#leandra

A necromancer AND a gardener (5 year redesign) 🌸

now imagine that for as long as that takes, your parents are pulling out all the stops to coerce you into lying abt your child's parentage and marrying the guy they picked out for you. btw you're 'a disgrace!' and also you're never leaving the house again! and your mother just stops speaking to you, and you have no idea if the men your father sent after the man you love, who is the father of your apparently extremely wanted child, captured him, if this is just your life now.

now imagine the guy DOES show up, and he's ready to go, and your dad says okay choose between him and us, forget all of the screaming and threats of imprisonment and the disgrace thing and how you've ruined your life and our lives, too. don't worry, we changed our minds. you don't have to marry that guy we picked out for you, we'll even help you take care of the baby! it's all good, says your father, bc your mother refuses to be in the room with you.

OR choose the man we failed to arrest, and you get nothing. don't ever come back here. you receive no help. and imagine you STILL think there's hope. you bang on your mother's door until your hands are raw to no avail. and then your father takes your hands and says don't bother, you're not our daughter anymore. and you are still pregnant and terrified.

but the guy you love is out there, and so you leave with absolutely fucking nothing, to the point that he's like do you want to pack, or? and you're like no! you're all i want! my dad's not going to pursue us, it's fine!

and then you go to a completely new country and try to settle in, but you've never done any household chores for yourself, and your neighbors think you sound too educated, and you are in the Beyond Uncomfortable stage of pregnancy, and you're like okay the only lucrative skill i have is needlework, so i'll just do that forever. and you are so fucking lonely and so fucking sad and maybe you feel like you're not even allowed to have those feelings bc you chose this!! and your now husband worked and is working so hard to give you a happy life!!

and your legacy, forever, is to be the ungrateful, selfish child who threw her life away for nothing and broke her parents' hearts. you're literally the Tipping Point for your entire family's ruin. your parents don't want to hear abt any of your children. they do not fucking care. your brother resents you for the rest of your life. you go thru all of that, and you manage to make a home for your children and husband, an imperfect one, sure, a frequently stressful one, but you do your best.

Late but here they are - not sure if I'll be able to finish this but sharing the sketch cause I love how they all turned out 💛☔

Every week we vote for a reference and then use it as inspiration for a DA drawing. It’s really fun!

Leandra and Bethany criticize Eadric for being a stupid patronizing, misogynist who thinks he can go it alone, without somebody to remind him to get his knives sharpened and the bloodstains out of his clothes every morning.

Bethany and Eadric get to close ranks about Leandra being overprotective and forgetting they've been running with a crime gang for a year, and commiserate over feeling like they have to downplay all the threats they face in Kirkwall to keep her happy.

Leandra and Gamlen get to close ranks when Eadric is dismissive of the fact that the Amell family was in fact prestigious and worth reclaiming, as they shout at him about how the city will open up to him with status and you can't kill/brutalize your way to stability.

Leandra and Eadric happily tag team in screaming at Gamlen for stealing all of their money and trading the family into indentured servitude for the sake of his gambling debts.

Bethany and Eadric get to join forces to browbeat Gamlen anytime he criticizes THEIR MOM for running away from Kirkwall, how dare he judge her when he's a lowlife fool. She gave up everything for family!

Bethany and Leandra get to join forces to judge and criticize Gamlen for his attitude towards Eadric, how dare you criticize him for trying too hard to fix the problems you created (even though five minutes ago, we were also annoyed at him for his high-handed attitude).