#nothalas

[crouton-knight]

Remthalas and Notha for the fucked up ship Bingo? 👀

DF can say whatever it wants but they're canon in my heart

((Send ships for this bingo!))

[justanothalyehr]

What do you mean this isn't the Maleurous Saga?

[crouton-knight]

palette requests

Got a bit carried away with the Rem/Notha one. Warlic only took like half an hour, but Rem and Notha got about three hours together. The power of a blorbo that I'm not used to painting! Requested by @7yd1a and @oddeyesight These can work as commission examples too, but if someone wants something experimental like this, I think I'll price it a tiny bit cheaper than my usual lineless art just because it's pretty unexpected for me. Very "trust the process" kind of work.

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[crouton-knight]

What can you tell me about dancers in the garden?

asedipsfs I didn't expect to get an ask about this for some reason LMAO I completely forgot I'd put up the grab bag again. Gonna write a sentence of it to try and motivate myself. But first I'll tell you about it!

This got several paragraphs longer than anticipated.

((Explanation of the WIP grab bag here))

I don't 100% remember what spurred me to actually write it, but @oddeyesight @valorousowl @redrowantree and I were probably talking late at night, as you do.

I'm pretty sure it was Odd who had the idea/vision for the core image of the fic: Notha in a stylish black suit, Rem in a dazzling white gown(1), the two of them attending an event of some kind. The story evolved quite a bit from there!

At first I just wanted Rem to cause a minor scandal, but then decided I wanted them to do something chill for once, so the dance scene got moved from the ballroom to the garden, particularly because Remthalas doesn't want to wear shoes(2) but it'd be inappropriate for him to go barefoot at such a formal occasion.

There's more to the title than just the literal obvious "they dance in the garden" bit, though, as we later discussed that perhaps a guest who also went out of the ballroom for a bit might have noticed them, maybe from a balcony or from a different part of the garden, and was so moved by the vision that they painted the scene.

(1) Rem's gown in the current version isn't pure white anymore because I learned that sea silk is a thing but is more of a burnt gold color, and I really wanted him to wear something Abyssal in origin. The IRL mollusc that produces the byssus made for sea silk is tidal, though, so I made the color a lighter, "champagne" color for his gown instead, to suggest that Abyssal sea silk has different qualities. Besides; the pearls are still white.

(2) Personal headcanon that he has foot pain, possibly even flat feet; partially as a nod to the Little Mermaid because I'm a sucker for fairytale parallels, partially because I think it makes sense for water elves since they never wear shoes in-game, and partially based on my own experience with various chronic pains so I like giving fictional characters chronic pain.

[justanothalyehr]

NoThalas is like: they don't even know each other, they are married, it's a crack ship, it's the closest to canon, they don't care about each other interests, they kept contact even after one of them moved, the creator ships it, the creator said they're coworkers at best, etc

[crouton-knight]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DragonFable (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Remthalas/Notha Ly'Ehr Characters: Notha Ly'Ehr, Remthalas, Original Characters Additional Tags: Fairy Tale Retellings, Fairy Tale Elements, Fairy Tale Style, Dark Fairy Tale Elements, Horror, Sea Monsters, Arranged Marriage, Forced Marriage, Racism, Xenophobia, Murder Summary:

In an old part of Lhe'Shyiac is an older story about promises, about the sea, and about minding your own damn business.

Rem/Notha fairytale