"Sweet shrimps are made of this, who am I to disagree?"
Today's drawing was created for us by our colleague and friend @lovelywingsart!
Sangreal returns, accompanied by a shrimp, as in the most iconic illustrations depicting him. His mono-type diet (he eats only small crustaceans) apparently inspires people quite a bit… but it's a bit like the "potato theory," right? You know it, right? When a character mentions their favorite food just once, even by mistake, and as a result, everyone starts to associate them with that food as if it were the most important trait of their personality.
We call it "the potato theory" because the character who first comes to mind when we have to describe this archetype is Sasha Braus, a character from Attack on Titan who, if you're just a casual fan of the series, you'll remember as "the potato girl," since at the beginning of the series we meet her as the young recruit who innocently steals a potato and eats it simply because she was hungry.
Unlike her, however, Sangreal is truly defined by this very strict diet, having never eaten anything other than crustaceans, which he catches and raises. In short, it's kind of his job! Even if the definition of "job" for pistrix isn't exactly the same as it is for us humans.
A delightful illustration, showing the entirety of her body, and a half-innocent, half-astonished expression at seeing this shrimp that, from its bright color, almost seems… already cooked! A nice boiled shrimp (and maybe it is, right? Someone might have given him one!).
Sangreal's relationship with cooking food is certainly interesting: even before coming into contact with human culture, Sangreal knew that some people alter the nutritional and organoleptic properties of food with heat, using hydrothermal vents for example, but he himself has never consumed cooked food.
After meeting humans, he will be struck, almost obsessed, by their way of altering and combining flavors (we feel justified in saying that Ratatouille would be his favorite Pixar film), and yes, of course, even cooking shrimp!
His expression is one of wonder, even if it's due to the unusual color, that pale pink, without any white or fuchsia, uniform and tender, that captivates him.
And then we also really appreciate the transparent background, which combined with full-figure drawings always makes us think that they can be used effectively on pages, to complement text.