PANEL
Fox, backing away from the kitchen, realizing that he’s maybe gone too far. Fay is still leaning on the island, hair deschaveled. Pixi is looking between the two of them with crossed arms. Ed is still blissed out.
FOX
I should... um... Go...
FOX
I’m going to take a quick shower before heading to Rai’s.
PANEL
Fox in the shower, soaped up. A shadow is visible on the other side of the glass.
FOX
Pix? I hope you’re ok handling things for now. Jamie should be over as soon as he can.
PANEL
Fox facing the camera, eyes closed. Behind him Fay, naked, is stepping into the shower too.
FOX
I hope I didn’t go too far with Fay. Sometimes It’s really hard-
PANEL
Fox, having turned around, is panicked, yelling, wrapped in his own tail. Fay is leaning back, showing off, or is she leaning in gripping something off panel that’s “really hard?”
FAY
Sure is. Mind if I help?
FOX
Yes! No! I mean- PIXI HELP!
I feel like my mantra for this arc has been "Fox is the POV character, not the hero." I mean, he's REALLY trying to be good, but... It's just so tempting to...
this was actually a lot of fun to draw. Both because I got to do a play on the Psycho shower scene in the first panel, but also getting to sort of try to hide the profile enough to suggest that it -could- be Pixi? Also doing a whole scene in such a small space was an interesting challenge to play around with spacing and POV. I was aiming for a sort of exaggerated POV in the second panel, but I think I would have had to make Fox a lot bigger for it to actually work. >.>
I also struggled with how to present Fay here. Previously the anthroids have debated wether or not Fox is leading them towards a physical interaction, but she -should- know better by now...
It Begins
