The doctor: "death is a terrible thing so we should never kill if we can help it"
Wren: "death is a terrible thing so we should be judicious about who we kill"
I love the weird friendship these two have very very much and wish I was better at squeezing it through the toothpaste tube that is my brain so y'all can enjoy it too
vivid image I just had that I will probably not actually draw - the doctor, post-transing-of-humanism, a great monstrosity, looming over someone and speaking frightening and incomprehensible words of Correspondence-dialect
and Rafael, who is still a Little Guy, giving the very terrified someone an apologetic smile before glancing up at the doctor and saying, with a familiar kind of amusement: "English, Lukas."
(it turns out he was just saying hello and asking you if you needed anything)
as a visual for what specific kind of monstrosity he is - Vicar Amelia, but more rattish than wolfish, with more eyes, more limbs, and more tentacles
when speaking to most people, Felix has a silky-smooth voice. they're eloquent. they're charming. they're a society delight.
when speaking to people it's close to, though, its voice is much more throaty, raspy. outwardly emotionless. it's blunt; it wastes no time on flattery or small talk, and gets right to the point. it knows you respect it, and it respects you in turn.
in general: the closer you are with Felix, the less it bothers hiding that it isn't human.
Compare:
They stir their glass. "I do my best to teach them, of course. But there will always be some who can only learn the hard way."
...and contrast:
A pause. "But I do enjoy their company," it admits.
(both are it talking about bohemians)
