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The apple guy.🍎

I love all things to do with fruit, so as soon as I saw Belte with an apple, I wanted to draw him…

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The last time Stardew Valley had a big update I made a series of pixel art drawings.

Why not do it again?

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It's the birthday of the First Fairy King !

Will he be able to find some rest today?

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Moonrose tonight ?

Maybe because Gloxinia's birthday is in two days' time.

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There is indeed mention of a newborn fairy, exchanged with a newborn human. By "fairy", we don't know whether it encompasses all fairy creatures, or just fairy ones. If we know how fairy creatures are born, we don't know if other creatures, such as Hide-and-seek, are born the same way. 

But I'd like to say that if Elaine and King have children of their own, and even more so with someone from a species other than their own, it's not unrealistic to believe that two fairy creatures of different sexes could reproduce equally. On the other hand, I'm not sure that this is a necessary need, or even that all fairy species can reproduce. 

Would the baby then gradually grow up like humans, or giants? Or not at all, or almost, perhaps resulting in smaller fairies or cherubs? Many unanswered questions. But, just as we may have seen a demon family in the demon realm, we may see a fairy family at some point, giving us some answers.

The plot of chapter 138 takes place in the Fairy World, a magical dimension outside of Britannia and the Fairy King's Forest. Normally only members of the fairy clan can enter it, but Suzuki recalls saying somewhere that Diane can exceptionally live there. I think it's more a question of authorization, rather than difficulty linked to the particularity of the realm (as is the case with the demon world).

As for the exact location of the current Fairy King's forest, it's number 6 on this map from the latest fanbook. The fanbooks call the current Fairy King's Forest the "New Fairy King's Forest", while the second Fairy King's Forest (number 2), the one destroyed by the Red Demon, is called the "Fairy King's Forest".

The first Fairy King's Forest is buried under Liones (number 14), and it's not known exactly how it was destroyed, but after the Holy War a new forest was created north of Britannia. By planting the last seed of the second Fairy King Forest, Ban enabled the third Fairy Forest to come into being. To sum up:

My thoughts on chapter 138 of Four Knights of the Apocalypse:

A brief summary without going into too much detail:

In this chapter, we follow Nasien's journey into the world of fairies, in the company of Tioreh. After passing through the Tunnel of Whispers to try out his medicine on Percival, Nasien goes on to meet the royal family.While the King of the Fairies and the Queen of the Giants seem to welcome Nasien with open arms, this is not the case for all the couple's children. The conversation is suddenly interrupted by a group of fairies who come to warn that fairy creatures have committed an act of changeling.

As Suzuki hinted in an author-reader response, King and Diane have several children, each very different from the next. Alas, they seem (except perhaps one of them) old enough not to be able to tick the Gerheade babysitter checkbox in my bingo, but I don't despair of ticking other boxes soon. Rather than talking about Harlequin and Diane's children, even though he'd have a lot to say, I'd rather focus on the world of fairies and the creatures that inhabit it.

We do get to discover a little more about the fairy realm and the children of the Fairy King and Giant Queen. I've already taken a few screenshots of the chapter and the previous one, in preparation for future drawings. I'm happy because the fairy world is just as I'd imagined it: giant plants and mushrooms, a world where fairy cohabit with other fairy creatures (hide-and-seek, chicken-matango, etc.) in a misty atmosphere.

At the end of the chapter, we discover that the group behind the changeling is a group of Hide-and-seek.

The Hide-and-seek are fairy-like creatures introduced to us in chapter 4 of Seven Deadly Sins, in the Forest of White Dreams, when Meliodas and Elizabeth have just begun their journey to find the Sins. These creatures have the unique ability to mimic the appearance of their victims to perfection. They inhabit the forests of Britannia. We also know that the Hide-and-seek of the Awepine Forest (a forest destroyed by the creation of Vazeil's labyrinth) seem to appreciate human flesh. But we don't know if this behavior is unique to the imps of this forest. What is certain is that the Hide-and-seek of the Awepine Forest have a different cape and a different symbol on the hood from the Hide-and-seek of the King's Forest or the Forest of White Dreams.

Let's talk about their appearance: these small creatures are recognizable by the hooded cape that covers most of their body. They have a large nose covered with buttons, round pupil-less eyes on either side of the nose, and a wide mouth set with pointed teeth. In this chapter, we get to see a Hide-and-seek without a hood, but it's not the first time we've seen one without. One of the illustrations in the Light Novel, Seven Days, shows us three of them.

The imp that Myrte catches has a slightly different appearance from those in this illustration. In addition to the hair and eyes, the shape of the face is morphologically closer to that of a fairy's face, than the oval face of his fellows. But perhaps it's the angle of the face that gives this impression. So the number of horns is not the only diversity of the Hide-and-seek. I'm not commenting on the absence of a symbol on the hood at the moment, as Suzuki only draws it on close-up panels. But I think it would be interesting to know it and to compare it with the Hide-and-seek of the Awepine forest, whose intentions are rather evil.

Hide-and-seek are also known as Prankster Imps, and while up until now only their ability to deceive their victims by imitating their appearance could explain this name, this chapter gives us other answers. These creatures practice changeling. Changeling is the practice of exchanging a human baby for a baby fairy or other creature, and many legends exist in Europe. For the moment we don't know whether previous acts of changeling have been carried out solely by Hide-and-seek, but we may find out more in the next chapter.

A quick look back at one of the fairy who comes to warn the royal family of the kidnapping of a human. In the fairy group,we can see a fairy who seems to be Kulumil (a character from the film Grudge of Edinburgh), but we can't be 100% sure it's her. Suzuki, for example, drew several fairy characters in SDS who look like Puora without being Puora (same face, hair, eyes, but different clothes and sometimes different wings from the Puora we know). Just as there's a clearly distinct category of bearded fairy, we have a category of cherubic fairy that includes Puora and Kulumil, and this is the first time we've seen one in Four Knights of the Apocalypse.

I'll end this commentary by mentioning Gerheade's whereabouts. After this chapter, I'm no longer sure she's in the fairy realm.

Even if fairy people don't have the same perception of time as humans, I don't think they're all unaware of what's going on in Britannia at the moment. In times of crisis, if Gerheade isn't at the Fairy King's side, she may be in Britannia to keep an eye on events (and possibly report them to the Fairy King afterwards), and to lend a helping hand to the Liones camp. If Meliodas thinks of her as a potential ally of the Knights of the Apocalypse, wouldn't it be because she's recently been brought in to help Liones in some way? It's a possibility I don't want to rule out. Perhaps she's also on the side of Matrona (also a potential ally) and the clan of giants. What's certain is that Suzuki's decision not to show us Gerheade means he has no use for her at the moment.

If I find something interesting to say for chapter 139, I'll make another comment like that.

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My thoughts on chapter 138 of Four Knights of the Apocalypse:

A brief summary without going into too much detail:

In this chapter, we follow Nasien's journey into the world of fairies, in the company of Tioreh. After passing through the Tunnel of Whispers to try out his medicine on Percival, Nasien goes on to meet the royal family.While the King of the Fairies and the Queen of the Giants seem to welcome Nasien with open arms, this is not the case for all the couple's children. The conversation is suddenly interrupted by a group of fairies who come to warn that fairy creatures have committed an act of changeling.

As Suzuki hinted in an author-reader response, King and Diane have several children, each very different from the next. Alas, they seem (except perhaps one of them) old enough not to be able to tick the Gerheade babysitter checkbox in my bingo, but I don't despair of ticking other boxes soon. Rather than talking about Harlequin and Diane's children, even though he'd have a lot to say, I'd rather focus on the world of fairies and the creatures that inhabit it.

We do get to discover a little more about the fairy realm and the children of the Fairy King and Giant Queen. I've already taken a few screenshots of the chapter and the previous one, in preparation for future drawings. I'm happy because the fairy world is just as I'd imagined it: giant plants and mushrooms, a world where fairy cohabit with other fairy creatures (hide-and-seek, chicken-matango, etc.) in a misty atmosphere.

At the end of the chapter, we discover that the group behind the changeling is a group of Hide-and-seek.

The Hide-and-seek are fairy-like creatures introduced to us in chapter 4 of Seven Deadly Sins, in the Forest of White Dreams, when Meliodas and Elizabeth have just begun their journey to find the Sins. These creatures have the unique ability to mimic the appearance of their victims to perfection. They inhabit the forests of Britannia. We also know that the Hide-and-seek of the Awepine Forest (a forest destroyed by the creation of Vazeil's labyrinth) seem to appreciate human flesh. But we don't know if this behavior is unique to the imps of this forest. What is certain is that the Hide-and-seek of the Awepine Forest have a different cape and a different symbol on the hood from the Hide-and-seek of the King's Forest or the Forest of White Dreams.

Let's talk about their appearance: these small creatures are recognizable by the hooded cape that covers most of their body. They have a large nose covered with buttons, round pupil-less eyes on either side of the nose, and a wide mouth set with pointed teeth. In this chapter, we get to see a Hide-and-seek without a hood, but it's not the first time we've seen one without. One of the illustrations in the Light Novel, Seven Days, shows us three of them.

The imp that Myrte catches has a slightly different appearance from those in this illustration. In addition to the hair and eyes, the shape of the face is morphologically closer to that of a fairy's face, than the oval face of his fellows. But perhaps it's the angle of the face that gives this impression. So the number of horns is not the only diversity of the Hide-and-seek. I'm not commenting on the absence of a symbol on the hood at the moment, as Suzuki only draws it on close-up panels. But I think it would be interesting to know it and to compare it with the Hide-and-seek of the Awepine forest, whose intentions are rather evil.

Hide-and-seek are also known as Prankster Imps, and while up until now only their ability to deceive their victims by imitating their appearance could explain this name, this chapter gives us other answers. These creatures practice changeling. Changeling is the practice of exchanging a human baby for a baby fairy or other creature, and many legends exist in Europe. For the moment we don't know whether previous acts of changeling have been carried out solely by Hide-and-seek, but we may find out more in the next chapter.

A quick look back at one of the fairy who comes to warn the royal family of the kidnapping of a human. In the fairy group,we can see a fairy who seems to be Kulumil (a character from the film Grudge of Edinburgh), but we can't be 100% sure it's her. Suzuki, for example, drew several fairy characters in SDS who look like Puora without being Puora (same face, hair, eyes, but different clothes and sometimes different wings from the Puora we know). Just as there's a clearly distinct category of bearded fairy, we have a category of cherubic fairy that includes Puora and Kulumil, and this is the first time we've seen one in Four Knights of the Apocalypse.

I'll end this commentary by mentioning Gerheade's whereabouts. After this chapter, I'm no longer sure she's in the fairy realm.

Even if fairy people don't have the same perception of time as humans, I don't think they're all unaware of what's going on in Britannia at the moment. In times of crisis, if Gerheade isn't at the Fairy King's side, she may be in Britannia to keep an eye on events (and possibly report them to the Fairy King afterwards), and to lend a helping hand to the Liones camp. If Meliodas thinks of her as a potential ally of the Knights of the Apocalypse, wouldn't it be because she's recently been brought in to help Liones in some way? It's a possibility I don't want to rule out. Perhaps she's also on the side of Matrona (also a potential ally) and the clan of giants. What's certain is that Suzuki's decision not to show us Gerheade means he has no use for her at the moment.

If I find something interesting to say for chapter 139, I'll make another comment like that.

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Sweet thoughts.

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Here's what we know about the birth of fairies. Fairies are born from a plant flower or a tree flower found in the fairy realm. Fairies born from the same flower are brother and sister. The fairy king and princesses are born from the sacred tree in the fairy realm (different from the one in the fairy king's forest in Britannia).

So for a fairy to be born, it must be a flowering plant or tree. Flowers have a life cycle: after flowering, they wither and form capsules containing seeds. Some plants are annuals and die after flowering, others are perennials and continue to live for several years, giving new flowers every year. The sacred tree is definitely a perennial, and the birth of various royal siblings proves that it is capable of flowering again, several centuries later. From this we can surmise that the flower that gave birth to Gloxinia and Gerheade faded, before a new one was born several centuries later to give birth to Dahlia. It's also important to note that the sacred tree has a conscience, and unlike the natural flower cycle, it's the sacred tree that chooses the moment to give birth to the future king of fairies and princesses.

Let's take a look at how the same flower, several years apart, can give birth to several fairies. We know that Gerheade was 1,200 years old at the time of the Holy War, and Gloxinia 1,400 years old, so the flower that gave birth to Gloxinia took 200 years to give birth to Gerheade. Harlequin and Elaine are approximately 300 years apart. This can be explained by the choice of tree to give birth to, or the way in which time passes in the fairy world. We can consider that for a sibling to be born, the flower must open and close until the next birth. The frist flower on the sacred tree opened 4400 years ago to give birth to Gloxinia, then closed again before opening again 4200 years ago to Gerheade. We can't know when the flower withered, but what we can be sure of is that the sacred tree chose to make a new flower bloom to give birth to Dahlia and his sisters, after Gloxinia had disappeared. Gloxinia and Gerheade's flower was not used to give birth to a new fairy king.

So are all fairy kings are brother ? Yes, because they share the same parent, the sacred tree, and not because each flower is obviously a separate fertilization site that withers when a new royal generation is due.

So...yknow how when Fairies are born from the same plant that makes them siblings?

Does that make Gerheade Harlequin's sister?

And does that mean all the Fairy Kings are brothers, too?

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Sometimes I imagine Gerheade in her role as advisor to the second Fairy King !

In other drawings, I'd like to show my vision of the Dahlia/Gerheade relationship. I'm sure Gerheade had a mother figure at some point with him…

Bonus:

Dahlia keeps an eye on his relatives with Darrenheart!

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I wanted to experiment with drawing techniques, and since I really like Chion's charadesign, this was the opportunity to draw him !

As a bonus I drew Gilthunder, with hindsight I think I should have drawn the grandfather Zaratras too, but, I have another idea in my head… ! Next time!

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An artist whose work I like very much, drew me Gerheade without my request ! She also told me that when she thinks of Gerheade, she thinks of me, and that touched me a lot!

So in return, I drew Percival and his troop of mini-Percival!

I hope this gift will be as good as her gift!

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For Percival's birthday, then Lancelot's and finally Tristan's we organized on the French 4Kota server some Aggie.io drawing sessions !

I missed none ! It was a pleasure to draw together with other talented people! The drawing session around Tristan was particularly stimulating!

The lady who drew the chibis of Isolde @loola-mch.

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Contrary to what one can believe Dahlia is not the only fairy to have this build, in the chapter 330, one can see a muscular fairy like him.

I think that Dahlia has personally trained to get his muscle mass and that before he gets definitive wings. The second of the fairies prefers the physical force, to the magic force. After Gloxinia joined the Ten Commanders, the fairy clan quickly needed a new king to defend the fairy forest and the sacred tree.

Dahlia must have certainly had more pressure on his shoulders than Harlequin when he was born. Perhaps building up his muscles was a way for him to get his awakened form faster, and prove his worth to his clan. However, even if it is not the question here, I think that he certainly had to relax the efforts after he got his awakened form, and that peace was established after the holy war. At least that's how I imagine it!

Bonus, a sketch of how I imagine Dahlia before his evolution.

So maybe...It's just a fairy king thing...

THIS IS NOW WHAT I NEED TO BE DOING RIGHT NOW

So, yesterday of the day before or something, I made a post about Gloxinia having weird fuckin' wings.

Now today, I'm designing an outfit for Harlequin's birthday tomorrow and so looking at refs to make sure it'd be a comfortable outfit, and...his wings are fuckin weird too...

but like the opposite way.

I talked about Gloxinia having high set wings, Harlequins are low. And there's an oddly large gap between the upper and lower sets?? What the fuck is it with these guys?! How am I supposed to design clothes for them!

gonna have to go look at the limited images of Dahlia to see if his wings are also fuckin weird!! Which I can already tell you they are because he only has two!

Not odd for a fairy thing, lot of fairies only have two, but he's the only fairly king to have that configuration for it counts as uncommon...

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Poor Dahlia. It must be said that Meliodas sold us a dream when he announced the color to Harlequin …

But...

I have to admit that even if I like this character a lot (charadesign included), his wings are one of the disappointments of Cursed by the Light (with the fact that at no time his relationship with Gerheade, when she is supposed to be his advisor, is discussed, but anyway-).

I want to believe that Suzuki was inspired by the wings of butterflies of the family Sphingidae, but… Again, these are butterflies with two pairs of wings.

(Hemaris thysbe)

I can understand that some naturalizations of insects can be confusing, but it's quite easy nowadays to compare pictures to each other to understand the anatomy.

It is all the more frustrating that the wings of some of the secondary fairy are more correct than those of the second fairy king.

So maybe...It's just a fairy king thing...

THIS IS NOW WHAT I NEED TO BE DOING RIGHT NOW

So, yesterday of the day before or something, I made a post about Gloxinia having weird fuckin' wings.

Now today, I'm designing an outfit for Harlequin's birthday tomorrow and so looking at refs to make sure it'd be a comfortable outfit, and...his wings are fuckin weird too...

but like the opposite way.

I talked about Gloxinia having high set wings, Harlequins are low. And there's an oddly large gap between the upper and lower sets?? What the fuck is it with these guys?! How am I supposed to design clothes for them!

gonna have to go look at the limited images of Dahlia to see if his wings are also fuckin weird!! Which I can already tell you they are because he only has two!

Not odd for a fairy thing, lot of fairies only have two, but he's the only fairly king to have that configuration for it counts as uncommon...

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It's true that the flower of Gerheade looks like cosmos, at least in the anime (and Grand Cross)! But when we look at the flowers that Nakaba Suzuki draws to decorate her hats, we could wonder if it is not another flower of the Asteraceae family, which is the source of her inspiration. Nakaba Suzuki has never given a definitive shape to the flower that decorates Gerheade's hat, the shape and the number of the peripheral florets, the size of the heart of the flower (the receptacle) changes from one chapter to another.

However despite these changes we remain on a capitula flower, a type of inflorescence that characterizes the flowers of the family Asteraceae (large family of Sunflowers, Daisy, Thistle, Dandelion, Cosmos etc.). Another thing that does not change the flower head is always surrounded by two to several rows of florets, (usually three rows of florets), the first row of florets is always smaller than the bottom rows.

And these characteristics are found in Gerbera, which also vary in number of florets, size of the flower head and number of rows. To be precise, the closest representation of Gerbera is the flower of chapter 298, chapter where Gerheade is highlighted and where Suzuki took more care to work the details of her flower and the flower of the cover of chapter 279.

Another thing I like about this theory is that the name of the flower is similar to her name, Gerheade/Gerbera, even though indeed it's quite different in Japanese: ゲラード for Gerheade, ガーベラ for Gerbera.

Bonus the two panels before Gerheade and Gloxinia meet: In the panel of Gloxinia we have three gerbera flying. And in Gerheade's panel we have a rose, similar to the one Gloxinia has in his bracelet during the festival of Vaizel.

Happy birthday, Gerheade! 🎉🎁🎂🎁🎉

This one's not late! :D

I really like Gerheade. She's a strangely important character to me. She has displayed some... extreme decision-making, but never anything I think is wholly unreasonable given her position on the matter. She's decisive and unwaveringly loyal, and honestly, I kinda look up to her for that. Loyalty means everything to me, and I wish I was more decisive myself. I tend to defer to others when asked to make a choice.

Here's the outfit design by itself to see the details and stuff better.

This design is -clearly, I hope- heavily inspired by cosmos flowers. That's because that's one of her representations. Everyone knows about fairies having the scent representation, but there's also frequently a secondary one, too. Helbram as a rose scent, but a sunflower visual, and Gloxinia's secondary is his name, for example. It was kinda hard to figure out what Gerheade's secondary was, cuz the flower on her hat looks a little generic. But that's cuz cosmos look generic! XD I do it's a cosmos from her default cosmetic in Grand Cross. The "cosmetic" tab in the "closet" is for hats and hairstyles, Gerheade's default cosmetic is called "Cosmos Pillbox". And while the version you get in the game is from before she was injured, the flower looks pretty much exactly the same so I have no reason to think it's a different species.

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Today is Gerheade's birthday!

It's not the drawing I had planned for this day but, I couldn't not post anything her birthday! So with a little advance here is the illustration which refers to the cover of the chapter 214 !

Now I want to redraw my old drawings from 2019, inspired by the same cover.

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It's May 1st! In France, we have a tradition on this day to offer a sprig of lily of the valley.

So for lack of being able to offer you a fresh sprig of lily of the valley, here is:

Gerheade and Gloxinia in a flowered costume.