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Let’s start with the most obvious feature, the gems in the centre.

Julius’ gem is turquoise in the shape of a sun mark, and Ry’s gem is purple in the shape of a half-moon.

Julius’ is in the shape of a sun both because their dynamic is LIKE sun and moon, but also because it matches the mark on his forehead.

I usually fill in the circle in the middle even though that’s what Lucius’ mark looks like because the rings are always so small in the drawings I make that it’s hard to have enough pixels to make it that way anyway - it’s just more convenient.

I thought about giving him his star mark from when he’s wizard king, but the moon and the stars doesn’t work as well, and Lucius also being associated with the sun would make it… kinda weird. But yeah, I feel like that part about the rings was obvious.

The half moon was a decision I made just because it make the shape seem more obvious from a distance - as a full moon would just be a normal circle and lose its meaning without Julius’ beside it.

However I think that is quite symbolic of how Ry views himself anyway, so I’ve been thinking of trying to find a wall of the moon ‘filling in’ over time as Ry learns to feel like he has more worth and less of him is kept in the shadows - just like the view of the moon.

But I can’t think of a good way of doing that without destroying the ring over and over (which I don’t want to do because it has sentimental value to him), or it being to do with magic of some kind. I can’t think of a way of making it a magic stone relevant - because magic means more to Julius so having a spell like that on the stone would work better for his own ring right?

Idk, any thoughts please tell me I’m so stumped but I thought this was cute 💔

Back to explaining the details okokok

The gem in Julius’ ring is the stone Turquoise - as not only is Ry’s eye colour blue, but Turquoise is one name of Ry’s birthstones (since his birthday is in December - though December allegedly has a lot of ‘official’ birthstones - but most of them are light blue anyway).

Turquoise :

The gem in Ry’s ring is the stone Tourmaline - for the same reasons that Ry had Turquoise. October’s birthstone is usually a pink tourmaline, but the stone CAN be purple - thus I went with that one for consistency.

Purple Tourmaline :

I’m thinking about designing them engagement rings and or promise rings, in which I wanna give Ry Opal since that’s the other birthstone for October and it looks so prettyyyyy! 🥺

Maybe I could actually switch it round and give them their own birthstones to being with, so it’s like when they officially get married they swap over and it’s more meaningful… idk

The bands themselves are gold just because yellows are already on both of their colour palettes - so it just makes more sense and matches better.

Any patterns engraved in the gold were originally a lot more intricate and complicated when I first designed the rings, but I wasn’t drawing allat so small so now it’s sort of morphed into details minimally inspired by the markings on Lucius’ skin later on - just because I felt like it was a way of making them relevant.

It’s again symbolic in a way since what ends up bringing them back together in the end after the fall out was Lucius’ defeat.

But yeah! Those are their rings when they get married :-)

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I’m getting so bad at responding to things latelyyyy - it’s not just here I’m really bad in general 😭

I keep feeling ashamed of like everything I say lately and want to take it back immediately - it’s not even bad stuff it’s mundane things or moments where I ask / mention something that makes me look dumb

It’s not a huge issue it’ll pass in like a week but - what im saying is ill respond to more soon 🙂‍↕️ I want to I just prepare everything I say in advance so I can reread it multiple times before posting 🚶‍♂️

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