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fresh meat, page 40
🕑 Added 2019-08-23 07:04:26 +0000 UTCthis page still needs some cleaning up... stress from commissions have been messing with my ability to fall and stay asleep, which has left me waking up later and groggier lately... mainly this conflicts with a deadline that isn't a certain amount of hours after i wake up, just a certain time.
this page was definitely an attempt at tonal damage control. it was probably a frustrating scene for a reader, to see kim botch it so hard, to meet the uncompromising hostility of the staff, after 40 whole pages (@_@)... so there were little bits here or there.
the owl offered kim some sympathy and mentioned that there was no way kim's evaluation would have gone well enough for her to be released. kim lets what he's saying sink in pretty quick and gives up. some of the plot points on this page might seem pointless if considering the reader's feelings isn't a "point."
overall, i feel a LOT got developed all at once in the scene anyway. the severity of kim's suicide attempt and her self-image had yet to be addressed, and neither had her lack of coping skills besides giving up and snapping.
it also developed kim's views of the rest of the patients so far.
the next scene is with the rest of the cast, where this stuff'll start moving forward and hopefully ease the tone as well.
