Hey! I'm back again with more art. Terrible art. For that I apologize.
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A scanned image of a traditional drawing of a humanoid girl in a dress. The girl looks to be about 16 years of age, with tan skin and freckles. Her left eye is grey, while her right is blue. She has long hair that has been tied into a low bun. Her hair is brown, mostly, but there are blonde streaks on the front of her hear by her face. She is wearing a crown on her head made of silver and white gems. The girl is wearing a ball gown that goes down to the top of her blue dress shoes, and has long sleeves. The sleeves and shoulders of the ball gown are made of black colored fabric, and the neckline and hems of the sleeves are lined with silver beads. The bodice is blue and decorated with silver beads. The skirt is grey and silver, with black and silver beads decorating it. the girl has visible and severe scarring on her hands. The drawing was done with inking pen and colored pencil.
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This is Merlana-Amerlikia* Nightlock, the Queen of Cykadia**, or Merli for short. She's not human, despite appearances to the contrary.
[Image Description: an Image of a scanned traditional art piece made with colored pencils and inking pens. The drawing is of two men of very different ages. the one on the left looks older, while the one on the right looks like a child. The older looking one has dark skin, eyes, and hair, and he is glowering and looking away from the other person in the picture. His arms are crossed, and he has long hair thats been tied in a bun. The younger boy is shorter than the older by at least a head, and has a very round face. He has short curly red hair, brown eyes, and lots of freckles. He is grinning excitedly. Both men are wearing matching strange body suits. The suits have futuristic looking circuit designs all over them and look purple. The outfits also have black hooded cloaks, and brown boots. They also have brown utility belts around their waists. The taller one’s has a knife strapped to his, while the shorter one has what looks like a coil of rope. The shorter one is tugging on the taller one’s cape and pointing off to the right, away from the two of them.
end of image description] This is the BrOTP. They're secret agents who go by the code names of Malthus (left) and Reginald (right). As you can probably tell, they get along VERY well..... ;)
A bit about these terrible pieces of art...... If you're interested....
I used coloured pencils, mechanical pencils, a silver gel pen, and inking pens to make these. I'd actually drawn and inked them long before I started working on the Rainer's Room Illustration from my last post, but I'd never gotten around to colouring them in until recently.
A bit about the characters
Merlana-Amerlikia Nytlock is an alien female, who in addition to being the Queen of Cykadia, is probably one of my favorite characters. Don't tell Fintal I said that though. She's had to deal with a lot, namely terrible parents, royalty issues (you thought those were native to just the Earthen Monarchy? HAH!), wars, over-protective alters..... She's had to deal with a lot.... Somehow though, she manages to stay somewhat sane and maintain her space (obsession) hobby. Merli also has a pet raven called Morglin***, but he's not in this drawing (mostly because my birds look like evil seagulls. Seriously that's the general observation from random people seeing my birds.)
Malthus and Reginald are secret agents working for a shadow-y rebellion known as the Blue Vikings. Malthus and Reginald aren't their real names, just code names they use so people think they're amateur spies. Their work mostly involves trying to take down the sinister Imagination Nullification Agency and convince comatose teenagers to kill people. Outside of that though, both of them are literally the sweetest cinnamon rolls, no joke.
Anyway, thanks for reading this really terrible and long post! May you have all the luck in the stars!
-Theta/Thayer/TAS/Reynie/Being With No Name
*Pronounced Mur - lah - nuh Ay - mur - lih - kai - uh
**Pronounced Scie - Kay - die - uh
*** Pronounced More - gah - lihn