StarClan Heresy

"Est Deus"

All three of them

Moonwatcher in the panelka

Turtle in the elektrichka

Winter in Vorkuta

Still chipping away at a Tsunami design I’m happy with. And her boyfriend’s here, too (and a smaller, earlier conceptual version of him). They’re a little too similar looking for my liking, so I’ll probably revisit Riptide and sharpen him up. I had another design for him I had forgotten about so I’ll probably merge the two.

Trying to lean into the “flowy” design motif for Tsunami, so her linework is supposed to be swept back and smooth. Riptide is supposed to have more of a jagged feel (riptide just feels like a jagged word to me), but he still has some friendly roundness to him. In the future, I want to make his horns sharper and his ‘hair’ a little more loose and playful looking. Yes, I did give him a little eyebrow notch.

Tho thats kinda to be expected since WoF is a children's book series so romance isn't the focus but still, make the ship a less prominent aspect of the books then, you csn have a gay romance with good rep while focusing more on other plot aspects.

Blue and Cricket are ALSO poorly written and rushed as a straight pair and I think it's because Sutherland wants the romance to move forward all in one book. That's irritating!

Both The Lost Continent and The Hybrid Prince would be pretty much the same if the romance wasn't there, but because it is we have to screech to a halt several times in both books to have awkward "oh man I hope they like me" bits.

Just!! Let the relationship occur naturally over the arc! Sutherland's done it before! Granted, I don't like the Moon/Qibli/Winter love triangle either, but at least it occurred throughout Arc 2.

I don't think Sutherland is doing lazy rep for rep's sake, I think she just sucks at establishing romance and does better when the courting phase happens offscreen, like with Willow and Sundew.