Originally, this was drawn as the final frame of what was supposed to be an animation, where Anne-Marie and Rez would alternate between human and creature forms. I started working on it immediately after my last few uploads from October, so I was risking burning myself out, and sure enough after it took a full day to draw about 1.5 frames, I realised I was never going to finish it. At least I came out of it with a frame I could post as its own thing, though at the time I didn't in case I ever came back to it and finished it. In hindsight, given how much I struggle to maintain interest in working on a drawing beyond the first day, it was never going to work out.

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The relationship between Anne-Marie and Rez is a complicated one. They're both my sonas which means they are, at least to some extent, two alternate versions of the same person. But they're also separate characters, and whether they're in a relationship together, or entirely separate, pretty much depends on what happens to best fit the particular story or drawing. Or maybe they're always together, but their relationship is open? Maybe they're two souls of a singular being and they either manifest separately or one remains dormant within the other? I'll probably just leave it ambiguous and up to interpretation, because I think that's fun.

As for their *relationship*, there's some interesting dynamics I wanted to explore with this and perhaps future drawings. With Anne-Marie being a master polymorphist and shapeshifter, and having a huge, strong default form, she may as well be omnipotent compared to Rez, who is pretty much just a guy. Things between them may be mutual, both parties totally cool with everything they get up to, but Rez is completely at her mercy. It's entirely up to Anne-Marie whether at any moment he is a person, if he has hands and is capable of speech, if he's sentient, if he has any means whatsoever of perceiving or interacting with the world, if he's even a separate and autonomous being from her. For all intents and purposes, he is her powerless familiar who also happens to be the object of her affection. Fortunately, Rez is totally cool with leaving every aspect of his life in her hands.

The thing is, Anne-Marie has to keep up her disguise in public, posing as a totally normal person who definitely isn't some kind of huge, magical tanuki-bear-thing. Their relationship is kept private, in part because she likes to try things out with other folks (he's fine with this), and also because it means she can carry him around in public in the form of some manner of small, exotic pet, without people questioning why she's never with her partner. Given her witchy attire, and desire to tease Rez despite him typically being nonsentient and incapable of understanding speech in these situations, she often jokes to her dates that her pet is actually a previous partner who she cursed for causing her trouble, a lighthearted joke that also serves as a threat in case the date finds out about her true nature - "don't tell anyone, or you'll be joining him." On the off-chance they like the idea of being polymorphed, she's happy to oblige, at which point the threat is instead that they'll lose out on any future opportunities to indulge in this interest. At the end of the day though, Rez is the object of her affection, and she prefers to keep anything serious between the two of them.

When the two are alone, whether at home or in the wilderness, their relationship much more resembles something mutual and equal, or at least as close as it can be to that when there's such a huge power imbalance between them. Anne-Marie is more than happy to let Rez be whatever he wants, from insubstantial beings she can barely even see, to colossal creatures bigger and stronger than even her. His preferred forms change regularly, so there's always enough variation to keep things interesting for her. And when she feels in the mood for it, she changes him into whatever she happens to want at the time, be it a creature she likes, a bizarre form she thinks he'll have an interesting time trying to live as, or even an object she happens to need for something at the given moment.

I might draw more of them together next time I get around to drawing. I know most of my uploads over the past two years or so have been Rez in various forms, but I get the urge to draw Anne-Marie almost as frequently. It's just that coming up with interesting TFs and figuring out how to go about drawing them comes to me much more easily than figuring out interesting scenarios to put Anne-Marie in that aren't basically the same as any previous art of her. If I *was* able to maintain motivation to draw throughout October my plan was to draw a bunch more of her, but the same drawing this is in the description for is the wall that stopped me from getting that far. So if you read this far into the description I may as well ask: if I were to focus future art on one or the other, would you rather see more of Rez in various post-TF forms, or more of Anne-Marie getting up to similar kinds of things as in previous drawings?