{"id":476,"date":"2026-11-06T01:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/?p=476"},"modified":"2026-11-06T01:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:26:21","slug":"honour-in-amends-by-deslea-tin-man-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/honour-in-amends-by-deslea-tin-man-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Honour In Amends by Deslea (Tin Man), 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/honourinamends_thumb.png\" src=\"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-content\/uploads\/videos\/honourinamends_v1.0.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEW: Honour In Amends (2026)<br>Theme: Tin Man (2007) (Azkadellia\/Zero)<\/strong> <br><strong>Storytelling tie-in with related fanwork Reparations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>My Rating: <\/strong><br>Five stars. I&#8217;m very happy with this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Background:<\/strong> <br>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/rubiks-cube-by-deslea-tin-man-2026\/\">Rubik&#8217;s Cube<\/a>, this video is a tie in with a fanfic novel, Reparations (on <a href=\"https:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/93140591\">AO3<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/fiction.deslea.com\/tinman_reparations.php\">my fic site<\/a>). However, where Rubik&#8217;s Cube is a teaser trailer, Honour In Amends is a literal re-telling with my own lyrics set to generated music (in that sense, it is more like <a href=\"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/what-we-left-alive-by-deslea-tin-man-2007-2026\/\">What We Left Alive<\/a>). This story has a very rich physical environment &#8211; a rebuilt post-war Finaqua, now a military base of rehabilitated Longcoats, led by Azkadellia, Zero, and her four Majors &#8211; and an intimate healing storyline that is difficult to convey in a general-audience music video. I originally meant for Rubik&#8217;s Cube to be the only video for the story, but after making it I started to think I could represent the intimate recovery storyline after all, and I wanted to play with a custom song and the more complex lens that storyline put on the universe in visuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Geeky Things To Note:<\/strong> <br>As with Rubik&#8217;s Cube, this entire video is made with generated footage, both the Rubik&#8217;s Cube portfolio and a further portfolio on top. As with Rubik&#8217;s Cube, I deliberately designed Azkadellia and Zero to be a bit more removed from their onscreen portrayals, mostly because onscreen Azkadellia has a fragile broken-doll edge that I really didn&#8217;t want to emphasise for this story, which consciously resists making Azkadellia a victim even though she has been victimised and left badly hurt. Another aspect of this was a decision to saturate and colour-degrade the footage. This is because the footage as generated for Rubik&#8217;s Cube is intensely bright and optimistic, reflecting the fresh new world\/rebuildiung Finaqua side of the story, but that seemed excessively bright for this more complicated subject matter coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other geeky point is probably the song itself, which was a real labour of love taking several days and rounds of edits to write, and took an enormous number of generations in Suno to get a musical accompaniment I could embrace. I was looking for a very specific masculine voice for Zero&#8217;s side of the story. He has a very personal pitch of guilt-turned-accountability in this story for his accidental harm to Azkadellia that does <em>not <\/em>translate to a remorseful or angsty sensibility in the broad. Communicating it without turning him into a more generally remorseful or angst-ridden <em>character<\/em> was a very fine balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Programs Used:<\/strong> <br>Kdenlive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <br>Tin Man (2007) (inspiration) and generated footage, mostly in Kling 3.0, with voiceovers by ElevenLabs and music accompaniment to my lyrics by Suno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW: Honour In Amends (2026)Theme: Tin Man (2007) (Azkadellia\/Zero) Storytelling tie-in with related fanwork Reparations My Rating: Five stars. I&#8217;m very happy with this one. Background: Like Rubik&#8217;s Cube, this video is a tie in with a fanfic novel, Reparations (on AO3 or my fic site). However, where Rubik&#8217;s Cube is a teaser trailer, Honour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}