#haidace

[indilaras]

Another desert gang sketch pile (feat. smooches and stuff)

[buryam-soul]

Musings on Cyno/Alhaitham/Candace + language

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Candace tells Cyno he sounds like a textbook when he speaks in the desert tongue. More identifiably rainforest than passing merchants or even some scholars. Cyno confides that Cyrus never told him from where in the Sands he's even from; no tribe to seek out, no dialect to learn from, no folktales or traditions to even remember.

Candace starts helping him learn the Aaru dialect since. "Lending" it to him. Maybe Aaru Village wasn't the home he was born in, but she made sure it was the second home he was always welcome in.

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Cyno taught Alhaitham simple Matra code when he was Acting Grand Sage. "Status check", "ok", and so on, in case of emergencies. Alhaitham first uses this in the Grand Sage office after a long day; stress had stolen from him speech and sign and writing, leaving behind weak taps and scratches of "escape needed".

Cyno starts asking "status check" more often since. Still in code. Even after he returned to being Scribe, even during meet ups with friends, an escape to silence can still be necessary.

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Alhaitham asks Candace why she writes to him in Vedanagari script in personal letters. Her calligraphy is more stilted compared to her writing in Deshret script. Candace admits she craved a connection her father who was an Akademiya scholar; she couldn't spend much time with him growing up due to her Guardian training.

Alhaitham starts writing more letters to her since. Longer letters. About the Akademiya, calligraphy, and maybe someone who knows what it's like to seek your parents through written word.

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[necromancerka]

headcanons for my parents

[indilaras]

Messy warm up sketch that I ended up liking! Mostly from memory (except I glanced at ref for parts of Dehya's fit).

Desert gang drawing? After playing desert gang co op with the number one desert gang polycule enjoyer ra @flowerhotpot ? It's more likely than you think.

ID: a sketch of Cyno, Candace, Dehya, and Alhaitham from Genshin Impact. Cyno is depicted from the waist up, eyes closed and grinning. Candace and Dehya are both drawn from the shoulders up, looking up; Dehya is smiling while Candace is more neutral-faced. The three are surrounded with sparkles and are all within a thought bubble coming out of Alhaitham who is on the top left. He's smiling, with flower effects around him. End ID