Who cares how dark it'll be?

I'm doing so well mentally right now

unrelated, here's fan art for a fic series that I was obsessed with my sophomore year of high school (also know as the pandemic years)

You could say Eugene has one very specific clause on his (Flynn) Rider.

and at last i see the light <3

i had this super cool idea for valentines day a couple years ago, but was burned out at the time, so i only managed the sketch. a few months later i picked it back up and decided to just color the sketch and call it good cause i really wanted to see it finished :) very proud of how this one came out even though it's technically rough!

and i couldnt decide if i liked their show palettes or their movie palettes better, so movie palette version under the cut :D

I don’t care what Goodbye and Goodwill said, these are my art headcanons based on the movie, Pascal’s Story, and Painter’s Block lol.

In case it wasn’t apparent… ROOTBOUND is in dual POV! You might say I have a soft spot for wisecracking thieves grudgingly embracing emotional vulnerability, so I had a very good time writing Eugene’s chapters. 

Ulla was a passionate scholar of science and a thaumaturgy enthusiast; so unlike the rest of the brotherhood, she had a rather open-minded fascination towards the moon opal. During one of their class sessions, she once shared to little Eugene that she had a theory: she believed it is still plausible that the moonstone can be good, can do good, can be used for good…if people only took the moment to try and give it a chance by putting the effort to understanding it, if…the right person learned to connect with it. Her wonder and curiosity influenced little Eugene’s understanding of how to perceive the moonstone, his father the king and the brotherhood always painted the moonstone in a rather negative light to him growing up but her perspective gave him hope—hence why when she passed away from childbirth and baby Varian was born sickly to the point that doctors could not guarantee if he’ll ever make it—the young prince had an idea… and did the unthinkable.

Dark Prince Horace Au. These are so messy I shouldn’t even be posting lol.

Bonus:

I see the light✨💜

Mere moments (okay, maybe a full calendar day) after Rootbound went up on Netgalley, I found out about this gorgeous B&N edition, and just about screamed with delight. Ya girl has not had a B&N special edition for her books before and this one is just perfection. From the official description:

"This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition features an exclusive shimmering jacket printed over foil, a unique case, and printed endpapers and edges, plus a bonus Rootbound quiz and discussion guide!"

Bonkers.

This is another piece that I started years ago (2023, to be exact), and I can no longer remember what prompted it. I don't know why he's sad, but I liked the idea of him being turned away from the light/focused on the shade.

(Also, Eugene in the bath 👀👀👀)