#kyle haven

[ithilienns]

Me every time Kyle (derogatory) is mentioned:

[vicivicibobici]

[1hundredteeth]

Me whenever Kyle

[neatbay]

thinking keffria thoughts today. and as a certified shygirl, this part in ship of magic makes me want to kill and kill and kill

[fieldsofvarley]

that basement is not enough i need to feed him to the rain wild river

[phoet]

you know, i thought regal with his scheming in the farseer trilogy was bad. i get really anxious when reading about people with a kind of boundless power who can invade minds and who seem to be able to know your next move inevitably, so he was a really effective villain for me, at least for royass and some of assquest.

now i'm 20% into ship of magic and oh my gods step aside regal because kyle and kennit make my blood boil. name two more horrible, horrifying, annoying, idiotic men. being in kennit's head SUCKS. he's a loser and so slimy i feel like i need a bath. having to be in any room with kyle? the worst experience that could possibly befall you. i wish them both a very i explode you with my mind. oh my gods.

[marsskaterboii]

As a general principle, I find casual cruelty far worse than a true villainy. It is why, perhaps, I don't mind that Regal has no real evil ambitions besides serving himself. His cruelty is casual, his violence an afterthought, if not a treat to himself. For the very same reason, Kyle Haven enrages me so. He is no true villain with elaborate plans to wreak great evil. Kyle Haven is just a misogynistic man who thinks it's alright to mistreat his son for being too "girlish" and to sell people for his own gain. Every misery endured by the people around him is not because he is oh so evil. It's because he is casually cruel and believes he has the right to it.

[izzi-illustrates]

My latest RotE obsession: I finally re-read the Liveship Traders after 10+ years.

Design choices and mild series spoilers below the cut!

I had fun making this one! Particularly with playing with family resemblances that are mentioned in the book, like Wintrow looking a lot like Althea. I chose to make them both look like Ronica, but to also give Keffria Ronica's black eyes - and Wintrow Keffria's worried brows. I also wanted Althea to look a lot like her father - she's the only one with his nose and almost exact colouring.

Selden and Reyn were harder to draw - both have basically no description other than Reyn's eyes glowing through his veil, and Selden starting to scale after meeting Tintaglia, so I made Selden look most like his father in colouring, but more like his mother in the eyes and nose. Reyn I just decided to have fun with and ignored Grag describing him as "able to walk among Bingtowners unremarked" and instead went nuts with the sort of scaling he probably has in the Rainwild quartet later on.

Brashen Trell accidentally came out looking an awful lot like a friend of mine, but I like it.

Malta, my beloathed, my beloved, was one of the hardest to draw; I wanted her to look young, but also overly made up and dressed more maturely than her years. I also wanted to give her some of her father's colouring - since he favours her most of his children - but also her mother's nose and those Vestrit brows, since she's so much Ronica's granddaughter/heir by the end of the series.