7.11.2023 (updated 2.6.2024)

Sheezy will never see the old version before I edited in their new ears hehee. This is still one of my favorite pieces from last year. Difficult composition that turned out surprisingly okay in the end~

I mentioned in Morr's ref how Dali and her often take in reject offspring other soari have no interest in, and Morr would infuriate older soari by forcefully taking resources to care for kids that sometimes die anyway. Morr doesn't care what they think though - the way she sees it, they left Dali for dead, so if they can't defend their food from Morr they might as well starve and die then too.

When I describe it like that it sounds almost noble and altruistic. Out of spite but ends justify the means, no? The shades expose themselves in closer inspection of her relationship with Dali, who has remained completely dependent on Morr for most of her life. Not just for food and protection, but socially as well. No wings, no chance to participate in most of the things soari do.
Morr is not only okay with this arrangement, but seems to actively prefer it over any relationship where she isn't in full control. She infantilizes Dali and doesn't allow her to do much under the pretense of safety, and although the intimacy of their relationship is enthusiastically consensual, one can only wonder if Dali truly has had any choice in the matter.
As if it has ever truly been an option for her to refuse Morr's treatment. Good but undeniably unhealthy and obsessed treatment. It reduces them both to their roles of active caretaker and submissive wallflower.

In a better world there'd be alternatives. But post-war Galpas isn't a world like that. Everyone's at least a little messed up there.