#Maryam Khaimov

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No chapter art, Today.

Have an updated Work in Progress on this one. Already finding stuff I want to correct on the lineart.

Also, poor Maryam need more sun. And some shading that'll make the bags under her eyes look more as I'm intending them to look.

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The ensuing playfight between the vampire and the sith lady ended, when the sith in a very enthusiastic way threw herself into the hypnotizing vampire's seductive embrace. Dipping herself to expose that defenseless neck. At which point Maryam let go of Angharad. Dropping her on the ground.

Artist's notes: Noble upbringing and good manners be damned. We all know this is how Angharad would react to a lightsaber toy. 

Maryam is borrowing confidence from her costume. 

Song is dressed up as a Kalaviṅka. Pretty dress + pretty feathers kinda sold me on it as the artist.

Tristan as a catboy is a bad joke. Times two with the cat suit / cat thief getup. 

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Pale Lights, Book 2 chapter 24 - Princess Maryam dress up

I did this even before I did my traditional reread of the chapter to dot down all the character descriptions to my growing excel sheet.

Because my priorities are flawless.

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Maryam Barbie-core Witch

I was requested to add a witch hat to Maryam, and well… I felt like being silly while I was doing silly stuff.

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Pale Lights, Book 2 chapter 3 - Thirteenth brigade Temporary Reference Sheet

Because I’m a dork wanting a baseline while doing other fanarts. Will probably be updated a few times over the next few weeks.

Two versions. Because cloak.

Watch Fashion speculations and ramblings under cut

Fortuna got a full Renaissance gown. A couple of different decades got combined to get big sleeves top and massive collar combine with the sleek skirt (Look, everything is relative. Have you guys seen what happened with the skirts around this time?!? This is the sleek version).

I translated her capelet to a sexy partlet. I found at least one source referring to partlets like that. I guess you could have turned the partlet into also having a big collar. But… This is Fortuna. We all know she’s extra extra.

I’ve been playing around with Watch uniforms, and ended with basically three different types as a starting point.

Maryam is described wearing a tunic with silver buttons. Other times, Watch members have been described wearing cloaks. And those two things does not mix historically.

Then I remembered Tristan in Book 1 wearing a black tunic the same length as Maryam’s. Also described as a kirtle. And a black cloak later. So I figured he had frankensteined together several pieces of discarded Watch uniforms (even his boots were Watch boots).

So, I made Maryam’s tunic more kirtle-like. With the buttons on the sleeve and nice inbuilt boob-support. What is not added is a maybe/maybe-not existing prosthetic for her missing fingers.

Song got a more Renaissance look built around a doublet. Because I like those. Then I added a Musketeer Cloak on top.

We don’t know if Angharad is in a Watch uniform yet, but she definitively likes cloaks, and there are some of the uniforms with cloaks. So I gave her the full version of Tristan’s other half of his uniform.

And Tristan is, well… Tristan. He hurts my eyes.

Then EE dropped by in the Discord and confirmed there’s three different types of Watch uniforms. Regular Uniform, Fighting Uniform and Formal Uniform. Also, it seems I got pretty close to the three. With Tristan wearing a mixed abomination. Haha.

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Pale Lights Domestic Disturbances Fanart

Don’t listen to the slander. Tristan would never mix up his socks just to disturb Song. And he certainly wouldn’t buy the loudest patterns he can find for the same reason either. 

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Pale Lights Beach episode

I was working on some reference sheets to myself, and plopping some seasonally appropriate swim wear on these disasters were the simple way to show off my progress. Make it an “alternate timeline” and “alternate universe” version. Haha.

A few things:

I don’t actually have a height for Fortuna. I just figured “tall” because she is a goddess.

It turns out everyone got different ideas of what Angharad’s tattoos looks like. In the end, we got a trustworthy source telling us, that EE says they are 10 parallel bands going around Angharad’s forearm.

I also don’t know which hand Maryam is missing two fingers on. I picked left to be kind.

Maryam is so darn pale, she practically is blinding.

Angharad probably could pick up any of her other three cabal members, and carry them around effortlessly over her shoulder for an hour. She’s also collected a lot of scars in just one book.

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Pale Lights updated Beach Episode thing now chapter 1 of Book 2 is out.

I had fun picking swimwear for each character.

No Tupoc as we're missing vital info. Also the exclusion probably would bother him. And you should always mock Tupoc if given the chance.

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Pale Lights, Book 2 chapter 4 - Thirteenth brigade Temporary Reference Sheet

Mainly here for essential Maryam stuff.

Made Tristan’s hair ever so slightly lighter, as we know now it’s officially brown. Instead of just “dark”.

Gave Maryam a cloak (she uses it outside) and the now properly official prosthetics. - Currently she is left-handed because she likely lost her fingers on her dominant hand, and I was too lazy to switch it around. EE then was kind enough to confirm on the Discord Maryam’s missing fingers really are on her left hand.

Not on this reference: Tristan having a black eye. Even though EE seems to be doing his best to make this a permanent visual character trait.

On another note. I post these without Patreon spoilers after the Royal Road chapter is up. So this account is safe to follow even if you don't have Pale Lights patreon. Don't enter the Pale Lights tag though. Not only is it filled with spoilers. But they're also not marked as such with tags.

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