#lysandra barbas

[incorrectfallingkingdomsquotes]

Jonas: Hey do you think I could fit fifteen grapes into my mouth?

Lys: you’re a hazard to society

Felix: and a coward. Do twenty

[cassberrie]

Done! I started planning this all the way back in September, and now it’s complete :) I wanted to give Morgan Rhodes’s Falling Kingdoms series a proper send-off, so here is an all-stars poster of all of the major characters: Gaius, Melenia, Lucia, Alexius, Magnus (prince of sass), Cleo, Amara, Ashur, Felix, Jonas, and Lysandra. 

I took a lot of inspiration from Charlie Bowater’s phenomenal Wings and Ruin artwork, plus a little from @alex-castellanos’s awesome poster for Susan Dennard’s Truthwitch. All of these gorgeous all-stars fan arts made me eager to try out an ensemble picture of my own. 

It’s a little bittersweet, knowing that the series that got me to fall back in love with reading in high school is coming to a close, but I can’t wait to see how things wrap up. Thank you, Morgan! <3

(P.S. What you did to us at the end of Crystal Storm was very not nice. Please be more kind to us in this one please. My heart can only take so much. )

Edit: this is now available as a print on Redbubble! So if anyone is interested :)

[myticanlegends-blog]

First/Last Words - Jonas Protection Squad

Lysandra Barbas (killed by Kyan, fire magic)

Gregor Barbas (killed by Gaius Damora, beheaded)

Phaedra (killed by Xanthus, death/air magic)

Brion Radenos (killed by Aron Lagaris, slit throat)

[cleioonabellos-blog]

Lysandra Barbas character aesthetics.

[im-not-crazy-just-a-teenager]

Jonas: you should join the rebels.

Nic: *laughs* oh, no way.

Jonas: why not?

Nic: you have the most terrible plans.

Jonas:

Nic: Join the rebels is sure death, and not because the revolution thing.

Lyss: he’s right, tho.

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Jonas: I’m going to fight the Damoras.

Lys: But you’re not armed!

Jonas: I am!

Lys: With what?

Jonas: Overconfidence.

[cassberrie]

Hey guys! Sorry for being inactive for so long :( I just finished up this semester, and finals were brutal. But now I’m back, and I’ve completed my picture of Jonas and co. To be honest, Jonas is not really my favorite of the quartet (That’s not his fault, of course, because who can compete with Magnus Damora?), but Felix is such a joy to read. A shame about his eye... 

Now that I’m done with the main quartet (Cleo, Magnus, Lucia, and Jonas), I’m debating who to draw next. The Cortas siblings? Gaius? 

[myticanlegends-blog]

A Christmas Spirit

If it’s not noticeable by now, I’m placing all this years Christmas fics in the FK universe. Meaning all have involved drinking and are generally not the happiest if not a little hopeful. Sorry. Last sad-ish one hopefully…

FelixxLys | JonasxLys | Josandra

No spoilers for CS

“Do you ever wonder what happens to a person when they die?” Felix asked to the empty air in front of him.

He and Jonas lay on the deck of their ship headed back to save Mytica. The air was crisp and cool but the bottle of Palesian wine between them kept them warm. Here on the ocean the sky was brighter that Felix had ever seen it and the stars shined.

“Cheerful,” Jonas snorted. “I’m feeling the festivity.”

Though really, who could blame Felix? As an assassin he wouldn’t be surprised if he had killed more men than anyone else on the ship combined. The question had haunted him for years. A ghost or spirit, perhaps, would be most worrying considering he could name quite a few people who might have evil vendettas against him beyond the dead. 

However, if there were spirits, it meant Lys might not be trapped in the everafter. She could be here, watching them both, looking down on them with that signature roll of her eyes.

Idiots, she would have scoffed but she would have smiled as well.

“There was a legend I heard while in Auranos…” Jonas said thoughtfully. “That those who die become stars.”

It was a much better idea than Felix would have come up with. Fanciful and optimistic. It was hardly something he could picture himself believing.

“You think so?” he asked. 

Jonas was silent a minute. “I’d like to believe so… Lys-”

Whatever he was going to say was swallowed up by the mood. A much too somber mood for two men drunk on Christmas night. 

“I loved her,” Jonas decided to say.

Felix couldn’t argue that fact. Jonas had loved her… eventually. She had loved him. Felix could say so many things about her death, about Jonas, but it wouldn’t make a difference. But being petty, although didn’t make him feel better, made Jonas feel worse and Felix wasn’t noble enough to spare his feelings.

“So did I,” he said. “But she decided to love a fool like you.”

“Yeah…” Jonas released a large breath as if he’d been holding it since long before Felix had ever come into his life.

“A merry Christmas, isn’t it?” he said sarcastically after a minute. 

“I’ve had worse,” Felix couldn’t help but comment and to his surprise Jonas laughed.

“I bet you have.”

They let conversation fade after that as they both looked up at the numerous stars and the darkness ahead of them. Felix wondered if it was really possible that Lys was one of those twinkling stars above- so far away but lighting their way. He wondered if Jonas was thinking the same. 

What a sad turn of fate that they would both fall for the same girl only for her to end up dead. Fate had never been on Felix’s side.

Merry Christmas, he thought towards the sky. Towards Lys. We won’t forget you.

For a second Felix could have sworn he heard a reply.