#dq luminary

[hydroidmedusa]

The Dragon Quest XI Party as Birds: Part II!

Erik as a Stellar's jay (Cyanocitta stellari) and the Luminary as a Black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia).

My rationale below the cut:

1. Both birds are opportunistic and will steal from people and other birds.

2. Black-billed magpies are highly social. (I've always viewed the Luminary as a gregarious fellow.)

3. Stellar's jays have excellent spatial memory to remember the locations of their caches.

[uniguinflutist]

Erik asks permission to marry Eleven from the purple dad (Hendrick) since he's the closest thing to a father-figure that El has left since Chalky and Irwin died. The thief practiced for three weeks to get over his self-doubt.

Of course Hendrick approves and walks El down the aisle in a newly-restored Dundrasil castle.

[daezedglownut]

While I'm waxing poetic about all my fave DQXI details (for easy perusal, my ramblings are all in my 'meta' tag), there's one in particular I've always wanted to touch upon...

The parallels between the Luminary and Hendrik, and how deep Jasper's hatred of Hendrik truly goes.

Now, Hendrik's hometown was destroyed, and almost the entire populace (including his family) wiped out, that we all know. We also know Hendrik was present when Cobblestone was burnt to the ground - because if it weren't for Hendrik being able to talk Jasper round at the last minute, the rest of the townspeople would also have succumbed to much the same end.

Now, logically, Jasper would have had to compromise - and Hendrik would have had to agree in some capacity. And so, you have this moment where Hendrik, though he believes the Luminary to be the Darkspawn, does not want even the enemy of Erdrea to experience that which he did as a child: the loss of everything.

Because if he could go back - if he could pick one thing to save, it would have been the people of Zwaardsrust.

And Jasper, fully aware of Hendrik's past, is more than happy to play tactician. To move the chess pieces around for his perverse amusement, just because it means it takes Hendrik back there - back to that moment where he wasn't this vision of strength and prowess, but a weak, scared child.

Because if Hendrik feels small, then Jasper gets to feel big.

[phantomturntech]

They've infected my brain

[thelastphoenix]

I've been digitally painting along with Bob Ross, and I'm trying to improve my speed and lighting. This is my most recent piece.... Erik and the Luminary alone together in the Snaerfelt, under the winter moon.

[determinedowl23]

Pride Flags Picked from SSBU Characters (Part 1)

This is my new favorite thing to do

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Genderfluid Corrin | Asexual Greninja | Nonbinary Hero

Lesbian Zelda | Lesbian Pyra

Nonbinary Dark Pit | Trans Sheik | Aroace Ganondorf

Aromantic Link | Demiboy Young Link

[sumawari]

[ikiikiikiikiiki]

blew it