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* AllInTheManual: With the exception of Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'', none of the characters have their names stated in the comics themselves, instead being named by Lindi later on.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Painter and Muse in ''Craters'' were born from human mothers but have skin that cracks like stone, calling their humanity into question.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Red is a personification of lust (both bloodlust and sexual lust).
* AnimalMotifs: Every story features at least one character themed after an animal of some sort (The bland woman and her husband in ''RED'' have wolf motifs, Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'' are have bird and spider motifs respectively, and the sea monstress in ''Fishing Twine'' and ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' is modelled after deep-sea predators). It's {{averted|trope}} in ''Craters'', where Painter and Muse are mainly compared to inanimate objects or abstract forces (symbolising how the cult dehumanises them and treats them as tools).
* AssholeVictim: The Prince in ''Patchwork Canary'', who slices out Nary's vocal cords with his sword and has them made into strings for a lyre because he liked her voice but not the rest of her. It's safe to say that you won't be shedding any tears when Near maims him with her threads and takes Nary's voice back.
* BittersweetEnding: ''Patchwork Canary'' ends this way: Nary finally has the riches and love she yearned for thanks to Near, but only after going through unspeakable pain at the hands of the Prince and having her voice irreversibly altered.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Painter and Muse in ''Craters'' were born from human mothers but have skin that cracks like stone, calling their humanity into question.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Red is a personification of lust (both bloodlust and sexual lust).
* AnimalMotifs: Every story features at least one character themed after an animal of some sort (The bland woman and her husband in ''RED'' have wolf motifs, Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'' are have bird and spider motifs respectively, and the sea monstress in ''Fishing Twine'' and ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' is modelled after deep-sea predators). It's {{averted|trope}} in ''Craters'', where Painter and Muse are mainly compared to inanimate objects or abstract forces (symbolising how the cult dehumanises them and treats them as tools).
* AssholeVictim: The Prince in ''Patchwork Canary'', who slices out Nary's vocal cords with his sword and has them made into strings for a lyre because he liked her voice but not the rest of her. It's safe to say that you won't be shedding any tears when Near maims him with her threads and takes Nary's voice back.
* BittersweetEnding: ''Patchwork Canary'' ends this way: Nary finally has the riches and love she yearned for thanks to Near, but only after going through unspeakable pain at the hands of the Prince and having her voice irreversibly altered.
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* AllInTheManual: With the exception of Nary and Near Nea in ''Patchwork Canary'', none of the characters have their names stated in the comics themselves, instead being named by Lindi later on.
in the analysis that goes along with each comic.
*AmbiguouslyHuman: AmbiguouslyHuman:
** Painter and Muse in ''Craters'' were born from human mothers but have skin that cracks like stone, calling their humanity into question.
** Red is explicitly not human, but what exactly she ''is'' has not been specified.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Red is implied to be a personification of lust (both bloodlust and sexual lust).
* AnimalMotifs:Every Nearly every story features at least one character themed after an animal of some sort (The bland woman and her husband in ''RED'' have wolf motifs, Nary and Near Nea in ''Patchwork Canary'' are have bird and spider motifs respectively, and the sea monstress in ''Fishing Twine'' and ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' is modelled after deep-sea predators). It's {{averted|trope}} in ''Craters'', where Painter and Muse are mainly compared to inanimate objects or abstract forces (symbolising how the cult dehumanises them and treats them as tools).
* AssholeVictim: The Prince in ''Patchwork Canary'', who slices out Nary's vocal cords with his sword and has them made into strings for a lyre because he liked her voice but not the rest of her. It's safe to say that you won't be shedding any tears whenNear Nea maims him with her threads and takes Nary's voice back.
* BittersweetEnding: ''Patchwork Canary'' ends this way: Nary finally has the riches and love she yearned for thanks toNear, Nea, but only after going through unspeakable pain at the hands of the Prince and having her voice irreversibly altered.
*
** Painter and Muse in ''Craters'' were born from human mothers but have skin that cracks like stone, calling their humanity into question.
** Red is explicitly not human, but what exactly she ''is'' has not been specified.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Red is implied to be a personification of lust (both bloodlust and sexual lust).
* AnimalMotifs:
* AssholeVictim: The Prince in ''Patchwork Canary'', who slices out Nary's vocal cords with his sword and has them made into strings for a lyre because he liked her voice but not the rest of her. It's safe to say that you won't be shedding any tears when
* BittersweetEnding: ''Patchwork Canary'' ends this way: Nary finally has the riches and love she yearned for thanks to
* ForcedTransformation: ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' revolves around the fisherwoman from ''Fishing Twine'' discovering that she is turning into the same type of creature as her secret lover. While her reaction is left deliberately ambiguous, Lindi has said that she thinks there's "only one way the story ends", implying that she ultimately fled into the sea to complete her transformation and be with her lover.
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* MouthStitchedShut: Near does this to the Prince before tearing him apart with her strings.
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* MouthStitchedShut: Near Nea does this to the Prince before tearing him apart with her strings.
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* ClosetKey: Red is heavily implied to have been this for the bland woman.
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''Soliloquy Down To Three'' is a DarkFantasy AnthologyComic by Australian artist [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo Lucy "Stillindigo" Wang]], centring around sapphic love and female empowerment, all framed through cryptic encounters and {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s.
There are 6 stories featured in the book:
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''Soliloquy Down To Three'' to 3'' is a DarkFantasy AnthologyComic by Australian artist [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo Lucy "Stillindigo" Wang]], centring around on sapphic love and female empowerment, all framed through cryptic encounters and {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s.
There are6 six stories featured in the book:
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* AnimalMotifs: Every story features at least one character themed after an animal of some sort (The bland woman and her husband in ''RED'' have wolf motifs, Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'' are have bird and spider motifs respectively, and the sea monstress in ''Fishing Twine'' and ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' is modelled after deep-sea predators). It's {{subverted|trope}} in ''Craters'', where Painter and Muse are mainly compared to inanimate objects or abstract forces (symbolising how the cult dehumanises them and treats them as tools).
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* AnimalMotifs: Every story features at least one character themed after an animal of some sort (The bland woman and her husband in ''RED'' have wolf motifs, Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'' are have bird and spider motifs respectively, and the sea monstress in ''Fishing Twine'' and ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' is modelled after deep-sea predators). It's {{subverted|trope}} {{averted|trope}} in ''Craters'', where Painter and Muse are mainly compared to inanimate objects or abstract forces (symbolising how the cult dehumanises them and treats them as tools).
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* MeaningfulName: Nary means "next to nothing", and the character of Nary is a singer living in immense poverty, something the story itself mentions
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* MeaningfulName: Nary means "next to nothing", and the character of Nary is a singer living in immense poverty, something the story itself mentionsmentions.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''It starts with a push.'']]
''Soliloquy Down To Three'' is a DarkFantasy AnthologyComic by Australian artist [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo Lucy "Stillindigo" Wang]], centring around sapphic love and female empowerment, all framed through cryptic encounters and {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s.
There are 6 stories featured in the book:
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1587822311507636226 Fishing Twine]]: A fisherwoman in a secret tryst with a sea monster begins to have second thoughts about their relationship, and is left with a heavy choice.
** [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1588910112798015489 Hook, Line and Sinker]]: As her romance with the monster becomes more intense and passionate, the fisherwoman's worries only intensify, but a shock discovery gives her the chance she needed to finally make up her mind.
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1590723595738943488 RED]]: A bland woman in an unhappy marriage falls in love with a red-haired beauty. But when the woman's husband starts to show interest in her as well, tensions bubble to the surface, and the woman takes drastic measures.
** [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1605217667069399040 The Epilogue]]: After the events of RED, the woman and her lover now wander the woods, leaving blood in their wake.
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1593618794379120640 Patchwork Canary]]: A poor woman sings on the street in order to get by, while a seamstress admires her from afar. After the singer is maimed by a prince, the seamstress comes out of the shadows and offers to help her regain what he stole from her...
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1595795001518456833 Craters]]: Two girls in a bizarre cult find comfort in each other, and attempt to make their lives their own.
The comic is available to purchase digitally on [[https://stillindigo.gumroad.com/l/soldowntothree Gumroad]]. There was also a run of physical copies funded through Website/{{Kickstarter}}, with ''RED - The Epilogue'' and a secret ending to ''Craters'' included as bonuses.
This book was followed up by two more anthologies: ''[=10PM=]'' (released in mid-2023) and ''Heart-Eaters'' (released in February 2024).
'''Due to the shortform nature of these stories, all spoilers will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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!!''Soliloquy Down To Three'' contains examples of:
* AllInTheManual: With the exception of Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'', none of the characters have their names stated in the comics themselves, instead being named by Lindi later on.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Painter and Muse in ''Craters'' were born from human mothers but have skin that cracks like stone, calling their humanity into question.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Red is a personification of lust (both bloodlust and sexual lust).
* AnimalMotifs: Every story features at least one character themed after an animal of some sort (The bland woman and her husband in ''RED'' have wolf motifs, Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'' are have bird and spider motifs respectively, and the sea monstress in ''Fishing Twine'' and ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' is modelled after deep-sea predators). It's {{subverted|trope}} in ''Craters'', where Painter and Muse are mainly compared to inanimate objects or abstract forces (symbolising how the cult dehumanises them and treats them as tools).
* AssholeVictim: The Prince in ''Patchwork Canary'', who slices out Nary's vocal cords with his sword and has them made into strings for a lyre because he liked her voice but not the rest of her. It's safe to say that you won't be shedding any tears when Near maims him with her threads and takes Nary's voice back.
* BittersweetEnding: ''Patchwork Canary'' ends this way: Nary finally has the riches and love she yearned for thanks to Near, but only after going through unspeakable pain at the hands of the Prince and having her voice irreversibly altered.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ''Patchwork Canary'' is basically a more fable-like take on a RapeAndRevenge story, with a beautiful young woman being defiled by an entitled man and setting out to ruin his life and get what she lost back, even though she knows things will never be the same again and it'll take a long time to heal.
* MeaningfulName: Nary means "next to nothing", and the character of Nary is a singer living in immense poverty, something the story itself mentions
--> ''There once was a girl who sang sweetly\\
Known as Nary for there was nothing to her name.''
* MouthStitchedShut: Near does this to the Prince before tearing him apart with her strings.
* NarrativePoems: The book is made up of these, presented in a graphic novel format.
[[caption-width-right:350:''It starts with a push.'']]
''Soliloquy Down To Three'' is a DarkFantasy AnthologyComic by Australian artist [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo Lucy "Stillindigo" Wang]], centring around sapphic love and female empowerment, all framed through cryptic encounters and {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s.
There are 6 stories featured in the book:
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1587822311507636226 Fishing Twine]]: A fisherwoman in a secret tryst with a sea monster begins to have second thoughts about their relationship, and is left with a heavy choice.
** [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1588910112798015489 Hook, Line and Sinker]]: As her romance with the monster becomes more intense and passionate, the fisherwoman's worries only intensify, but a shock discovery gives her the chance she needed to finally make up her mind.
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1590723595738943488 RED]]: A bland woman in an unhappy marriage falls in love with a red-haired beauty. But when the woman's husband starts to show interest in her as well, tensions bubble to the surface, and the woman takes drastic measures.
** [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1605217667069399040 The Epilogue]]: After the events of RED, the woman and her lover now wander the woods, leaving blood in their wake.
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1593618794379120640 Patchwork Canary]]: A poor woman sings on the street in order to get by, while a seamstress admires her from afar. After the singer is maimed by a prince, the seamstress comes out of the shadows and offers to help her regain what he stole from her...
* [[https://twitter.com/stillindigo/status/1595795001518456833 Craters]]: Two girls in a bizarre cult find comfort in each other, and attempt to make their lives their own.
The comic is available to purchase digitally on [[https://stillindigo.gumroad.com/l/soldowntothree Gumroad]]. There was also a run of physical copies funded through Website/{{Kickstarter}}, with ''RED - The Epilogue'' and a secret ending to ''Craters'' included as bonuses.
This book was followed up by two more anthologies: ''[=10PM=]'' (released in mid-2023) and ''Heart-Eaters'' (released in February 2024).
'''Due to the shortform nature of these stories, all spoilers will be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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!!''Soliloquy Down To Three'' contains examples of:
* AllInTheManual: With the exception of Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'', none of the characters have their names stated in the comics themselves, instead being named by Lindi later on.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Painter and Muse in ''Craters'' were born from human mothers but have skin that cracks like stone, calling their humanity into question.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Red is a personification of lust (both bloodlust and sexual lust).
* AnimalMotifs: Every story features at least one character themed after an animal of some sort (The bland woman and her husband in ''RED'' have wolf motifs, Nary and Near in ''Patchwork Canary'' are have bird and spider motifs respectively, and the sea monstress in ''Fishing Twine'' and ''Hook, Line and Sinker'' is modelled after deep-sea predators). It's {{subverted|trope}} in ''Craters'', where Painter and Muse are mainly compared to inanimate objects or abstract forces (symbolising how the cult dehumanises them and treats them as tools).
* AssholeVictim: The Prince in ''Patchwork Canary'', who slices out Nary's vocal cords with his sword and has them made into strings for a lyre because he liked her voice but not the rest of her. It's safe to say that you won't be shedding any tears when Near maims him with her threads and takes Nary's voice back.
* BittersweetEnding: ''Patchwork Canary'' ends this way: Nary finally has the riches and love she yearned for thanks to Near, but only after going through unspeakable pain at the hands of the Prince and having her voice irreversibly altered.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ''Patchwork Canary'' is basically a more fable-like take on a RapeAndRevenge story, with a beautiful young woman being defiled by an entitled man and setting out to ruin his life and get what she lost back, even though she knows things will never be the same again and it'll take a long time to heal.
* MeaningfulName: Nary means "next to nothing", and the character of Nary is a singer living in immense poverty, something the story itself mentions
--> ''There once was a girl who sang sweetly\\
Known as Nary for there was nothing to her name.''
* MouthStitchedShut: Near does this to the Prince before tearing him apart with her strings.
* NarrativePoems: The book is made up of these, presented in a graphic novel format.
