At first I was just gonna draw Loup, but then I got this idea (as I was sending you that ask on your birthday actually) and knew that I HAD to draw it hehe.
I hope you had an awesome birthday, and I hope this coming year is even better! <3
Uhhh, I still have to finish the latest Sumeru Archon Quest, but I have been feasting from it. Not only that, but also... uhhh, spoilers ahead.
(and a brief discussion about my AU multiverse story ideas of A Journey o Foxgloves that somehow this quest added more fuel lore to it)
So the reveal of Collei having fragments of Nabu Malikata, then how Cyno and Tighnari comforted her when she felt lost about loss of identity, Cyno mentioning he knows how it feels with his Hermanubis fragments within, not only that made me melt for these three, but also validated more of this found family group.
And this somehow added more to my AU multiverse story where Tighnari meets my sona as she gets on Teyvat with the help of Nepeta Leijon. Because at some point my sona and Tighnari would become shapeshifters due to some incident, in the AU story with the events happening to the recent Sumeru Archon Quest Tighnari would add more to the dialogue, him relating as well with becoming a shapeshifter, but also still feeling he's himself. And sometime briefly later would call my sona to join the group for comfort (because she feels lost overall) and he's saying Ivox is welcomed to the family as well, Cyno and Collei agreeing to it, my sona starting to cry, everyone in a group hug....
Wtf, wtf, wtf, this quest served me crumbs, I feel so soft, aaaaaaaagh!!! This gives me "us weirdos gonna stick together" vibes from The Owl House, too, the found family of Luz, Eda and King!
I fucking....love it! 🥹
Oh, and at some point I'll have to show relationship dynamics between the characters, but basically it's like this:
- Cyno and Tighnari are love partners
- Collei is their adopted child (in this AU thingy, at least)
- Ivox and Tighnari are also love partners (they become at some point in the story)
- idk what's to be called between Cyno and Ivox, but anyways at least they become friends
- Ivox doesn't like to be called a mother (or whatever is referred as parent, related to traumas), but she'll mention she doesn't mind to be called aunt or auntie, so she lets Collei to call her auntie. In fact, Ivox finds being called auntie cute.
Anyways yeah, a whole gang of weirdos being a family. :'3 Of course, Kaveh and Alhaitham are part of this family as well.
And idk, does it feel funny that a group of Sumerians got a Romanian as a fellow family member, too? Like pffff... I mean of course she has some cultural ties to Sumeru (considering the cultural ties between Romania and some territories of Middle East due to the interactions with the Ottoman Empire, wars and what not). And thankfully they'd discuss very early on that she has no ties with the Fatui, with the funny thing that she also feels connected to Snezhnaya (Romania having ties with other Eastern European countries and Russia in plenty of ways), so she's safe.
More ideas popped in my mind, but uhhh.... I have to keep them to myself until I can reveal them in my webcomic, which will be... in a few years, I believe, with the slow pace I have with it. 😅
