Mey

I have a lot of feelings about narratives exacting terrible violence in life on women, and then keeping them eternally young and intact in death, often elevating them as symbols, images rather than people, thus turning them into immutable objects of meaning rather than letting them live with scars, heal and eventually grow old.

One of the reasons older women are so important is that they live bearing scars and wrinkles like a tally and a stamp of persistence on their skin.

All that to say, I appreciated greatly the show's decision to keep on screen Moiraine's chest scar in season 2 and had great hopes for Siuan getting similar visible scars after her deposal and torture.

It wasn't meant to be in this life.

So here's my turning of the Wheel where they lived on to cherish the other's body that had gone through so much.

It's only lineart and flat colors because I wouldn't have the time to finish before next month if I decided to start the shading.

The clothes are neither book or era accurate, I know. I go with vibes more than accuracy.

I put much efforts into making Mat the more normal looking of the bunch. I imagine his hat with multicolor feather, but as I had to fit him in the color wheel, they are just light blue here.

The Forsaken deserve a modern design, with piercings, makeup, and tattoos. Unfortunately, because of that, Demandred ended up looking way better than all the others which wasn't planned. But since he looks good as he is, I don't want to change it.

It was weird drawing them looking so young because they look older in my head, but I had to remind myself that they are in their twenties in the books.

Taim looks very much like Demandred, I know, it's on purpose. In my head, he had short hair, but I couldn't find a haircut that suited him, so now he has long hair.

Isn't Elayne adorable? I'm really happy with the way she looks, both pretty and cute.

Gawyn suffer from being the first pair I drew, he looks too normal when he should be one of the prettiest.

I chose pink for Lanfear because it's the lightest color of the lot, so it matches her white better.

I couldn't come up with a design I liked for golden hawks in flight of the diadem of the first, so I just decided it would be golden feathers instead.

I know these armors are totally inaccurate, but I had to find a way to include yellow, otherwise it wouldn't have fit in the color wheel.

I'm angry and disappointed in myself because Galad isn't the most handsome man in this color wheel. I should have done better for my favorite character… He suffered from being the second pair I drew; I hadn't expected to put so much effort into it. If I had finished with him, I could have made sure he was the most beautiful. I promise, I'll do better next time.

And Dain doesn't look unhappy enough, another mistake on my part.

I haven't watched the show so it's book Siuan after her stilling. Of course, her lace matches with Moiraine's.

In my mind, balefire is blue. I was certain it had been described as blue at some point, but since I can't remember where, I think I made it up.

I was very uninspired for Aviendha despite how much I like her, I will have to come up with a new design someday.

Isn't Nynaeve angry pouty face adorable? I love drawing her braid.

Morgase is another design I'll have to rework; she doesn't look like what I had in mind, and since she was the last character I drew, I was running out of energy and didn't enough effort into her clothes.

Rand looks more brownish than red here, it's a mistake, on my drawing tablet it was more vibrant. Did you notice that Logain and Taim clothes copied the dragon on his clothes?