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ITS THE FACT THEY STILL HOLD HANDS EVEN WHEN JAMIL SWITCHES TO LEONA’S LEFT 😭😭🙌

YOU HAVE SUCH AN EYE FOR DETAIL

Little details make everything :3

I can't claim I always do those things, but hand placement or little details like changing the side with which you carry a bag when you walk alongside someone is important. It shows thoughtless care, which is the cutest, most important show of silent love to me.

The Videograph & the Photograph

Haven't gotten to draw those past couple days, so I'm out of Twst for now.

Enjoy some more of my OC in the meantime.

Kinda curious as to how Jamil successfully escaped the Asims 👀 in a sense, since his servant role was so important

The "trade" went surprisingly well. Jamil isn't too sure how to feel about it tho.

I feel like Leona is very good at geopolitics despite not liking it. He would've found a way to convince the Asims to let their precious servant elope with him. Plus the current Scalding Sands Head Ambassador is getting senile, someone should definitely take their place. Everybody gets a juicy share of the cake.

But... that's Leona's point of view about the situation. If you ask someone else...

Who knows if the Asims let Jamil go for economic and political purpose, or simply because they decided to be gracious for his years of good work. Jamil would probably have an easier time believing the former version.

"Infinitely cooler"? PLEASE YOU WERE ALREADY TOO COOL FOR ME TO HANDLE I COULDN'T STOP MYSELF FROM DRAWING?!

May I present...

Me at renfaire, made infinitely cooler by @mellosdrawings - I am in awe???

LIKE. Holy shit?? They just. Doodled this. I lose my mind every time I see it. This is what happens when two people who are passionate about character design become friends. Merci pour l'arte, mon ami! 💖

If you enjoy fine art, especially of the TW variety, give them a follow! We're currently collabing on an illustrated fic, too! See my pinned post for details.

(Also check out this SICK polearm I brought home from renfaire)

I AM IN LOVE.

Can we know more about Kinga? She's so butc- I mean pret - I mean step on m - I mean DAMNIT!!! You know what I mean.

Hahaha yeah xD

Kinga is a guard at Sunset Savanah palace. She's been friends with Imani (Falena's wife) for a very long time and has been her personal bodyguard for years.

She's had a fling with Leona when they were young teens but between him running away to NRC and her duties, it never went anywhere. When he graduated from school they became friends again (though with Leona now having two boyfriends they never flirted again). She has been appointed as Leona's bodyguard a few times.

After Leona's wedding, Leona came to her to ask about helping him get a biological kid. She was off duty due to injury (a few broken bones, nothing major) and agreed to it. Since Koffi's birth she became her nanny when she's not busy doing bodyguard duties for Imani. Koffi considers her more like her close aunt than her actual mother, but the two are still very close and spend a lot of time together.

Kinga is regularly invited to family dinners (involving both Falena's and Leona's sides of the family). She is close to everybody there, but she does get along the best with Leona, Imani, and Jamil.

She's strong headed, stubborn, and unapologetic. A real fierce lioness whose claws and fangs are particularly sharp. She will do anything to protect her wards and is very duty oriented.

She has a soft spot for hamsters and she knits and does bead work in her free time. Her favorite flowers are Chinese lanterns (Physalis alkekengi) though she doesn't really like the taste of their fruits.

(And tho nobody asked here's some more of Imani)

Je pose innocemment ça là, et je retourne bosser 😌

Rakiah, oh Rakiah, essaierais-tu de me tuer par hasard?

(Hehe short Jamil. AND N2 SQUAD IN THE WILD ONCE MORE YAY!!!)

"Let me be the one to protect you."

(Consequences part 2: Facing the Asims)

I have... so many feelings about this theme.

Listen. Listen. We all know it's Jamil's job to protect Kalim. But we never talk about the (few) times Kalim is the one protecting Jamil.

There are usually no consequences to the boys overblotting and trying to murder everybody destroying everything, but Jamil actually had some consequences (his dormmates losing trust in him and wanting him gone, and all that).

With just this glimpse of damage control Kalim did, we can more or less guess all the other kind of damage control Kalim did to protect Jamil. He didn't just defend him from their dormmates, he also most likely defended him from both their families. By liying surely. Kalim doesn't lie about anything (but maybe he does omit when it comes to his own sense of mortality), so the fact that Jamil suffered no consequences from their families despite having attempted murder on his own master means Kalim actively brushed it all under the carpet and pretended everything was fine. And that's his whole personality isn't it? To pretend everything is fine.

I just... I loved this tiny glimpse of Kalim's protectiveness. Glory to the Sunshine.

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I was curious about name meanings and had to ask after I looked it up..

Was Koffi actually born on a Friday or is she named after the drink?

Koffi is born on a friday yes! In Jamil's mind though it is definitely about coffee.

Is Leona a good dancer, or is he just basic?

He's a decent dancer. As a prince he's been taught a handful of dances (waltz and other traditional kenyan dances (Isukuti or Mwomboko maybe?)) to attend political events and balls, but he doesn't particularly likes it. He'd rather stand to the side and munch on appetizers.

Though if Jamil and Vil ask nicely enough he can be prompted into waltzing with them every once in a while.

(If you wanna see a bunch of dance moves from all over the world, you can check ed.people on Insta. He has excellent shorts!)

NEW CHAPTER IS UP!!

I'm late to the party for this one, oops. As usual, little spoiler art under the cut:

New Fic Collab!

If any of you have been following @mellosdrawings and their Loser/N2 Squad art, this fic is for you! Mello and I have been working on this project together for a while, and we're currently 44K words and several dozen illustrations deep - though we're far from done! All the same, we've agreed to start uploading slowly while we work on the back end.

Without further ado...

An illustrated N2 Squad fanfic, by me (words) and Mello (art)!

Enjoy!! There's plenty more to come!

Who out of the N2 squad gets sick/ill the most?

Jamil without a doubt. Vil has a proper care of his body and Leona rests a lot, but Jamil is always overworked and stressed. He'd be the one to catch stuff the easiest just because he's always tired. And then he'd refuse to rest so he'd just make his condition worse. Jamil would be a terrible patient.

Vil comes second because he also tends to overwork himself. And just like Jamil he'd be a terrible patient because he'd want to do something and keep the grind going.

Leona probably is the kind who gets sick once in a blue moon, but when he's sick it's the end of the world and he needs to go to the hospital.

All in all, none of them gets sick that frequently, but Jamil is sure to get sniffles whenever winter hits.

"They'll grow back."

"Our wings."

"Our trust."

"Our love."

"They'll all grow back."

"Let's take our time."

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Flight in Tandem

"And they grew back, as promised."

"And we flew together, as promised."

"And we'll fly again and again and again,"

"I promise."

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Alternate versions under the cut

Don't tell Cheka or he'll never stop bothering Leona about it.

(Plus Leona has huge big brother energy with Savanaclaw and I won't be convinced otherwise)

"We were always together"

And we will always be.

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The End

So uh... the Wings series is finished?

I don't know what to do with myself lol

I'll start a new Twst OCs series soon, just something chill and hopefully funny, but first I would like to know a little thing:

If I printed the Wings Series into a booklet with bonus illustrations/poems/drabbles + some more lore explanations, would you consider buying it?

Thanks for your time, and thanks for following me through that whole series o/ Love y'all!

Wings Series Masterpost

Tags: Wings!AU, Jamil/Kalim, hurt/comfort, angst with happy ending, a lot of content warnings so view to your own discretion

1. "It is what it is" (cw: blood, self harm, gore)

2. A habit inherited from parents (cw: blood, gore, knife wounds)

3. "If you don't let me keep my wings, I'm gonna make my own" (cw: blood)

4. Like a butterfly (cw: needles/pins)

5. Heartfelt gift (cw: blood, stitches, botched surgery)

6. Bittersweet memory (no content warning)

7. The scorpion and the frog (no content warning)

8. "Sometimes my wings feel too heavy" (cw: blood, hanging)

9. "You'll protect her, won't you?" (cw: implied harm)

10. A breakdown (cw: blood, gore, violence)

11. "Lend me your wings so I can feel the sun on my skin" (no content warning)

12. "I would've given them to you if I only knew" (cw: blood)

13. "Please show me the consequences of my own (in)actions" (cw: scars)

14. "Let me be the one to protect you" (no content warning)

15. "They'll grow back" (no content warning)

16. Flight in tandem (no content warning)

17. "We were always together" (no content warning)

Others:

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CAN WE PLEASE KNOW WHAT KIND OF WINGS JAMIL HAS NOW?! 😭😭😭

Pretty pretty please? With a pretty feather on top?

🪶🥺

Dear Gods, friends, you really want to know, uh?

Right here is Kalim's wings model, which are indeed Macaw parrot's wings. I wanted something very colorful for him, that immediately catches the eyes, but without any actual gold.

And here are my two references for Jamil's wings. The first is (white tail) eagle's wings, who are known to have an impressive wingspan. Plus making Jamil a bird of prey seemed fitting.

The second reference (for his colors) is the Anqa, which is the Arabian phenix. There are not many depictions of it though, so my reference below is actually the Fenghuang, which is the Chinese equivalent.

And here is their wingspan difference:

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THE KIND WORDS AND FOLLOWING THIS SERIES TILL THE END! LOVE YOU!!

Question? Do you have any genderbend ideas for vil, leona, and jamil? Love your art btw

I have a couple posts HERE and HERE, and will probably add a new link in the pinned post because I plan to draw some more of them.

For now, here's a new illustration.

Also for fem!JamRuggie... maybe some day x) I have some ideas for Ruggie but I need to find 10 minutes to do it :'D

Me whenever I find N2 or Wings fanarts in which I have not been tagged:

LET ME GIVE YOU MY LOVE GUYS! I PROMISE I DON'T BITE!