I have been working this bloody drawing for 7 bloody months now and I just CANNOT seem to get the armour right 😭

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I have been working this bloody drawing for 7 bloody months now and I just CANNOT seem to get the armour right 😭
Burn the past, and temptation with it.
I wanted to show how even though Will burns the Dark King’s artifacts, traces still remain. Hence the crown of smoke.
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I love the theory where the Emperor may come back as something evil once he finally eats it for real because it implies this current iteration of the Emperor is the good one. Staring at the narcissistic eldritch horror corpse-king of an unfathomably cruel galactic fascist empire and unironically exclaiming "B-but what if he comes back evil??" fucking owns
Yes, I have succumbed to Magical Girl 😐
*Heavy sigh*
I honestly have no clue why I am even doing this... 🤡 But... AND HERE IS MY FAVORITE RADIO HUSBANDO IN ALL HIS GLORY in his Dark King attire! Oh dear, I can't believe I actually did this.
On 9th March 2026 C.S Pacat posted this image on her substack along with the explanation on why these are not the final covers of her books.
The 3rd book in the Dark Rise trilogy doesn't have an official title yet but doesn't this image clear all our doubts once and for all?
I think "Dark King" is the nearly official title.
Me thinking Dark Heir doesn’t end too badly based on the last two lines which I read before I started the book
Me when I actually finished Dark Heir:
aww awwwe dark king and fart lord- i mean phantom of evil doodles arent they cuteee