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Folks have done fanart of Huang Lin and I think of Shishio, but that's all I remember off the top of my head. lanquedd did this pretty Song Taewon, Sung Hyunje, Huang Lin (using a fan design of him), and Han Yoojin fanart back in 2024:

And they did another one here:

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A solo Huang Lin piece by lanquedd:

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There's this Sung Hyunje / Han Yoojin / Huang Lin piece:

There was a very brief uptick in Huang Lin fanart around this time for whatever reason (I think it was lanquedd just really liking him and encouraging others to draw him). I don't even think Huang Lin was that particularly active in Side Story (he popped up every now and then), fans were just drawing him slightly more on twitter.

lanquedd also commissioned on4103518727167 for some Huang Lin fanart in 2025:

Onlyraii (who did the second official novel cover art) did this fanart of Shishio back in 2020 (this was 2 years before their cover art was released):

And another:

I think Bgakseong did a Shishio piece back in 2024, but has seemingly deleted it (and browsing for Shishio fanart is kind of hard, even when I search with his name in Korean, given most of what's online is Shishio Makoto from Rurouni Kenshin).

And I don't recall anyone else (other than Young Chaos, Crescent Moon, and the kids, and that's mostly Gyeol) getting fanart, at least not that I've seen. But I also only really follow folks who make fanart of Yoojin, Hyunje, and sometimes Yoohyun, Yerim, and Noah. Folks outside Korean twitter tend to only do fanart of the main cast, not characters from Japan or China.

The main Young Chaos official novel art (I forget which volume it's from, but I think it's one of the first half, since the novel switched artists after that):

There's a bit of Young Chaos fanart out there (if you see a Yoohyun with a long ponytail, more traditional clothing, and carrying a sword in his hand, usually that's Young Chaos). Young Chaos, Source!Yoojin (I think), and Sung Hyunje fanart:

There is one piece of official art in the novel with source!Yoojin, while being held by Young Chaos, and it's in Volume 35:

Fanart of the three of them by onlyraii:

And some of Young Chaos on his own:

Source!Yoojin and Sung Hyunje:

Some Crescent Moon fanart:

Another:

Another:

There's way too much Gyeol fanart out there to stick in a tumblr post, so I would just suggest browsing if that's what you're looking for. The fandom is most active on twitter outside Postype, though there are some folks who've shared a bit on Blue Sky Social. If you see fanart from the fandom and it features a small pink dragon, a child with pink hair, or a child Hyunje with wings (not fairy!Hyunje, a child version), that's probably Gyeol, because those are all popular fan designs of him. Also sometimes Hyunje with pink hair, based on the time Gyeol transforms to pretend to be Hyunje (because he retains his pinkness).

This is perhaps most readily exhibited in his relationship with Hathor. He is polite to a fault with her every occasion he's around her (except in Thoth's temple, where she's mocking and antagonizing him, and he responds in kind). He doesn't play up her interest. He accepts her gift, while warning his mother about it, in private (though he is, initially, optimistic about the mirror's utility). The worst that he does with this very fractious and political relationship - which is pointed out in his conversations with Isis and Seth about it - is avoid her. He does play hooky with his responsibilities to chase Seth for romantic reasons, leaving his mother in the lurch to manage what should be his responsibility, including, namely, dealing with his potential political marriage to Hathor. However, as Isis and Seth point out: Hathor is the favored daughter of Ra, and angering her is very dangerous. Isis, and Horus by extension, have little political backing, and relied on Ra's support to regain the throne. Outright rejecting Hathor might anger Ra, and endanger their position. Horus in particular, unlike Isis, is a demigod and very weak, with 2/3rds of his power being borrowed from others. Hathor is a full goddess, and, potentially unknowingly because she's a spoiled brat and doesn't think all that deeply about most anything, is abusing her position by pursuing Horus. It's a very classic, "A is taken in by a household/teacher out of charity, and an heir of the household pursues them romantically, in a way A is unable to properly refuse out of fear of losing everything" situation. Horus avoiding it is the best strategy of many bad ones. Even Isis in S2E4 cautions him about how to properly reject her.

Another aspect when considering Horus' attitude to his responsibilities is how he was raised and lived for hundreds of years. An important element of Horus' background is that he was raised to take revenge. That is why he was born: not out of love, not because Isis seemingly wanted a child, and definitely not because Osiris wanted one. Not even seemingly by accident. He was born out of revenge: his mother's revenge. At no point has his life been his own to live. From birth they were on the run from Seth and his followers, while Isis breathed vitriol into his head, and he promised to help her. This lasted hundreds of years. The moment that ended, he was granted kingship over an entire nation and its gods. After partaking in a series of tests that nearly killed him multiple times. Given Isis takes over the throne with him, it makes sense, to me, that he, as a dictator, might take a vacation to chase after his romantic interest, leaving the throne in the far more capable hands of the woman who managed a throne and war(s) for a very long time prior to Osiris' suicide. If Horus abandoning his throne - relatively briefly, given he's, you know, immortal - is what is labeling him as a child, well, he's a dictator. By the nature of the position, he can do whatever he wants. His job is to be the strongest, not necessarily rule well (we'd like it if he was a good king, but there's nothing requiring him to be one, nor any real definition of what a good one is, particularly considering his mother was in charge of culling the population for a very long time). Seth didn't lose the throne because he was a bad leader. He lost because he was outwitted and let his anger and self-hatred get in his way.

In re: leaving Isis in the lurch: there's a moment after the second match that makes me... less sympathetic than I might be to Isis' plight in re: ruling alone. To be clear, I don't dislike Isis. I think she's a fun character. However, in S1E27, the way she specifically and viciously dresses Horus down for challenging her in a relatively minor fashion is alarming, "Why are you looking at me like that? Are you trying to say that this competition isn't fair? Are you blaming me right now? This competition isn't about fighting with honor!" I've also personally been in the middle of a parent whispering vitriol out of "affection" in my ear in a moment of weakness (Horus was heavily injured in S1E27). It's disturbing, at best. I cannot imagine living that for hundreds of years. Leaving Isis to the throne she wanted and her revenge, especially when he wants no part of it, makes sense, to me. It was Horus' stated position from the get-go anyway ("We didn't come here looking to kill you. We're here to reclaim our lost sovereignty." - Horus to Seth while supporting Isis in S1E4). He did his part.

Horus' jealousy and territoriality and basically brattishness in re: Seth is also something I imagine pops up here. The caveat here is that Seth is, to a degree, into it, so it's a consensual kink. Wanting your partner to spoil you is pretty normal in a relationship. Not everyone is into that, but it's not unusual. Horus also acts young at times (e.g., in Thoth's temple when he screws up with Seth) because he's literally the younger partner in the relationship. He is learning. He learns. Seth encourages him to learn. As shown in Amunet's temple, Horus was also aware he had issues controlling himself, but was making efforts to do so. Seth encourages him to let go (Horus: "Of course I held back in front of you." Seth: "Don't hold back." - S2E107). There are few situations I can think of where Horus exhibits his brattishness outside his romantic relationship.

"But Anubis!" someone might say. Again, this is contextual. Yes, Horus is deeply angry at Anubis, somewhat offsetting his anger at Seth and himself on Anubis, and focusing all his jealousy on Anubis. Initially, anyway. Horus self-avowedly wanted to be Anubis. He wanted to be brought up in a life of ease, with parents who were both alive and loved him and didn't spew vitriol in his ears for hundreds of years. So there is jealousy there. Adults do in fact experience jealousy, it's not just something you experience as a child. I think when you consider the fact that Anubis, who lived a life of luxury, came to complain to Horus for more, based on the life Horus has lived, you might understand why Horus is somewhat less sympathetic to Anubis' situation. Imagine you've lived a life on the run, hungry, unclean, sickly, surrounded by death and horror spurred on by the crown prince's father, watched your mother work herself to ruin, lived with the knowledge that your father allegedly was murdered by the crown prince's father... and then one day the crown prince, an adult (considering Anubis is hundreds of years older than Horus, who is also hundreds of years old) raised with relatively little cares, come to you, sobbing and demanding you help him. Anubis is a person who has literally everything. And when you consider that the times they're living in are different. That, you know, beating your children is fine (children have limited rights in most parts of the world, you are essentially considered your parents' property until adulthood, and corporal punishment was legal against children for much of history, and was only made illegal in certain cases relatively recently). That Horus can ignore what Seth did to Anubis and otherwise view Anubis as a spoiled rotten child begging for even more from someone who has little to begin with... His treatment of Anubis before Anubis' ascension is understandable. This is on top of the fact the entire conversation where Horus dismisses how Seth treated Anubis takes place after Sekhmet tells Horus some part of what Seth sacrificed to Osiris for Anubis. Horus was already not sympathetic to Anubis, and he's less so after hearing what happened on the night Osiris died. When Horus nearly kills Anubis in his bedroom, it's not just jealousy, it's also fury at what Seth's gone through on Anubis' behalf.

A central part of Horus' feelings about Anubis is that Anubis is a danger to Seth. Horus cares about Seth more than just about anyone in the world, other than Isis. Thus, Horus views Anubis in light of that affection. Repeatedly, Horus witnesses Anubis endanger Seth and/or Seth endangering himself for Anubis. First, in Khemmis, Seth drinks and drugs himself into a stupor out of pain over Anubis, in a way Horus acknowledges left him vulnerable. Anubis literally made Seth miserable to the point Seth nearly lost his mind and life. Second, Anubis is the one who brings an army into Heliopolis, to dethrone and potentially imprison, torture, and/or murder Seth. Yes, Horus is part of that army. Yes, this helps Horus. It doesn't mean Horus can't acknowledge the danger Anubis poses to Seth by doing that. A weapon is a weapon. Third, Horus knows, to some degree, what Seth sacrificed on the night Osiris killed himself, on behalf of Anubis. Fourth, Horus witnesses how Seth endangers himself during the third match, because of Anubis, not just with the sword but also with the curse bracelet. When Horus and Anubis confront each other in the desert in S2E31, and Horus says, "This is why I've never liked you. . . . I knew it the moment I first saw you. I knew you would become shackles that would cause my uncle to suffer.", there is first reasoning behind it. He's not just being a territorial brat here. He knows, and has seen, recently, with the way Anubis treats Seth in the desert, just how dangerous Anubis is to Seth. And Horus does not want the person he loves most to be hurt. Yes, Horus pouts a bit while being lectured in S2E58... while pointing out that Anubis is dangerous to Seth specifically. Which is canonically true. That Seth is in denial about this does not make it less true. As proven shortly afterward when Horus witnesses Anubis attempt to kidnap Seth and then brutally injure Seth in S2E59. As Horus points out when Seth defends Anubis, "Have you forgotten he nearly killed you?" - S2E60.

Horus did bad things to Seth too, and he is pushy and ignores Seth at times. However, that doesn't mean he owes Seth asking Hanekate for help for someone who's a danger to Seth. Yes, it's played up as him kind of throwing a tantrum (for comedy because it's, you know, a comic). But literally, if someone you liked asked you to help someone you didn't like, who's endangered and attempted to murder someone you cared about... it's not precisely childish to just say, "No." Seth also intentionally pissed off Hanekate to get out of the set-up Horus went to a far degree to get him into. In terms of drama, they're about even at this point.

And ultimately, Horus is, after a fashion, correct: Osiris uses Anubis to drag Seth to Duat. It's something Horus pointed out in S1E27, when asking where Anubis' allegiances lie and why he does what he does, "Did Isis ask you to do this? Or... ...Did Osiris order you to?" Horus knew from the start and was right to be wary of Anubis' allegiances, and that concern only grew over the course of the narrative. Even ignoring the danger to Seth, Osiris as an entity is a boogeyman of his own whom Horus is seemingly wary of, and then he learns more about what Osiris did to Seth. The end of season 2 is Horus' worst nightmare made manifest. That doesn't give him license to act bratty whenever he does in re: Anubis. But we know from the entirety of the story that he has plenty of reason to act the way he does in regard to Anubis prior to that moment. The end of season 2 is just what he feared most happening, and part of why he fought so hard to distance Seth and Anubis in the first place.

In re: Khemmis, I don't think it's beyond the pale for a person, regardless of age, to be curious and act a bit selfishly. He wanted to know what the true big bad he's been told about his entire life is like. The person who is central to his reason for existence. Not only because Osiris never wanted to have kids, and thus Seth's involvement in Osiris' death is the only reason Isis had Horus, but also because Seth is the person upon whom Horus is meant to take revenge. And Horus has lived a miserable existence up until this point to get to that goal. Wanting an out or an end or answers makes sense in that respect. Living a temporary fantasy where he was wholly loved and supported rather than seen as a vehicle for revenge makes sense, given the life he lived. And ultimately, it is Horus, the younger individual, who realizes it isn't any good, and leaves, returning to his mother (S1E62). He made the responsible choice. That does not smack of immaturity to me.

In re: choosing not to fully ascend, sometimes we do selfish things for love. And given ascension is a very personal choice, I think this is fine. This choice is only childish in the sense that his ascension is considered the "adult" thing to do. And why? Because he's destined to be the sun god? To rule Egypt? To take revenge for Isis? All of these are things that have nothing to do with what he wants. They are things he would do for others. Why is it selfish to want to be loved? To want to be happy? Even if it is, why is that particular brand of selfishness a bad thing, especially when it comes to something that involves your literal physical being? In the moment he loses Seth's curse on his age, he realizes the weight of his decision, and is horrified. He's afraid, but he makes a very calculated decision not to ascend. It's a very adult thing in its own right. Dangerous, yes. Foolish, perhaps. But childish? I don't really think so. He literally physically comes into adulthood in that moment and makes an adult choice. Horus takes command of his own autonomy. He is allowed to make choices about that without being labeled as a child for doing so. In a story that is centrally about autonomy - whether it's Seth's over his choice in partner, Isis in being a woman in a patriarchal society, Nephthys losing control over her own mind and then taking it back and deciding for herself how she feels about Seth, Anubis and Horus being the heirs to powerful parents - this is a particularly powerful choice.

Horus understood Seth was basically committing suicide by proxy during the trial and tried to talk him out of it: "This is why I no longer wish to see the two of you add fuel to the fire. And I too will never again do something so terrible to you. I absolutely refuse to do so. So please... Please stop trying to harm one another. You two are siblings. You share the same blood. Please stop this competition so that such tragedies do not repeat themselves, Uncle." (S1E58). He doesn't want Isis to be hurt more. He doesn't want his family to keep fighting. This is a very adult moment and wish, in a competition where Horus is heavily handicapped - despite Seth's handicap, Horus is still a demigod, while Seth is a thousands of years old, seasoned god of war - and thus at extreme risk. It is a foolish decision that risks everything. But it is one he makes all the same, because he has people he cares about and he wants to fight to protect them in the only way he knows how.

Horus tries to talk Seth out of using the cursed bracelet, not for his own advancement, but because it's dangerous to Seth (S1E63). Again, he cares about Seth, and he puts his life on the line to try to keep Seth safe. A child would flee in fear. Not grab a weapon that works by gravity and threaten the most powerful being in his vicinity to try to stop him from killing himself.

Horus has shown he's capable of diplomacy. With Seth, Isis, Hathor, Hanekate, and others. He can handle administrative tasks. He can perform difficult tests. He can act professionally in public settings (e.g., the trial). He faces his fears, he studies, he modifies his behavior accordingly. This is not, to me, a sign of immaturity. People can be smart and also have moments where they aren't constantly serious.

Horus can be playful: he does have some fun with Seth after the caravan cave. He also does his best to keep Seth from dissolving. While arguing with the foreign god, he makes pointed comments about the foreign god's agreements. He responds to Seth's arguments with his own points. He supports Seth when Seth is sickly and carries him to the only person he knows might help Seth. He lies to do it, betraying Hanekate by having her treat the man responsible for her daughter's murder and the murder of so many whom Hanekate cares for. It's not childish so much as just cruel. It's a selfish choice, which he often makes. I think framing stuff like this as "childish" downplays the danger that powerful men pose to women in patriarchy. Horus, even as a demigod, is a dictator with superpowers who holds power over a disabled mortal woman like Hanekate. And he abused it.

In re: trying to get Seth to eat in the temple, we see Horus trying repeated avenues to get Seth to eat literally anything, and Seth is shown as fussy and self-harming (by not eating, he is rejecting healing, even if Horus doesn't know this is because eating brings up Seth's trauma). That Horus tried to make light of it to trick Seth into eating isn't that surprising. Seth was acting childish. Horus returned the behavior, at best, but with the intelligence of trying to trick Seth into helping himself. We see his fear of what could happen to Seth when Seth's illness gets worse in S2E38. There's a lot at risk. Horus will do anything, even debase himself, to try to help Seth get better. Watch a parent feed a child sometime. It's similar.

In re: leaving all the birds with Seth: Horus knows the risk the foreign god in particular poses to Seth, and the various dangers Seth has gotten into on his journey. Leaving Seth a literal army to protect himself - which Horus used to rescue Seth from FG's caravan before - is understandable. That he turns back from Heliopolis when he sees his mother is awake and apparently in charge is a measured choice. One he makes a bit quickly, but it's measured all the same.

Much of their time going to and being in Hermopolis features Horus being curious about history, including that of his family (Nut is his grandmother, after all), and being wow'd by Seth's history. He loves Seth and is awe'd by him. Adults can experience awe. And his conversation with Seth about Seth's issues with eating, where he's connecting the dots in S2E88, is very adult. He spends a ton of time looking after Seth, trying to help him, and ultimately they form a partnership and work together. They talk a lot to each other, have heart to hearts... As shown in the scenes in Amunet's temple and Thoth's temple, Seth is into what Horus does in the bedroom, too, and when he's not into it, he makes that clear. But when Horus isn't in the bedroom, by and large, he's just supportive.

Horus is also careful with how he talks to Nephthys, despite his jealousy. He could ignore Nephthys, attack her... but instead, he's wary of what he doesn't know. Conflicted, again selfish, but thoughtful in his own way. There's a lot going into this relationship: Horus doesn't fully understand what mirror!Nephthys is or how he should react to her. On their first meeting, he doesn't fully know if she's real or not, and he has reason to believe there's more at play than he understands. At the time, he and Seth were enemies. Telling Seth that a version of Nephthys was trapped in a mirror was a risk. Telling Isis might be less of a risk, but his relationship with her, as pointed out earlier, was difficult. Talking to the imprisoned Nephthys was also risky. He ultimately does it, but they didn't have all the time in the world to discuss everything, seemingly, especially since Horus was recovering from nearly dying. And Horus leaves her light before he leaves in Hermopolis. He doesn't know how to get her out, but he at least gives her that. He also tries to encourage her, despite his own stake in her staying where she is. He doesn't tell Seth until it's too late, but that conversation would have likely never gone well to some degree. Does this whole thing speak well of him? Not entirely. But he does decently in a bad situation largely out of his control. It's not immature so much as a mess the best person couldn't navigate well, played up for narrative drama.

At worst, Horus is a bit naive and overly trusting due to his youth and people, including Isis, Thoth, and Seth in particular, keeping information from him, sometimes manipulating him for their own ends. He is aware of his position as a piece other people want to use, and he prefers to use his own ability to chase after what he wants instead. He's a king, he can do that. He has mortal feelings, so yes, he is flawed and often selfish. That doesn't make him a child. That makes him a person in a story about how gods are capable of feelings and wants, and Horus more than anyone else, is a "link between the gods and humankind." (S2E44).

I'd love to know more about what happened in the mid-conversation pause between S2E100 ("Was the one you saw in the mirror... Seth?") and the apparent end of Horus and Nephthys' conversation in S2E118, when he leaves the jewel and some feathers there. Horus definitely could have said something to her between those moments, but what it exactly is anyone's guess! Explaining anything about his relationship with Seth is certainly possible, though it feels kind of mean. After all, to mirror!Nephthys, she and Seth are still married and she still loves him, and Horus would be a love rival. Horus telling Nephthys that he's going to leave her behind again and go romance Nephthys' husband, while Nephthys is imprisoned in the dark, is just kind of not really his style alkdjalj I think at best he maybe elaborated on his feelings a little...? Or just stayed silent and let her imagine. Plus, his wishes doesn't necessarily translate to how Seth feels about it (one-sidedness is a thing). He could of course say that Seth kissed him and they're together, but that would still be really mean and feel out of character. But who knows! We did already get a little bit more of the conversation at least to mirror the original mirror conversation, with S2E118, so that might be all we're getting. But if they did talk more, it could be something Nephthys herself might bring up next episode or in some later episode! It could be part of why she, while being aware Horus is a potential love rival, still wasn't hostile to him while he was leaving. Or maybe she's just like that as a person, especially after living so long before being trapped in the mirror and then being trapped in the mirror for so long. One issue in the story is we see so little of her true personality outside S2E98 and part of S2E99. The rest of the time we're really only seeing her potentially after she was brainwashed by the mirror or her memories in the mirror were cut off from the rest of her.

Another facet is that Horus and regular!Nephthys talked during/before Seth's sentencing, in the flashback in S1E69 (when Horus convinced Nephthys to speak at the sentencing), and Nephthys witnessed Horus stepping in to "knock Seth out" and cradle him when he went berserk. Recombined, with the realization that Horus likely turned his back on her after the first match because of his affection for Seth, Nephthys might put two and two together, and realize that Horus is someone who plans to stick by Seth's side. It still says nothing about Seth's feelings on the matter (though that Seth went along with Horus' gambit during the sentencing speaks volumes, assuming Nephthys knew or could at least guess that Seth would have had to voluntarily go along with it, rather than Horus' knock-out was legitimate), but even if Nephthys and Horus said nothing to each other outside what we see in S2E100 and S2E118, there's at least some reason why she might be saying what she is in S2E133 about Horus' apparent feelings. That's part of why I wrote what I did in the post.