hi, I really like your drawings for the Drifting Stars AU and just wanted to know where you got the idea for Mabel to be missing an eye? I really like it and just wanted to know if there was a story or something behind it.
I'm still trying to figure it out, so sort of! Here's my doodles for how I'm imagining the story behind it at the moment:
A comment made me think that Bill was probably involved (although it was still more of an accident that she was hurt). And to answer your first question, I came up with the idea from doodles and watching HeyMissTeacherĀ on YouTube! I talk about it a bit here. Basically, it was just a cool design that I held on to, in part to make my drifting stars designs stand out more!
Tutu polyphon
Around 40 characters are represented. Translations and more close-ups under the cut.
To fit with the episode 14 character NyÄjinsky (after Vaslav Nijinsky), the other real-life names are animalized as well (mostly in Japanese or English, like Gutenberg to Goosenberg, Taglioni to Toraglioni, etc.), so I included them with the German translations. And I donāt speak German, so feel free to correct me on anything.
Blumenwalzer = Waltz of the Flowers
Nussknacker und Mausekƶnig = The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
E. T. A. Hooffmann = E. T. A. Hoffmann
D. D. Druckerpresse = D. D. + printing press
Schwanensee Quellenforschung = Swan Lake Sources and Influences
Der geraubte Schleir = The Stolen Veil
Johane KÄrl Auspist MusƤugurs = Johann Karl August MusƤus (hane = feather, kÄ = crow sound/ auspice and augur [bird omens] might be hard to pick out of the others)
Die weiĆe Ente = The White Duck
Alewander Arfaunasyip = Alexander Afanasyev (wan = dog sound)
Schwanenjungfrau Folklore-Traditionen = Swan Maiden Folklore Traditions
UmazurakÅmorinosuke (episode 21 bat. His name in the credits is pretty funny, as heās a hammer-headed bat, so heās umazura [horse-faced], kÅmori [bat], then nosuke, a suffix that gives off an assistant/administrative/old-timey vibe [it was originally a title used for samurai working as government officials in the Edo era], hence him being an assistant at the library circulation desk).
Der MƤrchenkƶnig: Ludcyg II. Biografie = The Fairy Tale King: Ludwig II Biography (cyg = cygnus [swan]. This influence is partially debatable, as some claims of it are due to Ludwig IIās 1886 lake drowning, which was after Swan Lakeās 1877 premiere [but to complicate things, the most common ending is from 1895 libretto, so it remains a possibility with any after]. But Tchaikovskyās contemporaries did say he was inspired by Ludwig II, who was also known as the Swan King and an infamous Wagner fan and patron. Leading to Swan Lakeās many Wagner/medieval Germanic legend similarities, like the Siegfrieds in both the Ring Cycle and Swan Lake falsely confess their love to another woman due to the enemyās magical deception and their unintentional betrayal of BrĆ¼nnhilde/Odette causes all their deaths, BrĆ¼nnhildeās immolation and return of the ring to the Rhineās waters lifting its curse compared with Odette and Siegfried drowning in the lake lifting the swan maidensā curse [in later versions], Lohengrin being the Knight of the Swan, Gottfried enchanted into a swan by Ortrud, the relationship between swan maidens and either valkyrie or the Knight of the Swan in folklore, etc. Then, the swan theme is pretty undeniably derived from Lohengrinās forbidden question leitmotif, and both represent impending tragedy as well).
Eichenbaum von Goldkrone = Oak tree of Kinkan/Goldkrone
Buchleute verboten = Bookpeople-banned (Iāve mostly seen them translated as ābookmen,ā but theyāre å³ęøć®č / tosho no mono, which doesnāt specify gender).
Pike Lilie
Trilby; oder Die Fee von Argyll = Trilby; or, The Fairy of Argyll (La Sylphide basis)
Charles Tsunodier = Charles Nodier (tsuno = horns or antlers)
Vorwort = Foreword
Ein Rezept fĆ¼r āBravo!ā Spitzenschuh-Frikassee = A Recipe for āBravo!ā Pointe Shoe Fricassee (Rue mentions the legend of Marie Taglioniās fans eating her shoes in episode 9. Tutuās costume is also partially inspired by Taglioniās in La Sylphide).
Marie Toraglioni = Marie Taglioni (tora = tiger)
Nachwort = Afterword
Schottenstoff pas de chat: die Grundlagen fĆ¼r ein haarfrei Kilt = Tartan pas de chat: The Fundamentals for a (Cat) Hair-free Kilt (pas de chat is a ballet leap meant to look like a cat [chat]).
NyÄjinsky
Scheherausgabe = Scheherazade + publishing (herausgabe)
Das hƤssliche Entlein = The Ugly Duckling
Honks Chriswigeon Gandersen = Hans Christian Andersen
Goosenberg = (Johannes) Gutenberg
The next part (library checkout card on the right) can only be read on the unskewed version attached at the end.
Buch-Nr. = Book number / P22 / 16.08.2002 / 26.AKT (Akt = ballet act or scene. Used in Tutuās episode titles)
Verfasser = Author / D. D. Drosselmeyer
Titel = Title / Prinz und Rabe = The Prince and the Raven
Ausgeliehen = Borrowed / Leser = Reader / ZurĆ¼ckgegeben = Returned
Uzura! (Fakir is correcting her writing)
15.AKT Autor 26.AKT (heās testing out authorās signatures for his future tragic masterpiece)
10.AKT Waniko 26.AKT / 15.AKT ArmajirÅ 26.AKT / 18.AKT Boayo 18.AKT / 17.AKT Montand 17.AKT / 9.AKT Yagiko-sensei 26.AKT / 19.AKT Lysander 26.AKT
21.AKT Marie und Clara 21.AKT (Two extras listed in the credits. Marie is the main character of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, while Clara is usually her name in the ballet adaptation)
1.AKT Fakir 26.AKT (Itās supposed to look like his handwriting in episode 23. A cool detail in the show is that when heās possessed by Drosselmeyer in 25, his handwriting looks different and much more sophisticated)
Schwanz (Uzura drew a picture of Ahiru as a duck and tried to write the word for ātailā [Schwanz], but instead wrote the word for āswanā [Schwan], so Fakir added in the Z)
i was messing around with their outfits...for the longest time i thought for sure layla was wearing pants so i finally drew her in some to get the brainworm out lol.
Princesses in The Princess Council in Sofia the First: Royal Magic are able to all simultaneously attend through the use of magic and time travel. Creator Craig Gerber has explained that the EverRealm exists outside of a real-world timeline similar to Neverland.
