#urya

.My starting date for this image was in February, I can’t believe it took me this long on and off to finish it. Another round of gelfling skeksis and urru which, like my first drawing of them, is their own clan rather than part of the specific one from the show. Basically always twins born that are considered as one person. Want more info about that/want to see SoSu, here’s the link to the first drawing: https://glitterfilledtrashcan.tumblr.com/post/631916487744077824/had-some-inspiration-to-draw-some-gelfling-au-for

My take on Skekyi, one of the first Skeksis to die after the Great Division.

So, a discord chat I mostly bared witness to and scarecly participated in reminded me of some thoughts I have on a very particular UrSkek: YiYa

I actually have an AU where SkekYi and UrYa survive the strangling they get from SkekHak, as UrHom stepped into the line of sight of their Skeksis before the very angry and looking to cause as much hurt to others as soon as possible SkekHak could break poor UrYa’s neck in a death grip. SkekHom immediately pushes their Urru into the Crystal vent like they do in creation myths, and subsequently burns up all the same. This way, Yi and Ya survive, but all the shards still get the impression that what befalls one half so to befalls the other. That whole deal, y’know?

Anyways, UrYa gets dragged off by the other Mystics and they and their Skeksis counterpart suffer long term damage in the way that it renders them both mute for a really long time, due to both the physical and psychological damage. Being young and not nearly as innately weary and worlds-worn as the other Urru, they grow up to be a somewhat naive individual in their early years with the others, at some point beginning to venture off from the others more and more just to learn new things. Considering the perpetually calm aura that permeated the gang of Urru that later became the Valley Mystics—if not a bit smothering in how insensate it was—they were able to recover a wide range of vocal capacity much sooner than their Skeksis counterpart on account of how, well, terrible an environment the poor and equally damaged SkekYi had to put up with. Unfortunately, they never would be able to regain their forever untested capacity for multi-vocal chants and singing, leaving them incapable of affecting the matter around them with the magics the other Mystics could readily, though sparingly, utilize.

UrYa’s true saving grace and inspiration to better themself was born from that naivety that the most of the other Urru low-key judge them for—but in the sort of “I wish you would just listen to us, youngling” kind of way. Like the other vagabonds, they started to leave the nest for short periods of time, getting longer and longer as the trine stretched on, coming to learn from and live with the beings of Thra for trine at a time. The only difference between them and the others? Unlike UrVa or UrSan, at around 500 trine, they stopped coming back to the valley altogether.

SkekYi, poor SkekYi, was rendered similarly damaged as stated previously, but where UrYa was able to branch out from the group of Mystic’s too gentle to punish them and too impassive to stop them from leaving, SkekYi was given no such luxury. The castle was a cage they felt pressured to not leave, and rendered them too scared (and then, eventually, too bitter) to speak much aloud, partially due to resentment towards themself for this sickening fault of theirs that was a voice that wouldn’t come, and partially due to resentment for the elders that mocked a deficit that was beyond their control. They are a recluse, much like SkekShod, but with a subtle unease spread far and wide throughout the court, instead of just focused in on one individual in particular (*cough*SkekSo*cough*). They keep their head low and themself out of the way of others when it comes to petty squabbles, never engaging in any sort of gossip more out of disinterest than anything else.

Yi and Ya are, like I said, young. As in YOUNG, young. when they were split into themselves, they were discernibly younger looking and smaller than all the others by a fairly distinguishable bit. They did both grow, and eventually overtook some of their tinier peers in size, but remained on the small end of the scale even well into full maturity. While the Urru became bowed and hunched over in age, and the Skeksis began to lose more and more feathers and furs inexchange for wrinkles and blemishes, UrYa remained standing up relatively straight, strong, and lithe while SkekYi kept their feathers and took far longer for the detrimental effects of aging to set in.

Basically, YiYa was the equivalent of an UrSkek “Newborn” and while this didn’t really mean that they were a “child” so to speak, considering that I share a headcanon with a couple of others on a Discord chat that Urskeks are made from the get go to be the fully capable equivalent of a being that is cognitively adult, these newborn UrSkeks still require quidance in the form of teachers and/or personal mentors. YiYa was a new UrSkek whose first impression of the universe was that of SoSu’s, which fell along the lines of questioning authority. With this concept to be the first thing imprinted in the young and untaught UrSkek, YiYa was deemed to be unfortunately, irreparably “corrupted” and was sentenced to exile with the rest of the twice-nine. This is why I think they never had a title in the OG verse.

When it came to the sundering, where most all of the other Skeksis and Urru were severed into organic forms that already occupied the equivalent of beings that were just past “middle-aged” Yi and Ya resembled what their new species might look like as young adults.

Tysm!! and ofc :)c

[YiYa Headcanons]

- Was known either as YiYa the Tutor or YiYa the Governess/Governor. I’m not sure which I like more but I lean towards Governess.

- The wiki said UrYa and SkekYi went by he/him but this sign wont stop me because I cannot read. She was YiYa the Governess, I am desperate for feminine urskeks and since we don’t know anything about YiYa its free real estate.

- UrYa would have become UrYa the mentor, a philosopher, the close friend to UrSu the Master and companion to UrSen the Monk. 

- SkekYi would have become SkekYi the Adviser, a court strategist and close comrade of SkekVar the General and rival to SkekSil the chamberlain as the Emperor’s most trusted counsel.

- She got along well with SaSan’s freethinking and individualistic ideals, less so with her more boisterous nature. Jock/nerd solidarity tho. She became a friend of SoSu, and had a very passionate hate-love with HakHom. They were like, to put it very lightly, banter buds.

- Her role on the homeworld was an instructor and teacher to young urskeks. She briefed them on societal expectations, the importance of the roles, regime, and structure. Not a nursemaid by any sense of the word, more of like a camp counselor, helping guide them to their perfect place in society where they’d spend the rest of their lives.

- However, her lessons began to drift more towards free thinking. She emphasized their freedom of choice in career more, until she began to imply that perhaps they didn’t want anything society had to offer, and that was okay. They could just exist, and that’s okay.

- Obviously, this was seen as heresy, and she got put in the hashtag naughty corner.

Actually I had changed my mind/expressed myself badly x) they are not clans they are towns with the same culture as the capital, with a king each even though they work more as mayors than kings. They all have to obey the Emperor. I think there is a good ten of towns. One is as small as a Gelfling clan while another is almost as big as the capital

Name: Urya Kawakami

Age: 16

Occupation: UA Hero Course Student

Quirk: Directional Influence. After blinking he can choose to send out large arrows. Blue, Red & Yellow. If one of the arrows go through someone they will then end up going in the same direction as the arrow that touched them. Red arrows moves fastest and bounce off of walls, Yellow ones can move through walls and Blue ones move around at an average speed in unpredictable directions and can change directionwithout touching anything. When an arrow actually hits someone no matter which it is, Urya has complete control of your direction & speed you move in said direction.

He doesn't talk alot. Never had alot of friends as a a result.

Used to only take orders to do something instead of just doing it on his own accord.

Has a hard time expressing his emotions.

His Quirk also works on objects.

Ranked highest in his groups Entrance exam.

Now the not so important stuff:

Loves: Ice Cream, Nature, Stuff that is organised, Anyone who's nice to him, Being accepted.

Hates: Being isolated, People being too loud, Insults directed at his eyes.

His pupils are arrow shaped.

He was born with those marks on his face.

He has a cat named Quill.

Can go without blinking for 30 minutes. He's a God at staring contests.

@hopeaterart