we've passed on all we know

The gold is fading. The laurel has withered.

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[Image ID: A digital painting of the Star Wars characters, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Commander Cody, but in an alternate universe based on Tumblr user glimmerglanger’s fic, “Flotsam and Jetsam,” where Cody is a merman and Obi-Wan is a WWII veteran. They are facing each other and are submerged up to their chests in a tide pool by the ocean, with the sun setting directly behind them. Cody is holding the back of Obi-Wan’s head with his closer, web-fingered hand, and tattoos inspired by traditional Maori and Samoan designs cover his arm and shoulder. Obi-Wan has his far hand on the back of Cody’s neck and they are leaning into each other, smiling and touching foreheads and noses. Bright blue spots of bioluminescence trail down Cody’s tattooed arm, and along he chest, neck, and back, where some gill slits are visible. The ocean and tide pool water reflect the sunset and partially cloudy sky in the background. End ID.]

I’ve been wanting to draw something from @glimmerglanger‘s incredible Codywan AU fic, “Flotsam and Jetsam” since chapter 2. I knew I wanted to do something with Cody’s bioluminescent spots, because, like, how could my magpie brain possibly resist something shiny like that? But that meant the scene had to be in the evening or at night, and at first I thought about doing something in the bathtub, but that didn’t grab me. So I sat on the idea for weeks, until I happened to see a photo of a redhead in front of a sunset and their hair was just on fire (UwU symbolism). And I was like, “YES THIS.”

So I went with a sunset tide pool scene, which required a whole lot of reference photos, including some I took myself, with a laser pointer aiming into a sink of water, then turned blue in photoshop, haha. Between the reflections on the water, the back lighting from the sunset, the rock textures, and the glow from Cody’s bioluminescence, my brain definitely broke a few times, but it was a ton of fun to experiment with all this.

Timelapse

AO3

Aaah, thank you!! 🧡

Oh and also.

Bon appétit.

Ventress vs Savage, my two favorites!

More 👏 Old 👏 Clones 👏

Good job me

The damage is from bomb shrapnel; he’s full of screws, pins, and plates, including a partial restructure of his cheek bone. Half his jaw is metal, and he’s stuck in a permanent snarl.

Despite the eye trauma, he can still see, though sans helmet he can be prone to partial blurriness or astigmatism. Because of damage to the tear duct, he does, in fact, cry blood on that side.

The white/grey hair isn’t a mutation, it’s a shock response. He had black hair like most vode before the accident, medical shaved it all to assess the damage and put him back together (CCs are very expensive), and it grew back in that way.