#duality art

Commission from @r-i-v-e-r ! She did a fantastic job with all three of my OCs, and I’m thrilled to get to share them! Go check her out!

All three of these kids are from my series Voltron: Duality. From top to bottom:

Akira Shirogane, Shiro’s twin brother and Commander of the Voltron Guard, in his dress uniform. (Layeni bullied him into getting a formal portrait.)

Meri, one of the blue paladins, during the time she spent stranded on Earth. Just imagine her going out to the desert and letting her human shift drop for an hour as she looks up at the stars and wonders how Allura and Coran are doing without her. Because I will never get enough of homesick Meri, okay?

The music I associate him with :

Akira Shirogane, Commander of the Voltron Guard

I commissioned this gorgeous piece from @preservedcucumbers / @somekindoftuber and am so thrilled with the results! Go check them out, especially if you’re looking for someone to commission!

Thank you! <3 I’m so glad you’re enjoying this series!

1) Through season one and two, Matt does wear his glasses all the time. He prefers contacts (because he, like me has an astigmatism, which means contacts are always just a little bit clearer than glasses), and he wore contacts during the Kerberos mission. Obviously he doesn’t still have those, so after escaping he wears glasses all the time. As of the break between s2/s3, he switches back to contacts.

2) So when Matt’s crystals first grew out of control, they were very nearly everywhere. I finally found a good visual reference for what I was picturing, which is the Orchid race from the board game Gloomhaven. This is a cropped version of the character art (you can see the full version on the Cephalofair Games website)

Not the crystal hair, sure, but crystals growing out of his skin all over the place. The vast majority of those crystals withered and shrank as he healed, so what he has left look a lot like little plaques (like you’d see with psoriasis.) The most visible ones are on his face, next to the eye that was affected, but those are also pretty small (the biggest is about the size of his pinky nail.) He has some bigger ones, up to an inch or so long, across his collarbone and chest and down his back along his spine. I’m not a good enough artist to draw it exactly, but hopefully this edit gives you an idea.