Ravil Raindance

if loving clowns is wrong, i don’t want to be right. u_u // another commission for @thatssoravil! i learned so much working on this one and i’m stoked with how it turned out

Ravil cants his head sidelong in an utterly feline expression of puzzlement that the question even needs to be asked. While that’s surely answer enough, he favours the questioner with an indulgent little smile and anoints the impromptu poetry bubbling up to the surface with the lilting singsong of his voice:“Ere cruel Azeyma in her morning tyranny crowns the skiesand drapes ‘cross her kingdoms claimed a gown from sunlight spun,a timely retreat this moon-celebrant must swift and soon deviseinto silken shade’s embrace bid with all due haste to run!The sun and me, we share a mutual enmity! Better by far ‘tis to fly by night, ‘neath mistress Menphina’s hallowed light!”(Ravil is, of course, being needless dramatic, as is his wont. He may be nocturnal to a fault, but however much he complains, he doesn’t actually hate the sun – it’s a source of life and beauty, and a classic lyrical setpiece for serenading Seekers.He just gets sunburn very, very easily.)–Thankoo, @tracytigress!

“Thou speak’st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.” This would be appropriately festive Halloween attire, were it not simply Ravil’s idea of smart casual.

–Thankoo for the ask, @kaliheart!

14. Where would your character go to hide out in an emergency? “Hi-i-i-de?“ Ravil feigns offense, eyes wide and wounded. “Think you Ravil would turn tail and flee beset by direst emergency? That he would soon shirk the beat of conflict’s drum and callow craven fain become, seeking scant solace in safer haven? Mayhap though hast this miscreant for a softer soul mistaken!Long has it been this harlequin’s role to incite and cajole both friend, fiend and foe! O, to hurtle headlong into a cresting tempest and put fortune’s fickle favour to truemost test – this is what Ravil surely loves best!How could he new legends inspire were fretful feet to fly thither, and there in some hideaway dither, when looming circumstance grows dire?“15. Where would your character go on vacation?        “However could Ravil readily choose, amid so many lush locales to discover and peruse? This roving vagabond is of journeying most fond – e'er adrift in search of mirth and myth and mischief! Not a night passeth without softly whisper’d orison, that ‘neath morrow’s moon he might alight upon some new and far-flung horizon. But if on answers thou dost stubbornly insist, to leave thee with not one but two cop-outs would this dramatist be most remiss! He hath been wont to wonder of late what fate for him doth await in Golmore’s deepest jungle. Mayhap beneath her twisting boughs he might take a merry tumble, and o'er a village of lonesome Viera by happiest happenstance stumble.” But it’s not Sinday, so he doesn’t elaborate beyond nn impish smile and insinuating eyebrow waggle. Sigh.–Thankoo for the ask @scylenara!

Mayhaaaap a lockstep waltz ‘twixt Light and Dark? Or sloshed Sylphic tricksters, light-headed, on a lark? Could it be a ditty of the moogles’ merry mendacity? Or tragedy, calamity, and a demon jester’s dread depravity?“–Thankoo for the ask @herd-of-halla!

So very I got to work on this. Ravil is a character I very much love to see and his dress sense is just-*Chef kiss* Thank you so much Ravil for letting me draw your lovely!

Just a jovial forest jester, taking a break from capricious cavorting for a quick photo