#tisamon

[schemilix]

Tisamon the Mantis. Finished this off while watching Stuart Ashen eat bees?? Didn’t realise how appropriate it was until just now.

[frith-in-tombs]

A space mantis for laylainalaska! (ie the Tisamon constellation)

[capitannublado]

The world in which tynisa is blonde may kill me, but that might just be me

To satisfy whatever bug needs I have, I made her a whipless tail scorpion, an arachnid with raptorial pedipalps which I associate a lot to a mantis' raptorial arms, in my mind it seemed like the best thing to make her (specifically phrynus whitei because I thought they were cutie)

I went a bit crazy, do forgive me if this is like completely going against everything it's what I see when I read her interview scene

Also tisamon, you can tell he's my favourite because when he showed back up (I'm still like 80% through empire of black and gold), I could NOT shut up about it

And because he's a mantis and I love mantids

I made him this one mantis from Africa that i LOVED (not my favourite, phyllocrania paradoxa, since I can't see a man of that species ever being as sharp and serious and shit as tisamon)

In my dream world, tisamon has long hair he ties up, because seeing him with short hair feels wrong

Oh and they have like palps and antennae and stuff because I love that in even my own ocs, I luv bugs

I have a salma and che design somewhere that I'll fish out, and Totho is still in the cauldron of my mind

[frith-in-tombs]

[frith-in-tombs]

Tisamon is bringing up his daughter the best way he knows how. By teaching her that waving swords at things is ALWAYS the best approach. (can't stop drawing these characters as bugs send help)

[frith-in-tombs]

Tisamon and Sten drawn as bugs. Fandomstocking present for laylainalaska

[sholiofic]

Making Friends in Helleron (5422 words) by Sholio Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Shadows of the Apt - Adrian Tchaikovsky Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Stenwold Maker, Tisamon of Felyal, Atryssa Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Torture, Pre-Canon Summary: Winning friends and influencing people, Stenwold style. Set before the attack on Myna, so about 20 years before the present day of the books; no spoilers.

More new-reader-friendly Shadows of the Apt fic! (Also self-indulgent h/c. Because it's me.)

[sholiofic]

Shadows of the Apt fic: Regroup and Recover

Regroup and Recover (2006 words) by Sholio Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Shadows of the Apt - Adrian Tchaikovsky Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Tisamon of Felyal, Stenwold Maker, Cheerwell Maker Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Missing Scene, Family Summary: An h/c-ish missing scene for book 1. Can probably be read without much knowledge of the books (it spoils one character-related twist in Book 1, which is revealed fairly early, and you find out someone gets hurt at some point, which is not much of a spoiler in this series).

More comparatively new-reader-friendly fic for this series, this one set during book 1. (It does spoil a few things lightly, but nothing major.)