Fanwork no.1 I made for 2026 stormblood's anniversary.

hand drawings through the years

made in aseprite 💚

Also, I've noticed that his crowns are mostly wooden, and the one golden crown along with armor look like tree branches. And a cherry on top of that theory is that the characters of his name Qingcang - 青苍 - mean "blue" and "greenish-blue", which are colors you would expect tree leaves to be.

But I also like a theory that his true form is a watermelon 🍉

That same author speculates, that DFQC is a laurel. At first I didn't get why they were so sure, but then I looked up the characters for laurel - 月桂 (yuèguì). 月 means Moon 🥲

ahhh i love that. if nothing else, he's certainly associated with trees, w/ the repetitive use of the heart tree and the nickname as you've pointed out. and yes!! i also noticed that a lot of his accessories look wood-based/bark-based (which is in contrast to his brother's, where his accessories look more obsidian-y?).

“Since you came back, Silent Moon Palace is finally lively. Would you like to go to the banquet? It’s a good sign of the unity of the Moon Tribe and the revival of Cangyan Sea.” “Ridiculous! It’s a gathering of women. It’s inappropriate for me to go.”

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

Lock up this audacious little fairy!

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Cang Lan Jue + colors [orange/gold]