Another graceful hand movement, and the column of molten glass freezes and reshapes itself, solidifying into the cool, flat surface of an obsidian mirror.
Peering into it, Khaba is somewhat surprised to recognise himself - it has been a while since he looked into a mirror and saw himself looking back.
I've been picking at this on and off for a while now, and today I'm calling it done so I can finally move on. From left to right, the various fits I've given ol' Shadowfucker McGee over the course of "Offer me that deathless death": Solomon's dungeons, underworld, underworld (Ra's bargain), tomb, and "Tutankhamun's wedding robes dipped in a bucket of pitch." My beloved little dress-up doll <3
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Still can't believe that Stroud introduced an antagonist, went "this guy fucked a marid" while looking the audience dead in the eye and adamantly refused to elaborate. Legend. Writers should do that more often. Oh, it's a self-contained prequel so the characters have to be memorable? Yeah bud we'll give you a villain you won't be able to forget no matter how much you want to.
@asexualreptile @nathaniel-underwood-is-an-intj I blame both of you for encouraging me to doodle this stupid thing.
For those wondering, INTJ made a remark, I started giggling about it, and then Reptile decided to encourage me to illustrate what was supposed to be a throwaway joke which I naturally began thinking too hard about. Gotta be real, I'd love to get these two either high or wasted so they could lose their filters and start talking abt the most deranged shit you could ever imagine, from opinions on obscure torture techniques to ranting abt historical artifacts to dirt abt other members of the court to just unfathomable horniness abt their respective spirit boyfriends.
@asexualreptile I cannot stop dissecting this lad like a frog in science class so I apologise in advance.
See, the vibe I get is that he's the weirdest and objectively most unpleasant and off-putting person you'll ever meet. Sure yeah we know from that one convo with Asmira that he doesn't really think women to be capable rulers (and capable anything else) but those were common attitudes at the time so this is by far the least fucked up thing about him.
His whole place is full of dead shit obviously stolen from graveyards and tombs and whatnot, fucked up taxidermy, spirits shoved in cages designed to cause them pain AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE. He walks weirdly quietly and has an unsettling soft chalky voice and laughs like a hyena on ketamine. He dresses in all black, reeks of burial incense, doesn't blink anywhere near as often as he should, dissects, embalms and mummifies random shit BY HAND just because why not, carries a flail with the handle wrapped in ancient human skin, has weird unsettling eyes and weird scars on his face which Stroud of course never bothered to explain, and his entire job AND main hobby is torturing everything he has an excuse to get his hands on in addition to scamming other kingdoms, sadomasochistic monster sex with an eldritch horror cosplaying as his shadow, and plotting to overthrow his boss.
In a modern AU you'd catch a glimpse of him in the corner of your eye and start drafting a restraining order even before he says hello. People in his approximate geographical area wouldn't even think of going out at night because they'd fear finding him crawling up walls or hanging from the rafters or sucking out people's blood - I legitimately wouldn't be surprised if Stroud told us that he ate someone once, Hannibal Lecter style - or who the fuck knows what else even if at a surface level he looks more or less normal: just a corpo goth with something subtly wrong about him (though the closer you get the more you get a feeling that he's a weird fucking person and you should start running because what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck.)
BUT...
Despite everything else he's got going on, you cannot deny him one thing:
@nathaniel-underwood-is-an-intj I need to let you know that this idea adamantly refuses to leave my head because hobby-, design- and personality-wise they're COMPLETE opposites.
The fucking.... prep & goth solidarity of it all. Sol and his pet freak. 700 wives and such negative rizz that the only person who wants him is a marid fucked up in the same way because normal people start running in the opposite direction. The glamorous radiant king and his buddy who looks like a mashup of all those glaringly obvious stereotypical corrupt advisor designs. One of them is doing his best to rule the kingdom as well as he can and the other tortures shit for fun.
Except... EXCEPT for some goddamn reason which nobody can understand there's no backstabbing or any other betrayal and instead they just idk swap eyeliner tips and smoke blunts together while talking abt their monster boyfriends. Because this city is already goddamn weird, so this might as well happen.
There is NO universe where they'd get along, realistically, but jesus christ if this crack fic ever happens I'll saw off my right leg to get my hands on it. Holy shit.
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Khaba is such a funny fanfiction protagonist. You set out with the intention of writing some pining but wind up opening the chapter with the description of a dissected tuberculosis victim, because how are he and Ammet supposed to get anything done without at least one corpse in the room.
Realised it's been a while since I last drew this fucker. He made me aware that I need to get back to practising anatomy, and that I'm procrastinating on writing my Malev fic.
"What's that one about?"
"A loser and an eldritch horror making out."
"I could be doing that too if you finished my fic instead of signing up for another fandom event."
"I'll get back to it when I'm done, quit whining."
"Can you at least DRAW me making out with an eldritch horror?"
Blew some dust off my tablet and tried out CSP’s gouache brushes - by which I mean that I went full on beast mode while only having like 0.5 of an idea of what I’m doing. Still working on translating my style from traditional to digital, we’ll see how it goes.
