#chrysanthe

13 April 2025

POV: your lovely thrall suddenly acted up and is killing you with an axe.

Anyways, I was once again re reading GOL HAH DOV for the millionth time. While I was reading the first chapter, I was thinking about how this scene, in particular, leaves such an impact.

I realized thinking about things from Chrysanthe point of view, and he basically woke up in a horror movie. He woke up with no memory kidnapped and in a cave. Not to mention the fact that cave creep (as I call him for lack of a better term) is barely described appearance wise, but Chrysanthe reaction to seeing him is focused on instead is something I really thought was impactful.

"This man has hurt him before, more than once. He doesn’t remember what but he knows, unquestionably, that this is true."

I drew this a lot differently from how I draw a lot of my art normally because I wanted to give it a more tense/horror feeling. Chry was basically a few minutes old and suddenly fighting for his life with an axe. I really love doing re reads just because every time I do, I notice something different.

Chapter 4: Post Argument Baking Session

Chapter 46: Dragon Bicker

Chapter 48: Don't Do Love Confessions When You're Drunk

Slowly working my way through NPC designs... When I've got them mostly figured out I will make fullbody references :3c

TW: blood and (non-graphic) injury, spoilers for Chapters 24-25.

Not gonna lie, this took me at least 3 years since I started this when I was in my first year of college and I'm about to enter my 4th year now 💀.

I tried my best to design this like it was a one of a series of tapestries telling Miraak and Chrysanthes story (probably made by Miraaks cultists let's be real). I'm not 100% happy with it but you never will be with art. I'd love to go over this again one day and use a brush that makes it actually look like a tapestry but I was already flexing my artist muscles with this one, including drawing a dragon for the first time ever.

Happy 5th anniversary to the GOL HAH DOV fic !

(love that it's the 5th anniversary on the 5th of may in the 2025 year)

It's been a while, but the story and its characters are still lovingly in my mind. Of course, it's a redraw of one of my first fanarts of Miraak for @99corentine, but with a slight change: Chrysanthe's hand is put on Miraak's hand above the latter's heart, and he is smiling, no longer alone.

More to come when work will be less crushing !

Close ups and no text under the cut

I sketched this while listening to RWBY on loop instead of doing work but I don't regret anything. I've been bitten by the GHD bug.