To be the Watcher
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To protect the Vessel, the Dreamers lay sleeping.
Monomon the Teacher
In her Archive, surrounded by fog and mist.
Lurien the Watcher
In his Spire, looking over the city.
Herrah the Beast
In her Den, amidst the deep darkness beyond the kingdom.
Through their devotion, Hallownest lasts eternal.
2.
To be the Teacher
is to be in a relationship.
Tied to student and pupil.
To be the Beast
is to be part of a people.
A claim of belonging.
To be a Watcher
3.
To be the Watcher
is to become an outsider.
To see, but not be seen.
To ostracize oneself from the watched.
To observe, without taking part.
Watcher, Master, Seal, Dreamer,
those are his names.
4.
Lurien the Watcher
In his spire, looking over the city.
He does
not exist
outside
of the
act.
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'her highness' in the second page refers to hornet, in regards to this doodle i drew 3 years ago where lurien, upon meeting herrah and baby hornet, pointedly bows to hornet, and only hornet in a passive-aggressive gesture showing that he is paying his respect to the pale king’s child, not the beast’s daughter.
i think pre-dreamer lurien and herrah would have regarded each other with contempt. mostly because lurien was a fucking bastard.
after they spent an eternity in the dream realm and watched the world fall apart together they managed to achieve mutual grudging respect.
meanwhile, my monomon & herrah interactions go something like this:
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comic 1
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Herrah: Too lofty to bow to the likes of me now, Watcher?
Lurien: To her highness, certainly. But I see no reason to bow to you.
3.
Herrah: The Pale King and his sorry followers. You are all the same - arrogant cowards, the lot of you.
4.
Lurien: And your first reaction to it is violence? Ha! How very sophisticated. Fitting for an unenlightened beast.
Herrah: Unenlightened, you say?
5.
Herrah: No, it is you who have forgotten. That those base instincts are what drives life.
comic 2
1.
Herrah: I'll admit, I didn't think you had it in you.
Lurien: ...
Herrah: To remain loyal to a kingdom when its own ruler fled...
Lurien: ...
Herrah: ...Well. You are better than that self-proclaimed god.
2.
Lurien: So the child has chosen to give her life to a husk of a kingdom.
Herrah: ...
Lurien: I am sorry. It is not a fate I would have wished on another.
comic 3
Monomon: Oh, you must be Herrah the Beast!
Herrah: Ah, the other Dreamer.
Monomon: I've always wanted to know more about Deepnest...
Herrah: This one is treating me like some kind of exotic specimen.
Herrah: (I seriously need to spend the rest of eternity with these two?)
Pompous little fanatic (Lurien)
Arrogant mad scientist (Monomon)
Herrah: (Maybe I should have asked for more than one child...)
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plucks the strings of your hearts
even the strongest of warriors can be powerless against grief
this is supposed to be a concept reference sketch for a winged nosk gijinka but i got this idea instead
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"Allow me a moment alone before this bedchamber becomes forever a shrine"... "but stay here with me" - in our version 🥲
Herrah plushie commission we made for @esmeelora - thank you so much for choosing us🥲🥲💙💙
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