#lueka

Some more characters from other stories! This time, we have the main characters of my main project before I focused on TTAB. If you look back on my page, you'll see some other drawings of them I've posted over the past few years.

In order, we have:

T'Arnysh - 18 years old, water and air elementalist, part cat, very grouchy, my comfort character before Cerin, Alvie, Nimue, and Dwyer.

Aisehna - 15 years old, fire and earth elementalist, very impulsive and energetic. She and T'Arnysh have a complicated story, but in short, it's "childhood best friends to enemies to friends to lovers". We get the best of all the tropes!

Muran - 15 years old, wizard-in-training, T'Arnysh's younger sister. She left home shortly before the story begins to look for T'Arnysh. He got kidnapped when he was 10. Aisehna was also kidnapped at around the same time, but by different people.

Lueka - 16 years old, troubadour, changeling (which in this world is a type of faerie with no wings and random superpowers), can turn into a dragon, one of his eyes can see through anything (but he can't turn it off, so he wears an eyepatch over it)

Rose - 14 years old, from our world (actually, she's Alvie’s classmate), one of three reincarnating beings called Teldrae Souls. Remember the Sybil and Nyneve? She's one of them.

Tristan - 16 years old, friends with Aisehna because they're in the army together, can magically camouflage with his surroundings (like a chameleon but way better)

Lorelei - ancient immortal, the villain, has the power to create monsters she uses as minions

Emeir - 20 years old, assassin, hired by Lorelei to work against the heroes, half-faerie (hence the ears) - the tattoo under her eye is a cultural thing, not an assassin thing

Who is this?

This is Lueka T’meros. An assassin in her 400s with the dark secret of being an ardat yakshi. She was kidnapped from the monastery at a young age and trained as an attack dog for a very manipulative Asari mob boss with a presence in many a luxurious city in the galaxy, she made use of her increased biotic potential and ability to easily persuade others in her favour with her ardat yakshi-refined pheromones. And while she gained the courage to break free from this woman, she was hunted until she had no choice but to turn the chase around and slaughter the mob all the way down to the very woman who made her this way.

This put her on the radar of the Justicars, and for the first time, in a fight for her life against one whom was a matriarch, she mind melded with her to kill her, and absorbing her power was euphoric and tragic for Lueka. She knew and respected the place of the Justicars in the galaxy, and knew that she could not kill them all. But when another, a matron was sent after her and the increased biotics gave her the edge to defeat this one too, she mind melded with her as well to give herself the power to be beyond the power of any single justicar, matriarch or otherwise. And left them a message that she would only kill those who were deserving in similar fashion to the Justicar Code. But would kill every Justicar that pursued her.

Lueka, the funny troubadour with a mysterious past! He's also the first major character of mine with an eyepatch.

The second picture was something very new for me, since I don't have much experience with drawing sitting people, or foreshortening, or drawing people playing musical instruments, even in a half-hearted sort of way. Still, I think it turned out well.