#rahil

What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?

Erika - This lady hates having to repeat herself, even once. Much because she’s spoiled with everyone’s attention being on her all the time and she thinks that if you can’t listen to what she’s saying why should she bother with you? Or if you say “What?” because you’re dumbfounded, well, that’s so unnecessary. Isn’t it? There’s circumstances that’ll make her more lenient but she does find it highly annoying.

Rahil - When there’s an uneven amount of sauce and “main food”. He has no idea why but this makes him pretty mad. Even though he knows it’s ridiculous, food is food and having food is good. It’s just... a pet peeve he picked up once he got used to not having to worry about where his next meal would come from

Fiya - When her brother leaves their cabin door open. Like, it’s not like it’s locked, but still. She just really hates it when the door is wide open and neither of them is in there.

The future empress of the Empire of a Thousand Stars has left her homeplanet to meet a possible future spouse in another solar system, but on the way there’s huge technical problems with her spaceship and they crash on an insignificant planet where people live in small villages instead of cities, or spread out across the planet’s surface. The only thing special about it is the view; it has the most magnificent star sky, which is so very visible due to that the planet’s citizen do not use modern technics to light up, but instead use camfpires and torches to get light. Only two people survive; you guessed it, Erika and one of the mechanics; Rahil.

Unfortunately, this planet is one of the few around not conquered by the Empire, and its people is very hostile against Beobyra. If they found out its future empress is on their planet, things would end badly. But of course the two can’t stay in hiding forever - partially because there’s nowhere to hide. No caves or anything. Desperate, they make up a story: they’re newly married and have come here for their honeymoon to watch the stars. And of course neither is from Beobyra, no no. They’re both from a small town on the planet Alloria. 

So they nervously approaches one of the few inns on the planet and asks to stay there until the next space shuttle arrives in a few days. Unfortunately, as they’re claiming to be married, they get a room with a single double bed. Rahil sleeps on the floor, he’s gonna get an achy back, poor guy. 

They spend all of the week together, avoiding to talk to people, especially as the news of the Crown Princess’ disappeared space ship reaches them and the planet is celebrating. As much as they can, they are outside stargazing because they don’t wanna be around the inhabitants of this world and as they do, they start to talk of course, and get to know each other really well, and woah look at that they might be falling in love?

Then the space shuttle comes and they escape home to Beobyra, but as they talk about what happened, they find out one small detail they hadn’t counted with. According to the planet’s laws, claiming you’re married is enough to make you married. And according to interplanetary law… well those laws have to be honoured, and since divorces ain’t really a thing for Beobyrians unless it’s absolutely necessary… 

On a Never Resting Sea is finished!

Odd asked me to draw the coverart for the printed version and well, here it is! These are the final designs for Erika and Rahil and it literally took 24 hours to draw. Truthfully, this had been ready ever since December, but I wanted to post it after the final chapter had been posted.

@kyuko-chan

So! Finally I can answer this with a big Y E S

It’s a couple thousand years after actual NRS takes place. The Beobyrian Empire has spread out over Natéa and they’re no longer content with this, but have colonized space. Crown Princess Erika is on a star cruiser on her way home to their home planet, Natéa - now known simply as Beobyra, the Crown of the Empire of a Thousand Stars. But the trip home is not as peaceful as expected, and the cruiser is attacked!

Some-fucking-how, this smaller rogue spaceship full of space pirates manage to defeat the cruiser - this makes more sense when they’re travelling with actual ships than with spaceships, I must say - and Erika is taken prisoner.

So now she’s held hostage at a small spaceship far far away from her home galaxy, with a bunch of  s p a c e  p i r a t e s  who are the descendants of the Natéans who left their planet centuries ago to find somewhere else to live, away from the Beobyrians and their empire.

Of course they’re gonna get stuck in a asteroid belt and go to That One Planet where all the criminals go for a drink, and probably hear some slimy space woman sing swing like in Star Wars while Erika watches in disgust because the place has No Class at all. Surprise surprise, since it’s full of space criminals. That’s also where we find Bluebell, my darling, whose backstory might be a bit more like (Star Wars: The Force Awaken’s) Rey’s this time, with parents leaving and running after the spaceship as it disappears. Which is funny because Rey is his middle name, and has been for months so that isn’t something I just made up if anyone thought that.