Am I reading this wrong or is the concept of being honest with yourself here literally represented as death?
I checked the author’s page and it seems to me the floating skull has nothing to do with death, it’s more like some inner voice of the other character, offering them a counterpoint:
Taking what you’re saying into account, perhaps it’s a representation of the character’s inner demons? Because I think your interpretation here is rather sensible:
‘Talking to your inner self isn’t really that scary, even if it might look like it will be, at first glance.’
‘Challenging or confronting your own inner workings may seem to resemble death, but it actually isn’t.’
Basically yeah, I would say your Jungian Shadow, but thats pretty close to the same idea as ‘your inner demons’.
Its… maybe a little less total than like, wholly integrating the parts of you you don’t want to acknowledge into a cohesive and fully self aware… self…
But it is a good way of showing how starting that process can feel and play out, acknowledging that it can seem scary, but can also proceed without catastrophe.
I checked the author’s page and it seems to me the floating skull has nothing to do with death, it’s more like some inner voice of the other character, offering them a counterpoint:
Well, I mean… a floating skull seems to me to represent death.
Pretty general human cultural phenomenon of a skull representing death.
And… introspection… is portrayed as… talking to it.
Though I guess if there are this many panels of this kind of a set up… the author is likely using this as an established trope…
‘Talking to your inner self isn’t really that scary, even if it might look like it will be, at first glance.’
‘Challenging or confronting your own inner workings may seem to resemble death, but it actually isn’t.’
Taking what you’re saying into account, perhaps it’s a representation of the character’s inner demons? Because I think your interpretation here is rather sensible:
Basically yeah, I would say your Jungian Shadow, but thats pretty close to the same idea as ‘your inner demons’.
Its… maybe a little less total than like, wholly integrating the parts of you you don’t want to acknowledge into a cohesive and fully self aware… self…
But it is a good way of showing how starting that process can feel and play out, acknowledging that it can seem scary, but can also proceed without catastrophe.
deadly earnest truth maybe?