The Shower Scene
Currently this exists as "Clean," a missing scene from "Uprising." And I've been driving Empress nuts by calling it the Malcolm Merlyn Shower Scene. ;)
(it's not that!)
Here's how this all came about...
Empress and I were discussing Roy and Malcolm's fortuitous appearance at Thea's loft just as Chase (or Shane or Chance or wtfhisnameis) has a knife to her throat. And how they happen to be dressed in their armor/costumes. In fact, we posted a little speculatory snippet over on the Bloodravens Journal.
I said Malcolm probably got geared up and went out on patrol and suchlike, securing the area against the League assassins, making sure they weren't discovered. Perhaps shaking down some unwilling informants in the area. So he was preparing to go out when he came to Thea's rescue.
Empress said he probably goes home and lounges around in that gear. After all, who is going to come visit him that doesn't know he's the Dark Archer, anyway? (Well, I hope he doesn't open the door for pizza delivery dressed like that!) I was thinking... no, who would lounge around in leather armor? When he comes home, he takes a shower and gets dressed.
Then I was noticing how Malcolm has been attired around Thea. At 'home,' it has been casual clothes, or his ubiquitous suits. During training, he wears his gi. He doesn't wear his leather around her, though. The only times he has done that were when he was rescuing her at the train station, and then when he was preparing to go slay Brick.
In "Uprising," he confronts Brick, in full Dark Archer regalia. In his next scene, he goes to talk to Thea at her place, but now he is wearing a neat suit, and looking clean and well-groomed. So naturally, I said, he went home first and took a shower.
Well... this gives some people... thoughts. :X
No, not me. I'm asexual and pure as the driven snow. (If the snow is particularly sadistic and bloodthirsty, perhaps :X) But my mind kept coming back to this transitional scene. And I began to realize... it is hugely pivotal for Malcolm.
He's just confronted the murderer of his wife. He's finally laid her to rest; he's finally able to, himself, let go of it. After everything he's done up to this point... he's done. He is, at last, free to move on with his life.
So I kept having visions of this scene. (I'm not promising anything, but I hope to be able to do an illustration.) I couldn't shake it, so it was destined to be created. I wrote the scene, and now... well, we'll see what happens.
(it's not that!)
Here's how this all came about...
Empress and I were discussing Roy and Malcolm's fortuitous appearance at Thea's loft just as Chase (or Shane or Chance or wtfhisnameis) has a knife to her throat. And how they happen to be dressed in their armor/costumes. In fact, we posted a little speculatory snippet over on the Bloodravens Journal.
I said Malcolm probably got geared up and went out on patrol and suchlike, securing the area against the League assassins, making sure they weren't discovered. Perhaps shaking down some unwilling informants in the area. So he was preparing to go out when he came to Thea's rescue.
Empress said he probably goes home and lounges around in that gear. After all, who is going to come visit him that doesn't know he's the Dark Archer, anyway? (Well, I hope he doesn't open the door for pizza delivery dressed like that!) I was thinking... no, who would lounge around in leather armor? When he comes home, he takes a shower and gets dressed.
Then I was noticing how Malcolm has been attired around Thea. At 'home,' it has been casual clothes, or his ubiquitous suits. During training, he wears his gi. He doesn't wear his leather around her, though. The only times he has done that were when he was rescuing her at the train station, and then when he was preparing to go slay Brick.
In "Uprising," he confronts Brick, in full Dark Archer regalia. In his next scene, he goes to talk to Thea at her place, but now he is wearing a neat suit, and looking clean and well-groomed. So naturally, I said, he went home first and took a shower.
Well... this gives some people... thoughts. :X
No, not me. I'm asexual and pure as the driven snow. (If the snow is particularly sadistic and bloodthirsty, perhaps :X) But my mind kept coming back to this transitional scene. And I began to realize... it is hugely pivotal for Malcolm.
He's just confronted the murderer of his wife. He's finally laid her to rest; he's finally able to, himself, let go of it. After everything he's done up to this point... he's done. He is, at last, free to move on with his life.
So I kept having visions of this scene. (I'm not promising anything, but I hope to be able to do an illustration.) I couldn't shake it, so it was destined to be created. I wrote the scene, and now... well, we'll see what happens.