#nozelena

[kalolasart]

Been a while since I've drawn these two

[kalolasfantasyworld]

I'm not posting this on my art account, because it's more of a doodle but Olympics consumed me and I had to do this challenge.

[purpled-royalty]

Birthday gift for @kalolasfantasyworld 🤍! Love these two.

[thoughtfullyrainynightmare]

Here's my half of an art trade with @kalolasfantasyworld !

Nozelena is getting ready to dance the night away~!

[nodanova15]

A flock of eagles

(—but eagles don’t fly in flocks?? sh sh shh, these eagles do now!)

A silly little project I was working on! These are all Next Gen-Nozel kiddos!

Credits!

Adrius, Acier II(middle front), Argent, and Adeline belong to me ✨

Heinry, Noureen, and Natalia belong to @kalolasfantasyworld 💕

Acier II, Adalyn, and Alcina belong to @funky-sea-cryptid 💖

Freya belongs to @purpled-royalty 💜

Hunter and Jackie were designed by @cringeyvanillamilk 💞

[artificialpillow]

Happy Valentine’s part 2!

I haven’t drawn @kalolasfantasyworld’s Helena in quite a while, so there she is!

[vilandel]

*Helena and Rosette meeting for the first time* Helena: *in awe* Oh my, you look so shiny and full of light! Rosette: *surprised at the compliment and in awe as well* You look like chocolate... with bits of strawberries! Rosette and Helena: *immediately liking each other* Solid: What... what just happened? Nozel: It seems that my wife and your fiancée won't hate each other like some nobles thought.

Helena belongs to @kalolasfantasyworld 💕

[lyranova]

Made these a while ago for an Idol!AU and forgot to share so, i decided why not share them now 😆?

Solara belongs to @thoughtfullyrainynightmare

Josele belongs to @loosesodamarble

Acylla belongs to @faewraithsworld

Briar belongs to @koneko-pi

Helena belongs to @kalolasfantasyworld

[drmarune]

Natalia is @kalolasfantasyworld oc

Johan is mine

Unlikely meeting

Summary

Natalia and Johan meet and of curse it’s get’s interesting whit the tow

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Natalia whas just on a party of her parents whit her siblings but they are away

As she goes bye too see what going on run someone in her

???:oh sorry my dear!!!“scream a female looking devil in human form

She is scared she did normally not see a devil but is he from the black bulls? it’s seems so they are known to have some but she is dressed nicely and covered and she is really pretty

Natalia:is ok I didn’t see you too so it’s ok…..“smile shyly

???:no no it’s ok then we both didn’t see the other so it’s Nice!!! I’m Johan Faust and you?

Natalia:um…. I‘m Natalia Silver it’s nice to meet you Johan…..“she have a boy name? But suits her……..

Johan:you ok? Oh papa can help you if you felling unwell he is a doctor and is here too!!!

Natalia:No no I’m fine….“smile nervously at Johan

Johan:oh…..it’s because I’m a devil? Don’t be scared I have a small human part to ok you don’t see or feel it but I‘m peaceful I’m a magic night of curse to protect I promise I’m a nice guy

Natalia: guy? And ok I’m sorry I’m not use too see people like you very often…..“ok mostly of her life

Johan:oh I use male pronouns I’m male and female it’s a devil thing and is ok if you nod use to it „laughing and smile

Natalia :oh ok I‘m sorry“smile

Johan:oh don’t need to be sorry miss silver oh anyway wana walk whit my around a little?

Natalia:yes sounds good so mr Faust so you know my aunt Noelle?

Johan:oh yes!!! She is family too!!! She is a lot of fun!!!!and helping my!!!you family is nice!!!!even if papa and you father glaring at each other even I don’t know why!!!

Natalia:oh do they wo is your father?

Johan:right there he have horns too he is talking whit Dr Owen right now“pointing at Heinrich

Batalia know‘s him he is working in the hospital and is known too take Dr Owen please after he is not more they are known to have something going on whit them a old man Yuri say people even she doesn’t know what it means

Johan:anyway it’s nice too see you here!!!

Natalia:yes you tow“smile sweet

End

[kalolasfantasyworld]

I'm reading the explanation and I know I'll read it again over and over, because this is so THOUGHT THROUGH 😍

I LOVE THIS ART, it's so beautiful, serene and just perfect, but the fact that there's symbolism behind it makes it unique.

Thank you again for doing the art trade with me, I had such a blast and let me get back to staring at the art again 💕😍🥺

梅が香を...

This is my end of an art trade with @kalolasfantasyworld! Working on this was an absolute BLAST (as you can tell from the five page Google Doc of explanations for all the stuff I did not need to add lmao) and I had so much fun with it! Thank you for doing the art trade with me Lola :D 

Full explanation of history and themes below:

Historical Overview

The Edo period (1600-1867) is pretty prominent in modern culture, and is often romanticized as one of THE periods of Japanese cultural significance. Hinokuni (Land of the Sun) in Black Clover is based off of Edo-period Japan, or at least the late Muromachi pd.

You might know this as a time of samurai, ninja, etc. However, a fair amount of that is completely wrong. Edo period society was carefully structured to maintain peace. There was no war, and therefore virtually no work to be done for warriors – save a few rebellions, samurai were basically unemployed. However, since all of the power was in the hands of the military, they remained at the top of the rigid hierarchy established by the shogunate. This ended up putting the samurai in a strange situation: they grew more and more financially destitute, but still kept their high status as society slowly broke down over 200 years. 

In the mid 1700s, however, Japan was the most urbanized country in the world. Woodblock printing meant that media became available to everyone for a much lower cost than it would if everything was an individually commissioned drawing. “Modern” consumer pop culture arrived and evolved in Japan much earlier than other places, and part of pop culture was the ukiyo-e.

What is ukiyo-e? 

Have you ever wanted to see a hand drawn and carefully reproduced woodblock print of a woman having sex with an octopus? I imagine you don’t, but we’re on Tumblr, so. You can’t be sure. 

Anyway, If you know The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the glorious and quintessential piece of Japanese art, that was done by Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai, the mad lad, also printed women fucking octopodes. Both of these things are (according to the people of the time) a depiction of the “Floating World,” ukiyo. The Floating World refers to the beautiful, fleeting, and hedonistic red-light district of Edo (now Tokyo) which was literally a man-made sex and theatre island. Pictures of the Floating World are usually the traditional Japanese woodblock print, and can be anything from beautiful flowers to famous actors to scenic views to pictures of lovers, to… well, porn. A lot of porn.

However, this particular drawing is (thankfully) based off of Lovers Walking in the Snow (Crow and Heron), a wood-block print that dates to around 1770.

The long sleeves on the woman is one of the signs of the mid-Edo period, as those were in fashion at the time.

According to the Met, “Of all ukiyo-e prints of lovers, this one creates the most romantic and melancholic mood. Harunobu emphasizes the intimacy of two lovers strolling in the snow, even suggesting perhaps a michiyuki, a path to a love suicide.” The love suicide or double suicide was considered one of the most romantic things lovers could do at the time…. which… you know, that’s cool for them, but I wanted to thematically move away from that for this one, so I switched the crow to a crane 😭 This only partially solved the problem but I swear they’re not going to kill themselves guys I love Nozelena and there are other reasons I picked this print, please – 

Crow and Heron was created by Suzuki Harunobu, who invented the nishiki-e, or multicolored woodblock print. Prints prior to his innovation were limited to two or three colors, but Harunobu’s wealthy commissioners gave him enough money and time to carve up to twelve individual wood blocks to print many different colors onto one sheet of paper.

He is also famously known for fucking hating kabuki performers, so sorry, Harunobu, but I’m putting you in here with mentions of kabuki actors lmao. shoutout to Wikipedia for Harunobu facts please don’t kill me hbomberguy im just a little man with dreams 

Clothes 

I want to preface this by saying that these clothes are NOT COMPLETELY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. With that being said, let’s get into the Themes :]  

Helena, our Crane, is wearing clothing that’s pretty similar to the woman in Crow and Heron, but she’s also wearing an auspicious red uchikake, or over-robe. Uchikake are only really used in wedding kimono in modern times, but they were frequently worn in everyday life by the wives of samurai-class nobles during the late Muromachi (1336-1573) and Edo periods. Consisting of a patterned silk robe left open over her white kimono with the fashionable long sleeves of the time, she’s hopefully a little more warm in the snow! 

Image courtesy of the Met. Uchikake depicting scenes from the Tale of Ise

Plum blossoms are the flower of the month for February, and make up at least ten entries in the Kokinshu, a famous seasonal poem anthology. These white blossoms are often elegantly 'confused' with snow on the branches of the plum trees, and are a sure sign of early spring.

Given that this drawing is being posted around the time that these poems were likely written back in the 900s, I thought it would be fitting to put Helena in plum blossoms. You can also see faded plum blossoms in two corners of the piece. Cranes (tsuru) are associated with the same bright red that Helena’s almost always drawn in. They signify long life, purity, good luck, and fidelity. Overall, cranes have the same general happy connotations that I think of whenever I think of Helena, and they have the same colors -- they're perfect for each other!

You can see a version of Helena’s outfit with the hood in the ukiyo-e below, also done by Harunobu. 

Nozel is styled as a daimyo or regional warlord of the time. I wanted initially to put him in a kataginu kamishimo, which you can see below, but the haori (jacket) and hakama (pants) that he’s wearing are also appropriate. 

Dressing him down and leaving his hair down saved me from having to draw his stupid braid hopefully gives the piece a more intimate feeling.

If Nozel was a daimyo of the time period, he’d only see Helena a few months out of the year. The Tokugawa shogunate used a system called sankin koutai, or alternate attendance, to prevent the regional warlords from rising up and trying to usurp their rule. This system meant that the wives and children of the daimyo were forced to live in the capitol, and the daimyo could come to Edo once or twice a year to see them. The shogun having everyone’s wife and kids readily accessible to him at all times was… a pretty effective deterrent from treason, so Nozelena wouldn’t get to see each other often. Any time they would spend together would be very precious, and I hope I've depicted that feeling. 

Nozel’s haori hakama is not very traditional (usually it would be black with gold thread for the kamon, or family crest stitched onto the shoulders of the haori. You’ll see that where there’s meant to be a family crest, I’ve put the Silva cross), but there’s a reason for that. The EEO store New Year had a Nozel in a haori hakama that’s pretty close to the colors of the aosagi, or grey heron, and that gave me an idea. 

Grey herons carry connotations with mystery and death, which fits well for a man who has a secret about death that he can’t reveal to anyone or risk killing them too. Herons are also featured in an incredible kabuki performance called Sagi Musume. This dance was famously done by onnagata Bando Tamasaburo (link here to watch! He’s a Living National Treasure: I can’t recommend it enough). It’s tragic, but beautiful. 

Crows and herons are both somewhat related to death, which is likely part of the reason that it’s intimated that the two lovers in Harunobu’s piece are walking to commit a double suicide. However, changing one of the birds in the metaphor to a crane lightens up the metaphor and makes it much more hopeful, which I associate with this ship. As spring comes in and the white snow melts away to reveal budding plum blossoms, so too does a little sun shine on the grey heron, trapped in his secret and closed off from the world. 

Or something like that. It’s pretty pretentious, but I enjoyed thinking about this relationship and conceptualizing the metaphors I wanted to use for this drawing.

Ai ai Gasa

The Met writes about Harunobu’s piece: “The couple walk together in the quietly falling snow, in what is known as an ai ai gasa pose, literally, the sharing of an umbrella and love.” I kept this pose for Nozel and Helena – I knew I wanted something to do with a paper umbrella, since our girl has paper magic. In the starting sketches, he was holding the umbrella over her head while she reached for koi in the river (koi in Japanese is a homophone for love), but this version of the pose is both more historically aligned and cuter in my opinion.

The umbrella actually exists. 

This is a wagasa – a Japanese umbrella – made by Matsuda Wagasa in Kanazawa. It has Helena’s signature red as well as a Hangetsu/half moon pattern. Kanazawa umbrellas are different from any other wagasa makers in the country, and a dying craft. Matsuda is the only store left that still makes Kanazawa-style wagasa. I know no one on this site really has any money, but if you want to buy a piece of long-lasting, living art, please consider supporting them. 

The Poem

The writing that you see in the corner is a famous poem from the Kokinshu. However you ask me, “Alex. This is the Edo period. That’s the 1700s. This poem was from the 890s. The EIGHT. NINETIES. Why the hell are you using poetry in Classical Japanese? No one from the Edo period could understand something that was written 800 years ago at the time.” And to that I say: that’s a very logical conclusion! However, you are WRONG, because there’s nothing LOGICAL about ELEGANT, AESTHETIC PERFECTION!!! 

Classical Japanese (theoretically the Japanese used from around 900 to 1100) was used well into the Meiji period (1868-1912) whenever someone wanted to sound fancy or official. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of poems about plum blossoms and spring, but I picked this one for a reason. Harunobu often included poems in his work to poke light fun at them, but the inclusion of this poem in my drawing was perfectly serious. I’ll leave you with it to close out the explanation of this drawing. I hope seeing this piece of art has given you a happy and soft feeling, even if it’s only brief – I love Helena, I love this ship a lot, and I appreciate how hard Lola has worked to understand Nozel’s character and create an OC that plays well with him. I know only a few people who have put in the time and effort to meet Nozel where he’s at instead of trying to make him into something he isn’t. I imagine that for a man who has experienced so much death and made so many mistakes in his life, Nozel’s feelings for Helena are somewhat like this poem. 

梅が香を袖にうつしてとどめてば春は過ぐとも形見ならまし

mume ga ka wo/sode ni utsushite/todometeba/haru wa sugutomo/katami naramashi

If only the plums' scent/would shift to my sleeves and/stay there, then/even when spring is past and gone/a keepsake it would be...

[kalolasart]

Glitter and Gold

Second Tango Nozelena piece

Time to post some old art which for some reason never got posted 🤷‍♀️

This was drawn September 2024

[kalolasfantasyworld]

I saw @vilandel 💕 share a cute Nozessa picrew, so I though that I could share the ones I made here as well, not just on twitter.

@loosesodamarble @lyranova @thoughtfullyrainynightmare I'm calling you to share yours as well 😁

Made with picrew here

[thoughtfullyrainynightmare]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Black Clover - Tabata Yuki (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nozel Silva/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Helena Drazel, Nozel Silva Additional Tags: Romance, Teasing, Birthday Theme, Lidia is also an oc, not my OC, nozel is trying, Fluff Summary:

Helena Drazel is about to turn one year older and gets prompted to write a kind of a list of things she'd like to accomplish or do during her next year on this earth. But the fun little task ends up being a little harder than she anticipated. Nozel enters the library where Helena is trying to write her list, and some teasing and banter ensues But they're very much in love

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Happy birthday Lola! @kalolasfantasyworld

[kalolasfantasyworld]

THESE ARE SO PRETTY! 🥺🥺🥺

THANK YOU! AGAIN! A dance piece of THEM! And the light! The clothes! Expressions!!! The emotion!!! 💕 Gorgeous! Everything in red ❤️

And aaaa LITTLE BABY, she had such chubby cheeks 🥺😍 I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! THANK YOU!!! Little happy princess 😍

You spoil me so much with these amazing arts of them! Thank you! 💕💕💕

Yet again, I drew another drawing of Helena AND Nozel!!

It official...Helena and Nozel are one of my hyperfixation..

Anyway!! Here is the lovely Helena with her hubby Nozel ☺️

How romantic!!

Nozel just can't get enough of the beautiful Helena 😍

@kalolasfantasyworld idk who to simp for 🤷‍♀️

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I was supposed to post this with my other post with Helena and Gablriel, but it ended up getting lost in my files, and i couldn't find it😣

But, here it is!!

She so adorable!!

And yes, I gave her chubby cheeks 😌

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[lyranova]

Hi Lyra!

It's such a sweet idea to organise the Autumn event 💕 and I'm sure it will put a smile on many people's faces.

I checked out the prompts you sent and when I saw the "tango dip" kiss prompt I knew it had to be the one for Nozelena, since tango is their dance.

If I could request this prompt for them. ❤️💙

Hiya Lola! I’m so glad you like the event idea, I was hoping to get these out during autumn but…life got in the way 😅. So now it’s a positive winter event XD! But of course you can request for them, I hope you like it 🥰💕!

Word Count: 941

Warnings: None

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“ Do we really have to do this?”

Helena turned around to face her husband, Nozel Silva, and immediately placed her hands on her hips and nodded firmly.

“ Of course we do, mi amor, it’s Noelle and Asta’s wedding anniversary party! It would be very rude of us if we didn’t dance during the party.”

“ I understand that; but does it really need to be the tango? Why can’t we just do a waltz like everyone else?” Nozel asked as he crossed his arms.

His wife nodded slowly and she placed a hand under her chin.

“ I can see your point; the Waltz is a classic dance that is rich in history and tradition, however, I think it's too common of a dance for a house that is as uncommon as the Silvas.” She explained before a mischievous smirk appeared on her face.

“ Besides, the tango is a lot more fun. But, if you really don’t want to do the tango, then we can always do the salsa insgead,” She then began to shake and move her hips as though she were practicing a salsa number.

Nozel’s eyes widened and his face turned bright red. He quickly shook his head as he slightly covered his eyes with his hand.

“ No, no, the tango will be fine!” He said quickly, which caused his wife to chuckle.

“ I thought so! Now, let’s practice, hm?” Helena said with a smile before walking over to the record player to begin playing the song that they would dance to.

She spun around on her heel to face Nozel before extending her hand towards him with a smile.

Nozel let out a quiet sigh before taking her hand, stepping towards her, and wrapping his arm around her waist before resting his hand against the small of her back.

As the music began, the two began to move in-tune with it. Their moves were passionate and sensual, but there was also a restraint and romance in them. It was calculated, but also with hints of spontaneity.

It was a true tango.

“ See, you had no reason to worry mi amor,” Helena said as she pressed her body closer to his. “ You may’ve thought you had forgotten the steps, but your body and muscles clearly remember.”

Nozel cleared his throat as he gave her a small spin before pulling her close to him again.

He was never one to really admit that he had forgotten something, especially something that was special to his wife like the tango; but he didn’t need to, because she already knew what he was thinking and how he was feeling without having to say a word.

As the music began to draw to a close, Helena wrapped her leg around Nozel’s waist, preparing for the dip, when he suddenly got a mischievous idea of his own.

When she leaned to the side with his arm wrapped securely around her waist, he immediately leaned down and captured her lips in a surprisingly passionate kiss that made Helena gasp.

Nozel pulled away and gave her a small smirk.

“ That was payback for shaking your hips earlier,” He told her softly, his voice warm like a wood burning fire that made her spine tingle.

Helena’s face burned as she suddenly began to laugh.

“ !Ah, tu es verdadero encantador!” She said in Spanish as he lifted her up out of the dip, but his arm still remained around her waist.

Nozel’s Spanish still wasn’t that good, even though he had been listening to it for many, many years now, but he managed to understand that she said something about him being ‘charming’.

“ Well, I learned from the best,” He muttered as a slight blush returned to his cheeks, but she quickly shook his head.

“ You didn’t learn anything from me, well, okay, you learned some things from me…but being charming wasn’t one of them,” At his confused frown, she continued.

“ You were already charming before we met, however that was buried deep, deep down underneath a lot of other…emotions and attitudes,” Nozel’s eyes narrowed.

“ Get to the point.”

Helena’s eyes narrowed back.

“ Rude. What I mean is that all you needed was some encouragement and scolding in order to bring out your true feelings and emotions,” Helena smiled softly.

“ You didn’t learn how to be charming from me or anyone else, we just helped you figure out how to bring it out.”

Nozel blinked in surprise before he closed his eyes, and let a small smile appear on his face.

She had a point; as she usually did.

If it wasn’t for her and Noelle’s support and encouragement, he probably wouldn’t be standing here right now, smiling with his beautiful wife in his arms, and with a healed and much better relationship with his siblings.

He was suddenly pulled out of his thoughts when he felt Helena’s lips beside his ear.

“ However, I will take credit for teaching you how to tango passionately,” She whispered warmly into his ear before placing a quick, yet searing, kiss against his cheek.

Nozel’s eyes snapped open and his face once again turned a bright shade of red as she pulled away.

“ So, shall we practice a little more? Just for good measure?” Helena asked as the music on the record player started over.

Nozel shrugged a bit as he reached down to grab her hand and gently hold it in his.

“ Well, if my teacher insists.” He said as a bit of a smirk appeared on his lips.

“ Oh she insists, she definitely insists!” Helena said with a smirk of her own before she took the lead on their second practice run.

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Thank you all so much for reading and I hope you all have a good day!

[kalolasart]

Helena and some Nozelena, because yes everyone this is my ship.

sunshine princess x grumpy birb