Ayreontasia Inktober 2024 day 1-2: favourite emotional moment (canon or fanon)

"Most of the time, my lucky star was hard to notice amongst the vast sea of constellations. However, on the night I pushed the Dream Sequencer to its limits it shone brighter than ever, filling me with unexplainable hope... Now, I glance at planet Y's sun - seemingly the only thing that's able to evoke a semblance of emotion on the empty-eyed faces around me. And somehow, I know in my heart just one thing - this is the same light that I searched for every night back home..."

Would you believe that only after I made this did it come into my head to look up whether or not Lapras is a dragon-type Pokémon? Demotivated me from adding subtitles, but adding subtitles would also distract from Lapras on screen so I guess that's a W.

Look, just because Lapras isn't technically, categorically, taxonomically a dragon-type Pokémon doesn't mean that Lapras and dragons can't share determining character traits.

I guess Shadow Weaver has an army of Lapras now.

Song is Dragon on the Sea, by Ayreon. Which I feel a bit silly for using now. Not very silly. Not silly in a bad way. Just a bit silly.

And it’s the Forever Saga :) I didn’t have a single good way to depict the FULL scope of this epic storyline, but here is Forever of the Stars, with the Electric Castle and Dream Sequencer in the background, truly and desperately trying to find a way to experience humanity again. And in a way, that’s what Ayreon is all about. Who are the silhouettes in the background? Past incarnations of the Mars Colonist/Migrator? People from the Electric Castle? Other Forevers? People from Alpha? It’s really up to you - but I left them shadowed on purpose since it’s all about your humanity and what YOU do with it.

Some of you may have seen this one (I did it while watching the Ayreon Q&A/stream in September)! The month is almost over and I still have one more art to post but I did want to share that, thinking about the whole Forever and Ayreon story as a whole, it really has come to mean SO much to me over the past couple years. The music (and music styles I've gotten into as a result), the hyperfixation and headcanons, the wonderful community of fans with whom I’m doing this challenge - but especially the notion that life HAS meaning, and YOU have the power to make it a better and more meaningful place.