#hwtf

[sajirah]

Erynion and Maddie

From my girl @i-mushi from her fic Home With the Fairies.

She came to me with a photo she found and was like “This would be perfect for Erynion and Maddie if the hair colors were different…” and me being the diehard Erynion/Maddie shipper that I am was like “Say no more.”

Thanks for giving me yet another excuse to draw my OTP (though let’s be real, I hardly needed one. Have you seen the amount of art I’ve made for these two over the past 10 years?). 😌

[dyinghorizons-blog]

So about your family...

So we have all seen those stories about humans being super nice, or super strong, or witty, clever, adaptive, etc. But what if we were really none of these things? I mean not exceptionally of course. What if instead we were just morally absent, or had the capability to project said moral absence in the face of something greater, that other species just cannot compete with?

"Jo'skar, you have been captured during a terrorist attempt to bomb the Galactic Collective of Sentient Species Congress."

Jo'skar didn't care what this Faath had to say to him. He was going to prison if he was lucky, executed if he was not. It did not matter, because his objective had failed, and that meant that another would need to be sent in his place to impress upon the GCSS just how much they had angered several races on the Rim. And so he sat, staring daggers into his interviewer.

"Understand, Jo'skar, that you do not need to communicate with me. YOUR involvement has already been confirmed, and therefore sentence will be passed shortly likely resulting in your summary execution... However," Jo'skar felt some trepidation at the pause here, especially considering how nervous the Faath seemed to be. "A relatively newly contacted species has requested the honor of questioning you for further information concerning your accomplices regarding any and all activities of a terroristic nature. Given their recent history, we are inclined to afford them the opportunity." The Faath promptly stood up from his chair and left the interview room. Slowly, almost reluctantly for a slug-looking blue hat (where had he heard that term? It doesn't matter...).

So Jo'skar sat, at least [15 minutes] before anything happened. It didn't matter. They could put him in an ultra bright cell for months on end, blare the most annoying sounds for years, cut on him, crush him, try to seduce him, anything. None of it mattered for the cause. He was someone else than who they thought. Oh yes. He was Jo'skar, but he was someone else too. And they would never get to the core of that, as he had left his family behind, his identity, even changed his appearance so no one would recognise him. The Cause was safe.

Suddenly the heavy steel door opened, letting in an averaged sized being, mammalian, with a dark patch of fur on the top of its head and going down along the sides if its face to the chin, and on its upper lip. Considering the rest appeared hairless, it was a rather thick amount of fur just in those areas. Odd. The individual also appeared to be tired and not particularly interested in the job put before it. Jo'skar's scales turned a lighter shade of brown in amusement. "THIS is the species to interview me? What a joke..." He thought as the mammal sat down opposite him and dropped the folder it was carrying as if a huge weight. Admittedly, a large folder perhaps [2 inches] thick but still just a folder.

"Sar'aal, sorry to be so late," the mammal stated exasperated. Jo'skar flinched at the sound of his real name.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Jo'skar," corrected the interviewer. Jo'skar relaxed a bit. Perhaps someone had used his real name as a pseudonym. "I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here. We haven't got to the point of real names, have we?" Jo'skar immediately felt a bit of fear.

"My name is Jo'skar, and no other name will suffice," he ventured, his first words since capture.

"Well that's a shame for your mother, Ysildda, your father Kri'sna, your sisters Ommeli, Imutna, and Farryi, let alone your own family. I'm sure you know them. Erannha, and your children Kris'ka and Fr'atkha?" The being produced photographs of each individual as it stated their names. Almost in a bored fashion.

"You see, we humans are very good at counter terrorism operations. We had several decades dealing with our own terrorists, in fact. And where terrorists refuse to cooperate, we find it extremely difficult to protect their families, even if they have cut all ties with them," the individual, now identified as human, stated. "So here is my proposal. And you only get it once. Answer any and all of my questions, or I cannot guarantee your family's safety the next time the GCSS decides to go on a terrorist raid."

[polished-to-perfection]

[sajirah]

So once upon a time, in like 2014, I made this character progression fanart for my favorite GiME fic, Home With the Fairies by my girl i-mushi.

Well a year or so later I tried to redo it but never finished it, as seen here, before I eventually lost the file when my computer crashed a couple years ago.

So here I am almost 8 years later redoing this shit properly (now that my skills have significantly improved).

So everyone go read that fic (especially now that everyone loves Tolkien stuff again because of The Rings of Power show coming out this year)! I demand it!

[sajirah]

To say my interpretation of these characters has evolved over time would be an understatement. Also my painting skills. Like...that’s a lot of progress for only 3 or 4 years. 

[sajirah]

Maddie and Erynion Wedding WIP. 

And then I painted over the freckles...I hope I remember to paint those back on tomorrow...

[sajirah]

A super, super quick redo sketch of Maddie and Erynion’s wedding clothes that I designed like...forever ago. Like...super duper forever ago. So forever ago, in fact, that I can’t even find the original file and I had to do this all from memory. 

...At least I remembered the freckles this time. I always forget the freckles. 

[sajirah]

i-mushi’s Maddie and Erynion on their wedding day. 

Oh my god it’s finally done!!! Boy did this one get away from me. I intended for it to be more simple and instead it became a super detailed monster of a painting. But that’s my art style for you. I always over complicate things. 

And I remembered the freckles this time guys! It’s a miracle!!