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Cinderella - 48 - HD
🕑 Added 2025-05-29 03:00:05 +0000 UTCUnfashionably late means unfashionably alone
As opposed to fashionably alone, a state of being achieved by fashionista introverts throughout the land.
Commentary
I was uncertain how I wanted to represent the guards. Ultimately, what swayed my choice was the simple fact that I wanted an overhead wide shot of an isolated Cinderella Tedd. The mouse-hunting kitty claws of the guards needed to take the form of obvious weapons that would stand out from that angle, and I felt spears were the best option.
I considered how they would logically be dressed, but given the era of clothes were a bit all over the place anyway, I decided the main thing I was worried about was distinguishing them from butlers. Any sort of suit was out, somewhat light armor with helmets were in.
Granted, few things are more terrifying than an old butler with a spear. He might seem gentle and polite, certainly, but I can't imagine an old butler with a spear, or any other weapon, really, who wouldn't know how to use it with deadly efficiency. Fiction has taught me that this is just one of those things one should expect of an experienced butler.
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Comments
Ed Abrams (aka The Superdak)
Case In Point: Walter from Hellsing Ultimate (Abridged is shorter, funnier, and gives you a good dose of Walter in episode 2).
Flux
butlers are always depicted as the peak of professionalism and skill, it is implied they can use anything they are holding perfectly which is definitely a terrifying implication when what they are holding is a weapon
Daryl Sawyer
Yeah, there's no anonymity quite like what you get in a crowd. The two conditions I tend to be most comfortable in is the solitude you get when no one is around, and the solitude you get when there's so many people around nobody can perceive individuals any more.
