#my head is exploding

what in my right mind said it would be fine giving him this pattern </3

anyway, close up and line art too

the swords are the ones being farmed for immortality, others weapons either invade or are sent as punishment. those other weapons saw a kid, a wimpy natural-born sword who just so happened to take on the home of the chosen one, and used that because that's what they've always done. used the sword level for immortality. they are swords in this civilization, but they also have their old weapons, they are the higher ups that control those who think they're the higher ups.

this world is not a good one. it is all abuse and exploitation and using using using.

even the diamond swords used and used and used. most of them were not born with a sword in their hand.

the further the hole you dig, the more of the abuse you find. getting to the bottom of it.

bows, shields, swords, tridents, axes. and you are born with the unlucky blade that dooms you to be the farm animal.

I miss talking about my au and I wish I could still ramble about all the ideas I have inside my head but I feel like I always have to draw something to go with it because ideas alone are not that good.

And don't they have brains or stuff in the cab space if the car anatomy pictures that I've seen are correct?? So you can't just open his back door because organs on the way??? Or is he just built different?

Bro how are you going to get that fixed if something breaks?

BUT THEN.

I watched "The Hobbit" with my husband yesterday night (part of it anyway), and decided that FUCK IT.

THE STAG KING WILL LOOK *EXACTLY* LIKE THRANDUIL.

He fits perfectly for how I imagine The Stag King: cunty, serving looks for days, a bit of an ass (help me say "a bit"), ethereal because DUH, we are talking archfey here, but all up in his feelings for Asra (also gonna bring those scars he has in play because fml I can never have enough tragic characters in my roster).

If mother and daughter could ever sit and talk for a coffee, they would have stories to share and advices to give to each other lololol.

I like that the main difference between Aranea's and Asra's situation with their two suitors is both parallel and going into different directions at the same time: Aranea sought Mephisto out, she eventually leaned into his charm and power and fully embraced the corruption he brought onto her; Asra, instead NEVER sought the Stag King in the first place, she stumbled into his dreamscape by ACCIDENT (thank goodness for Hiraeth and her cold iron dagger), and while he is trying to actually have her make a pact with him, she is very much like "NOPE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I AM GOOD." (Papa Halsin warned her TIMES AND TIMES AGAIN about the dangers of making pacts with creatures, be them fiends or archfey. He never explained it to her in detail, but that's exactly how she ended up without a mother).