ochdestroyer

The pose and some things like the sword, the pillow, the thing he sits in and this white fabric is from the portrait of Franz II. He's wearing the Austrian coronational crown and this thing in his hand is also this stick for the coronation. The armour and the cape is a canon portrait thing (although I think usually they use one or the other, but I wanted to show both). This uh, gold cloth on the upper body (I know it only by looks and symbolysm not by name...) was used on depictions on some emperors and it shows the Holy part (my favorite persona mixta), if I'm not mistaken the cloth like this was and is used by priests.

The cape is holding on accessories in the form of peacock feathers, which were used as a symbol of Greek linearg(?) of Habsburgs and also can be seen as something else ;) Talking about it, on his head he also has a bridal veil that I know was and is used by women but I didn't find a male symbol for marriage (and also it kinda adds a little gender non-conformity to his looks?). The same goes for one of his rings (if you don't know why I placed this on Austria google "Felix Austria", it is also the reason to why his hair looks like that, I was inspired by early modern depictions of Venus).

The ring on the thumb is this uh... ring with a stamp on it to mark seals. The coats of arms on the lower part are of Electors, Kurfürst (I used the ones on Wiki and I hope it's not that inaccurate). And, if you can see it, the background is HRE's eagle. Ig that's about it?

My inspiration and references.

Це все ще він. Я все ще відчуваю погляд його старих очей, але з новими почуттями втрати та жаху. Це все ще він під почорнілими від стертого в порох тіста латами. Усе ще він тримає свій меч, з недостойною відразою торкаючись його кінчиками своїх рук.

Чи все ще "він"? Чи не змінило його це на стільки, що від "нього" залишилось тільки відчуття "його" присутності? Чи це не інше печиво переді мною, те, яке може дозволити собі використати сили соулджема на червлене побоїще?

Я не можу кинути його в такий час. Не коли він стоїть переді мною на колінах, молячи про свою смерть від моєї руки. Скільки б "його" там не зосталось за непроглядною темінню шолому, я повинен допомогти кожній крихті тіста, що пам'ятає яким він був, за що боровся. За що згасло світло в його очах…

Also, his uh.. different eye is not related to the scar, he just saw some shit.

It's the most recent version because the frontline changed after years from I created this design... And also I added a scar about the trade(?) of small territories but I still think about if it should be there.

I know that some things maybe should be larger, maybe some tragedies should have scars, some shouldn't, but that's just how I see it (I'm glad it changed since 2018, my first years in ch were.. disturbing....).

I colorcoded the words so you would understand who's who. In the original language you actually don't need so many pronouns it this sentence, so it's actually not that confusing.

Ik it's 4 chapter already but CatNap is my favourite and I love this art so much... I made this in 2024 but I wanted to redraw it and now it looks so much better. I love that Tumblr won't eat quality and you can see the details :)