#that aren't designed for or are actively hostile to human life and the human spirit

[commsroom]

the association in wolf 359′s sound design between memory and water, and the association between water and hera by extension; the artificial construct of a beach as imagined by someone who has never seen a beach but wants to. what’s expected of hera, the parts of her that were programmed to serve a certain function... “or end up in other places, doing things not because you’re good at them but just because of what you are" ... is so much in conflict with who she is, what she enjoys and feels drawn towards. the natural world, appreciation of music and literature, even spirituality... in one AMA, sarah shachat suggested druid as an rpg class for hera, and i’m fascinated by that. hera’s draw towards the natural world and, broadly, things the text associates with the Human Experience is such an interesting and deliberate choice. that alone feels like such a statement about isolation and loneliness as obstacles to personal growth and self-discovery: to have some innate longing for things she literally was not designed to experience.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #hera w359 #the association of water + memory is its own topic #esp. storms in the sound design. in memoria in change of mind in brave new world #even paradise valley is lyrically About Water #there is something to that. i don't know. if memory is more than the incidental. if memory is the You part. the way you interpret the world #then there is something intrinsically human tied to the concept. and by extension #the conflict between technology and structures and situations #that aren't designed for or are actively hostile to human life and the human spirit #paired with these motifs of. nature and music and all of the connected associations #is certainly. well i think at the very least you can interpret it in the context of capitalist disregard for What Makes Us Human. #all things considered #and i do think that's particularly interesting with hera #the divide between WHO she is and WHAT she is #the things she values and the way she thinks as a person #this draw towards a natural world she has never experienced and wasn't made TO experience #vs. the way she's expected to think by virtue of programming and automated functions and the job she has to perform #she can also be. surprisingly spiritual #i just think it's such an interesting choice. when i have the time and inclination i'd like to expand on this #re: potential options for hera post-canon and why i feel the way i do about them. i think there's some interesting potential thematically #also yes this ties into the way i think you can read her character arc as a trans narrative. of course it does. #oh i thought i'd mentioned this but reading this back. i didn't. so #i also think that even #hera's appreciation of space. the way she observes it and the way she describes it. is in ways both appreciation of art and nature