Day 9 - Team Post-Hogwarts - Art: Stalking Memories

[rsgamesmods]

Team: Post-Hogwarts
Title: Stalking Memories
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: You should have told me it wasn't forever.
Notes: Thanks so much to the Agents, the mods, and everyone in my team. You guys are amazing.
Prompt: 38 - “April is the cruelest month, breeding

Comments

[shutupeccles]

My current manga addiction meant I began reading the panels right to left, but eventually figured out my stuff up when Remus left the store. What a shame that I had to read the first scenes again, and by shame I mean blessing because this is divine.
The subtle differences in shading and expression succinctly communicate the vast changes in Remus' life, the stark absence of love and the light it brought before.
You are glorious.

[mustntgetmy]

Way to break my heart during the first scroll down :(

This is absolutely gorgeous. I love how you can tell (especially in the first two panels where you have the most comparison) just by having older Remus standing still where above younger Remus is in motion, how beaten down Remus has gotten over the years.

I also really love where you decided to end it. Beautiful work.

[huldrejenta]

You said there was going to be cake in this one, but you didn't say that Remus would be having it by himself - ooooooh, this is so heartbreaking!

This is absolutely wonderful.
I especially adore Remus' face and posture when he's reliving his memories. The bowed head by the table says so much about the utter loneliness Remus is going through.

The black-and-white works exceedingly well here, it lets the images speak for themselves and makes it even more powerful.

Amazing!

[_idlewild]

Oh dear lord, by the end of it I was just telling myself, NOPE NOPE NOPE. You have amazing talent my dear and you managed to evoke so many emotions in just a few panels. The photos on the wall, Remus kept them there and didn't take it down. How it must hurt to look at that one frame of himself and Sirius together for all those years. Yaargh I just want them to have lotsa fluffy cuddly times together post-epilogue even though it wouldn't last. AGAIN.

[pavlablack]

Okay, first of all-Remus’s hat! Sirius’s ponytail! Adorable. Simply had to be said.

And now on a more serious note-wow. I love how you portray their closeness in the flashback scenes as a contrast to Remus’s aloneness in the later ones. Like in the bakery, Remus leaning back against Sirius as they decide what to get, and then Remus looking so sad as he glances backward in the next set of panels. And the way the first set opens with Remus and Sirius walking together, perfectly in sync, while the second set ends with Remus walking alone. Then again with the scene at the stove, and the birthday cake scene-it was just such an effective way to show how much Remus feels Sirius’s absence in his life, from the everyday domestic moments to milestones like birthdays. It just broke my heart for him because you could see exactly what he was missing. So sad and beautiful and of course the artwork was gorgeously done as always.