Graydon x Elora came for my throat this last episode. With his whole grumpy, emo, only-wears-black, intellectual prince with forbidden knowledge and a dark past, as well as the "ugly" scars on his chest, and Elora with her wide-eyed optimism, stubborn tenacity, naive personality filled with light, literally the embodiment of hope. The way they are drawn to each other, how they are in wonder of one another even when they can't see their own worth (Elora when she can't perform the spell, Graydon when his scars are revealed). I mean when he overcomes his fears to rush into the fight to rescue her? and when she reassures him after seeing his scars??? and when she ties his shirt and they stare into each other's eyes??? "Let me save you by almost kissing you and looking deep into the darkest parts of yourself" and Gray waking up, gazing up at her like he's finally seeing beauty and light for the first time in his life??????
in the spirit of those sad gay brotherhusband grandpas--do you have any ideas on how this AU would've began?
like, was knives out in the back, starting to use all his remaining energy for that apple tree, and vash--sensing the sudden energy shift/diminishing of knives' power--opens the back door so hard it makes a cartoonish crater in the wall, and is like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING"
knives: nothing
vash: I DONT THINK SO. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT
thus began 700+ years of the couple's bickering. it all comes back to not being allowed to Apple. (compromising through apple farming instead)
it DEFINITIVELY starts in this piece / vash for sure wakes up pissed bc he feels knives is up to some shit and when he finds out what it is hes even more pissed and devastated at the same time
100000% theyre divorced before theyre ever married and the fighting only ever lets up once theyre all gross and winkly
The warrior goddess costume is inspired by the strength and spirituality that we see and feel in two of our greatest female deity - OYA and ALA.
OYA, also known as oya-Iyansan-an, the mother of nine-- from the southwestern states of Nigeria. OYA is the goddess of weather, intuition, psychic abilities, clairvoyance and reincarnation. She is also said to be the guardian of the realm between life and death, her favourite colour is the rainbow -- denoting peace.
ALA: also known Odinala. She is the earth mother goddess of morality, fertility and creativity in the culture of the southeastern people of Nigeria knowns as Odinani. She's considered the highest deity in Odinani, and the name "ALA" translates to "ground" which indicates her powers over the earth.
The ensemble is a coalescence of OYA and ALA, which is a combo of different colors of leather, feathers, mesmerising beads, detailed mermaid inspired and arranged feathers on the headgear, wrist bands, ankle band, and thigh band.
The hand is embelished with cowries, feathers, beads and accessorized short asymmetrical front with flowing trail leather back skirt. from Nigeria we present to you; OYA-ALA.
in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off
EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through
i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.