Jenni the Jester

I offer only vampire angst today I'm afraid 😗

finally finished a painting i've been cooking in my mind for a few years! shadowgast as The Devil, one of my favorite tarot cards and one of the three cards i associate with their relationship

i'm not much for divination but i love the story-telling aspect of tarot, and one of my favorite visual metaphors of The Devil is how loose the chains around the two figures' necks are. they're not kept bound. it's that possibility to choose that i find so significant, and so fitting for the story of these two wizards. to say you're not defined by your past is to say you're born with all the choices you make; but to say you are forever defined by it is to deny yourself the right to change. the chains around your neck might be very heavy, but the choice to shrug them off is always yours to take.

*draws cartoons like one of your live action movies*

i'm still and forever on that Kryn Drow Are Bug Elves train, so i absolutely had to redraw that beautiful shot with my version of kryn armor. totally headcanon that Essek is wearing one of his mama's suits by the way, specially enchanted to facilitate being used by squishy wizards i assume

offscreen, brennan narrates to/for julien: "your father is dead on the ground. you'll never have the opportunity for him to know you as anything other than a drunken reprobate. as the shades surround you, whatever was written in their misty faces is gone now. the thing in vaelus that filled them with sorrow and guilt and shame? no, that's not what they feel looking at you. they look at you and those smoky mouths grin in recognition of a soul maybe just as lost as them."

I offer only vampire angst today I'm afraid 😗