrote in my script to make the door seem menacing, like it's looming over this fellow here.

I was not happy with the imagery of the marionette puppet and the chessboard, because to me it felt very cliche and edgy, but I couldn't come up with anything better, and it's definitely very fitting for the circumstances, so I called it a day and figured I could do some more interesting visual literary devices later. I do like how it fits on the composition of this page, though. The page would be very boring without it, and it adds a nice bit of intrigue. Also don't ask me why the black pieces moved first, that was an oopsie.

I would like to formally apologize for the way the text is formatted on this page. I am aware that it is somewhat evil and hard to read and that is 1000% an oopsie on my part. I swear that none of the pages after this are so much of an eye-ache to read lol.

Everyone say hello to the Safe of Plotholes, located on The Page That Should Have Been Two Pages! Whose safe is it? Presumably his father's, but then why would it be so small? How does this fellow know about it? I have no clue. Why is the passkey to the safe just sitting on the table? I did not even consider that. This safe will never show up again, and holds no significance to the rest of the story, but it makes me mad anyways! I literally created it specifically to solve the conundrum of "hey, where did he get all that money?" and it created like twice as many plotholes as it solved.

Not that I think plotholes are a particularly big deal, it's just that I was very, very intentional with all of the elements on the surrounding pages, and the way this is executed is very slapdash and didn't have a lot of thought put into it. There's almost no significane to the imagery on this page; it only serves to get the character from point A to B. And, while there's nothing inherently wrong with that, I think if I'd just sat down and thought about it for like five more minutes I could have done that, and put a little more meaning there, too.

Also, yes, this does mean that I'm not really a "the curtains are just blue" kind of writer/artist. Feel free to read into and analyze as many insignificant-looking details as you want! Even if the interpretation you come up with wasn't strictly what I was intending, it will still make me very happy to see people thoughtfully engaging with my work, as long as it's in good faith.