#othelo

Antonio Muñoz Degrain (Spanish, 1840 - 1924) • Othello and Desdemona • 1880

random panel edits are *very* fun

That also gave me the opportunity to draw them as teens too!

Opera experience

i've seen basically two different interpretations of xai bau--one that he, like, actively helped form the red lotus organization, stuck around long enough to meet zaheer &co, and was to some extent a mentor figure to them (especially towards zaheer), and the other is your idea that they never actually met and it was his writings that inspired the red lotus from a distance. it's a cool idea that i never considered before and it makes sense—i like the idea that he and Zaheer might’ve had a mentor-mentee relationship at some point, because it’s fun, but the way zaheer talks about him and guru laghima is pretty similar, as if they’re both "historical" figures that he never actually met in person. (also i just think it's super super funny if xai bau dated katara.) i do like the idea that he had enough direct involvement in the red lotus's formation to properly be considered its founder though, even if it was maybe toward the end of his life or something. like maybe he never met zaheer but did meet other, older members as the organization was forming—probably other frustrated WL members and possibly some new recruits as well. but he’s got so little info in canon that you can take him all sorts of directions and still come up with something fun

and thank you for the compliments on my art, it means a lot! as well as the hedgehog: 🦔 i hope your day goes well and sending 💖💖💖