Thank you again so much for your RT’s and likes!! I’m so happy that my work had such a great reception. This means so much to me. I’ve also been reading every single post that everyone made.

I’m now sharing with everyone the lineart and flats that I made, in the process of making this work. I hope you enjoy!!

For your info, I have opened up a ko-fi account to help tide over my current financial problems over COVID-19. I am charging at least 3$ for a sketch, but I am also open to negotiating art commissions, if you can just DM me over Tumblr!

in the first gif Terry performs magic on flowers that are colored with the trans flag. 

in the second gif Terry talks with viren. he says: Back then, when I was just a little one, the other elves saw me as a doe. 

in the third gif Terry continues his conversation with viren. he says: but I knew: I always knew that I was a buck. 

in the fourth gif Terry is talking and references his hands to the trans flag colored flowers. 

in the fifth image is the trans flowers in bloom from the end credits. 

“I had to do things… I never imagined I’d be able to do.”

"Get... get outta him!" Rayla's demand is barely more than a squeak, her stomach sinking at the sight of red spreading across his neck. His blood, Callum's blood.

Drawn by her own blades.

"Will you deny him this last request?" Callum—Aaravos—leers at her, reaching up to grasp her face, fingers digging bruises into her jaw. "Or are you still too much of a coward? The little Moonshadow assassin who's never made a kill. Not a kill that lasts, that is."

"I said, get outta him!" Rayla strikes Callum's hand from her face, driving him against the ground. "Let him go!"

"Kill him, coward!"

"No!"

"Rayla..."

His eyes clear, and her grip on the blades goes weak. It's his own eyes, his sweet emerald eyes, gazing up at her, bloodshot and filled with tears. "Rayla, please..." he begs hoarsely. "Do it...."

"No... no, Callum..." her breath hitches, and her own tears fall onto his blood-stained face, mingling with his. "I—I can't..."

"Kill me, Rayla... please, please kill me... Rayla, it's okay..." His hand finds her cheek, gently thumbing at her tears. "I—I'm not scared..."

"No!" she sobs, flinging her blades aside and falling onto his chest. "No, Callum, I won't hurt ya!"

Callum sweetly strokes her hair, before grabbing a fistful and flinging her aside, a twisted grin spreading across his face as his eyes gleam that sickly color yet again.

rubs my hands so.

my big crack theory right now is the idea that something Else happened during the timeskip re: rayla and aaravos. rayla felt soooo off to me during the entire season and while the cynic in me wants to shit on tdps writing the theorist in me wants to come up with Reasons for why she felt so off and this is my favorite one: she's a sleeper agent unknown to even herself.

batshit, right? hear me out.

rayla doesn't talk about her time scouting, except to say that she failed and found nothing. rayla has a pet that has a connection to the Star Arcanum, which we know is the rarest of them all and yet she just... found her? rayla breaks into the palace via the mirror in the high mage's chambers instead of callum's room, and stella makes herself known via stealing the key for literally no apparent reason. rayla spends the rest of the season seemingly unaffected by the timeskip, trying to get callum's attention, and just generally acting... so very out of character. it could be that she's used as a plot device for callum's arc (something I'm painfully familiar with, sideeying amphibia) but i do have a theory and this theory is: rayla Did find claudia and the aaravos worm, but not only does she not remember it, she's actively being used to spy on the main cast, with stella placed conveniently in her path as a way to hold and maintain the spell.

I think it'd be fun. it'd explain why rayla didn't find anything in the two years despite her being an expert hunter and tracker. it'd explain why she tries so hard to pretend nothing's happened if to her, it doesn't feel like it's been two years cause her memories were altered. it'd explain why she went to the mirrors location first - to check on it, for aaravos's sake - and why she's so subdued throughout the season. she is still rayla, but she's a rayla under the influence of an aaravos spell, taken advantage by an aaravos that remembers very well how his first chance at freedom was thwarted by her when she tackled viren off that cliff (and successfully killed him, unlike his taunt of her suggests).

The people who recently reblogged my old drawing of Rayla in Callum’s jacket inceptioned me into this, because now there’s brand new outfits and it clearly needed a reboot 😄