this is entirely gravenrose's fault, i want to say, except it wasn't her fault i've reread MTMTE/LL twice now (and still managed to forget to grab iconable panels both times, it's just mine. gonna have to do that, again
everyone's got a 'bot they probably have inexplicable fondness for and somewhere along the way mine stopped being grimlock and became whirl and i'm beside myself about it
between shiraori and whirl i'm really picking two completely different poles on the "easily misunderstood homicidal vagrant" spectrum as my major character choices, here
god but my longstanding character tic of "face does something funny/wrong/inconsistent with their internal emotional state, all the time" is back with a vengeance