binomech's garden

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Severance Major Arcana

Fool: A picture of Helly trying to break out of the Severed floor before she's sent to the break room, lit red by alarm lights as she smashes the door with a fire extinguisher. She doesn't yet know what torture awaits her, and her recklessness is a reminder to Mark of what innocence they beat out of him. Magician: A close-up of Mark's hands sculpting the tree where his outie's wife, Gemma, died, encouraged by the smell of a contraband candle and the subconscious memory of a visit the night before. High Priestess: A drop of black ichor is trickling down the ceiling and onto Irving in one of his dreams, a message from above that to him is an incomprehensible prickle of muscle memory. Empress: Milchick stands in front of a small square mirror, chastising himself for his rich vocabulary and urging himself to grow in increasingly rough tone, recreating the break room punishment. Emperor: Cobel stands before MDR as they return from conspiring with O&D, singing a hymnal to remind them of both the awe the figure of Kier is meant to evoke in them as well as shaming them for the betrayal of their duty. Hierophant: Huang holds up Jame Eagan's bust during a ritual that will allow her to participate in the Wintertide Fellowship, in which she must break a precious possession (in this case, her only toy) to show maturity, as is tradition. Lovers: Innie Mark turns away from Gemma, his outie's wife, after getting her out of the testing floor. Gemma calls for him, desperate, to go home with her, but this is a stranger in her husband's body. A choice is made, it's not one without consequences, the conflict remains. Chariot: A picture of a big iceberg from Milchick's office, a reminder that he keeps in the name of the Empathy reforms he was meant to lead. In this scene, reminded that he has given up his life for the sake of thankless, unempathetic work, he looks at it longingly. Strength: A handwritten fragment of a letter from outie Dylan to innie Dylan, asking him to stay on the Severed floor after he attempted to quit and end his life, encouraging him to find something worth fighting for of his own as he promises to be better for Gretchen, their wife. Hermit: Irving wanders alone in Woe's Hollow, lit up by a torch in the dark and frigid night. He's trying to figure out what exactly is off about Helly and warn the team, but in his night walk he gets lost, almost freezes to death. Wheel of Fortune: The second switch used to activate the Overtime Contingency, just pulled by Dylan; with this action, the remaining innies are activated on the outside for the first time, unsure of where they will find themselves but with the hopes that their message will reach someone that will help regardless. Justice: Irving is waterboarding Helena after finding out she has been pretending to be Helly for weeks, trying to negotiate with Milchick to bring Helly back to the body under threats to Helena's life. Milchick eventually acquiesces, at the cost of innie Irving's life. Hanged Man: Gemma slides down to the floor of the testing floor elevator in agony, after successfully escaping but being turned back around by her severed floor innie, Ms. Casey, at Milchick's order. She calls out Mark's name, certain that he must be out there and her attempts to escape aren't futile, but heartbroken at her entrapment. Temperance: Helena Eagan's breakfast, a hard boiled egg neatly cut into six slices, placed on a ritual plate with a child being restrained and sat down by figures dressed in 17th century American settler attire. A bite of a slice is all she eats, and this is still unsatisfying and rebellious to her father, watching her have breakfast, as Kier would eat his eggs raw. Devil: In an act of desperation and profound hatred for her outie, who claimed Helly was not a person and did not have the right to make the decisions over their shared body, Helly prepares a noose to hang herself. She hopes to either harm her outie or kill them both, which would be the only way to free her from existing on the Severed floor that she has a choice over. Tower: Mark starts remembering his innie memories chronologically upon reintegration. Here, he lies in his outie clothing in the conference table where his innie woke up on his first day of work after they underwent severance. Unfortunately for him, both severance and reintegration have consequences. Moon: One of outie Irving's paintings of the hallway that leads to the testing floor. The black oil paint is so thick that one feels like they could drown in it, and the painting is reproduced every night on a caffeine high, a message hoping to reach a dreaming listener. Sun: Innie Dylan is being hugged by his son in the outside world after Milchick triggers the Overtime contingency for the first time. Dylan is shocked at the knowledge that overrides are possible at all, and basking in his son's affection, family he didn't know he had until those twenty seconds that would make all known perks seem meaningless. World: Reintegrated Petey, bleeding profusely from his nose, stands in front of a convenience store, hungry and experiencing a severe stroke. He looks at Mark warmly, a bit confused, perhaps surprised to find his friend from work in this strange outside he only sometimes remembers. He's lit up both red and blue by the ambulance lights, fully reintegrated seconds before his death.