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Zk | Cover Ideas

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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.

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Front

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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.

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Here are the cover ideas for Mitzvot. Some also doubtless work for both front and back.

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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~

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For the back, I still like the idea of having a door somewhere in the image. Nice to have, but not required.

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Back

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I still like the idea of having a door somewhere in the image on the back. Nice to have, but not required.

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Characters

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“The movement itself was,” she said. “Though hitting my tail was not.”

“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.”

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#7

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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.

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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.

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“Good morning, Mx. Bălan. I trust you are well?”

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“Uh, I’m fine, I guess.” Ey frowned, continuing carefully, “What about you, though? You look…well, terrible.”

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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.”

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“You don’t need to apologize, True Name. I’m just worried. Lots of Secession Day preparations?”

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“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.”

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“Struggling?”

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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.”