#crysania

fantasy musical "The Last Trial "

I just really enjoy these kinds of scenes when I get them... when the dark and nefarious wizard is allowed to be like, objectively right about a situation. and their natural dark attitude is actually the correct reaction that lets them see things more clearly. it's sexy

in this scene his holy love interest (Crysania) doesn't want to see that the Kingpriest is a sham. This is funny because no one ever believes Raistlin when he comes to them with genuine wisdom and advice because he's a 'dark wizard,' so his cynicism is exponential. Raistlin is also trying to manipulate Crysania at this point, but like... in an enemies-to-lovers way that involves helping her and making her as strong as possible and getting entangled with her. He's like "don't get caught up with this kind of thing, you're better than that and I need you to keep up with me." Ruslan plays Raistlin so well, it's wild

Raistlin and Crysania linocut I made to give to Elena Khanpira (author of the Last Trial libretto) when I met her a couple days ago!