We Are So Close, People- Only The Shadows/light Sources... (plus, I Will Make Qs Skin A Bit Darker. I

We are so close, people- only the shadows/light sources... (plus, I will make Qs skin a bit darker. I changed the background to a white tone and now his skin looks much lighter than on the old background, rrrr--)

this is a WIP! I have been busy with work and today was my birthday, so I couldn't really finish it but I hope to finish it later on!!

I have to work on the expressions. My autistic brain...struggles...with facial expressions.

Original is by @techutones (hopefully this is the right one, I will double check afterwards)

Not sure if I will ever manage to finish the lil Kallamar fic I had planned and started for months at this point. But I still wanna share the idea.

Basically, Kallamar was supposed to be a very sickish child. Would get sick easily, was very fragile and sensitive. His mom would take care of him and try to keep him safe.

At some point he would start hearing a voice, nobody else seemed to hear. Following it outside the borders of the village at some point...finding the blue crown, which would whisper so softly and welcoming, as to not scare the child.

Time forward, the crown would keep the squid healthy and he could also keep the people of his village safe...despite the crown wanting expansion, claiming to having the cure to all pestilence. As much as the cause of it.

The fic would end with people obviously dying from old age, Kallamar wanting the crown to help his mother but all it has to say is "That is no curse, nor sickness, young God, this is age and death which will come for all mortals eventually."

Kallamar would stay at the dead and empty village for a while, till Shamura finds him.

Aka, I wanted to give a bit of more depth to Kallamars fear of death.

Here is the final product! As I said, I am still working on drawing emotions better and am struggling with facial expressions, so please dont be too harsh :3

The credit for the original idea goes to @techutones !

fyi if we’re mutuals you have full consent to be as feral as you want in asks and dms

Oh god. Exactly. I love my silly little guys, they were never meant to be "big bad guys" :c

They are just living their life, trading and building their own little world, leave them alone-

you can have them back when you learn to fucking respect them as the funky lil neutral guys they are

I know that there are many interpretations of the dialogues that the bishops give you in the game. But I will be honest. Shamuras final dialogue at the temple, just made me gain more sympathy for Narinder.

It's not that it was Narinders great plan to make sure that no other Bishop will gain followers or that all of them starve without devotion. He simply found a way, a way encouraged by Shamura at first, to give followers an escape from death. Believing that mortals can serve him longer. Be of use even after they die.

And genuinely, for me, Shamuras dialogue just made them seem scared and jealous. It wasn't rational thinking that gave them the idea to lock Narinder up. It was the fear that most followers would choose Narinder.

And it didn't even seem like the other bishops saw it the same way?

At least with Kallamar it was that he neither cared much for Narinders "popularity" nor for Shamuras explanation. He followed Shamura out of "cowardness". (Or well...I guess, it can also be the logic off "if I am with Narinder, I am against Shamura, which means that everyone will be against me and I will be locked up too")

So...this really made me feel bad for Narinder-

Since it was literally not stated that it was Narinders intention to leave all of the other bishops forgotten. But it was surely their intent with Narinder.

Plus...Narinder not even wanting to tell his part? In the imprisonment he did seem to want to talk about his siblings and their betrayal quite a lot.

But not when he returns as a follower...is it fear or simple acceptance? I wish I could know.