So, I’ve finally got around to finishing this piece I drew back at Christmas as a gift for my Dad. He loves Scotland and everything about it, and since I do too, I created this little piece for him.
It’s still a work in progress, but I thought I would share the first two iterations before I add the little details of the kilts and the shadows.
The characters are creations of ours, the left is his Scotsman Aithridh, and the right is my own original character, Alakan, from a book I’m currently writing.
Kid is just a big nerd who ended up trying to save one person and got yoinked on a world saving hero journey, please help.
Boy loves puzzles and stories and would 100% spend a whole night staring at the stars if his eyes and Nona would let him. Or, you know, fate.
He grew up in a noble family, but was raised in one of the quieter parts of the kingdom as is custom, so his parents can focus on their social duties instead of distracting things like children. For this reason, the person nearest and dearest to him in the whole world is his grandmother, who not only feeds his obsession with puzzles and legends of old, but also is a total badass who taught him and his little brothers how to ride, shoot, hunt and fish, as well as fix their own clothes and find both good and bad plants in the wild.
He's got a bit of a speaking problem, and tends to slip into sign rather than speech when around people he doesn't know, or you know, just doesn't talk in their presence, but if he knows you and feels safe with you he could chatter on for hours about any old thing.
He is the eldest child, and takes it very seriously, doing his best to look out for and teach his little siblings everything that he can, or helping his Nona to raise them.
His speaking problem means he's not great at making friends in his hometown, but once his hero's journey starts, he just ends up randomly collecting various other weirdos who just...don't leave him alone and he get's attached.
He can be a bit short tempered and easily gets frustrated with himself and his inability to do things, which only worsens his impulsivity, but luckily something usually stops him before he does anything too stupid.
His favorite color is purple, he loves sweet foods and his favorite place in the world is a distant desert city that he accidentally befriended the queens of by breaking into their library.
While his hero's journey or whatever nonsense stopped him growing up with his siblings or even with his parents (Nona is also sadly out of the picture) he does have a set of three vagabonds who he ends up accidentally collecting, all of which have their own quirks, which for two of them means they go full on villain and for the other just means he's an eleven year old merman with an attitude problem. They're close knit regardless, and would literally do almost anything for each other.
Mamtaraq is the name of my village, the other name is Goodnews Bay. My mom told me that the village was named after a shed with food in it or something? She doesn't remember well.
Goodnews Bay Alaska is named after a mine, I believe.
