#selunaya

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JoroGumo++

Just a sketch of something that's been on my mind for a few years now, refreshed by that link to the joro gumo from a few weeks ago. 

In Daiya, Arachnae are a family of women who have turned their backs on the blessing/curse of traditional loveliness; the exquisite figures that tempt their Daughter of Vesper cousins into behavior that they perceive as a fundamental betrayal of self. The Arachnae live in remote parts of the borderlands, away from societies that don't understand them. When they do venture into the world to find men with whom to perpetuate their species (they only have daughters) they demand to be loved for what they are. 

Rumor has it that men who cannot find it in their hearts to comply are eaten. But who knows? It's not like anyone comes back to report. 

Of course, Arachnae probably wouldn't exist in Daiya if I hadn't encountered Driders in my dad's gold-box copy of Menzoberranzan, but I think their unilateral reputation as evil, suffering, twisted souls is not a full exploration of their potential. What if a drider were born with the soul of a Disney Princess? What kind of Beauty and the Beast would we tell then?

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Exercises in Perspective

Pencils of Valkyrie Selunaya and Centurion Isedar, because you can't have one without the other; it must be some law of their universe that their crazy attraction must create an equally crazy culture/civilization/situation around them, to justify their existence. 

Also, I am determined to do more with perspective, even if I have to fix it all in Photoshop later. 

3 hours down, 9,997 to go. 

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Upside Down

Some Mass Effect 2 alternate-universe fanart, with Selunaya Vesperi as Miranda Lawson, and Isedar Vesperi as Shepard. Selunaya and Isedar are from Chain of Fealty; everything else is from Bioware's Mass Effect 2. 

The Cerberus logo is upside down to reflect the alternate universe. TIM be damned, I'm 100% sure that this Ms. Lawson made sure that this Commander Shepard is a.) a clone, and b.) has a control chip in his head, tuned specifically to her voice.  

...At the end of the game, he's totally going to have to fight a Cerberus-made clone army of himself, and the big reveal at the end of the story has nothing to do with Reaper babies and everything to do with him choosing between which version of himself (the one on ice from ME1, or the clone from ME2) survives the suicide mission and continues into ME3. 

...Yes, this is totally what I thought the ending of ME2 was going to be. 

Larger versions at deviantart.