Some sketches of the Ahltinor sovereignty's interrogator, Rahlindir. I haven't drawn this guy since before I decided that my elves don't grow beards (they can grow slight sideburns but that's about it) he used to have a goatee, so it's fun to see him with his new look. Leyna is with him in the other sketch, I have planned for them to be in love- in a very messy and tragic way, they're both very broken and weary people.
It’s the flowers and leaves strewn through their hair as they look up at the stars. It’s the faint smile barely visible in the fire’s light, and the gold flecks the flames bring out in their eyes, things she’s never had the chance to notice before.
For a moment, this one single moment in time, that she’d give anything to freeze and be able to look back on whenever she wanted, they look…peaceful, and younger. And so very beautiful. Like the nature spirits of other Shards. A perfect being of grace and the wilds, maybe a guardian of a sacred grove. Their green cloak could be made of moss or leaves in the dim light, and their pink hair a meadow.
Beautiful.
But it wasn’t just that either. It was the silent power that still hung around them, that they couldn’t shake even if they tried. It was the muscle that she knows lay underneath their many layers. The way they sat, seemingly perfectly relaxed, but could spring into action at a moments notice. The lines of scaring showing just how much they had survived.
Deadly.
And it drew her in like she was only a moth, and they were the only light in existence.
And they wanted her by their side. After everything that had happened, she had done, they wanted her here. And who was she to say no?
She would follow them into the darkest or brightest parts of the Shard if they asked. To the end of Esharial if needed. Even the Abyss. And they probably didn’t even know they had that power.
I’m in love with you, say heavy on her tongue. A realization she’d made days maybe weeks earlier, but one she didn’t dare speak lest it break this rhythm they had found. They fit together to perfectly for that, to easily for her to risk it.
But oh, how far and fast she had already fallen, when she’d long since believed there wasn’t that part of her to even lose. Perhaps her heart, that treacherous beating thing in her chest that she couldn’t risk now she knew it existed, yet felt stop too obviously every time a moment like this came, had only to come into existence for them. Or perhaps they had freed it from wherever it had been lost.
Just for moments where they looked so wonderfully blissful like now. Where nothing could harm them it seemed. Because it was so calm and peaceful and they were just…
I commissioned this BEAUTIFUL piece of Leyna and Cole from @mewi-or-lara! I CAN NOT express enough how much I love this piece and their art! She's absolutely amazing at this! I have loved every single piece I've commissioned from them.
I adore these two and she drew them for me. Thank you Mewi! I can not say it enough. :) Your style is beautiful. There is a reason I keep coming back. Look at this!
My favorite OC Leyna Dawn in Lego Monkie Kid style!!
This was made with SonnieMed’s beautiful LMK OC maker, but I made some edits from the original since it didn’t quite fit her exactly right.
She’s a Star Wars character but she gets a crossover into Ninjago, so I wanted to make a Lego version. And I love it so much. Hooray for art! Hooray for people! Hooray for imagination!
Here’s the original.
If I can give you any advice about your characters… get a visual. Draw something, design something, pick a photo. Once you can see them out in front of you, instead of just in your head, it changes everything.
Guess who is rereading Holly's leyna fics? *sighhhh* me, longing for simpler times when i would just binge while playing Mona Lisa (When the World Falls Down) on repeat cause that is to this day my Leyna song
I'm glad you're still enjoying my fics!! It's been so long, but I still think fondly of them.
I'm actually thinking about doing a Leyna smut fic once I'm finished with my current manuscript...