i cant believe you made malfurion look like an adorable dork. ive hated him for years bc of how hes been portrayed in-game and such, but the way you draw him..... i really love it. i generally love the way you portray wow characters. you reall give them life where i feel blizzard lacks. thank you
THATS HOW I FELT...... I was like omg... this Malf... is not unlike my stupid Malf.. HE IS A SWEET BOY.....it’s the frickin ARTISTS WHO WERE WRONG.. that and whoever is porting book content into the game (and ok sometimes other books)
SO OK I cannot stress this enough- these books are 90% cringey garbage airport fantasy so I just want to save ppl some trouble and hit yall with a couple quick WOTA Malf highlights:
Malf is from Suramar, and his parents would have been “horribly embarrassed” to see him dressing in a plain hippie tunic instead of the usual colorful fancy night elf robes
Wears shitty plain hippie tunic because he states he would “look like a clown” if he were dressed up in elven robes while conversing with nature which... kills me bc look at him now... clown fiesta
Malf starts to not like living in the city once his powers grow because anything that’s made out of natural materials is still like.. speaking to him, and since it’s been made into something else it’s usually expressing mild confusion and discomfort lol
Illidan is in a good mood and runs into Malfurion and gives him a brotherly slap on the back. Malfurion winces, because he’s a dweeb. Illidan does not notice.
Malfurion tries to intervene in Azshara’s plans by using the Dream, gets captured by Xavius, is helpless and only escapes with the power of friendship telepathy, but the exertion of escaping makes him pass out and his spirit would have wandered forever in the Dream not knowing where or who he was if Cenarius didn’t run into senile young man Malfurion, scoop him up and return him to his body
Tyrande could tell Malf was going to try and do some dream shenanigans (as opposed to just recon) and called him out on it, he sort of tries to ignore that (hmm here is a good meditation spot ok thank you) and she sits and stays with him and he’s like “o, it’s cool you don’t have to stay” in oblivious-nerd-doesn’t-realize-girl-likes-him fashion. He starts meditating then feels her hand in his before he’s finally like “oh... c:”
After almost 2 books Malf still has no idea Illidan loves Tyrande and Tyrande likes Malf, even tho they are both very obvious about it (see: above). Illidan had even accepted that Malf and Tyrande were going to end up together, but the revelation of just how stupid Malf really was was one of the factors that drove Illidan to go check out the Legion.
Malf accidentally mind battles with Archimonde and gets immediately knocked out. Tyrande is strong enough to “gently” pick Malfurion up and put him on her nightsaber. He recovers and turns around to see Tyrande who is clad in full plate and covered in demon blood and he’s like.... holy shit
Tyrande gets knocked out and captured because Malf asked for help from the priestesses and when he fails to save her from being taken through a Legion portal (out of mana basically) he cries so hard he unknowingly causes a torrential downpour that most of the war combatants have to retreat out of
He almost cries because the roots he’s asking to snare demons know they’re doing to get killed and choose to help him anyway
In Stormrage he gets Tyrande out of some nightmare trap and “weeps openly” bc she’s ok
Malfurion wore sandals to his wedding.
