goodness knows i will NOT have time during the time being to turn this into a full-on illustration, because rn I gotta work on my comic and artist alley prints/stickers etc. So TEEHEE in the meantime have this wip :]
sort of a "cover" for my ongoing multichapter Frifnab fanfiction An Igneous Echo, which has 6 chapters as we speak and will MOST LIKELY break the 100K barrier :'''DDDD No really it's already the longest piece of fanfiction that I have ever written, and it's not even close to its ending LMFAOOOOO, I have legit no idea where this sudden gigantic rush of inspiration to write rarefandom fic came to me during this summer (be mindful though if you read it, because it's E rated for graphic violence, horror and sexual themes. so minors dni!!)
lgbt people are THRIVING in the Zamonian underground (aka: killing each other and scheming)
NETHERWORLD WORLDBUILDING GO BRRRRRRRR the historical nerd inside me wanted to try my hand at designing Hellian fashion :DD esp since chapter 3 of Igneous Echo takes place during Gornab's bday which means everyone has to dress up in their sunday best, so these are kinda also my. brainstorming
Gornab's festival outfit was highkey inspired by @generalticktock 's fanart because i LOVED the design there :DD
Friftar's not doing anything to his hair for the event cuz he took one look at his spiderlike mane and went "yeah cant get any better from this" (which is fair because his wild hair is considered attractive by Hellians) PS update on his outfit design cuz I was not happy with how the patterns originally looked.
(our boy is being a slut and actually showing his ankles)
and yes Krakoni is my way of exploring the horror that is the concept of. Hellings throwing actual Zamonians into the Mothersoup. (the book only talked about Netherworldian animals being used to create Homunculi, but I wonder that since Hellings see Overworldians as below them, they're seen as valid ingredients too. I feel like it happens way more rarely, since many Zamonian species like Nocturnomaths or Vulpheads have features that could produce "too powerful" Homunculi. But also if a Zamonian commits a grave crime in Hel, the punishment of throwing them into the Mothersoup could be the ultimate way of dehumanizing them)
Ohora in my hcs is one of the many deities worshipped in Hel, and her cult of love/fertility is inspired by the cult of Ishtar in ancient Babylon! Pandravis' family in particular worships Ohora and has been funding for centuries the temple, where Hellings go pray for luck in marriage and where Hellian kings have traditionally been wed to their queens.
Hel headcanons/worldbuilding?? Oh boi i bet NOBODY saw that coming :DD
anyway i know painting is not revered as an art form in Hel, but I wanted to doodle the Ximea-Zyphos fam in like. one of those historical aristocrat family portraits (also highkey inspired by the Kiramman family painting in Arcane!)
My horrible girl Pandravis is wearing enough gemstones to qualify as a discoball, meanwhile for Tykhon's outfit i wanted to go for that 1500s Galileo Galilei/Copernicus esque scientist vibe :'D
Misc Netherworld doodles, mostly related to my Frifnab fanfic An Igneous Echo
- my boys Ukobach and Ribesehl whom i love so dearly (i feel like they would be into punk culture in a modern au :D)
- my helling ocs Larir, her mom Pandravis, and Greenwood Dwarf girl Syra who all appear in chapter 2
- Love loses ❤️❤️❤️ an event that MAY happen in a future chapter :^) Hellian wedding headcanons inspired by the reblogs on THIS post, thank you @friftar 🎊🎊🎊🎊 (the wedding outfits arent my final designs, just sketchy concepts that I did based on the hcs BUT until that)
Grown up Larir sketches that i did today in class, for the Larir Lives AU where she actually does NOT get clocked by Friftar's spy in my fanfic (MAN call me an Undertale artist the way I am making an AU out of my AU lmfaOOOO)
Throwing my lore for her under the readmore!
In the AU she is Pandravis' apprentice in court and expected to inherit the Ximea wealth and establishments one day...something that HORRIFIES her. Just like Ukobach and Ribesehl (her close friends in this AU) are rebelling in their own ways, Larir wants to find ways to use her noble privilege to help the Hellian common folk, such as trying to advocate for worker rights, and treating every Overworldian and Homunculus she meets with kindness :'')
She has learned to manipulate and trick noblemen to get her way, by using a tactic not unlike Friftar's - weaponizing her "shy and harmless little girl" vibes and intentionally appearing as a sad crybaby so people won't take her seriously. She employs spies of her own to observe her political enemies, and yes Friftar is absolutely fuming but also lowkey has respect for his niece :D She is still young and inexperienced, but the way she is quickly learning how to play the Game of Thrones(TM) actively unnerves him... especially the way she looks at him, that tells "I know". (Yet she often also makes what he likes to call "beginner mistakes", and it amuses him. And he postpones assassinating Larir because he is curious to see how she'll grow as a spymaster)
Larir, just like Uschan DeLucca, is unable to feel scared of General Ticktock! All she sees is a sad machine who has been trapped by his commands all his life, who is unable to be happy. (And also...Larir is severely depressed and has little regard for her own safety 💔) And Ticktock? The general sees her and is the Spongebob meme "everyone get out. Except you, you stay." She is the ONE Helling that he fully respects KFJFKDKLDL
Also, while she is alive, her greenwood dwarf gf and childhood love Syra is dead. Something that traumatized her greatly, and Larir is scared of falling in love again and getting attached to people. She blames herself for Syra's death, no matter how much Uko and Ribs try to tell her its not her fault. She prefers the company of Kackerbats and critters, and often feels like she does not deserve to be happy. And when it comes to romantic relations... Larir, not unlike her mother, has many shortlived affairs with Hellings and Overwordian women/enbies alike :') Whether its her spies or servants, or Maidens at the temple of Ohora. She always pushes them away before things can get too serious.
Her relationship to papa Tykhon is still warm and loving, but it's way more complicated with mama Pan. Larir NOT want to follow the Ximea lifestyle, and there's a fuckton of hostile tension between them. Their relationship is VERY much like Lyra and Mrs Coulter in His Dark Materials where Pan does love her, but actively hurts her and their worldviews are stark opposites.
LIKE LIKE LIKE. I can SO imagine them having an interaction like this, especially the lines ("You are just like I was" "I am nothing like you")
However, once Tykhon dies, the two of them are heartbroken and bond over the loss.
Pandravis herself battles between wanting to control Larir harder to make sure she'll follow in her mother's footsteps, and letting Larir do what she wants, because Pan herself would have wanted that as a teen and to her own dismay she realizes at one point that "was this what my own mom went through?" Call the Ximeas the ultimate Mommy Issues family tree 😁👌👌👌
