Galactic

Just under the wire for disability pride month - I've been working on a little series! Character portraits highlighting prominent Riordanverse characters with disabilities/notable disability coding. There's a lot :D

None of these are headcanons!!! These are all either explicitly stated in the text or coding.

[Ready for a new game?]

day 11 definitelynottober - heart in your fist & week 1 weeklyhermittober - beginnings

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I drew all the Life Series Winners

Originally these paintings started out as distraction from school work and I also wanted to get better at cinematic composition and gradient mapping. I never imagined that this would turn into a several months long project but here we are!

I think tumblr is the one place where it’s acceptable to make a really long post just talking about the little details I hid in these pictures:

First of all everyone is looking in a very specific direction (until Joel came along but he is special let him be).

Pearl is looking at the camera, she is the only one who is aware of the viewer (you) while Cleo isn’t looking at us at all because she couldn’t actually “see” with the VR on their head. Also Cleo is surrounded by a cemetery of her previous alliances.

Technically Scott and Martyn are are looking up and down. Martyin is sinking into the sea with the hourglass in his hands, while Scott is touching the stars.

Grian and Scar who are both looking at each other technically. I also intentionally used colorschemes that were similar to one another. Oh yeah, and two certain flowers are also present…I wonder what those stand for!

And well Joel is just there currently but his has to be my favourite, color, composition and storytelling wise too. I was giggling to myself while drawing and just had the best time ever and it seems like the majority of you agree that his turned out great!

bonus points if it’s in the infirmary while will is like amputating someone or something

Some of my favourite Nicos I’ve drawn over the years!

I have this headcannon that the moment Nico realized his feelings for Percy was on Olympus when Percy calls him out by name in front of the Gods (and especially Hades) as a hero who deserves more recognition. I think that’s really what got him. Percy doesn’t praise anyone else by name in that speech, not even Annabeth, and this is right after Nico betrayed him and genuinely thought he had ruined their friendship forever. His brain would have broken I know it.