I've been giving Fin a hard time recently with my art, so here's a "hard time" of a different type, re: his experience falling hard and fast for Ev lol.

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merry christmas, please don't call.

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You know this moment, don't ya? And time is strangely calm now 'Cause everybody's gone, it's Just you and your anger ... You really left me on the line, kid Holding all your baggage You know I'm not your father brother ... Oh, golden boy, you shined a light on your home And at your best you were magic, we were sold But don't tell 'em what you told me Don't even tell 'em that you know me I would rather burn forever But you should know that I died slow Running through the halls of your haunted home And the toughest part is that we both know What happened to you Why you're out on your own Merry Christmas, please don't call

“Praying” by Ke$ha

Fin calls up Herei after his sentencing and conviction, while he’s still in prison for treason, and goes off at him. Starts off calm, blows up at the end.

Essentially tells Herei “FUCK YOU, FUCK WHAT YOU DID TO ME, FUCK WHAT YOU DID IN MY NAME” and washes his hands of his former best friend and second-in-command.

“Your actions led to the deaths of thousands across worlds at the hands of the Phantasman Hivemind, Lordé, and you did it to protect me, which I never asked for! I didn’t need that kind of protection from you! I didn’t need you to make deals with evil incarnate to ‘keep him at bay,’ I needed you to be honest with me and prioritize saving the lives of everyone under our protection! I need you to do what was right!”

Then, a couple years later, Syne and Viridian come back and Fin gets his chance to yell at both of them again.

Syne is pretending everything’s fine, that she’s just concerned about her son after the War of Worlds and losing his fiancé, and he emphatically tells her that everything is NOT “fine!” He’s not fine, the worlds are not fine, and their relationship as mother and son? Nowhere near “fine.”

Fin expresses just how disappointed and pissed off he is that neither of his parents could both to show up during the WoW to even say something in support of the war effort against Phantasma. They didn’t check in, they basically showed they didn’t care. For all he knew, they had died fighting or been absorbed into the Hive!

He’s also VERY pissed still that his mother abandoned him to the throne and ran away. She’s never apologized for how poorly she set him up for the crowns, and for abandoning not just him, but her province and the dimension at large.

Syne was the oldest monarch in Tartarus. She had wisdom and experience that often outweighed her temper and outdated vocabulary. She was needed and she left.

He goes off at Viridian too, because he’s only been placating her this whole time, trying to keep peace between her and Fin instead of trying to be proactive and repair even his own relationship with Fin.

A”t least he tried!” Fin points out.

He even goes off about how they hid his siblings from him, how he had to dig into layers upon layers of Talkian history to find even footnotes about his siblings because his parents buried them to forget their grief—even in the pocket dimension, their own home!

He cries a little when he yells at them for not telling him about their graves, the memorial on the highest ridge, their crests and names.

And, even later, Fin sits at Ev’s side as they drink together, and he says sometimes he prays for the two of them. That some things only gods can forgive—“But Ev, Tartarun gods don’t forgive easy either. They fight for us, for justice, for what’s right. Even our gods wouldn’t forgive what’s been done to you, so neither will I.”

Wide shot of: a billboard-sized screen depicting another Imperial propaganda video. Then switch to: Ev and Fin sitting in the dark of a high rise in Vadetta Heights, two impact boards behind them filled with knives, pictures of Herei, the Council, and various individual sigils pinned beneath them.

Featuring: Fin’s glowing white eyes, magic armor details, lots of fire magic.

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I've been working on a few of these fun little sketch info pages recently - kind of a way to combine my messy sketchbook pages with a bit of coloring to keep my brain happy while I don't have time for full, finished, detailed artwork. I've shared this one over on Bluesky, so if it looks familiar, that's why!

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from 2024...

Corrin at the start of his stint with Ev's squad: I'm so straight. I'm not like all you weirdos with you pans and your ace hardware and your hOmoS3xUaliTY Jesse Feht, cracking their knuckles: wanna bet?

"To be fair to you, I wasn't exactly trying to be noticed - especially not after you stole my fucking scythes."

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