#edrh

Rambles

EdRich (Edward/Richard) is my fave ship from the series 🖤💛❤️🤍

Cheerful Golden Retriever with a bright disposition x Grumpy Aloof Stoic Black Cat 🐕🐈‍⬛

They're from a niche dark gothic shoujosei (that is VERY heavy, please heed the TW/CWs for this series), based on Shakespeare's Tragedy Plays, Richard III and Henry VI.

I originally read the series in 2022.

They drive me crazy they're such a good ship on god

I've been writing for them since 2022, I just finally became public about them (since I've just been sharing them privately with mutuals)

I make ship AUs for most of my top fave ships for each series. I have about 20+ in total across my fandoms.

The EdRich AU is one of the first ship AUs I made (and one of the first series I started doing dialogue scripts for)

It started with my KHR AU when I was a teen, and then I did it when I wanted to create and write for my EdRich AU in 2022.

I can write a pretty in-depth Pros and Cons list of the series at some point. I love it but I also have very conflicted feelings about it because some parts of the series are distasteful to me (writing wise and other issues)

(Unfortunately, the series doesn't have anything to do with EdRich as a ship at all, so I wanted to explore their potential together. Basically, they're a big brain that my mutuals and I came up with.)

Though they're such an obvious pair, since Edward is canonically in love with Richard in a very sincere way, it's unfortunately just hopelessly unrequited in canon.

Canon-verse Richard doesn't care for Edward much (especially when compared to other charas in the cast), sighs......

Which is honestly pretty disappointing, since their charas and dynamic/dynamic potential compels me the most.

I wish Edward's love wasn't unrequited to the extent that it is in the series' narrative...

They're my fave charas of the series, and I love their deep parallelisms together.

Also I'm not using the series' name in my text rambles here cuz I want to avoid my rambles showing up in fandom search results rn

I dislike the majority of the fanbase since they're generally really uncritical and/or immature.

I was debating whether to tag my rambles or not, but as of the moment I don't think I will.

I wanna post both my AU fan-works and crits of this series later only as an update for my mutuals (as of the moment)

And I don't want my crit rambles to gain unsavoury traction/interactions.

I will use the #edrich and #edrh tags to tag my rambles for this series for now ^^

I'm debating creating links to public Notion pages and posting the links on Tumblr to talk about my crits of the series. We'll see.

Art Rambles

Edward 💛👑🌹

Was rereading the manga lately. My baby I miss you 🥺

I was coming up with ideas for my EdRich AU again 😌

Old doodles from 2024 but I adjusted the colours

Tempted to redraw these soon 🙏

His hair was too strawberry pink imo so I shifted his hair to gold

Alt colour versions

Played around with Gradient Maps~

I like the idea of Edward having striking eyes that are in between light icy blue and green... 💙💚

Iirc in the LN, Edward's eyes were described as "Edward’s eyes are the colour of the sea that reflects the same blue sky (Henry)" so I want to keep that ref 🙏

I drew so many doodles of him omg 😭

Wait I made a mistake I drew this particular one in 2023

Looks like this kimono Edward with wagasa (oil paper umbrella) was drawn in February 2024 👘

I can definitely see huge art improvement jumps from 2022 -> 2023 -> 2024

So I'm really curious how he'll look in my current style in 2025.

My style shifted post April 2024

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EdRich from February 2024 ❤️🤍

I'm personally not a fan of my old art, but I always try to archive and keep as much as possible to see the growth of my art overtime 🙏

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EdRich scribble from 2022

I still think the comp idea of them biting on roses is a sexy art idea…

I have more thoughts on this ofc but I wanna post this now

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EdRich doodles from 2022 ❤️🤍

One thing I can observe is that my line weights and sketching style have gotten significantly better since 2022

Nowdays I usually use inky strokes to make my art look more interesting

By usually putting thicker lines where lines intersect

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It's so sad we were robbed of femme Edward so I gotta make EdRich yuri myself

I think I should redraw some proper doodles in the future

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Adult Edward ❤️

Though I should redraw adult Edward in my current style at some point

Most of my doodles for this series were drawn in 2022

EdRich Rambles

Official Arts 🌹

Edward of Lancaster (Chapter Cover Arts)

Adult Edward and EdRich (Volume Extra Paper)

God the lining style is so gorgeous...

EDWARD IS SO PRETTY ❤️🌹

God these chapter cover arts go SO hard

Art inspo for me.

Rambles

Copy pasted my rambles with Cinna from 2022 ^^

So the above illust was made by the mangaka while the (terribad) anime adaptation was airing back in 2022.

Like it's somehow way worse than MCA. HOW DO YOU GET WORSE THAN MCA...

She drew this EdRich art back then and I was surprised how muddy the colours were

But Ig it's cuz she based it on the ani's muddy ass colours 😭 Her own colours are better

Anyways colour edits from me

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Me: EDRICH ILLUSTRATION EDRICH ILLUSTRATION BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK

HELLO !?!? HELLO WE ARE FINALLY FED I AM ASCENDING

THE BLUSH AAAAAAAAA

RICHARD ACTUALLY HAS A BIT OF A BLUSH TOO

C: OH HE DOES

C: Makes sense JSJFJDGS

Me: I'm so confused though...

Edward seems to be loved by the fandom as a character, but hardly anyone /actually/ ships him with Richard.

What gives.

No one actually ships them together or even sees the potential of them as a serious ship (like not just a gag/comedy thing), despite liking Edward.

Like not even the possibility of them as a serious ship comes to mind for most people???

C: AWW THEM

Me: RICHARD ACTUALLY HAS A BIT OF A BLUSH TOO

C: OH HE DOES

C: Weird world. It's such an obvious ship

Rambles

Me: God it's so cursed that the ship with the potential for such a deep understanding of each other (due to their similar circumstances) just has Richard be totally indifferent to him in canon-verse

In my EdRich AU, Edward finally develops past constantly misgendering Richard (unlike in canon sighs...)

Like in canon what dooms their relationship is Edward's hopelessly unrequited love

I feel like the biggest problem is that, other than what I mentioned above, due to their circumstances, they were never able to meet and communicate in situations that would allow them to create a deeper kinship and understanding with each other.

Like they don't ever meet for long and the scenes where Edward tags along with Richard under disguise as a York noble are very short.

Fatally doomed for hostility and blood and misunderstanding.

So that's why it's unfortunate that they didn't get much interactions...

I'm holding onto my crumbs

So I obviously wrote scenes where they're able to bond with each other on a deeper level

Misc Rambles

I always gravitate towards rare pairs and niche popular ships

My ship philosophy is that I don't need my ships to be canon to be king 👑

It's just fine if I do my own things with them outside of the source material.