Ea'nae
This is the first proper drawing of Ea'nae! Finally! What an emo dude lol.
He is Tohmiel's best friend, but I don't have a backstory yet. I stole the idea from Fate Zero because Gilgamesh's ultimate weapon and best friend is Ea. Or something. That's what I think I remember and figured I could probably have someone whose best friend is a super weapon too!
Abek and Peln
I swear I made these characters before Our Flag Means Death but the timing was so coincidental, I scarcely believe it myself!
They are childhood sweethearts who trained together in the Imperial Army on Goldentuin, Abek ended up being a commander in the army while Peln became Odara's personal bodyguard.
Aren't they so cute???
Crystal bear ideas
First proper attempt at drawing for the year and I'm trying to see if I can make a crystal bear that doesn't look like a crystal bear lol.
I had the idea that Freik would fall in love with a crystal bear at some stage, but I don't want to steal from Dead Cells too much except that pink crystals are so cute??
I mean it looks different enough, right? Except I don't want to somehow also take the colour scheme? Surely there are many versions of giant rock bears out there right?
Also, for reference, the entirety of Freik is smaller than a crystal bear's head. Or something like that!
The Death Gate Cycle
It's been a very, very long time since I've read The Death Gate Cycle. So long that I forgot just how much inspiration I sourced from the series! Weis and Hickman are an amazing writing duo.
The most interesting thing when re-reading it, is seeing what I remembered, and what I'd forgotten. Haplo was pretty much how I remembered, but I forgot how much I hated Bane. I'd forgotten all the "endgame" characters and plotlines, I even thought there was supposed to be a fake Haplo or fake Alfred but it looks like I was wrong. I also couldn't remember if we met Rue or not.
But my goodness, the magic of possibility. The runes, the circles, the wave. The limiting of possibilities. The accursed knife, Hugh the Hand and the Brotherhood, the necromancy.... The description of the perspective flip! That Hugh had died, and nothing could change that, so Alfred "leapfrogged" so to speak to bring him back. It's a fixed position in time, but if you walk around so that you were behind the fixed spot instead of in front?! I mean I knew I'd adapted that to my story too, but I'd forgotten how I'd first gotten the idea.
I really have to go back and revisit all my worlds, and see just how much influence the Death Gate series had, because it's such an awesome set of books!