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a little teen!Amber today for women of ROTE <3

@high-summer-rote

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halfway through the first book of the farseer trilogy and loving it thank you very much, here are some rough sketches of some of the characters

(please don’t tag with spoilers)

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Burrich and "the boy", at the beginning of Assassin's Apprentice. An incredible art commission by Aamir!

Reference is "The First Lesson" by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Art ref and close ups under the cut.

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Some Beloved before the horrors in Fool’s Fate. He needs so many hugs for real <3

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robin hobb creating characters in the most complex Situationships of all time. wdym patience and burrich were lovers but burrich wouldn't commit to her because he wouldn't give up on his oath to serve chivalry ("i am chivalry's man" alright burrich. sure. alright. i know what you are) and so he let her go but then through other events patience MEETS and MARRIES chivalry without ever knowing that This is the man that burrich committed himself to instead of her but she genuinely ALSO falls in love with chivalry but she cannot bear him CHILDREN and then both her and burrich LOSE chivalry and BASICALLY have to raise chivalry's child "together" wherein they both come to deeply love and care for fitz (in their own way) but they can never be together because "Chivalry's ghost would stand forever between them." WDYM???????????

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4/5 interior illustration for Assassin’s Quest!!

Spend hours deciding on how to draw Beloved’s face just to lighten everything up in end 🫠 But honestly I like this version better, it has more emotional weight in it, I think, and better visualises of how Skill and this whole merging of souls might feel like idk (if you ever merged souls with someone let me know if I did a good job of illustrating it lol). The whole composition was inspired by Beloved’s realisation of Fitz’s true feelings towards him and just in general the feeling of truly knowing someone from deep inside, like a fog finally clearing and you can see a full picture. For someone who self-gaslights a lot (not pointing finger at you, Fitz) knowing something or someone’s feelings for certain would mean a great deal, hence, this illustration is much warmer than others.

Also, chronologically this illustration is supposed to be the last one but the last one that I’m gonna to share is double page spread so it made more sense (for me) to leave it for the end 🤷🏽

Also number 2, tried explaining what is happening in this image to someone outside the fandom and dramatically failed. Thankfully, I would never have to explain how Bee was born

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Late night emotional sketch post about my main bois

Sad timez TM on the left and a cheeky charged Lord Golden x Badgerlock moment on the right

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I really like this sketch

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i’m not really into modern aus in general as a rule and rote and fitzloved in particular are such context reliant characters that the idea of low stakes modern au is kind of Nothing to me like what even is that except. there is a major exception here. which is that amber specifically amber more than any other belovedsonas is a real person i know like that is a real woman you can find in any mid sized american city with a real art scene. tall blonde whimsical-yet-goal-oriented transfem politically involved artisan who has a little booth she sets up at every single local art fair all summer and you have no idea how old she is or where she came from but you think she mentioned one time that she went to clown college. and she has a mournful little boyfriend with an ugly fucking wolf tattoo and he sits by her feet instead of next to her in a chair like a normal person. she used to make zines about her dreams and she wears tevas she goes to like pickle workshop events and craft group and her friends softball games and hosts pay what you can woodworking classes and everyone’s like i wonder what’s up with amber and her sad little dog man but none of you know for sure. like this is a woman you see at various events. she’s real i know her i saw her at the fourth annual gay rodeo selling horse figurines. paragon is a honda civic in this scenario i guess.

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Fitz from the Farseer Trilogy as the Fable II cover, because when I was a kid my brother would read it and play Fable, and now the two things are irrevocably linked in my mind

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3/5 interior illumination for Assassin’s Quest!!

Unlike the other two there not much symbolism going on, just wanted to focus on tranquility and recovery after harsh time. Based on chapter 20 ✨

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The dreamer in her butterfly gown 🦋

Nettle for the women of RotE bingo!!

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2/5 interior illustration for “The Assassin’s Quest”!!

This one is based on the scene from Chapter 9 where Fitz is confronted by Will. Some of the symbolism include swords on the wall (highlight the feeling of being trapped in a dangerous situation + there six swordsmen in the room as we later find out), the eye above Fitz (the representation of Will’s Skill and being watched) and candles (one of them is slowly “dying out”, just like Fitz thinks that he ran out of time and would be killed in that room)

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Quick teen Fitzy sketch inspired by Blood Upon the Snow by Hozier ✨

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imagine having your own personal hater who's been assigned to you by fate and he is a tiny little clown who won't stop following you around and yammering about your imminent demise and worst of all you love him dearly

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I knew what I could have done with that touch. I could have swept across and into him, known all his secrets, taken all his strength. I could have made his body an extension of my own, used his life and his days for my own purpose. It was a shameful hunger to feel. How could I forgive him for making me feel it?

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let’s suicide-bait mama