Driftwood 7 24

Driftwood 7 24

By the way, Oleg’s epaulettes are actually anachronistic – it was only in WWII that the Soviet Army controversially brought back military insignia for officers. Also, judging from his uniform they are Kuban or Terek cossacks, not Orenburg or Ural cossacks (obviously only the Cossacks in the Caucasus wear the Caucasian-style “cherkesska” – the others wear short tunics) …
Oh well. I guess I’ll just keep drawing whatever looks nice to me, since this world is different from ours in many ways. :3

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I was just thinking about how quite many of the main characters in Driftwood have dropped out of, or never been part of, their education systems.

Willie: The story starts in May, when she is in 12th grade, one year before she would graduate from Secondary school. (British kids start school disturbingly early …) She was only going on a weekend trip to see her mum, but that trip turned out to be much longer than expected – now it’s already autumn and she has missed a lot of school. Though if she goes back I suppose she could do all the tests she missed with hardly any preparation and pass them without problems, if she’s anything like me … :op

Shannon never went to any formal school at all, but Seraphine very patiently taught her to read and to write when she was already in her twenties.

Seraphine is definitely the most formally educated of them all, but had to drop out of university when Shannon robbed him away to sea.

Samona: No formal education as far as anyone knows, but someone (she herself?) has taught her to read and write well, and she knows quite a lot of scary things.

Aeron was sent off to work after finishing middle school (9th grade). Unlike Eva he did okay in school and didn’t hate it.

Eva had poor school attendance all along (she preferred to read the books she wanted to when she wanted to), and officially dropped out of 7th grade when she ran away from home.


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