Phew! That's a wrap for the Renegades and TLC character's birthdays!! It was a really fun self-challenge for the year and I'm happy with my art improvement so far ✨💖✨
one of my favorite parts of the lunar chronicles has always been how batshit insane it is. just the the genuine unhingery. the main character kidnaps her love interest from his wedding. said love interest stabs his arranged bride (a murderous dictator) with scissors at the altar. cress and thorne stay at an inn in the middle of the desert, and while he’s fucking around gambling she gets kidnapped into an underground medical experimentation human trafficking ring and bought by her long lost father. there’s evil moon people. scarlet and wolf get it on in a boxcar after like two days of knowing each other. 4/9 of the main cast aren’t human. cinder crashes kai’s wedding (again), murders twenty people, and jumps off a ten story balcony into a lake. kai keeps cinder’s metal foot so he can stare at it and long after her while she’s a wanted fugitive. cress fangirls over and stalks her outlaw crush on the internet for years and then bags him when they meet. not one of them is over twenty or mentally sound btw. no other YA series is doing it like that. applause
Probably one of the most iconic moments for Cinder, and not just because of the subverted Cinderella imagery. She, the emperor’s personal guest, has just crashed headlong into a manicured tree in the (populated) Imperial courtyard, full speed, in a vehicle (definitely not street legal) that hasn’t been seen in well over a century. And when a palace worker helps her out of the wreckage she’s like, “he’s judging me for the dirty dress :/“ Like bestie I promise that is the least of his problems right now
Thorne got a fake ID to gamble and drink when he was a teenager, and ended up joining the military with it. By the time he's a fugitive with Cinder, he forgets he told everyone the wrong age. So he's actually like 18 instead of 20 the whole time, making all of the character dynamics on the Rampion make a lot more sense (including his relationship with 16 year old Cress)
cress spent years on the satellite alone, cut off from everyone, with only tv and an ai for company. in my heart, she had online friends from all around the world, that she could only dream of meeting. after the rampion crew defeated levana, she spends a year travelling the world, making it her mission to find each and every one of her online friends so that she could give them the biggest hug and tell them how important they were to her when she had no one
the literal crown prince of the eastern commonwealth after his crush said no to going to the ball with him twice, ignored 6 of his comms, and didn’t want to go eat lunch with him: