Sal and Jason, from the archives
Added 2023-06-11 15:13:09 +0000 UTCI was digging through my uncompleted stuff since I was looking for something else specific, but I found this along the way. It's something I didn't finish from... 2014? Yeah, I only colored in the girl, i sorry
My wife likes the Sal/Jason pairing more than I do (probably running off the fumes of It's Walky!), so I don't have much of these two drawn on my own time.
Comments
There should really be an unfinished tag.
Corwin Haught
2023-06-11 20:28:43 +0000 UTCHaha, kinda looks like she's fucking a ghost character from Mike Tyson Mysteries π€£
Moon Goat
2023-06-11 19:20:43 +0000 UTCHonestly, Sal and Jason never quite worked for me even in <i>It's Walky!</i>. Jason being a scold is a fun dynamic when Joyce and Walky and Mike are meaningfully less mature than him, but Jason and Sal as the "parents" of the group meant that what should be a relationship of equals constantly put Sal on the backfoot, which mostly just seemed to make her miserable, and in turn make Jason miserable when she wouldn't change for him. <i>Dumbing of Age</i> fixes a fair deal of this--for starters, it textualizes their power imbalance, and makes Sal an active participant in it. She needs something from Jason, he's not just weirdly glued to her for no reason. It also makes Jason shit on purpose rather than pretending he has a point. Like with Danny, the other Sal love interest that doesn't work, <i>Dumbing of Age</i> starts by deconstructing the worst possible version of this guy, so it can then bring him to his lowest point and force him to change into someone who could plausibly be worth knowing. But the problem is even once Jason goes through this process he's still a bad fit for Sal. For one, they now have this textually awful history as a loadstone around their necks. But also he's just...never gonna be the kind of adventurous personality Sal needs. Danny, for all his dorkiness, is open to new experiences. He can match Sal for interest in music and athleticism. Jason's just not that guy. Even as he gets softer and more self-aware, he's still gonna be kind of snarky and rigid. Ruth is a much better fit for him.
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2023-06-11 16:59:29 +0000 UTCMan, the unrated cut of Take On Me really went in a different direction.
Colton
2023-06-11 15:51:22 +0000 UTC
