#chissnowflake

[foxwithpretzel]

“Thrawn Alliances” is pure gold.

The joke was made by some anon from diary.ru, but I got the same vibes from that dialog.

The list of “Thrawn Alliances” comic strips I have drawn: 1) Not the canon we were looking for, 2) Anakin won’t listen to anyone, 3) Stuck, 4) A wise woman, 5) Thrawnerezade, 6) Old habits die hard.

[foxwithpretzel]

“Thrawn Alliances”: not the canon we were looking for, but the one we deserved.

The list of “Thrawn Alliances” comic strips I have drawn: 1) Not the canon we were looking for, 2) Anakin won’t listen to anyone, 3) Stuck, 4) A wise woman, 5) Thrawnerezade, 6) Old habits die hard.

[foxwithpretzel]

I had finally found some spare time to read the 2017 Thrawn novel and the beginning of the latest comics and found myself on a Thrawn/Eli angst train.

I’ve always liked Trawn, but was never a fan of Pellaeon (even if I tried to imagine him looking like Douglas P circa 2009) as to ship him with, so 70 percent of fanfiction was not my cup of tea. Leia and Hera are also a no, and Arindha Pryce disgusts me, as I’ve met my share of similar people. Gen is quite rare, and it suffers from influx of Mary Sues, who charm Grand Admiral with their knowledge of art and military strategy.

But the recent novel - oh, that’s exactly what I’ve been waiting for! Now I can float in rivers of angst and feels. The dynamics of Eli and Thrawn is fantastic, the book end sounded like an extract from a very subtle slash fic. And Eli himself is so adorable, he could’ve ended up a Rebel in different circumstances (now I want a fic, where he indeed becomes one). It’s such a pity there’s so little Eli/Thrawn work online, so I feel like I must contribute what I can.

By the way, am I the only one surprised at how Thrawn’s much more ruthless in the Rebels cartoons than he is in the book? And the transformation is so rapid if we believe the canon timeline! Of course, an obvious explanation is that Rebels is a series for kids, while Zahn has never been shy about adoration of his character. It’s almost as if he tried to counter almost everything the Rebels version of Thrawn personifies: “my snowflake Chiss did something evil in the Rebels? Take that, show creators!‘ Not that I mind, dear author, not that I mind.

[foxwithpretzel]

One more drawing from Fandom Kombat (a counterpart to the Fandom Battle on diary.ru) I made for the amazing Star Wars Darkside team I adore.

It’s called "To defeat an enemy, you must know their art", and it depicts a crossdressed (almost fem(!)) Thrawn.

It’s an illustration to a bizarre and hilarious plot bunny of an AU, where young Thrawn got an undercover job at a brothel, where he was made to wear a black female kimono with cherry blossoms embroidery. This AU is a local meme of a Russian-speaking SW fandom. As I was late for a low-rating level entry, I added a few non-human shaped sex toys to the background.

I had a dilemma on whether to pursue portrait resemblance of the painting Thrawn to the cartoon or follow the Japanese canon of depiction of young beautiful men, which obviously had very little to do with Thrawn we know - one can hardly tell a man from a woman on those prints.

I decided that real life Thrawn with his understanding of art would have appreciated a version that sacrificed realism for the sake of artistic accuracy.

So I have thoroughly followed all the stylistic conventions, and drew Thrawn enjoying this role: in my vision, he viewed the whole plot bunny scenario as a game and an opportunity to better experience the culture he’d been submerged into, hence the name of the drawing.

Yet I was expecting a bunch of "This ain’t Thrawn!" offended comments and even thought of making a bet on how soon the first one would arrive. It’s strange, but I only got one.

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This is the third drawing in my own rendering of the “Star Wars meets ukiyo-e” concept. I drew a low-rating reylo, and a NSFW kylux.