#septarian

World's fanciest potato? Nope! 🥔✨ It's Septarian, also known as 'Dragon Stone'. This unique mineral formation features cracked patterns resembling dragon skin, making each piece one-of-a-kind.

Here's my take on the Septarians' fashion.

The canon jeans-and-tank-tops look for the Septarians always felt off to me. Why does such an ancient, proud, non-hybrid race have zero visual culture?

My headcanon fix: the jeans are their "present-day" survival gear. It's a visual cue that their glory days are over, their state is gone, and they're just wearing whatever they can find.

So I asked myself: what did they look like before the fall? In my headcanon, there's an earlier chapter — when they still had a cohesive culture, a proper army, a hierarchy.

Presenting a fragment of that lost time:

Toffee in a ceremonial look. This moment is from the end of an era: Seth's funeral. The grand state was already a memory. All that remained was a nomadic war-camp, the last bastion of a fading order.

Rasticore, his right hand and one of the best warriors in the ranks. I kept hints of his original, more modern design but reforged it to fit this older, more intentional aesthetic.

These are just my first concepts of their "historical" style. I want to develop a coherent, recognizable look that echoes what they once were.

Anyway, I'm deep in this hyperfixation. Consider this account my attempt to piece their culture back together from the ground up. 🔨🦎

𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥—𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺. 𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦. 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦.

Fun facts! butterfly drink crocodile tears to get minerals and to obtain salt need for flight

I know this art doesn't look anything like the rest of my art, and that's because I spent more than 10 minutes on it, lol, digitizing it, measuring every single thing and perfecting the pose, the digits, etc., and obsessing over every detail. This is my version of Seth of Septarsis from A House Divided, my Star vs the Forces of Evil long fic on AO3. In this AU, I had the opportunity to basically make Seth however I wanted, considering he has no canonical characterization in the show and is only briefly written about in the accompanying literature.

For this version of Seth, I wanted to make him a complicated character. I drew a lot of inspiration from Negan from The Walking Dead, right down to having him as the voice in my head for the character. In terms of how Negan inspired me, I wanted to put Seth as this force of authority whom everyone looked up to, someone who could be ruthless, cold, unpredictable, and who could make the blood stop moving in your body with his mere presence. But also, like Negan, I wanted Seth to use this facade to mask a long history of pain and suffering.

If You'd like to learn more about my interpretation, check out A House Divided, as well as my other fics Seth and Enos and How to Make a Monster. It wasn't enough to make another imposing Septarian. I wanted to make Seth just as much a monster on the inside as the outside, as well as a product of the cruelty of the Butterfly family.