Fanart dump

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Not 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?)

Comments

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

4-yr-old Eugenides may just be the cutest thing EVER. Love love love. Thanks for sharing! :D

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Me again. I just had another thought. More like a request. Next time you're sketching, how about a sibling pic of Dite and Sejanus? I kind of adore them and their dysfunctional brotherly love rivalry thing.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

these are great!

[pastapasta-love.livejournal.com]

Aw these are so cute

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

...was it love at first sight?

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.

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't even think about doing them...and now it seems so obvious! I'm complete crap at drawing men though, and I'd like to make those two particular characters look good. Any actors or anyone else you envision as those two characters, so I can practice drawing them? Off the top of my head I'm thinking Joseph Gordon Levitt for Sejanus, but the more I think about him the more Eugenides I see. No ideas for Dite though.

And thank you for your above comment =) Made me very happy

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!!!! I KNOW I'm really curious about Attolia's childhood as well. From the little Megan gives us, I'm guessing that she didn't get on well with many of her family members, but until MWT tells us otherwise, I imagine Attolia and her brothers having some sort of bond. They didn't get to see each other much, but her brothers adored her and did what they could for her. Your reaction is making me come up with a bunch of different ideas and scenarios now...

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Thanks =)

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[madclairvoyant.livejournal.com]

I thought she only had one brother; she only inherited the throne because he died of an 'accident', and not of a widespread thing like sickness, which Helen's brothers got. So it only kills off one person, which means she could have had only one brother right? .... Or did I misunderstand it?

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

I thought that scene mention brothers in the plural form? Maybe I'm getting her mixed up with Eddis, but I was always under the impression that they both, at one point, had more than one brother. Don't know for sure, though. If I were King of Attolia, I'd want more than one son to ensure I had many heirs to choose from, considering how fashionable assassination is in that country.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

You're right, madclairvoyant . Just one brother. I went and looked in QoA.

(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.

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

What a depressing family! Well, considering Attolia never thought/spoke of her brother in great detail or with great affection (like she did with the nurse), they were most likely not close. But we can pretend, at least.

[madclairvoyant.livejournal.com]

True that, but wouldn't it get a little out of hand if every brother died in a horse riding accident?

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

love them all there so cute...can someone please write little ficlets to go with??


Im dying from the cuteness!

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

Thanks =)

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

Attolia's childhood and who she became...

[11rod88staff11.livejournal.com]

I imagine Irene's childhood to be particularly lonely, isolated, bordering on neglect and abuse (if not physical, then emotional). Certainly the dysfunctional "cesspit" that is her court didn't get that way without its having highly dysfunctional family dynamics behind it. If there was any early on friendship/affection she had with her older brother, I imagine that it was forbidden after a certain age. More likely though, I doubt if it ever existed.

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.