Natbat Art

Приветствую всех, кто добрался до сюда! Меня зовут Радгарда (в нашем скучном реальном мире, я - Наталья), и здесь я буду выкладывать всякие фан-арты или просто арты.

Расскажу о себе:

Я взрослая тетенька, которая любит фэнтези, аниме, играет в игры и рисуют непонятную фигню.

Я всегда любила рисовать, но почти все время рисовали в стол. За графический планшет и стилус я села год назад, когда вступила в аск.

Я ни в коем случае не считаю себя хорошим художником. Я учусь и буду совершенствоваться дальше. Свою некомпетентность в некоторых моментах осознаю.

I decided to play around with Crowley's image.

Fear not, innocent soul.

You are precious to me.

In my gaze you shall become a guest,

Freed from all that once burdened thee.

A tender shoot you'll rise anew,

Rooted deep within my land,

Feeding it with thine own blood

For my favor, freely granted by my hand.

I am not one known for mercy—

Why such unease? Why such distress?

Take my hand. Do not be afraid.

I shall lead thee home to rest.

Hush now... worry not.

Every fear, every doubt, every memory...

BE GONE.

So, I have to say that Crowley's character feels very strong and straightforward to me… The only thing more straightforward is a brick flying straight at your head. The raven holds sacred meaning in mythologies around the world. The most famous example is Huginn and Muninn (Odin's ravens) — "thought" and "memory." These birds have always been associated with magic, gods, the otherworld, and knowledge. So, as soon as I saw Crowley, I thought: "Aha, this gentleman is no fool."

That's why from the very beginning, Crowley has been a "little pie with a surprise" to me — I expect something chthonic from him. In this artwork, I wanted to explore how I imagine the image of a raven as an arcane mage, and I also added a certain idea by combining it with the image of the valravn.

(An online explanation: according to various versions of Danish sagas, the valravn came into being like this — a knight (or, according to other sources, a king) fought and died on the battlefield. Ravens came to the corpse and began to peck at it. The raven that ate the knight's heart became a valravn — a bird endowed with human intelligence, memory, and experience. The valravn is also gifted with special powers. The legends say that the valravn "can lead people astray" and "commits great atrocities.") I also found a ballad that mentions the valravn drinking human blood in order to become human himself. "Valravnen" is classified as type DgF 60/TSB A 17 (1555–1559):

"...Then they brought out that little child,

Who lay on his mother's breast and sucked milk.

The raven pierced his chest,

*Drank half his heart's blood: *

Then he became the most beautiful knight

That could ever be found on earth..."

And I thought: what if Crowley came into our world for some selfish purpose and is pretending to be this irresponsible director? Besides, ravens are among the most intelligent birds — but if they're bored and have no training to expend their energy, they start destroying everything around them.Initially, I planned to make just empty shards, but then I came up with the idea of filling them with the characters of my close friends. In doing so, I wanted, firstly, to express my affection and tender feelings for the girls; and secondly, to show that this universe has brought us together, and we're living out the story in our own way — but together. And most importantly — every story matters.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Birthday of Melchior and Lilinet Vanrouge 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Today is the birthday of the little bat babies of Lilia and Nati. This is a very important day for me, because Lilia helped me come to something I myself had feared for a long time. As strange as it may sound, I love the twins. They are deep in my heart, just like Malleus's children, because they are all a part of me, a part of my soul, a part of the transformation I am going through. But with Melchior and Lilinet, it's a little different, because Nati's relationship with Lilia is built on acceptance, on the understanding that "I have the right to love and be loved without conditions," so the birth of these children is the pinnacle of everything. Nati has stopped doubting her right — she simply loves. Her husband, her children, her family... That is why, today, I would like to share this with you.

And another thing — I didn't choose May 9th as the twins' birthday by chance. Lilia's military past, his merits, losses, sacrifices, as well as the holiday that symbolizes bright memory, the meeting of past and future, the hope that life will always triumph over cruelty and death — all of this strongly shows how important these children are to the Vanrouges.

They are his triumph of life. His future. The children were born at 5 a.m., just as dawn is breaking, when darkness and light intertwine. This reflects Nati's connection to the Agapé family. The Agapé lineage is not of night fae, but twilight fae — those who exist between night and daybreak. Before the wedding, Nati joined the Sacriel family and partially embraced the essence of the Aienars, making Melchior and Lilinet half-Aienar, half-bat fae.

To be honest, Peter Pan was my childhood crush. 😅

Back then, I didn’t really think about who he was or what his fate might be. In my college years, I read an article analyzing the story — and my world turned upside down. It touched on themes of death and growing up. The character’s real-life prototype was the author’s brother, who died in an accident (he wasn’t even 14). There’s also a popular fan theory that Neverland is some kind of heaven or limbo. After that, I started seeing the fairy tale in a completely different light.

Then I compared the images of Peter and Lilie (Lilia?) and found some funny parallels. Both characters look young. Lilie is a fairy, Peter is a boy who never grows up (though he does have pointed ears in the 1953 Disney movie 🤔 — I still haven’t figured that one out). Both can levitate, both wield bladed weapons. Both have playful, sometimes chaotic personalities.

And get this — both have their own “Lost Boys”! 😁