#sitayqik

Chibi commission set for @thestarrymanuk 's OCs!! Thank you for trusting me with your babies, my dear!! They are so good and shape and were so fun to draw ;v;

adoratio

on the morning of a god's ascension, the youngest member of the sacerdotal college greets a long-unattended idol. as the first priest to run halfway across the city—before dawn, barefoot, in nothing more than sleep clothes—they have earned the coveted right of reintroducing the idol to the public; but their new and breathless enthusiasm has also won them an unexpected nickname: the priest of flowers.

A comission for the incredible @dreamcrow, featuring his characters Akko and Sitayqik enjoying fantasy boba! I love them so much, I can't wait to read more about them.

...and who actually gets mimosas at dim sum brunch vs. being tea-only purists?

the time i lost to this question daydreaming of dim sum brunch… 🤤 actually wait, hold on. now i'm invested in this. "does this world have brunch and/or dim sum" is a different question; in the interests of optimism i choose to believe such things would evolve independently regardless of the setting. but would they recognize earth dim sum?

many of the "typical" items i associate with dim sum—most kinds of fish (e.g. shu mai, oyster sauce, prawn cracker, crab rangoon) and, to a lesser extent, waterfowl (peking duck), plus anything involving rice (some dumplings, congee)—are difficult to source and/or semi-prohibitively expensive in this world.

but surely there could be alternatives? there are probably pigs, at least in the area of the red city, so we can do char siu (thank god). there are definitely chickens. definitely beef (though these, again, would be either tough or pricey). other excitingly edible animals roughly equivalent to a cow: wrhonts (?) and—god, i guess you could eat a dreadnought. you'd have dreadnought bao for months, or for a village, but you could.

what about the beverages? there's definitely alcohol; there's definitely fruit so there's definitely wine, some of it possibly even from grapes; there's also definitely citrus, and specifically oranges, so let's assume they're some variation of citrus x sinensis and theoretically we have all our mimosa ingredients! huzzah. similarly, there's probably tea; probably original to somewhere in the southern hemisphere, on the other side of the planet from ppilli, and somewhere that's decently humid, but easy enough to get outside of the boonies (i.e., ppilli).

so yes! excellent news: the teahouses of iridarra can definitely have (what earth would recognize as) dim sum, including optional brunch mimosas.

this established, on now to your actual question:

oh, thank you for yet another charming ask! i've really enjoyed the past couple you've sent in, and this was no exception c:

meyeqitš has lovely but very precise handwriting; every wedge and stroke as consciously, deliberately neat as if just pulled from the press. when writing (very) quickly or on awkward surfaces this turns into a chickenscratch fearsome to behold.

sitayqik (the other character who knows how to write ppillisi) writes in a quick, fluid chancery cursive, the product of many years in the priests' college. absolutely took dictation commissions from their classmates (letters, formally displayed documents). can/does make puns by substituting in obscure/ancient alternative characters.