For the Laicion nation (aka, me and three other people)
I had this illustration commissioned (a big thank you to @lunehowls) for my werewolf AU Laicion fic (still a WIP).
The general pitch is as follows :
AU in which Laios never got to meet his sister again, putting his life on a whole other path, a more desperate one. A military deserter with barely a coin to his name, Laios hitches a ride on a boat to one of the elven continents, where he learns about magical tattoos that binds one’s soul to a wolf’s, effectively making them artificial werewolves. Illegal magic be damned, this feels like the answer to… everything.
In the process, he learns about the existence of an illegal fighting ring in one of the elven cities, where beastmen gladiators gather. Freshly tattooed and without anywhere else to go to, Laios decides to head there, where he meets Lycion, an elf and artificial werewolf gladiator. If they first bond over a simple shared meal, by spending time together (sharing the same room in the barracks, maybe the same bed? gasp) they find that they have a lot in common, notably a shared distaste for the body they were born in, a dysphoria partially remedied by becoming a werewolf.
Você não existe. Eu não existo. Mas estou tão poderoso na minha sede que inventei a você para matar a minha sede imensa. Você está tão forte na sua fragilidade que inventou a mim para matar a sua sede exata. Nós nos inventamos um ao outro porque éramos tudo o que precisávamos para continuar vivendo. E porque nos inventamos, eu te confiro poder sobre o meu destino e você me confere poder sobre o teu destino. Então e assim, somos presente, passado e futuro. Tempo infinito num só, esse é o eterno.
composition inspired by. this image(👇) ... and the quote is from caio fernando abreu's o rapaz mais triste do mundo, whose symbols and images i saw/see so very clearly in my mind... i'm just having fun i'm just doing whatever