#rossart

[rosdevw2]

Protecting innocence

[rosssnd]

my Laura…

[ibeaperson]

You know what I'd like to see? A preview to Robert's Rebellion, about the reign of Aegon the Unlikely and the Tragedy of Summerhall and in this I would love to see how Aerys II changes. I want to see Aerys start out as this somewhat charming, generous, ambitious, if quick to anger, quick to love, and quick to lose interest man, and end as the absolute fire-obsessed, abusive, sadistic monster he became.

I want to see the inseparable childhood friendship between Aerys, Tywin Lannister, and Steffon Baratheon. I want to see Aerys fighting in the War of the Ninepenny Kings and in the Stepstones. I want to see Aerys's reaction to the Tragedy of Summerhall. I want to see Aerys's early reign as king, starting with him making arguably good choices as an active ruler, and the prosperity that came from his and Twyin's actions. Aerys and his friends had the idea that Aerys would be a good king and become known as "Aerys the Wise" or "Aerys the Great," and I want to see that happy, energetic optimism.

I want to see the "inseparable" friendship between Aerys, Tywin, and Steffon devolve as Steffon leaves for the Stormlands and starts his own family. I want to see Aerys and Tywin's friendship sour after Aerys's behavior at Tywin and Joanna's wedding and disputes between King and Hand. I want to see Aerys want to hang Tywin and name Steffon as Hand, and then see how he reacts to Steffon's death at sea. I want to see Aerys choose Jaime to be a member of the Kingsguard and how this impacts Aerys' and Tywin's relationship. I want to see the Aerys Jamie knew. I want to see how poorly the Defiance of Duskendale is handled, and Aerys' choices become increasingly worse as he descends deeper and deeper into madness. I want to see how Varys comes into the fold, and what his and Aerys' relationship started out as, and how it changed. I want to see Aerys's appearance transform from a handsome youth to a repulsive, corpse-like figure with matted hair, claw-like fingernails, whose mood swings worsen over time.

I want to see Aerys and Rhaella's relationship devolve. I want to see the relationship go from "we are siblings and don't really like each other" to "we were forcibly married by our father and are trying to make the best of it." I want to see the pregnancies, miscarriages, and stillbirths, and I want to see how Aerys turns from being "compassionate" and "comforting Rhaella" about it to becoming suspicious and hateful and paranoid, and see how it damages Rhaella and Aerys and their overall relationship. I want to see Rhaella gradually become increasingly afraid of Aerys as time passes, and I want to see Aerys' increasing distrust, paranoia, and sexual abuse of her and I want to see how Rhaella copes with it.

I want to see Aerys as a father to Rhaegar, who was his and Rhaella's only surviving child for a long time. I want to see Aerys obsess over his children, living and dead. I want to see Aerys order his son's wet nurse to be beheaded and torture his mistress and her family after blaming them for his son's death. I want to see Aerys's Kingsguard standing constant vigil around baby Viserys. I want to see Aerys and Rhaegar's rift after Rhaegar marries Elia, Aerys refusing to welcome little baby Rhaenys, and the growing rift between those who supported Aerys and those who supported Rhaegar juxtaposed by Aerys arresting and brutally executing Brandon Stark, his friends, and their fathers after Brandon demands Rhaegar to "come out and die" after Lyanna is taken/kidnapped/runs away with Rhaegar. I want to see what Aerys thought of the still unborn Daenerys, what little he could have known of her.

I want to see Aerys during Robert's Rebellion. I want to see Aerys become more obsessed with fire and wildfire, and using it. I want to see him and Rossart, Varys, and Pycelle. I want to see him become more and more paranoid and sadistic. I want to see his mental state be consumed with "burning everyone and everything" after Rhaegar is killed, with the belief that he will become a dragon. I want to see Aerys agree to Tywin and his forces into King's Landing. I want to see Aerys become the man Jamie knew and his death at Jamie's hands.

I want to see Aerys become a monster. I want to see the optimism and prosperity of his youth and early reign become horror and fire and blood.

[rosdev]

Watching omniverse and the reboot made me wanna do my own version of the little guys, it was originally an AU but I got lazy with it

The onmitrix here it's actually a prototype, Vilgax attacked before it could be finish, which explains the glitches it sometimes has and why the need to recharge

I'm not a fan of Gwen's pink magic, like yeah she's an anodite and they're pink or whatever, but blue is Gwen's characteristic color and she looks so girlboss with it!

Aso Kevin is not an alien but a mutant, in Ben's world some humans are born with powers because reasons, kinda like the xmens, this would explain characters like the circus freaks or Cooper

So yeah

[a-song-of-art-and-fire]

Wisdom Rossart, Hand of the King

"Queer that they never asked who killed Rossart...but of course, he was no one, lowborn, Hand for a fortnight, just another mad fancy of the Mad King. "

- a startling degree of class consciousness from Jaime there, good on you J-dog!

These minis are designed as a unit of generic pyromancers for the game, but I like to paint individual characters wherever possible. This guy leapt out at me as Rossart, because I feel like whatever weird burning people alive fetish he had would definitely also manifest as having a tonsure.

More of the green wildfire lighting here, and again I'm incredibly pleased with how it came out. My one regret is not realising until just now Rossart had a pretty cool sigil - the backs of these minis are a bit featureless, and that would be a cool canvas for some freehand.

[rossisthatyou]

[wildfirefruitjars]

The Hands of Aerys II! This has been a fun drawing to make! I’ve only drawn Tywin and Jon before, so it was fun to draw the other three for the first time. I didn't spend too much time on the piece, which means just starting the portrait and seeing where it went! Also I mostly drew this to try and remember all of Aerys’ Hands, lol! I never quite remember Owen and Qarlton’s names, but now I hopefully will! ;P

[goodqueenaly]

There was one thing I never truly understood about the wildfyre plot. Aerys ordered Rossart to ignite the cache. Rossart must have known that if he did that he would die to alongside the mad king. Did this alchemist is simply not care if he died or do you think he had an escape plan worked out? Or do you think win the mad king finally gave the order he intended to just shuffle off and disappear into the crowd before Jamie killed him?

Personally, I’ve always thought that Rossart intended to die with Aerys in the wildfire explosion, although this is mostly headcanon rather than a firm textual interpretation. 

It’s obviously clear that Rossart was not a sane person: he specifically got his job in Aerys’ government because the king “had taken to burning traitors, murderers, and plotters” and “seemed to take great pleasure in these fiery executions” over which Rossart presided, and it doesn’t sound like Rossart had any qualms about burning an increasing number of people alive. (Indeed, Rossart seems to have stoked (pun intended) Aerys’ paranoia right until the end, with Jaime remembering Aerys telling him that Rossart had said there were traitors inside the walls.) Related to that point, Rossart doesn’t seem to have had any problems with Aerys’ plan to blow up the city; Aerys bragged to Jaime moments before his own death that Rossart had “gone to make them a warm welcome”, referring to the traitors supposedly inside the city walls. Just as well, Tyrion observes in ACOK how the Guild of Alchemists treats itself as something mysterious and powerful - the pyromancers calling each other “wisdom” and wildfire the “substance” and saying that they had laid “spells” to protect their headquarters (which are, as Tyrion notes, probably less mystical in reality). 

Taken together, I could see where Rossart might have joined the pyromancers because he was already a sadistic person who was attracted to the destructive, murderous possibilities of fire; might have married the secrecy and mystical power-grabbing of the Guild of Alchemists to this innate sadism, seeing himself as a sort of supernaturally appointed executioner; might have found in Aerys a horrible kindred spirit, both of them obsessing over the power of fire to kill and purge; and might have felt that Aerys’ final solution was a sort of apocalyptic sacrifice, the most glorious death he, long-time master of fire, could have and could “give” to the people of King’s Landing. Again, though, that’s as much headcanon as it is anything else.

And too, if I think Aerys’ final order re: King’s Landing is meant to recall in part the Nerobefehl of the last days of Nazi Germany, then I kind of think of Rossart as sort of a Joseph Goebbels figure - an awful right-hand man of an equally insane, awful leader, with him to the end, then willing, even desiring to commit suicide after that leader’s own suicide.