Tel’eeq (’ rabbit’ Left), and Luquazar (’luq’ Right), in traditional Exseltrix mining and healing attire respectively.
Another work from months ago I forgot to scan. Had to adjust the colours in a big way. Forgot the story for this one, but it’s a favourite OC couple celebrating 10yrs!
The awful background is a nod to embracing cringe: Whatever makes the art pop, am I right?
Medium: Pentalic Paper for Pens, Tombow markers, Bic 1.0M black, A lot of photoshop cleaning and colour adjustment.
------------------------------------Origin Story----------------------------
Luquazar was the general and royal healer’s son. His mother taught him to be a great healer, and as an adult of third age, he was ready for life. However, he had a job before he could leave: The court of the Ras, Agor, and his mother and father, requested he go with the crown prince to the mortal realm for schooling. The Rain King Casper, wanted his son, Heather, safe; and achieve a dream of being a warrior. Luq agreed.
Teleeq grew up in the snowy village of Embrlnd; The northern mines of Exseltrix. He had an older sister, Yoolee, who was aiming for Lordship. Teleeq preferred rocks. His soul belonged to the great treasures the goddess Taren scattered across Molamola. There was no gem unreachable, and no cavern unworthy of reaping.
When Teleeq found out that the peoples of Molamola could go to the mortal realm, his was interest peaked. There was a school. Such human institutions taught geology, mineralogy, and more. Teleeq was already the best miner Molamola could offer, but he wanted to learn more; For crystals were his first love.
Luq and Teleeq where to share a dorm room; They were both young men of Exseltrix. Teleeq, occupied by study, was often mysterious and got injured. Luq was instantly charmed; He had never felt love before. He saw passion and kindness in Teleeq’s rough exterior. Teleeq could see Luq’s yearning every time he was lovingly healed; But he was not interested. He wanted a lady back home; A lumber harvester named Haana.
When the pek nee’ei destroyed Molamola from within, all the students of the school had to return home. Many tears shed, and soft goodbyes. The prince Heather was torn from his soulmate, to hide in the parries of Exseltrix with the royal family; But Luq wanted to go with Teleeq to Embrlnd. After all, Embrlnd needed of a healer.
Haana loved both Luq and Teleeq, and it would turn out all three soul binded. They became an inseperable team. But Haana wanted a baby form each of them. The while, Teleeq begrudgingly loved Luq’s company. Luq wanted to never leave; He had fulfillment, a family, a lord for a sister-in-law, snow, and love. His father had died and his mother missing. There was nothing to loose. Except a patient; When the second child arrived, Luq could not save Haana. It seemed impossible; Their kin, the Phutr Sigrin, never had such complications.
Over the revolution, from start to finish, Teleeq and Luq fell in love and raised their children. It was warm between them in even the deepest of snow. By the end their daughter studied to be a lapidary, and the boy wanted to be a healer. One child from each of them, following the opposite fathers footsteps. Teleeq would leave and come back with loot; he had been every mine. His treasures stored in the vaults of Akar god of wealth, before being sold. But the purple ones were for their daughter to cut and polish.
Luq healed numerous people over the years, and when the revolution was over, and their king returned to restore the kingdom, Luq got to see a familiar face: Heather was the new ras king, and appointed Luq, the finest of healers, to his court. It had come full circle. Their daughter grown, son aprenticing Luq, and Teleeq grasping every treasure of the earth. Always reuniting warmly, softly, and kindly.
It is odd how a long love story can be told so fast. It is like coming home after less then a day, to a warming embrace. The worst and unexpected of Luquazar and Teleeq lives, had become their lemonade.