![]() He set it aside for the rest of the day, not willing to try and rush this particular project. He double-checked, then triple-checked his work on her organs before slowly building up her skeleton-which, other than her teeth, was mostly human. So all things considered, he was off to a good start. ![]() He spent most of them in a dead-exhausted sleep. ![]() Henry had been forbidden from coming back to the studio for three days. Joey had cautiously stood from his desk and guided Henry all the way home with a hand on his arm. He’d been panting by the end of his half rant, half panicked rambling. That’s terrifying! Why don’t we have a toon doctor? I should make one, and make them learn human anatomy like I had to and then teach them Audrey anatomy, because-because that’s what I’m doing here, Joey, I’m inventing new anatomy for your daughter!” If she breaks something, you have to bring her to me. “Y’know, just, just ignore doctors completely. “No baby teeth either because I can’t-I can’t figure out how to replicate the, the, the growing, Joey! She needs to be able to grow! All of her, and I can’t deal with baby teeth on top of it! And hair? I can’t just modify her hair like I do if Allison decides she’d like her ponytail to be a little longer! So Audrey’s not allowed to be x-rayed, ever, do you hear me? Her heart’s going to have to be massive because, because ink is thicker! It moves slower! Joey had stared back in stunned, somewhat concerned silence as Henry had devolved into mad scientist rambling. “In case you haven’t thought of it, because heaven knows I didn’t before today-Audrey’s not going to be able to have her own kids, okay? And I’m not bothering with an appendix or wisdom teeth-do you have any idea how stupidly complex teeth are?”Īll right, so he’d been a bit wild-eyed at the time. His fingers ached from all the delicate precision work. “I’m gonna tell you right now,” Henry had said, standing in the doorway of Joey’s office, covered in ink from countless dissections. Trying to toonify hearts and lungs and kidneys and intestines had been hell. Hence the standalone organs he’d spent days tweaking, for each. And as the saying went, you had to learn the rules before you could break them. Though the professor hadn’t know the full extent of what he wanted to do, she had been instrumental in helping him understand the inner workings of the average person. And that meant her organs couldn’t be entirely human. Because no matter how human she looked, it wouldn’t change the fact that ink ran through her veins, not blood. He started with the complicated stuff, slowly piecing together the delicate balance that would be Audrey’s internal organs. After weeks of studying human anatomy, with the help a local professor, plus numerous experiments ranging from inanimate objects to bodiless organs to color tests, Henry finally sat down and began the most detailed character reference sheet he’d ever created. It was nearly two months after Joey first proposed his idea that Henry even began to work on his first attempt. Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 24498 Chapters: 8/? Comments: 124 Kudos: 171 Bookmarks: 38 Hits: 2048
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