This was Thursday's update from last week... which I never published! Whoops.
As some of you might know, I got quite sick. I was sick for the two weeks leading to launch, went to clinics and cleared the infection that was causing pain. But then things weren't right still, so after I launched this, I went to the ER. I can confirm that this last week+ I've been feeling pretty great, and today got results on a test so it looks like things are good!
However that means things I was doing before this launched were pushed back and got accomplished over the last week and this week. But the wait is over to see more of what's coming in the booster pack!
For the Future Family, I decided to make it a mixed Mexican and Chinese home. I don't know if this will always necessarily matter-- meaning the ethnicities of the family members might not always match up, a Brandi-Cinderella kind of way. But here, I was trying to make it somewhat true! Obviously I went in a new direction from the original set of bomb victims the Future Family is in the main deck-- but I think I did a number of clever things! The Daughter of Future is a victim of circumstance. She is meant to be a girl whose future is decided, to be a mother, as her mother was. I made our little girl with flowers and her little Mexican doll in full color, and made a timeline arrow from the pocket watch that signifies my suit of Future which sees her a bit older and older still, growing less saturated and more colorless over time. The doll, the cat and kitten, and the baby pram all leading to a final pregnant self. But the timeline arrow does diverge halfway through, petering out as it tries another passage. Here, the vibrancy is focused on where the possibility lies, almost the opposite of what happens with her mother, or the same if you interpret it as tradition.
The Son of Future is a foolish kid that rushes forward into things, often getting others into trouble as he chases the future. In reverse in particular, he is likely a con artist, abusing his power over pushing others forward into trouble without him. I decided to create a line down the middle which separates him from his adult self. As a kid, he like cameras. As an adult, he has a line of polaroids of naked people and an embarrassed man, implied to be blackmail photos. The future he rushes into is even higher risk and reward than now, and he becomes a person for whom the ends justify the means.
The Mother of Future is meant to be at a table, set with a massive meal, but with no one to eat it. The idea is she pushes further and further for the future, looking out for what might come next, but often before it's needed. She can be overbearing, always trying to be prepared for what may come. To interpret the empty table, I gave her four empty chairs, her family absent. For the full dinner table though, I decided to interpret traditional Mexican foods into the timeline arrow from the pocket watch as they become more Tex Mex, then just something else entirely. This mirrors her push to worry about the future, while still stacking the dinner table with foods. I decided to keep the cigarette holder and martini glass, but made the martini glass a modern restaurant's margarita. Still open for pushing her more black and white herself, but I'll sit on that one.
The Father of Future is meant to sit on his recliner like a throne. While I don't have the chair in the new one, I gifted him a crown to maintain his power. The pipe stuck in though! He is meant to be resting on what he knows best: The past, and making money for his family. He is meant to apply past logic, tradition, on what's going on now and into the future. In reverse, the older hand coming from the large temple pot statue points at him from above, showing the meaning of the past weighing on him and making him feel enslaved to the finances and traditions he has bought into.
See you next week with a whole other family, as we explore the meanings packed into these cards and how they have emerged new takes from the original work done by Amy Smith! Keep in mind the solid grey/silver elements here, the timeline arrows or the lines and crown, will be silver foil on the final cards! Can't wait to see those!
