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Shadow Tai… I love him always

I used a reference from AOT where Eren was saying “Until all lives existing there… have been exterminated from this world.” Totally different scenarios but I just wanna draw Tai as that, it seems fitting.

I also tried a new brush so… yeah

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I always thought Tiss was older than Fanuel (completely forgot Fanuel said she remembers Tiss parents) but at least she had to be older than Miarlas

but then Miarlas said that he hardly remembers his uncle and so that told me Tiss would be younger than the Erlithar siblings but now in the update Vellora said the queen was pregnant with Fanuel when Airdals brother died meaning Tiss had already been born making her indeed older than Fanuel & Miarlas 😭

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I’m in the process of working on my Cain & Lane drawing again

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All this tai stuff and i completely forgot griarans ballad was playing in the background when Sha’arnez ghosted his conversation once he noticed Tiss approaching. That song playing was perfect for them🥹 My heart literally racing during their conversation, Tiss telling Sha’arnez that she’d recognize him amongst thousands that even amongst strangers she found her own ughjkkms🤧🤧

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I just realized Tai reminded me of Aerin with his whole shadow possession ☠️

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I wonder if the emperor dismissed the guards at the nest to send Nantal to kill Tiss? It seems like the only plausible explanation as to why there were no guards but Tai and the shadow thing did come to mind. Only in that scenario it would be that they deliberately wanted Nantal to be killed.

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Hey so the 2nd half was likely true

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Hey so wtf was that ending

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Happy May, everyone! We hope the warm temperatures and nice weather (or slowly lowering temperatures, depending on where you live) help improve your spirits after the dark, long winter months. Of course, we also hope the weather and—of course—this week's RC update, result in the most incredible creations 💖

Now, without further ado, we'd like to announce April's Creator of the Month! Everyone, please welcome @silver-horse, a fairly new but definitely not unknown presence in our fandom! Congratulations!

As always, below the cut, you will find a short interview with the winner— we'd love to invite you for this short read from which you can learn a bit more about M. 🪽

🎤: INTRODUCE YOURSELF!

💬: Hi! I am M. (If you use discord, you may have seen me in some of the RC servers) I am a 29-year-old, I am a fan of historical fiction, fantasy, and sci-fi mainly. My tumblr blog is a mix of lots of video game fandoms. I make gifs of RC's collectable cards, CGs, and other scenes. I plan to make a lot more in the future. :)

🎤: WHEN AND HOW DID YOU FIRST DISCOVER ROMANCE CLUB?

💬: I started playing in September 2025, so I am a fairly new player. I found RC because I saw the fanarts for The Thunderstorms Saga, and I love drow and elves :D So big thank you to @erixadraws and @vrbv-art and many others. Thunderstorms is still one of my fave stories. My other big favourite is Song of the Crimson Nile. I love ancient Egypt, and I wish there were more games, books, and movies that take place in that time period. I am also invested in the conclusion of the Heaven's Secret series.

🎤: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN CREATING?

💬: I've been occasionally making simple gifs for video game fandoms for many years now. When I saw the collectable cards in RC, it gave me the idea that these would look good in gif format, and I just wanted to collect them on my tumblr blog. I am also planning to make full gifsets of them, where a single gifset shows all cards from a certain story.

🎤: DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST EVER CREATION?

💬: For RC, it was a gif of a Sha'arnez CG and then shortly after Tai's card. I still mostly follow that format, although now I record them on a wider screen

🎤: DO YOU HAVE ANY RITUALS OR HABITS WHEN YOU CREATE?

💬: Not particularly, I mostly use free online tools. I wish I had higher-quality software. I plan which scenes I want, I record them, and then I procrastinate actually making the gif for a long time haha

🎤: IS THERE A PIECE OF ADVICE YOU'D GIVE TO YOUR YOUNGER SELF? OR READERS, IN GENERAL?

💬: Hmm, maybe just don't be afraid of making something that is imperfect. Fandom is for fun, enjoy it and create for yourself first and foremost.

🎤: CHOOSE 3-5 OF YOUR FAVOURITE WORKS AND RAMBLE AWAY!

💬:

I. Sha'arnez's card, because it was on my wishlist for so long, I was really happy when I was finally able to make a gif out of it

II. Song of the Crimson Nile gifsets, because I fell in love with this story immediately, and I really wanted to create some gifsets for it:

III. This winter storm scene with Lane, because the weather was just like this when I created the gif, and that really put me in the mood

IV. Mimi and Vicky's wedding scene, I posted this right after finishing Heaven's Secret 2 for the first time, and I just loved the aesthetics here with the flower petals

🎤: WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE RC BOOKS? MCS? LIS?

💬: As I already mentioned The Thunderstorms Saga and Sha'arnez made me start reading RC stories. Now I also have a Tai romance slot.

Song of the Crimson Nile…. Evthys is one of my fave MCs, and I love the love interests, and even the side characters are so interesting in this story. Livius and Amen are my main LIs, but I recently started Ramesses, Agnia and Anubis slots as well.

Lane from Heaven's Secret Requiem is another fave MC for me. I love how Cain and Lane were written, they are so perfect for each other. Special shoutout to Mimi, Raphael and Hunger… my other fave love interests from the HS universe.

I started the Kali series after I fell in love with Song of the Crimson Nile, and the writing and the love interests didn't disappoint there either. Ratan, Ram and Saraswati became my faves.

I recently started Legend of the Willow… I am convinced it will become another big fave :) I already love Kazu.

Averris the Riftborn is a story that has just began but I already love it, the MC and all the love interests are awesome

divider: @honeyluvsw

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The Thunderstorms Saga Illustration ⛈️⚔️

I’ll come back here as soon as I can

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Thinking of a drawing idea where Sha’arnez represents the wind and Tiss is the water

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Almost done with my tts drawing and then i got an idea for another one when i still have to finish my lane & Cain drawing 😅

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Sneak peak of Tai’s line art

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Old drawing of Raya I never got to post

@rosesnink messaged me about an event that happened in the blades fandom where people redesigned the Masquerade outfit back in Book1 of Blades

I remember i wanted to add more but i dont think ill revisit this drawing but looking at it again its beautiful the way it is.

Thank you again Noe for giving me this idea💗

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At first i didn’t see much resemblance with Tai and Foelh i feel like Laimir looks most like him but when i saw Tai’s sprite flipped i saw the emperor ☠️ i still think Tai may have looked more like his mom since him and the emperor have different eye shapes, eye colors and skin shades.

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This sketch i made of Tai had me dying for a minute

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Just got a drawing idea involving Tai, Sha’arnez and Tiss i swear if i can pull it off it’d be so funny 😭😭