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queensthiefNot much is happening around here, so I thought I would post some drawings I did many months ago. I had them on a sketch blog once, but I got discouraged and stopped sketching every day, so I got rid of it. But now they are here!
Last time I read the books (sometime in February/March), I became very interested in everyone's past and relationships with immediate family members. I especially love older brother/little sister relationships, and spent a lot of time thinking about how Eddis and Attolia would have interacted with their now-deceased brothers and fathers.
Tiny Eddis and her Dad (he's carrying her up to bed):
Tiny Attolia and one of her brothers (he's comforting her after...something, I don't know what):
9-year-old Eddis with 4-year-old Eugenides (inspired by the story in the back of KoA)
Tiny Eddis glomping Pylaster during his sword practice (I'm pretty sure he's her oldest brother?)
Last time I read the books (sometime in February/March), I became very interested in everyone's past and relationships with immediate family members. I especially love older brother/little sister relationships, and spent a lot of time thinking about how Eddis and Attolia would have interacted with their now-deceased brothers and fathers.
Tiny Eddis and her Dad (he's carrying her up to bed):
Tiny Attolia and one of her brothers (he's comforting her after...something, I don't know what):
9-year-old Eddis with 4-year-old Eugenides (inspired by the story in the back of KoA)
Tiny Eddis glomping Pylaster during his sword practice (I'm pretty sure he's her oldest brother?)
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Date: 8/9/13 09:25 pm (UTC)And thank you for your above comment =) Made me very happy
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Date: 8/9/13 12:38 am (UTC)Yes. Yes, it was. Oh this makes me want to know more about chibi!attolia. What was her childhood like? She must have had relationships with her brothers (half-brothers?). I MUST KNOW.
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Date: 8/10/13 03:44 pm (UTC)(stuff about hair oil and broken amphora...) "That same day her older brother had died falling from his horse,and the familiar earth had seemed to shift under her feet."
Her mother was the king's second wife, right? I seem to remember Megan saying once that no one had liked her mother. Let's hope she had a couple of loving relationships as a child; her nurse, at least. The fact that she knows how--to some degree--to have a loving relationship makes me think she did have some of that when she was young.
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Date: 8/11/13 04:01 am (UTC)Attolia's childhood and who she became...
Date: 5/18/17 11:52 am (UTC)She was the forgotten one. The forgotten child. It sounds like her father didn't give a shit about her, nor did her brother, and I can't seem to glean anything about her mother other than her mother was just as silenced and oppressed as the other women in her court and as women, she and her mother were relegated to gossip and "women's things" spinning and embroidering for hours on end. I imagine Attolia's family to be highly patriarchal and gender oppressive in the same way Nahusaresh was. (And although we find out later that Attolia was, thank the gods, manipulating Nahusaresh all along, I still imagine there was an Oedipus Complex based attraction (repulsion) between them, Nahusaresh reminding Irene of her father with his sexist ways and complete disregard for her because she was a woman.
I imagine that as a child, Irene was prohibited from doing anything well rounded and outdoors, totally the opposite of how Helen grew up, pretty much it sounded like Helen got to do everything her brothers did. From the shattered trust that carries her into adulthood, how she can't even trust those closest to her (Telius and Relius), and in the way she rules militantly through her guard to make up for how unsafe and vulnerable she feels without ever having had an authentic masculine energy to support her-- in the absence of one, in a cesspit where instable masculine energy is all around trying to bring her down...
I imagine she has had the most debilitating relationships of all the monarchs. In contrast, Helen seems to have had tremendous support from all the masculine around her-- being included in activities with her brothers, feeling free to express herself in more masculine ways without criticism by her people (short hair cut like a man's, wearing trousers in this time period, etc.), her father who knew that she would be the next Eddis (if I am right?) and I saw a post recently by someone who said it was also the minister of War (a very masculine soldier type) who stood firmly behind Eddis's ascent to the throne and the possibility that he also had it prophesied by the gods.
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Date: 8/19/13 05:55 pm (UTC)Im dying from the cuteness!
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Date: 8/22/13 04:16 am (UTC)Not a big fanfiction reader (and yet I draw fanart. Hypocrite, I know), but it would be fun to see little ficlets, lol. That would be a fun thing to do for the whole community. People draw fanart, and others can write small pieces of fanfiction to go with them...I like this idea