#moldyviteart

[greenmoldyvat7k]

I never make comics so hopefully this made even a little sense 🥰

This is based within my concept for Newsie Varian.

This would take place after season 1.

I read that historically, instead of enforcing the death penalty, sometimes criminals would sometimes be deported to remote areas which is basically what happens here.

And as for the hand situation, oftentimes if someone escaped the death penalty in England back in the day, they would be branded on the thumb, and as the example below says, the M would indicate the "murder" of his father but I guess just be indicative of his crimes in general as well.

Basically he got branded and deported to Vardaros and we get to see Hugo slowly putting the pieces together.

[oldgreenmoldyvite]

Prison of Plastic Art!

(The waffle has no "snuzzle" as mentioned in the book because I hate drawing waffles more than I have to)

[greenmoldyvite]

my new fav character 💜💜

[greenmoldyvat7k]

Ego Renegade Boy Varian!!

[greenmoldyvat7k]

More Cassandra’s villain arc making me think of Prince of Egypt!

Once again, never liked the moon Cassandra arc but as soon as I realized it’s vaguely prince of Egypt coded I had too many ideas 😊

[greenmoldyvat7k]

So I never liked Cassandra’s villain arc but then I realized I could make it a Prince of Egypt reference and couldn’t resist 😇

[greenmoldyvat7k]

NEWSIE NURU!! Here she is!

As usual this falls under my concept for Newsie Varian or I guess Newsie Vat7k at this point?

Either way, asks are always appreciated!

[greenmoldyvat7k]

I've been learning small things about alchemy lately so of course when I saw this alchemical art piece I immediately thought of Varian.

Varian and the Green Lion:

I've heard it explained that the green lion represents dangerous underlying instincts that people repress to achieve peace and comfort. It's easy to relate this back to Varian in season 1, having been on edge and generally very desperate and aggressive as a result of his circumstances. In a way he resorted to the same dangerous instinctual mindset that the green lion represents.

Corona and the Sun:

Not only does the sun pretty obviously represent Corona, but from the little I've learned about alchemy, the sun is used to symbolize gold, perfection, and purity. I think this relates to Corona, or at the very least what Corona strives to be.

From a more literal standpoint, I've heard it said that the green lion represents vitriol or sulfuric acid which dissolves many metals but is unable to dissolve gold. I could relate this to how Varian is ultimately defeated in the fight against Corona as well as how Varian is unable to dissolve the amber that trapped his father.

I have lots of different interpretations of how I could relate Varian to alchemical symbolism, he's an alchemist, after all. Even with this one piece I have too many ideas to explain and I also have very very little knowledge about actual alchemical symbolism so I could always be wrong about some things. Hopefully this made just a little bit of sense.