# ghliveblog

I feel like people thought Jacobi was stalking Lucy, but they really are neighbors! I used the same SketchUp model for both their apartments!!

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This is one of my favorite Lucy looks! I tried to replicate it a few times later, but it never came out quite right

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I wanted Lucy to go back on some of her character development in this arc

She went from having relationships as transactions (“I broke your door and need help in my search, so I’ll work for you”) to real friendships—and now back to transactional relationships

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Who says this line earnestly IRL?? Wouldn’t you be at least a little embarrassed!!!

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I feel like I stick Graham with the “nobody in real life talks like this” lines, but someone had to say it

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I was frustrated because “Lucy’s search hurts the chefs” comes up every arc, and I couldn’t figure out a way to put a newer spin on it! It just repeats!!!

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In the original thumbnails Jacobi fed this to Lucy to show how he’s in control of the conversation, but I was like “No they’re in a fancy restaurant, that’s rude and too weird”

So I just had Jacobi assemble it and hand it to her lol

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This was around the time I finally started to get ahold of Jacobi’s motivations—and I finally knew how I wanted to portray Jacobi as a reflection of Lucy

(I mean, there was still a lot of other things I hadn’t figured out plotwise, but at least I got one thing!)

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I MESSED UP THE TIMELINE HERE, I imply that Jacobi is currently both 28 and 30 within the same episode..... Jacobi is ageless

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I purposefully gave Lynn a similar pantsuit + bag to when Lucy met Graham! I wanted to draw a strong association between Lucy and Lynn

(I don’t expect readers to notice it, but more like “I can see where Lucy gets her sense of dress from!”)

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This dinner scene wasn’t originally set at Dimanche (it was going to be another Dimanche chef’s restaurant), but I wanted it to feel super charged for both of them, so I decided to set it there!

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I had coffee with my friend Janelle while she was in HI, and she doodled stuff on my iPad while we talked—and a lot of them ended up on Clem’s clothing lol, the weird little boy pattern is one of her doodles

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I wanted to emphasize the parallels between Jacobi and Lucy—both have extraordinary skills (eidetic memory, super olfaction/supertaster) that people think they are squandering

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Oof this is me still trying to figure out Jacobi’s motivations—like, is he still using Lucy as a way to Graham?? That’s how the questions seem!

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This is minor, but the reason Jacobi doesn’t look at the menu is because he has a photographic memory—so he’s always looking at Lucy in this scene

I just wanted to give him gestures that felt a little off, even if you don’t consciously register them!

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Jacobi is purposefully invoking Lynn to build Lucy’s goodwill, but I also wanted to show that Jacobi DID actually follow Lynn’s advice and arrive early, because Jacobi IS actually a lot like Lucy

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This is the first time Lucy is in a dress! Lucy’s normal style is pants-based, so the only times I put her her in dresses are for scenes where I want to give the sense that she’s out of her element (this scene, the cooking competition, Lynn’s funeral)

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Jacobi is also a separated from the chefs of previous arcs because he ended up in a non-commercial kitchen—I wanted to explore what Lucy could do/how far she’d go when the cooking of one of the Dimanche chefs is almost completely inaccessible

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2020-03-20

This is a minor characterization thing, but Graham plays guitar!

His sister Laura (current music teacher, former band/theater kid) forced him to learn so he could accompany her and her friends while they sang Rent or something

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I didn’t intend for this to look like the BA test kitchen, I grew up on Cook’s Country and America’s Test Kitchen for my test kitchen entertainment

But who am I fooling, this looks EXACTLY like the BA test kitchen lmao

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