The artwork alone is enough to fall in love with this, but the story even more so.
Mortal Astarion X F! Human Tav. Ummm, angst.👀
For decades, this manor offered him a place to call home in the truest sense.
The hallway was a sacred gallery, adorned with paintings that were not mere canvases, but tangible echoes of their life together. Each brushstroke, lovingly rendered by her hand, captured the essence of cherished memories.
Whenever he opened the door at the end of the hallway, he was greeted by the radiant smile of his beloved, and the hearth beckoned him to surrender to its comforting embrace. Yet, it was the vast window next to it that held the greatest significance. The tender caress of sunlight danced across his skin as he lost himself in the pages of a book beside her. It was here, bathed in the golden rays, that he could truly revel in the miracle she had bestowed upon him – the cure to his vampiric curse, a gift of life, a reminder of the depths of her love and the power it held to transcend even the most insurmountable of boundaries.
Here at home, he had found everything his heart desired.
But nothing is ever truly perfect. Life simply doesn't work that way. Even the mightiest of fortresses cannot withstand the relentless march of time.
He thought he was ready for it, but not like this.
Never like this.
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The poem cited is "When You Are Old" BY W.B. Yeats. One of my favorites.❤️
Alright, thanks for reading the second installment of my "this did not really happen to my couple". After delving into the mortality of my Tav, Amaara, I found myself confronting a fear more profound than death itself – the fear of morbidity, of life's vibrancy fading before its inevitable end. So I decided to yank my CP around this theme. Self-indulgence at its finest.😊
Its finally done, this took way longer than I expected and there's a bunch of stuff I would do differently, but its done and I am happy with it. But anyway, this sculpt is actually fanart of @imagineitdearies' character Tyrus, from their fic 'Perfect Slaughter' on A03, which I'm a little too invested in. (please mind the tags if you seek it out). Thank you for sharing your work, and I hope you enjoy this piece.
Sculpted in ZBrush, rendered in Blender Cycles, tweaked in Photoshop. Also because there is a lot of them, below the cut are some workbench renders of the full sculpt in addition to some renders that I decided against for the final render. Enjoy!
This is a gift for @asterdurge, who has written/still writing a tragic/amazing Astarion/Tav fanfiction called Perfect Slaughter. If you like gothic horror and a sense of dread that never leaves you, I highly recommend reading it.
I’ve never done a comic like this before (or this large).
(Pls note I did not write this, I just did some drawings based on their writing)
This actually started off because I wanted to practice expressions/poses then… a whole thing kind of happened, because this fic has been rattling around in my brain the last week.
Anyway, I hope you like it and wanted to send you some love!