finally delivering on the princess tutu headshots i promised... love these dysfunctional teens 🩰💖💕
LOTS of notes about headcanons/design choices under the cut! like. a lot. dont say i didnt warn you
starting with my specialest guy fakir:
i had a suuuper clear vision for fakir, and i couldnt be happier with how he turned out, he looks exactly how i imagine him! trying to translate his Bird-Shaped Hair into my style gave me SERIOUS homestuck flashbacks. my affinity for knights with Problems knows no bounds...
adding the hyperpigmentation around his eyes and his acne scars is what really solidified this for me-- i put those in and was like oh!!! there you are!!! my boy!!! and you can tell because i gave him acne scars + thick eyebrows that he IS my boy... there are very clear trends among my headcanons for my faves lol. big noses, thick eyebrows, skin imperfections, heavy eyebags, long dark hair... and fakir truly has it all 😤 he is so Ideal Character Design to me
i think fakir is actually pretty self-conscious about his appearance tho! we see characters like pike and lilie say hes handsome to ahiru, but i dont know how often he actually hears that? and im sure its hard not to compare himself to mytho, who is straight out of a fairy tale; being a regular teenager dealing with regular teen body stuff is hard enough without your roommate being a magically beautiful eternally youthful storybook hero. i think he probably internalises more that people see him as scary and angry, and that the girls who do have crushes on him always frame it in contrast to mytho, who is Good and Kind and Handsome, implying (or sometimes outright stating!) that fakir is Bad and Mean and... Well...
fakir is very sensitive but quiet about it, so i think its a very private point of self-consciousness. i think he puts a lot of semi-secret effort into his appearance; canonically he has a lot of very funny and clearly customised clothing, and he chooses to keep his hair long and in a very particular style (i have a whole breakdown in my mind of how he achieves that style and it involves a surprising amount of pins and an unsurprising fuckton of teasing. i think his hair is a little fried from heat damage!), and i think that probably extends to other things, too, like manicuring his eyebrows and doing a lot of very Teenage Skincare that doesnt actually help his acne much lol. i think he probably has a lot of self-injurious habits and BFRBs like skin picking and chewing, mostly at his acne and around his nails (both of which he hates, because he knows he shouldnt but does it anyway). i think if he does it enough that theres noticeable evidence it feels, like, world-ending for him, ESPECIALLY if anyone asks what happened lol. do not perceive him except in the very specific ways and contexts he approves of THANKS
on to the narratives favorite princess, mytho:
again, i had a pretty clear idea of the vibe i wanted mytho to have going into this-- i want him to have, like, extreme prince charming vibes, very Classically Handsome without necessarily being 'conventional.' i thought a lot about 'the happy prince' story while i was working on this, and really wanted him to look like a cross between how the prince statue looks in my head and a porcelain doll. and also a cross between jonny brown and brigitte bardot? lots of very direct influences for him lol. so! lots of gold tones, gemmy eye color, cute little tooth gap, quivering wide-eyed thousand-yard-stare doe eyes and big ol dolly anime lashes, which were the very last thing i added because i was NERVOUS about pulling those off lol. they turned out cute tho! ive only done a handful of pieces for this series and i can already tell princess tutu is gonna make me up my lash drawing game considerably, these kids all look like they blink and cause a hurricane from the gale force wind of their falsies
also wait i lied the very last thing i did was add his freckles/beauty marks because he needed that little extra oomph and those were It. i think he probably has some on his hands/wrists too 💕
i was a little unsure if my idea for his hair would translate with this flat-color approach but im pretty happy with it! its supposed to be afrotextured hair (somewhere between 3b and 4c i think? wide range of potential i knowww but im still kind of hammering out my headcanons okay, this is exploratory lol) thats been rolled and finger-styled into his little feather shapes. i think loose, chunky twists would be another fun way to interpret his hair and twists are one of my fave styles to draw do i might draw him like that at some point too...
i guess fakir is the one who styles his hair for him before mytho gets his heart back? i imagine fakir is pretty meticulous about maintaining mythos health and appearance, even at the worst stages of their relationship. i think itd be hard for fakir to frame the way he treats mytho as For Mythos Sake if he wasnt doing some level of actually beneficial care for him, so being really fastidious about things like mythos diet and sleep hygiene and hair care and such gives fakir an outlet for his 'you just have to do what i tell you' thing that helps him convince himself it really is helping, no really, hes doing this for mythos benefit and he just has to be strict with him because mytho doesnt UNDERSTAND he needs PROTECTING and fakir is the ONLY ONE who can do it so mytho HAS to let him because if he doesnt then why does fakir even EXIST, if he cant manage this then what is he good for, and--
yknow. the usual complexes. and their relationship is so complex!!! but also so simple, but like. in a good way. fakirs behavior is complicated but his motivation regarding mytho is SO straightforward which makes that downward spiral into harm really easy to map out... i wont go much into that in this post since this is about visual/appearance-related headcanons but just. augh. i love this show and i love these characters!!! and i hope its apparent in my work that i do love them so <3
im hoping to do a set of these for the girls next!!! i have some other stuff to finish first but hopefully... Soon... Some Birds...
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Evening! I’ve got a special package from Liyue for one Albedo Kreideprinz. Sign here please…
The package contained a vast amount of art tools and art supplies along with a note. There were handcrafted paintbrushes from Fontaine, fine soft pastels and chalk in the colors of Mondstadt’s flowers and the paint…Glowing blue paint made from starconches, shimmering gold paint made from Cor Lapis, pure white paint made from crushed Qingxin petals, a small waterproof and bombproof artist’s pack to carry tools with Albedo’s name engraved on it…
‘Dear Mr Kreideprinz, I am the consultant who asked if it was possible for you to come to Liyue so you could paint a portrait of my wife.
She has gone missing, you see and I am not sure when she will return. I miss her quite terribly and would like this painting to be a surprise when she returns.
The young Xingqiu from the Feiyun Commerce guild had nothing but praise for your abilities. We had discussed my commission and how I would pay you in quality supplies instead of mora, but the Pearl Galley had returned to the harbor and you mentioned how you had to leave early to return to your special someone.
I hear you occasionally stay in the Dragonspine Mountains and invite you to come to the Wangshu Inn as a treat. This way you won’t be far from your dear someone. In fact, I would like to invite you and your significant other for a stay at Wangshu inn.
The expenses will be covered by me, I only ask that you take my commission as one of high importance. ——Regards, The Wangsheng Funeral Parlor’s consultant.
Thanks for signing, enjoy your package!
icy blues skim through the contents of the package calmly before glancing towards the various art supplies and all the high-quality materials laid on top of the table.
for a moment, he considers throwing them all out. it was too dangerous. sometimes, a seemingly insignificant variable in the equation could become the undoing of all, and he would rather not undo all the hard work they have been putting into creating this reality…
his gaze moves toward the two forms sleeping on the bed, and the edges of his lips curve downwards.
as much as he would be thrilled to see the despairing look of a certain someone, the risk of it all stopped him from acting brashly.
besides….
… yes. the alternative plan would work best in his favor.
to drive out an annoying weed in his side, as temporary as it would be, fills his being with warmth and giddiness.
oh, this is going to be f̸un.
with the art supplies all packed back into the exquisite box, he set off to personally pen the reply letter, wondering if he should send back a box of cecilia tea along with it, and what excuse he could give to make it as airtight as possible.
……
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Unfortunately, my significant other is quite swamped with work, so she will not be coming along to the trip. Rest assured that I am putting this commission at the top of my priority, and so I predict I will be arriving at the appointed place in around four to five days.
Again, my heart goes to you in these trying times, and I sincerely hope you will reunite with your partner soon.
Signed,
𝒜𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑜
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when sid crosby, who is infamous for being highly competitive and relentless enduring in the face of adversity... basically just shut down in grief and aggravation and his entire team followed suit because he's the captain...to the point he shook his head hopelessly when asked about the future and said its a question for management...
all i have to say is, for the next 20 games...give them hell, boys. go fucking feral. you deserve it.
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BEE the people demand to know. how was ur audition
DUDE i just got notified im called back!!! for tomorrow morning!!!!! im SO fucking excited omfg,,, and like. Even More Nervous ghdjsk
i dont think i did *terrible* or anything but i def walked out of the room afterwards just... Not Feeling It lmao, but it was still so so much fun -- gOddddd i fucking missed musicals+singing WITH PEOPLE. i even got to use my low range and sing with the tenors😌💕 ((whiiiiich. turned out to be the part with the most fuckery lmao, so i hope i didnt embarrass myself too badly as the... perpetually loudest mf in the room lmao))
the movement call was the part i was most nervous abt for tonight ((since i am patently Not a dancer)) and ngl it was. Rough. bc we'd been standing around for hours doing music and my knees were NOT pleased with me even wearing my braces
but!! callbacks tomorrow are doing solo singing, which i feel much more confident about, and!!!!! i got called back for the part im hoping for AND two parts i was *totally* not expecting!!!!! so im definitely okay with how it went:)<3
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