and some sketches

Levana leaving the moon to seduce an 18 year old who just lost his father

Levana, after Cinder escaped prison: You need to find my hostage! She escaped! She's a threat to the Luna crown! Kai: That's sad. Alexa play Despacito.

Levana has two core tenets that drive her entire personal philosophy, both actively damaging and sustaining her: her need to be beautiful and her need to be loved. They are irrevocably intertwined and are ultimately her undoing.

Two people in her life dictate these notions--Channary and Evret. Channary implanted the desire to be loved and the necessity to be beautiful once Levana is disfigured. Without any willing participation from Evret, Levana carries over these insecurities, needing to be loved by him when Channary fails her and needing to keep up her glamour to feel beautiful. If Solstice is the only woman he can see as beautiful, that's what Levana must become. She sabotages her relationship with him after she shows him her true appearance; she refuses to be loved for her true self, and once he sees it, he must be disposed of. Evret lives on in Winter, who reinforces that Levana cannot ever control them as she wears her three uniform scars with pride.

With the death of these two motivators, she feels free of the burden of needing them. But the demand to be beautiful and loved is indefatigable, so she replaces them with an unearthly, ethereal glamour in her quest for vanity, and the contrived love from her citizens to feel wanted. These are both fundamentally artificial and never satisfy her, so she must always strive for more. Her body, face, voice 'improve' countless times over decades, as she is never sure that they are perfect enough. Her armies become fiercer, her inventory larger, and she sets her sights on the largest territory to conquer--Earth--all in the name of supplying her people to buy their love. Levana could have at any point abandoned her course of tyranny and used her circumstances to reform herself and her country's systemic disparity. She chooses every day to reject these opportunities and each action deepens her need to maintain the façade of love and looks. She is to be pitied, but not to be pardoned.

In order for Levana to be defeated as a villain, she must not only die, but must have her philosophy completely overturned. Kai takes the place of Evret and she replays her manipulation in the same way on their wedding day. But when she marries Kai, glamouring as his lover as she did to Evret, he dismantles her beauty, stating that she will never be as beautiful as the glamourless Linh Cinder. This directly mirrors Evret's loyalty to Solstice and it hurts Levana--not because she loves Kai in any way like she loved Evret--but because the message lives on in him. She is always inadequate.

Her glamour and her loyalties fall in one fell swoop. Her people come to her door to kill her, and her true face is blown up in the sky, permanently tainting her image. With her vanity blighted, all that's left is the fundamental nucleus of her problems: her relationship with Channary. It is the chief relationship in her life, even posthumously, and is the very cause of her perverted worldview. Levana never killed Channary and that is her greatest regret.

When Cinder arrives--Channary's near reincarnation in appearance--Levana has her second chance. It is particularly imperative to her to eliminate Selene because Levana was never loved by Channary, while Selene was. Her existence is a mockery of Levana's pain because it clarifies that Channary was capable of love and actively withheld it from Levana. However when Levana burnt Cinder alive, she levelled the playing field. She assigned Cinder a life of enduring the same prejudice and inadequacy that she faced. Therefore in their final battle, Levana likens Cinder to herself and her need to be desired. By killing Selene, she will finally prove that she has killed her need to be loved by Channary.

To do this, she sets up the perfect replica for this prophetic revenge. Cinder's friend will betray her as Channary did Levana, and Cinder will retaliate as Levana herself wished to do. It is particularly powerful that it is not Kai in the room at this final battle. Romantic love is irrelevant now. Instead it is Thorne, whom Cinder loves as family. Their almost sibling-like dynamic is now reflective of Channary and Levana. Levana asserts that this kind of love is false. But Cinder and Thorne demonstrate their loyalty to one another--even when Thorne is manipulated to hurt her, Cinder attacks Levana, not him. He proves his love in his sobs and apologies as his body rebels. Levana's final desire, to prove that love is merely a conquest and a war, is dashed.

In the end, Levana stabs Cinder, but it doesn't matter. Her worldview is shattered, her tenuous beliefs severed. That is where Levana is defeated. The final shot that kills her is simply to finalise the matter. Her tenets die with her and can be replaced with the true forms of beauty and love. Cinder and Winter, disfigured and scarred and unashamed. Kai, who loves Cinder and loves her appearance because she gave him good reason to, and never through manipulation. Cinder, who attains loyalty from the citizens of Luna and Earth alike through her action and compassion.

Love is not conquered, love is not a war; it is earned.

Levana: “I can’t let my planet have another horrible Queen like my sister, I need to get rid of Selene! She won’t be fit to rule and she’ll be just like my sister! This is what will be best for Luna!”

Also Levana: Indirectly attempts to kill her niece, orders her husband and step daughter to be killed, takes babies from their parents mere hours after birth because of something they can’t control and leads parents to think it’s an infanticide but really she’s enslaving the children to harvest their blood to make a lab made virus, takes kids at young ages from their homes to tamper with their genetic makeup and make them into human-wolf hybrids and strip them of their humanity and rights, lets the majority of her planet live in poverty and work in extremely unsafe conditions and only give them weekly rations that barely sustain them at all, executes people randomly and publicly for little to no reason at times, does corporal punishment and executions of ENTIRE FAMILIES and groups of people for the little actions of a single person that could range from saying the princess is pretty to trying to flee the country to escape infanticide and slavery and poverty

It makes me so sad that Solstice hayles things likely didn't survive Levana. Imagine Winter finding a chest full of her mother's work. Dresses covered in trailing embroidery, exquisitely beaded and perfectly tailored. I think especially if she could fit it, that would bring her so much closure and make it feel like her mother, her real mother was still around.

Sun Moon Celestial Queendom! The queens!

(they both do have a second arm btw i just didn’t draw them)

Anyway! Here they are! Queen Amaris (Moon) and Queen Levana (Sun)! Maybe a bit of an infodump below hehe

So basically, they rule the sky. It’s not their kingdom though! There is no king! So it’s a queendom!

Levana is an embodiment of the sun, and lesbianism! Hehehehdjhjcxhbdsjh I’m trying okieee

i like to think she is very shiny! Radiant! Not your highness but your radiance! Her hair is shiny, she’s shiny, shiny shiny shiny!

Amaris is an embodiment of the moon, and transsexualism! She is trans! (may or may not be based from that one post talking about how the moon is a trans woman……….)

I like to think she is a bit clingy to Levana, hence why you can always see the moon, even during the day! Her crown also represents the current phase of the moon!

Time perception up in their kingdom is different, of course! So an eclipse in my mind is when they kiss hehe

they also both have a piece of matching jewellery hehe! I chose pearls to represent Amaris because the of the moon’s connection with the ocean! And i chose rose goldish colour bands to represent Levana because. well I don’t really KNOW but it makes sense prommy 🫶🫶

I like to think a rainbow is an occasional opening of the gates to their kingdom, which anyone can enter as long as they really truly wish to.

And all the stars are citizens of their queendom! At least, in the Milky Way galaxy! Andromeda’s galaxy is an ally! (The ruler is androgynous, of course. Genderfluid! Decision was helped made by my friend!)

The planets are their children! The planets’ respective moons and such (except Earth, of course. Earth gets to have all the life on Earth) are their own children! So…. Their grandchildren, I suppose!

I like to think maybe they have a council, too… Mother Nature, perhaps… the different types of weather, including Levana of course… but I’ll leave that up to anyone if they’d like to do something with that hehe

so! This is sort of what i have so far! I have many designs to make, I suppose, so tune in! Though I may make random stuff in between ksdnkfdkn

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔯 ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔩𝔢𝔰

“You’re even more painful to look at than she is.“

Redraw of the original that you can find here

Kinda messed up the shadows, but oh well. I didn’t really care enough to go back and fix it. Maybe I will later, who knows? Hope you enjoy!

Bunch of random TLC memes i've been making but never posted. I thought you might appreciate them after a long time, my fellow lunartics 🫳✨

Queen Levana Blackburn from the Lunar Chronicles series

Long story short: this lady is crazy 😬

Well I drew this for a competition… and… I lose Never mind

Killing your downright evil, power-hungry, monster of an aunt ❌

Killing the bitch that married your man✅

channary isnt asian and neither is levana. they’re caucadian

That would be kinda impossible because Cinder, Channary's daughter, IS asian. but, ok.

Also, even if they weren't canonically asian, it wouldn't even change the plot at all if they were. it wouldn't be wrong to headcannon them that way. Like Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackson series, in the books she was white and blonde, but in the new Disney plus series she's black. And it's ok, it doesn't change the plot, the actress is great for the job.

I guess it's fine if you don't see them as asian, but it's not necessary to send me and ask about it, because is not that big of a deal, Is not like I'm erasing representation.

okay but imagine vampire by olivia rodrigo but its cinder saying those things to levana.

I wanted to put this here as it clears up a lot of the confusion as to Levana's race. No, Levana is never explicitly stated to be Asian. But she's never stated to be white either. She has pale skin, but as Marissa confirms here, it's just feature of her glamour which is a distorted version of Solstice--an Indian woman. So her glamour itself may be pale but isn't Caucasian because Solstice wasn't.

What we know is that Cinder is mixed white-Asian, although we don't know if that comes from her maternal or paternal side. So it's a 50/50 chance that Levana could be either. She always wears a glamour and we never get a complete description of her natural appearance without the deformities. So we can't say definitively that Levana is one or the other.

Also, on other note, in Fairest it's mentioned that Winter looks more and more like Solstice as she ages. So does anyone ever notice that she and Winter look alike? Does Winter notice?