Wapsi Square Forum

Boxilar wrote: Lily is quite possibly the most tortured character in Wapsi Square. Even the Golem Girls were able to achieve some amount of Justice and have made peace with their past. Lily only recently got anything resembling a just resolution and even then, she is mostly someone who has spent her unlife trying to save others from the darkness she lives in. Except that now, she has a chance to live in the light, and it's been so long since she felt hope that it actually hurts.

Sidhekin wrote:Well, I guess she needed a place that could withstand paranormal stomping and/or tantrums.

Drakkenmensch wrote:When you've lived in a hopeless existence for so long with glimmers of hope torn away from you every time like a cruel prank, you learn to fear those glimmers because you already expect the pain that follows immediately after you reach for it. Even a genuine moment of joy becomes painful because you keep expecting the dagger through the heart that life has taught you always follows.

Sidhekin wrote:Well, I guess she needed a place that could withstand paranormal stomping and/or tantrums.

Drakkenmensch wrote:

Boxilar wrote: Lily is quite possibly the most tortured character in Wapsi Square. Even the Golem Girls were able to achieve some amount of Justice and have made peace with their past. Lily only recently got anything resembling a just resolution and even then, she is mostly someone who has spent her unlife trying to save others from the darkness she lives in. Except that now, she has a chance to live in the light, and it's been so long since she felt hope that it actually hurts.

When you've lived in a hopeless existence for so long with glimmers of hope torn away from you every time like a cruel prank, you learn to fear those glimmers because you already expect the pain that follows immediately after you reach for it. Even a genuine moment of joy becomes painful because you keep expecting the dagger through the heart that life has taught you always follows.

It will take a lot of happiness for Lily to unlearn that joy always leads to pain. Castela hugs are a good starting point!

AnotherFairportfan wrote: The number of suicides after depressives get medication has been described as a side effect of the meds, but it seems more as if it's a sign that the meds are working properly - before the meds, the patient was undergoing suicidal ideation' but was too deeply depressed to actually take action.

As the meds begin to lift the part of depression that has a direct physical cause, they begin to gain the energy to act ... but the purely psychological component is still there.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:As the meds begin to lift the part of depression that has a direct physical cause, they begin to gain the energy to act ... but the purely psychological component is still there.

ShirouZhiwu wrote:I see Pickle's eyes are more human like than they have been. More like her mama's.

This looks like the basement to Katherine's place. I have only limited exposure to city type buildings, Minneapolis or otherwise (country person), so it's possible we have a repurposed industrial building. Not too uncommon these days. Whether it is a hole in the wall or city rustic may depend on your personality.

scantrontb wrote:

ShirouZhiwu wrote:I see Pickle's eyes are more human like than they have been. More like her mama's.

This looks like the basement to Katherine's place. I have only limited exposure to city type buildings, Minneapolis or otherwise (country person), so it's possible we have a repurposed industrial building. Not too uncommon these days. Whether it is a hole in the wall or city rustic may depend on your personality.

never thought of that... i know that i drive past "The Old Rainier Brewery" here in downtown Seattle, every day to and from work, and they did basically the same thing, part of it got turned into shared project rental spaces (garage band practice rooms, etc...), and partially a storage locker facility, i think they did some other stuff with it too, but those are the only ones i notice from the freeway...

ShirouZhiwu wrote:I understand there were a lot of bullet holes in that "R" when they took it down for refurbishing. A sign of Seattle's complex nature.

scantrontb wrote:Total Non-Sequitur, but... What kind of construction is that wall? to me it looks like it is either a poured concrete wall that the little "button" looking things in the grid-like pattern are from where the form boards were held in place to the re-bar inside the wall and the seams between the individual boards are the lines we see... either that or they are padded panels that have the buttons where they sewed the front surface to the backing board inside it, to prevent the stuffing from falling to the bottom of the panel...