āLucius the Death Eater and His Son Dracoā, my version of āIvan the Terrible and His Son Ivanā by Ilya Repin šš
Iām here once again drawing Lucius and Draco and I just wanted to give some context for my piece... The original painting is a father who killed his son in the heat of the moment during a fight, and heās now contemplating the consequences of his actions (the literal death of his son).
Iāve always loved the Malfoysā father-son relationship and the way itās canon that branding Draco and dragging him into the war at 16 was a punishment for Lucius, for hisā mistakes. So Lucius never wanted that for his teenage son, and I love the idea of him trying to keep his family safe from the monster that /he/ created as a consequence of his own actions.
I do think Lucius regretted getting involved in the war, not because he thought he was wrong in his beliefs, but because it almost cost the life of his son and his own family. They had a (really) good life and he ruined everything for this crazy man who tormented, tortured and almost killed the only people he loved in the world, and for what?
Well, so the idea was playing with the concept of a fatherās actions causing the death of his son. In this case, not literally, because Draco didnāt die, but the Mark was, in Luciusā eyes, a death sentence for him, since Narcissa made it clear that Draco was never expected to succeed, which meant that Voldemort was only trying to torture Lucius by torturing his son and then eventually, in fact, killing him. It also represents a precocious death of innocence and adolescence. Now this boy is not a boy anymore, but a soldier, and heāll fight as an adult by his fatherās side and most definitely die in the end because he is /not ready/.
This is Luciusā POV, and itās even more heartbreaking the fact that he was in Azkaban when it all happened, so he couldnāt be there to actually hold his son the night he got the Dark Mark.
Anywayyyyy, I talk too much, but I had fun thinking about this one, cause good father Lucius is my everything hsuwhe he can be a bad person and a good father at the same time, right? šāāļø
