Last year, Gammatelier kept mentioning here and there to write something for him. And I kept mentioning here and there for him to draw me something. I’ve been coding some simple dress-up applets for him in p5.js, which is a quick and infrequent job, but for anything more I’m really picky about what I spend my time on, since it takes me so long to write (as you are all well aware, lol).

We both greatly enjoyed his commission from Pozzo (graciously allowed as a repost here) and got to talking about what the life of a deafblind quad amputee would even look like. She totally fails to flirt in Pozzo’s one-shot story, but her assistant also completely fails to pick up on it. It was a cute tale, but we both asked,

“What’s next?”

So I returned to the challenge of writing a deafblind character, not in the way I envisioned, this time with just a touch of sci-fi, and far fewer limbs. I wanted to make Karen’s cool exterior and lack of expression in the original story a limited facade of a strong, no-nonsense, yet insecure woman. The romance aspects are also a challenge for me, but I hope that I learned a few things in Life Together.

Please read along and enjoy Gamma’s illustrations!

Eva, Karen, and Fergus 'heading' down, illustrated by Gammatelier