My small contribution for the Super Secret Seth Dickinson Fan Appreciation Compendium (a real physical book 😱), based on the Cosmogyre II lore! All thanks and credit go to @lizzieraindrops and @thefirstknife for organizing/editing/delivering the project!
I don't have much to say, but I hope Seth knows how much they're loved as both a D2 writer and an author in their own right. 🫂
First picture of 2025 -- the Uldwyn companion to Hal's ID.
Scowly McScowlerson.
He gets the chip off his shoulder and stick out of his ass eventually. Until then, though, he's every bit the asshole that D1 Uldren was.
As an aside, I am in love with how his jacket turned out. I suppose it did help that I had a real life leather jacket reference (though my jacket is cut in the typical motorcycle jacket cut with the lapels, not like a racing jacket like he has).
Bonus little scene snippet under the cut:
The girl nervously typed out the information and adjusted the zoom on the camera. She could feel those eyes piercing her soul. Uldwyn was scowling, though his scowl was not specifically at her. Nonetheless, she shrank in fear under the gaze.
"Don't worry." She looked up at Hal, standing next to her, arms crossed over his chest. "His bark is worse than his bite." She glanced at Uldwyn's file. He was the first convicted felon on the employee roster with a rap sheet multiple pages long, and filled with war crimes. He shouldn't be here. He should be in prison, or dead.
"I... I will chose to believe his file, if it's all the same to you," she quietly replied. Hal glanced to her, then to her computer, then to Uldwyn.
"Alright, let me rephrase that. He won't bite as long as I'm standing here."
"Are you two done? Are you taking the picture or not?" Uldwyn snapped, scowling even harder, this time at Hal in particular. Hal's eyes met his, and an uncomfortable silence settled over them.
Liminal Infinities by Cthonical
Rating: T+
Major Warnings: None
Status: One-Shot
Pairing: Uldwyn/Uldren/Crow x Jolyon Till
Jolyon Till would say he wasn’t lost all at once. It was a gradual drowning, infinite tiny cuts directly into the shape of his soul.
Jolyon Till still has yet to realise that many different things can be true at the same time.
She doesn't think she's given anything away, but somehow he knows. "Mara." He looks up frowning, his face bigger and brighter than the distant Sun. "You want to go back, don't you? You're going to vote to return."
Mara thinks that if she looked him in the eye he would see the truth, the turmoil, the half-formed yes.
"Mara. You don't have to tell me how…" He swallows the hitch in his voice. "I've seen how bad it is. I've watched it long enough to know that it's not going to get better. They're gambling everything on the Traveler. We came out here to get away from it. To step off the easy path. Why would we go back?"
Marasenna | Cosmogyre II