#ruie

[fuk-all-of-you]

Some more Kuki monster birthday sketches

[aeris-blue]

Ruie and Ember full art ^^ Hoping to get them up on Artfight this weekend ^^

[aeris-blue]

The trouble with designing new characters is getting attached— and also trying to explain your process is embarrassing ^\\\^ APPARENTLY

[disinheritance]

Doodles of the rebellion leaders: Ruie, Lerudani and Kynith.

I'd say no prizes for guessing my favourite, but I'm not even sure which of them it would be. Used to be Ruie. These days I'm not so sure. 

[disinheritance]

Seven Moments - Ruie

Ruie is six years old when he first meets his brothers. Their skin is darker than his own, though they share similar blood, and for a little while they stare at him like he’s part Cinnish. His mother assures him he isn’t – she’s U’Aldarian, with maybe a little Ythian blood from long ago. His father’s side is as pure a bloodline as any. But then, Ruie’s the blemish on that bloodline, at least for now.

He’s eight years old when he becomes his father’s son and suddenly everything is different. He has to learn to behave at court, and speak three new languages – the higher dialects of both Ythith and Draeneld, and the language of U’Aldar’s own nobility, which he finds hardest of all. His brothers take to it more naturally, and Ruie wishes he belonged as easily.

He’s nine years old when he hears the first suggestion that he isn’t the king’s bastard, or rather that he isn’t the king’s son. Ruie doesn’t allow himself to be bothered by it. He’s not used to having to prove his lineage. He doesn’t know that his reaction only fuels the queen’s belief in the truth of the rumour.

He’s twelve years old by the time he finally feels comfortable at court, and it’s around the time that the first of his brothers comes of age. The younger brother, Paneris, suddenly gets closer to him. He never says why, and Ruie chooses not to ask, but he has an inkling it has to do with their older brother’s equally sudden desire to live up to expectations as crown prince, and stop behaving like such a child.

He’s fourteen years old when Pan comes of age as well, and for a while Ruie finds himself left behind. Somehow, though, the gap between the three of them is bridged. For the first time he can remember, his oldest brother teases him about his name without meaning to be cruel.

He’s nineteen years old when politics happen, and the world begins to break. The king dies of something – Ruie’s too numb to take it in when he’s first told, and as it’s not murder the court is dulled by the details all too soon. Pan later mentions something about a liver condition. Ruie doesn’t take that in, either.

He’s twenty-two years old before he finds another brother to fill the gap left behind by those he had to leave behind. It’s never quite the same, though. He still writes letters to Pan that he never sends.