Saints, The Big Mood

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🎥 Case 4 — The Heist 🕵🏽 Writing Detective Charly Lee — @charlythelee

Our second heist writer is Mod Charly, so get ready for lots of puns and spirited banter ~

📌 Excerpt from "Of Sprites, Spite and the Kingfisher" (on Ao3)

The Torch Carrier—Child of the Pyre, Child of Death

(yes, more Royalty/Fantasy AU Suga art—so sue me 😤 and apologies for the abysmal gif quality)

-> ATKB Masterpost

(and once again this is gonna be some massive spoiler for anyone actually reading this AU, but like... pls, I can't stop myself)

The Crossed Torches are an old symbol for a gateway to the realm of the dead. Karasuno in particular has a deep connection to death and its manifestation—The Angel of Death, Azrael.

Once every blue moon, the angel, who has no permanent physical form in the realm of the living, chooses to take hold in a human who then becomes their vessel. The vessel provides their body and their soul as new habitat for the angel and offers themselfe as tool for the angel should they decide to take action in the corporeal world—whenever they act, angels usually choose to modify the body of their vessel to reminiscent their ethereal form. In return for hosting the angel, the vessel can use its power and call favors from the entity.

Suga was offered as a vessel by his father, in the hopes of Areal being able to cure his sickness. Not knowing the details and conditions of vesselship, Suga accepted in the hopes of now being able to die. However, it did neither what he nor his father wanted, as vessel ship is a soul-bond under the protection of mother fate and made his live her property (so that fate alone could influence it—he can neither take his live nor can Azrael prolong it). Since then their relationship has been rocky. At first, Suga was angry at Azrael for deceiving him but eventually came to the realization that he now had to make the best of the situation—from there on he quickly learned how to call upon the angel's powers, for example by reassembling the spirits of authors of rare books and make them help him reconstruct their works, translate them from their original languages or teach him in their field of expertise. Over time, Suga has gradually grown into his role as vessel and managed to find a harmonious co-existence with the universe-shaping entity making snarky comments inside his soul. The only things they repeatedly clash over is Azrael's increasing interest in Natsu (and Daichi's adamant dislike of the entity, although Suga is more annoyed with Azrael for teasing his husband than angry).

2020 was kind of a mediocre year!? Like I experimented a lot with textures, brushes and layer modes in shading and lighting especially and I really like what I created but it doesn’t feel like I’ve had any major break-throughs unlike the last years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, if you are interested in my art you can either visit me on DeviantArt as CharlyLee or on the Arts&OCs Amino as Charly Lee OR you can have a peek at my art tag #charleedraws OR check out the single pieces here on Tumblr ~

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And while I know that 2020 technically isn’t over yet, I have decided to quit art for now, since I have a hell of a lot of writing to finish and also exams to prepare for, so I’d still like to wish you all a merry rest of the year and let’s hope that 2021 will be a better year or at the very least less of a clusterf*ck!

I had the absolute pleasure of working with @vwritesaus on their Pokémon AU for the @hqbb 2021 and draw some Biceps King Iwa with gang ~

[left to right: Kangaskhan, Venusaur (with a Japanese pieris back), The Man The Myth The Legend, Arcanine, Ferligatr, Primeape, Garchomp]

© Art made by me, concept by V

["Press Start" on Ao3] | [Oikawa&Milotic Comic]

My second collaboration with @vwritesaus for the @hqbb ~ This scene is from chapter 3 of their amazing Pokemon AU and I had a ton of fun going bonkers on the sunset VibeZ XD

© Art made by me, concept by V

["Press Start" on Ao3] | [Iwa Team Lineup]

My fic for @spyxangst. It's still available for download too: https://luhua.itch.io/spyxangst Check out all the good stuff here!

Okay so basically I have two ways to approach this.

On that is just me being a petty sucker for love and the other a little more… scientific.

So what if we had them going all the way to ‚properly‘ - which I just assume is kissing and/or sex.

For one Kaz shows that he is starting to work on his trauma by holding hands with Inej at the end of CK.

And Inej with her backstory at the menagerie it‘s like: Bruh, don‘t get me started on how she must feel about sex!

So they both just start to tackle their individual problems slowly, which is absolutely fine (and possibly leaves room for a third book).

But they are just so darn hecking cute together I want them too smooch for pete's sake!

(As I said I just am sucker for love in a well developed story)

And so, the let us say ‚scientific‘ reason I think they are ‚only‘ holding hands at the end of CK (appart from a possible third book) isn‘t Kaz character but Inej.

Kaz is shown in his flashback scenes that he actually tried before to live without the gloves (with that other girl, sorry I forgot her name, that he was collecting fight bets with). He just choose not to, because working through his trauma was getting in the way of business and that was simply more important to him and his big revenge scheme. So I think if Leigh had just started to ‚rehabilitate‘ Kaz just a little earlier in the books she could have comfortably made him confident enough to go out ‚properly‘ with Inej by the end.

And that is why I think It‘s actually about her and her past as prostitute.

Idk how to explain this but at least to me, Inej might be trying to work through her history but even close to the end she is still terrified by the menagerie.

She is not like Kaz, who sort of choose to just go along with his trauma, she is still somewhat in it‘s thrall.

So that will just take a lot more time to unravel and she is only just beginning with it.

Sure she stuck her middle finger into Tante Heleens face but isn‘t that the exact reason why she wants to be a pirate and fight? To work her way through the trauma?

To become stronger? Strong enough she can leave the nightmares of the menagerie behind once and for all?

So in conclusion

*Clears throat after typing a lot of probably unnecessary explanation that got kinda of topic at the end*

Leaving aside my petty desires and also I my imminent need a Wesper/Kanej double date because fu** you, that is my jam!

*nervous sweating*

I don‘t think it would have been realistic for Inej to make that step, even at the end of CK.

Which is just a too long explanation of: I want it, even though it definitely doesn‘t fit into the novel!!

So I am glad Leigh didn‘t actually let them get together ‚properly‘ - and here come my big big hope - yet.

(Even though it would have been just so cute *silent sobbing*)

Also @arin-saintsforsakencity - no problemo ;)

Oh man so a couple days ago I met a high school teacher who had read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom and she had the coldest fucking take I’ve ever heard despite being otherwise a very smart, sensitive person. I knew she had read them and I was so excited to talk about my close readings of metaphor and subversion/reinforcement of racial tropes and all the other stuff I’ve never quite managed to type up. So I asked her what she thought. And she said.

She said that she wished Kaz and Inej had been able to “properly” get together at the end of CK and I almost choked on my fucking orange soda. I’ve never been so let down by a literary opinion in my entire life.

I managed to argue with her a little but her heart wasn’t as in it as mine was. I’m so disappointed. So yeah if you hold this same bad opinion, this is an open invitation to hash it out with me.

ArtFight attack for @bioluminescent-bat ~

Love drawing birds with cool hairdos 💕

I am very happy to announce the release of my Daisuga Big Bang 2024 fic, "Danza Della Morte," in collaboration with the magnificent artist @charlythelee and my beta @mxs1nister!!!

Note the tags please, and do check out the rest of the bang fics that can be found HERE...