Jan 2, 2023
From Chapter One of On Mistakes and Birthdaycake by @bemmiecake on AO3
I started reading this fic when it first came out and it’s had such a huge impact on how I think of knuckles and you have definitely seen it’s influence in my art this past year! So it only seemed fair to try do something for the fic itself x
#sth#knuckles the echidna#tikal the echidna#I out tikal in blue because that was a royal Mayan colour and also water and chaos yaknow#and knuckles always gets green in my book tbh#I kind of merged my own design with the description from the fic to meet it halfway#this is the most canon I’ve drawn Tikal in a while ahahaha#on mistakes and birthdaycakes#bemmiecake#it’s been so long since I did fanfiction art#I miss being able to read fanfiction tbh#this one’s been like really good with me self projecting and trying to heal I guess#but I’m not going into that here#this is a beautiful unfinished fic about expectations and self pressure and found family#it’s got great details and world building and a lot of fun echidna culture and law interwoven into it#it’s tagged as sonamy and kuxouge but I don’t ship them and I’ve really enjoy it regardless it’s not in your face#so don’t let that deter you#it’s still being update btw it’s not abandoned but as of uploading this it is unfinished#I really wanted this to have an ethereal feel and also be like a book illustration so#messy by intention and I didn’t render the marking cause I really wanted them to pop that’s what I want your eyes to be drawn too#oh I forgot this fic actually goes into knuckles connection with the metals and how it calls to him and how he can feel and#sence chaos energy in everything and nom nom nom I am eating it up
