#cronan darkroot

We got to talking about weddings on the Elvendale Server recently, and Tumble dropped some gorgeous designs for Cronan and Rosalyn. Adapting these designs from the minifigures was a lot of fun!

Art/Ask Prompt Masterlist

Except: he has no idea he’s doing them.

The amulet is screwing with his head really, really badly. He hasn’t noticed, because he’s been wearing it since he was so young, so he just assumes ‘oh, I have massive gaps in my memory, must be because I’m getting older, and my mom forgot me a lot of the time, so adults just forget lots of things’.

He genuinely doesn’t understand why things fell apart with him and Rosalyn, or why Ashwing got sick. He thinks he’s trying to help his forest, with the help of his goblin friends. The goblins don’t realise they’re being controlled, either.

So he’s just a slightly awkward teenager, doing teenager things, with constant black outs, who gets possessed by shadow creatures through the amulet, and has no idea he’s doing evil things half the time. Or that as that keeps happening, it’s slowly killing him. No, his hair turning white isn’t just because ’oh, old people problems’. Kid, you’re 17 (in elf terms), that’s not old.

Everything makes perfect sense to him, because… no frame of reference. So when he begs Nadia to help him get his mother back, and get the amulet, he doesn’t understand why she wouldn’t help him. He’s done nothing wrong, and he only really needs to borrow it. He respects her decision, though.

Sophie has the weirdest time with it, because she’ had the exact same “Why are you in a cage?” conversation with this guy enough times she can read both parts. He’s tried to set her free, always letting her out, and apologising when she tells him he locked her in there, and he doesn’t know why he would do that. She’s also then gone through the same he goes completely blank and I get put back in the cage by the shadow goop and the cage is moved somewhere else part that she just knows something is wrong with her ‘cousin’.

I dunno, it came from a dream. It had holes in it. Still does.

as i learn more and more about him, DAMN would he get along well with varian from tts!

- started out as a perfectly fine normal kid

- had parent violently ripped away from them, and while they're able to be brought back (in theory), doing so is a very dangerous and difficult journey

- go down a spiral of anger and hate and despair and turn to the dark side all in the name of rescuing their parent

- nobody helped them or went to check on them? and they were left to their own violent evil devices

- become the big bad villain

- get redeemed somehow in the end

"What... what are we now? After everything that's happened?"

Cronan nearly choked on his salad. What were they? They couldn't be enemies anymore. Could they? Should they? Why was this so hard!? Rosalyn, on the other hand, seemed not to be sharing his anxiety about this.