Strangetown extras: The creation of Lyla Grunt

[strangetomato]

I decided that I wanted to actually show Lyla Grunt in the next Strangetown chapter, and since I'm not about to mess around with the one in Olive's cemetery, I created my own version in CAS. Also, judging from what I've seen with the ghost Lyla, she doesn't exactly measure up genetically, so I took some liberties. I created her from extracted versions of Ripp and Buck. Since Tank resembles Buzz so much, that seemed to make the most sense. I already mentioned that Ripp has her eyes, so I was sure to keep that accurate too. Anyway, I got so excited with the results, that I thought I'd give a little sneak peek.

Here's Lyla with toddler Buck. He's so cute I could eat him! (Isn't it scary when people talk about eating babies? Yet everyone does it!) I made my own nose for Lyla, but everything else came from Buck or Ripp, and mostly Buck, I think (all of her cheek, chin, and lip area is Buck's, and the eyebrows might be Ripp's. The boys all have pretty similar eyebrows anyway).

I think that Lyla turned out quite pretty. It bodes well for any future daughters that Ripp or Buck may have.




Awww. Ripp is Mom's boy, of course. Now that Lyla has a face, it's even sadder for me.




This one is just so you can see her from a frontal view.




And one more of lazy little Ripp, because I just love him! What a little punk. The first thing he did when I dropped him on the lot was rush to the television too. He's so predictable.

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It is pretty sad, isn't it? They really do miss her, and stepping back into the past like this just makes it more real to me. It helps to make the actions of the Grunt brothers more understandable. I kept thinking of Ripp losing it at the dinner with Elise, and how he would never be able to accept her as a replacement for Lyla.

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

I kept thinking of Ripp losing it at the dinner with Elise, and how he would never be able to accept her as a replacement for Lyla.

I'd like to think that Elise didn't think out what she said before she said it. It was a bad choice of words, the ones you regret almost as soon as you utter them. Ripp has never stopped grieving her loss.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes, Elise said that without fully thinking about how it would sound. It was a mistake. She didn't mean to imply that she could replace Lyla, but she does hope that she can be like a mother to the boys, and try to make up for that loss in their lives. I'm sure that Buzz hopes for that too.

Ripp really hasn't stopped grieving that loss, and he hasn't had a chance for any type of closure on it either, since the details surrounding it remain a mystery. I imagine that some small part of him does still hope that she'll show up again one day, even though he told Johnny that he doesn't really believe that.

It think that the very idea that Elise would be anything even resembling a mother to him is a completely offensive notion to Ripp.