Fanart for the fic series The Universe in your Eyes by satoshi413 as a means of sending and expressing to the author how much I love it <3 Very good, though please pay close attention to its tags
I had the honor to be part of the @darkroom-fanzine, super fun experience so glad to get to participate in this!
Image descriptions under the cut
[Image Description 1: An illustration featuring Siffrin, Mal du Pays, and Loop, all stacked a little like a matryoshka doll.
Only the upper half of Siffrin's face can be seen; they're looking just past the viewer with a dead-eyed expression. The top of their is head open like a lidded, red-rimmed container, out of which Mal du Pays' face creeps. it's making direct eye contact with the viewer. A hand of its is also squeezing out of Siffrin's head and clutching it, its fingertips digging into the bleeding (but obscured) wound of Siffrin's left eye.
The top of its own head is also open (and sporting a red rim), Loop's head emerging from it. Loop is looking up and to the left sorrowfully, wiping the tears pouring from their right eye with one hand. Faint stars are also visible in the pupil of that eye.
The image is mostly in black, white, and red, with sharp cyan accents throughout (mainly around the edges of Siffrin's hair/bleeding left eye, above their right eye, and above Loop's own right eye) giving the whole piece a chromatically-aberrated look. The background is bright red, starting as a solid colour behind Siffrin's face before transforming into a jagged burst of light behind Loop's. Glitchy text is overlaid throughout, most of which is unreadable save for a few chunks. From the bottom up:
To the left of Siffrin's eye: an excerpt from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats: "Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
In Mal du Pays' eyepatch: "far away far away far away thou [...]" Across Loop's head: Left: "On Repetition" "The night The night repeats itself, And repeats itself And the morning Repeats itself:" Right: "The tremour [sic] of veins cold and hot" "The flutter of banners [...] and vanquished [...] tales of killer and the killed, [...] of jesters." End Image Description.]
[Image Description: An illustration of Loop in profile. They're facing right (and seen slightly from above), their own face lost in the brightness of their head. Thin concentric rings (with faint stars throughout) emanating from their head as well, and their outlines are slightly glitchy and chromatically-aberrated. They're also haloed in the background by eight different portraits, seven of Siffrin and the last a near-empty black sky. Starting from the top left and heading right + down, the portraits are:
Siffrin looking down at Loop with a cheerful/mischievous smile,,
Siffrin scowling rather fiercely at Loop,,
Siffrin looking somberly at Loop,,
Siffrin also seen in profile, their eyes/top half of their face blacked out with a scratchy/grainy texture. Their mouth is open slightly and lip trembling, while a bead of sweat rolls down the side of their face,
Siffrin seen in profile again, but their whole head is scratched out with black scribbles and noise, leaving only their hat and cloak visible,
Siffrin, now without their hat, looking up at Loop with a weary but content smile.
The last portrait, meanwhile, is of a black sky with a small, bright red, four-pointed star with many smaller streaks of light and two red sparkles around it. The image overall has a dotted halftone texture overtop and a darker, somewhat blurry vignette around the edges. End Image Description.]
wish craft smelling sickeningly like burnt sugar is so genius. like yeah it's too good to be true. sickeningly sweet. cloying, syrupy, saccharine. be careful what you wish for. broken, failing, rotting.
add this to the hunger metaphors ooh boy. siffrin's only consolation in the timeloop that they're spending time with their family friends allies is like giving someone who's starving a lollipop.
siffrin cheats at every game every time and it’s partially because they’re a little shit and think it’s funny but it’s also because if he admits he forgot the actual rules (which he does, frequently— there are so many little things to remember!!!) he’ll die of embarrassment. SAD! better to be wrong on purpose than by accident <3
but also, critically: mirabelle in particular is really competitive and when she realises siffrin’s cheating her reactions are priceless and siffrin enjoys this also. they love her and they love seeing her get fired up!!! break out of her shell a little bit!!! so really, cheating is just a win/win
they play killer uno and siffrin learns 17 new vaugardian swear words he’d never heard before just from mirabelle alone. they play the in-universe version of monopoly and she gives them the silent treatment for the rest of the day. this is good enrichment for both of them
i like how you draw odile n siffrin like theyre part of an adult animation sitcom that gets cancelled after 3 seasons in 2003 and becomes a cult classic
thiscompliment so nice that i wanted to doodle them againthank you :]
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