les aristocrates à la lanterne

Haytham

Shay and Connor commiserating about working with Haytham lol - I was always excited to do a sequence with Haytham (I thoroughly enjoy how haughty he is - it's very entertaining! He's such a well-written, complex character, I love it). Yes I am one of those people who wishes Connor (and Arno) could've met Shay. They'd definitely have a lot to say to each other, that's for sure!

But are we ready to hear about Bard gaining weight post cannon as a sign of healing?

On a related note I had had the idea at one point of what if King Bard is the only king in the area who cooks his and his kids' own food? Just because he knows how and likes doing it. He'll hire chefs for royal occasions, sure, but the day-to-day stuff he does himself.

Maybe he learnt to cook after his wife passed, simply because someone had to, and found that he quite enjoyed it. The process at least, the whole trying to make the food stretch probably just worried him more. Do you think like all mammies everywhere, especially ones on a shoe-string budget, his dinner would consist of nibbling on scraps as he cooked and what was left over as he did the washing up?

Do you reckon that he's enjoying himself now as King with how he has the ingredients to make whatever he likes? Maybe he learnt how to make loaf cakes for his kids' birthdays, and now he can make cakes any Sunday he wants because he can afford it? Does he start trying to make more elaborate food just because he can now without having to worry about the cost and how many meals he can stretch out of what he has?

Do we reckon that's why he puts back on a healthy weight?

He carved various likenesses of the dwarf from memory, hoping only never to forget his face.

Extra family stuff:

“Uncle, did amad make you that scarf?”

“She did.”

Expression studies I did with different assassins I forgot to post

In 2025 the art my friends gave to me