WIP senior "Erik"... and I couldn't help myself

[ladybows_fs]

The following painting is pretty much all of my creativity this week. I'm not getting anywhere with anything else, only talking to myself on the couch, while I sip my coffee, about the hypothetical day I get back to work on He's There, and what I will do first, second, and third within a given time frame. The goal is to finish ch11 and ch12 and

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[cloudsinvenice]

Maybe having to heal from that around the same time that he started taking the idea of himself as "Erik" so seriously is partly why he started cutting his face. I still haven't worked that out.

Verrrrry intriguing. I can imagine an accident having unexpected emotional repercussions and getting him into more deliberate forms of injury...

[ladybows_fs]

He has a "thing" about feeling pain for Lily, both of the physical and emotional variety, so he wouldnt feel that an accident like that was meaningless. He could have perhaps wanted a worse injury, though, something to legitimize a mask besides wanting anonymity.