#book 5

I was listening to too much katseye and started associating Vil with Gabriela so I drew him as the hottest member /hj

This is also the first time drawing neige so that was fun! He fits the face of Dani so well

My first piece for the @iceouthr fandom fundraiser to support immigrants rights in America. Over 4.5 thousand dollars has been raised so far! (And as of Feb 14th, they’re still accepting donations through the end of the day.)

This prompt was an easy one: Troy and Harris at the farm. So, here they are in a post-Sunday dinner food coma enjoying some excellent cinematic programming. Harris loves Our Flag Means Death, I will not argue this point.

Unless, of course, you wanna make the point that the show wasn’t on during their book timeline, and in that case, Harris loves Black Sails and I will not argue this point.

Bonus: them without word bubbles.

Diomedes my beloved <3

I’m sure this has been made b4 but I couldn’t find it so here’s me reinventing the wheel

(This animatic doesn't have a very amazing structure, so just enjoy the pretty pictures and the RookVil teasing/ book 5 content!)

I think we can all learn something from Rook, because I think no one truly understands just how much he loves almost everything- especially Vil. He saw the beauty in Vil's overblot while also acknowledging that it wasn't Vil at his most beautiful. He loves him so much and genuinely wants the best for him; he sees Vil’s beauty! Remember, even when Vil was at his ugliest, he still saw beauty.

He sees the beauty in pimples, in fat, in tears, in color, in wrinkles, in smile lines, in every single "flaw" a human body can have. He sees beauty in something as simple as a flower or a well-crafted chair, and also in something as complex or horrible as trauma or anger and hatred. He sees beauty in everything that today's beauty standard would call "not beautiful", but Rook knows better. He knows that beauty standards are doodoo! He believes that the most beautiful person is a person that loves themself. Ironically a stark contrast to how Vil sees it, since he relies more on external ways validation to measure beauty. Rook truly believes that a person is only ugly if they're very ugly on the inside.

Rook is optimistic, curious, kind and positive. Yeah the guy may be a little very weird, but at the end of the day he's definitely not a bad dude! He wants to seek and protect beauty and spread it to the world :)

I know we're all mad that he voted for Neige, but it was the right thing to do. If he voted for NRC, he wouldn't have been honest, the main trait vil likes in Rook. He wasn't biased, he simply knew that their performance wasn't as beautiful as it could've been. This doesn't mean that their performance wasn't beautiful of course!

Also the fact that what Rook tells Vil after the competition is so important to his character development! Vil shouldn't need an audience to tell him that he's amazing and beautiful, that’s what Rook means.

If NRC had won it would've ruined the entire point of Vil's character arc in my opinion (though of course I would've loved for us to win). In conclusion, Rook is a neat dude who we should learn from (minus the stalking part cough cough)