Me explaining 2 others that Jeff isn't a killer "4 the hell of it" but is a teen who was literally pushed 2 insanity after not only a life of abuse and neglect, but a literal ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE tht left him disfigured, and how obviously Liu wouldn't hold a grudge even after being gutted -- bc not only does he just care abt Jeff that deeply, but his resentment literally split in the form of an alter and exists as a secluded feeling 2 THAT ALTER as a way 2 cope with the horrors hes faced.
Congrats to Bioware for setting up one of the very few scenarios I have ever encountered that firmly put an end to my looter behavior. The suggestion probably wouldn't have horrified me to quite the same degree if it wasn't for the fact that there are more than a few parallels between the Dalish and the Sámi. I can't remember ever getting that uncomfortable by a seemingly innocent quest before. Or after.
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kieran x elam for @lilyoffandoms for the @choicesfandomappreciation 2024 secret admirer event ❤️
apologies for the delay, i wanted to get this done by valentines but it would not cooperate with me😭 i had so much fun doing this, i hope you like it!! this is actually the third of concepts i tried doing, so more on that + timelapse under the cut for those interested (: (and yes, this is based off of one of the iconic scenes from howl's moving castle.)
i wanted to do something that really captured " warm softness to the cold hard edges" and i thought of maybe drawing a scene where elam realizes the beast is kieran. kieran's monster complex is a big part of their character and mc loving and embracing that part, the warmth to kieran's "monster", loving them despite and maybe even for it, was something i always liked about their dynamic. so that was the first draft but i wasnt feeling it and i couldnt figure out the drawing so i scrapped it HGJDHFKGHD
then i tried a second version where they're in a garden and elam gives kieran flowers, but idk, it just didn't fit?? heres the abandoned wip of it anyway OTL
while drawing and conceptualizing i kept thinking about what TCH reminded me of. the most obvious (and relevant, i think) is acotar, but then i remembered miyazaki's howl's moving castle, which is so much more like TCH than anything. so i wanted to do something with elam's hand over kieran's heart but it just did not work out (as you'll see in the timelapse), so i ended up with something more like a screenshot redraw of one of the iconic scenes in the movie:
cishet sci-fi/fantasy writers are so annoying. “yeah in this alternate universe where people are half-cyborg or mythical creatures they still adhere to strict eurocentric concepts of binary gender and heterosexuality” shut up
oh so when sai plays psychological games to trick naruto into flashing his dick it's okay, but when i proudly announce my intentions to assassinate world leaders it's "global terrorism"