THIS

THIS

Minkowski's entire arc is about structure. Her rigid adherence to protocol is what gets the crew into as many messes as it gets them out of! She's comfortable with what she knows and relies heavily on environments where everything is as good as scripted.

When thinking about autistic Minkowski, I do also love that the conclusion of her story isn't abandoning structure; it's using it. She figures out how to take all of this rigid framework and use it as a tool to get her people home safe. Even more than that, she learns to communicate, even when it means admitting she doesn't understand, because she's found people who won't shame her for not catching a pop culture reference. I love. The her

i have so many feelings about autistic minkowski

no one will ever understand the complicated relationship between a minkowski girl and the mere existence of the dssppm. for the record.

The fact that it would be Eiffel running in to see her, not the other way around.

She sends him into space. She sacrifices her own best method of escape to save him. He sacrifices his to go back and save her. Where in the original finale, Minkowski has to grapple with the fact that she tried and failed to save Eiffel, in this version Eiffel has to deal with the fact that she was right. He didn't save her even when he came back; it made no difference. If he had gone back to Earth, nothing would have changed except the few last words she gets to say to him. For a moment, he thinks she was right all along, that going home would've been the best option. He couldn't have helped her anyway.

But he's wrong. On the Urania, headed back with everyone, Eiffel is the one who takes on the task of reteaching Minkowski who she is. Of course, he's reverent and kind and tells her what a wonderful commander she was, how sharp and determined and headstrong. It takes almost a month before she comes storming in, recordings in hand, demanding to know what he really thinks of her. It takes another few weeks for her to realize she has a husband, because in the chaos of adjusting, Eiffel never told her. By the time she makes her way through all of his logs, they're back on Earth.

Those two are so intertwined, I can't imagine a world in which Eiffel doesn't do everything he can to help her, and it breaks my heart-

Random thought to get thrown out into the void: what if Minkowski had been the one to get memory-wiped instead of Eiffel? What would that change, thematically?

It would lose the punch of the self-centered coward making the final sacrifice that it being Eiffel has. It has a touch of “captain goes down with her ship” about it. We don’t get as much time on her and Hera’s individual relationship as we do with Eiffel and Hera; what would a Minkowski-and-Hera final stand and goodbye look like? It could be interesting from an Eiffel perspective; Minkowski pushed him and taught him so much and now it is time for him to help lead her?

I don’t know. Interesting thing to think about though.

The identify spell (cast without the reflexive indicative.)

character designs,,,,,,,,,,,

So this started off as just one doodle but I guess sometimes when you can’t get a piece of media out of your head you just gotta doodle it All out of your system. So here’s a timeline of Doug Eiffel’s very bad time in orbit around Wolf 359 and beyond. Mostly it was me indulging in floaty space hair and practicing drawing a character uniformly and reliably. I appreciate that most of us seem to agree he is a bun and/or ponytail man.

Bonus: The rest of the crew

ok wolf 359 bingo card has been approved by the council