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%title Cover Ideas
Here are the cover ideas for *Mitzvot*. I picked three per, but since that's usually the number of thumbnails you do, if one or more don't speak to you, lemme know, and I'll pull some more ideas. Some also doubtless work for both front and back.
Here are the cover ideas for *Mitzvot*. Some also doubtless work for both front and back.
## Front
I'll admit, I'm very keen on one aspect of the cover in particular. The story follows the slow breakdown of the Ode clade, focusing on True Name as an example. While she has been continuing to strive behind the scenes to accomplish her goals of continuity and growth of the System, she's also started to get incredibly overworked. Her coworker Jonas has been overloading her with more and more tasks, feeding her less and less information, and, shortly after Launch, dumped a piece of information on her that he's now using as leverage to control nearly every aspect of her life. As a result, she's starting to crumble in terms of mental health and her stability, but the clade as a whole seems to be having more problems. End Waking wants to leave, Hammered Silver (the super nice, motherly member) disowns True Name's entire stanza and the entire Bălan clade, etc etc, which leads to the aspect I'm keen on, which is to have the letters of the title start to pixelate (voxelate?) the *characters* (preferably just the Odists) instead of just the environment. I feel it adds to the increasing tension throughout the series that now it's not just the foundations of the world, but of the characters, too.
I'll admit, I'm very keen on one aspect of the cover in particular. The story follows the slow breakdown of the Ode clade, focusing on True Name as an example. While she has been continuing to strive behind the scenes to accomplish her goals of continuity and growth of the System, she's also started to get incredibly overworked. Her coworker Jonas has been overloading her with more and more tasks, feeding her less and less information, and, shortly after Launch, dumped a piece of information on her that he's now using as leverage to control nearly every aspect of her life. As a result, she's starting to crumble in terms of mental health and her stability, but the clade as a whole seems to be having more problems. The bit I'm keen on is to have the letters of the title start to pixelate (voxelate?) the *characters* (preferably only the Odists) instead of just the environment. I feel it adds to the increasing tension throughout the series that now it's not just the foundations of the world, but of the characters, too.
That said I'm not a visual creator type person at *all* haha, so I absolutely defer to you on this. If you have specific ideas on how to execute this, cool! And if it just isn't going to work, oh well~
* <a href="#1" name="r1">#1</a> --- Jonas seems to have gotten all that he wanted out of True Name, so the inciting incident of the story is him attempting to assassinate her. Her final instance is rescued by Ioan who brings her to the lake that has featured in other stories and on the back cover of *Nevi'im* to get away from the assassin. Realizing just how totally fucked she is, she's overcome by emotion and wades out into the water until it's nearly up to her hips and screams in frustration. I picked this one as I feel that it continues on from the overwhelming emotion on the cover of *Nevi'im* and also allows for further messing with the shape of the letters. Still, few more ideas below!
* <a href="#2" name="r2">#2</a> --- True Name agrees to let May merge down with her for the first time in 245 years. They kneel together on a bed, facing each other while True Name struggles to accept that many memories, May trying to be comforting as she can, while Ioan watches from the side. I like this because the rest of the book is more focused on emotions and how they tie in with memories, which is way more sedate than assassination attempts (plus, double the Odists that could be cut into by the letters). This would also work for a back cover, I figure.
For the back, I still like the idea of having a door somewhere in the image. Nice to have, but not required.
* <a href="#1" name="r1">#1</a> --- Jonas seems to have gotten all that he wanted out of True Name, so the inciting incident of the story is him attempting to assassinate her. Her final instance is rescued by Ioan who brings her to the lake that has featured in other stories and on the back cover of *Nevi'im* to get away from the assassin. Realizing just how totally fucked she is, she's overcome by emotion and wades out into the water until it's nearly up to her hips and screams in frustration. I picked this one as I feel that it continues on from the overwhelming emotion on the cover of *Nevi'im* and also allows for further messing with the shape of the letters.
* <a href="#2" name="r2">#2</a> --- True Name agrees to let May merge down with her for the first time in 245 years. They kneel together on a bed, facing each other while True Name struggles to accept that many memories, May trying to be comforting as she can, while Ioan watches from the side. I like this because the rest of the book is more focused on emotions and how they tie in with memories, which is way more sedate than assassination attempts (plus, double the Odists that could be cut into by the letters).
* <a href="#3" name="r3">#3</a> --- True Name has been spending in the woods around the lake with her newfound desire for solitude, getting away from May and Ioan. What none of them realize, however, is that the sim isn't as private as expected, and one of Jonas's cronies (and True Name's ex), Zacharias, comes to visit and taunt her. True Name panics and messages May and Ioan, who arrive to confront Zacharias. May tries to taunt him in turn and he gets frustrated enough that he slaps her across the face. There's quite a bit to the scene, some of which may make for cover material.
## Back
I still like the idea of having a door somewhere in the image on the back. Nice to have, but not required.
* <a href="#4" name="r4">#4</a> --- Ioan talks with Jonas twice --- once on the balcony of eir home with Jonas sitting on a deck chair and Ioan standing nearby (it's winter, so probably snowy out), once in a pub. Both times, Jonas is insufferably smug and Ioan is frustrated/upset.
* <a href="#5" name="r5">#5</a> --- After the merge, True Name has picked up May's affectionate streak and gets all cozy on Ioan a couple of times (a few times as Sasha; see the characters section below). The mood is kiiind of cuddly but also super awkward because neither of them know what to do about it at all given a) their fraught history together with her as True Name, but also b) her having May's memories of being in a relationship with Ioan
* <a href="#6" name="r6">#6</a> --- May gives a monologue at one point, looking drunken and melancholic in a bar-setting on a stage
* <a href="#7" name="r7">#7</a> --- To go with #1 but less actiony, True Name and Ioan meeting for coffee that day. Ioan's eir usual natty self, but True Name's a real mess. They usually meet at a coffee shop which has an L-shaped couch in the corner, and they each sit on a branch of it to work.
## Characters
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"So no 'I deserved that one'?"
She walked to the edge of the stage and sat on it, kicking her feet idly. "It was not in there, no, but I think I will keep it."
### <a name="7" href="r7">#7</a>
Ioan was surprised by just how wrung out True Name looked during their coffee date. The skunk's blouse was wrinkled, her normally orderly fur mussed atop her head, and her whiskers all abristle. She looked as though she'd not slept for a few days and certainly not changed outfits in at least as long.
All the same, her arrival was much the same as all the others had been, with her smiling to em, ordering her coffee, and joining em on the couch in order to set up a cone of silence.
"Good morning, Mx. Bălan. I trust you are well?"
"Uh, I'm fine, I guess." Ey frowned, continuing carefully, "What about you, though? You look...well, terrible."
The skunk's smile faltered, betraying the exhaustion that plainly lay beneath. With another blink, the cone's ACLs changed to opaque it from the outside. "I came in a rush, my dear, I apologize for my appearance."
"You don't need to apologize, True Name. I'm just worried. Lots of Secession Day preparations?"
"Of a sort, yes. Things have been rather stressful the last few days." She laughed, shook her head, and added, "Well, more than a little. I have been stretched very thin and am...struggling."
"Struggling?"
The skunk's eyes darted around the coffee shop, scanning each face within at least twice. "I am not comfortable expanding on that at the moment."