#goyl

[sailing-the-seven-seas]

Malachite

Nerron's mother, I think 🌼

[chipellini]

rochelle - monster high - with different coloring

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

I kind of love that Cornelia Funke is including Polish language in her Reckless book. Kami’en’s son being called Kochany is so sweet.

[poppy-bindery]

Well...🥲 Patience and stuff, am I right?

[the-bastard-and-the-pup]

What music genre do Goyl enjoy the most?

Rock.

[notquiteimportant]

I made a few mood boards for characters from the Reckless book series by Cornelia Funke. The faces were made with Artbreeder.

I‘ll link the pictures I used below each mood board.

Creating/editing the pictures, especially the portraits for the Goyls, was a bit difficult. I never really used Artbreeder before and recreating or changing something up to look like stone wasn‘t really something I got right. Hentzau looks almost completely human and I needed a long time until the skin on Nerron or Kami‘en had the right color. I wasn’t really sure how to change Hentzau‘s skin, since he‘s described as ´brown jaspisˋ in the book but my reference pictures of the gem itself showed more of a lighter brown. I tried my best to make the skin look cracked through the use of various images of men with scarred faces, but the scars faded a bit out in the later processes. I also had to edit the eyes in another app, where I removed the iris to hint at the blindness/bad eyesight he‘s supposed to have. I think the one that looks the closest to a statue/to be made out of stone is Kami‘en, but that one also had a ´greek statue ´- looking base…

Nerron

https://pin.it/2P58Y88

Kami’en

https://pin.it/47aVm7r

Hentzau

ver. 1

edited: alternative versions

https://pin.it/5hBTghf

Jacob Reckless

https://pin.it/1Ir7QJU

Fox/Celeste Auger

https://pin.it/4TGjSs3

Will Reckless

https://pin.it/5zCvm2Q

(made with Artbreeder)

[soft-tiny-fox]

Nightmare

*mild spoiler alert for everybody who hasn’t read Heartless*

And he felt it one more time.

The cold string of the crossbow ready to release it mortal arrow.

The Dark Fairy’s eyes were upon him, but he couldn’t stop.

He had to kill.

The crossbow wanted to kill.

The arrow went off.

And the boy made of Jade screamed.

“Will, Will, Will, WILL, YOU USELESS PUPPY WAKE UP”

He opened his eyes and his yellow iris were upon him.

“Sorry, I…”

“Another nightmare?” Asked the Bastard, taking away his hands from Will’s shoulders. The boy nodded and sat with his back leaning on a tree trunk.

They were still in the forest, Sixteen had told them they had to go and see another Alder elf to do something about the Player. Will’s head was pounding with the worst headache he had had in weeks.

“Come on, Pup, you always have something to say” Nerron’s gaze was still embracing him and, in some caring way, it was making the nightmare disappear.

“It wasn’t a nightmare; it was a memory”

“So, you need to forget”

“IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE” Rage invested him as train derailing at top speed. Will immediately feared that, but Nerron was lightly smiling. His cold lips made of rock were curled into a smirk.

“Goyl’s rage, that’s good. It will make you stronger” and Will knew why the Goyl was still looking at him. When rage flooded him, jade grew on his pale skin. It was almost disappeared now that he was calm. Almost…

“I don’t want to be stronger”

“Oh, and what do you want to become? Weaker?” But Nerron was still smiling. Will really liked his smile, he knew that the goyl despised Sixteen and the other humans, but he was still with him, after all that time…and, also, for some strange reason, the thought of Nerron’s lips made him blush.

“My king will need you one day, don’t forget it” Nerron told him, and Will remembered why he was still with him. Of course, to give him to Kami’en as a gift… but the two of them were becoming friends, none of them could deny it.

“Nerron...?”

“Yeah, Pup, what do you want?”

“Don’t you sleep?”

“Nah, Goyls are stronger than pale humans and mirror girls, I don’t need to sleep as much as you. If you accepted jade, you would be…”

“…as strong as you, ok ok, I understand, but…”

“AND, someone has to guard, to control, to make sure that there aren’t dangerous things behind us in the woods, don’t you reckon?”

Will nodded and Nerron started looking somewhere else, through the trees.

“Nerron?”

“If you make another stupid question I will…”

“Can I guard with you?” Nerron looked at him and Will felt like an idiot, but he didn’t want to sleep anymore. “You…you can continue your vent about how you’ll kill me if I am annoying. I like the way you describe torture, you know?” Will winked.

Nerron rolled his eyes and emitted a ruffled sound, but it made Will smile. One day, he promised at himself, he would have destroyed the goyl’s stone heart and make him laugh.

“So?”

“Come here, you Pup, have I ever told you that one time I…” And Will moved next to Nerron and fell asleep again, dreaming not disturbing memories, but the incredible adventures his companion was telling him.

[mirrorworld-shmirrorworld]

love how mrs funke just gave us a race of stone people and not enough lore along with them so i'm just sitting here wondering how their digestive system works and what foods they eat.