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Abbil No More

[[ One of the sweetest elements of The Sellswords trilogy is how Jarlaxle would refer to Artemis as, “my abbil”, more frequently than he would refer to him by name. The charm of this moniker comes from both the fact that it is an exclusive nickname that Jarlaxle uses, and that it’s in Jarlaxle’s native tongue. As such, the gesture of adopting and almost exclusively using “my abbil” for Artemis contributes a lot to the sense of intimacy of their relationship, however one might interpret it.

It occurred to me that we haven’t seen Jarlaxle call Artemis “my abbil” for a long time, nor have we seen the word, “abbil”, at all for a while. I didn’t realize how long it’s been until I went through all the books from Glacier’s Edge back to The Companions. Abbil does not appear at all in any of the 12 books except for one occurrence in Starlight Enclave:

It is sad that Jarlaxle no longer addresses Artemis as, “my abbil”, but it’s sadder that he’s not addressing anyone with it, not Zaknafein nor Kimmuriel either. He certainly could, and would be within his rights to address any of them as, “my abbil”, but it’s as though the phrase has been totally purged from his brain. 

I can only make conjectures as to why this has happened. Perhaps the level of unintended male/male intimacy when that phrase was being employed was too much for RAS. Perhaps there’s some overarching plot involving Jarlaxle distancing himself from other characters that we’ve yet to see. Perhaps Jarlaxle is experiencing PTSD from how his affections were so rejected the last time that he regularly used that phrase. Or perhaps RAS simply forgot the existence of the phrase despite the many times he wrote “my abbil” during The Sellswords. 

Whatever the reason, there’s been a growing sense of distance and artificiality between the characters with each new book, and the absence of terms of endearment/familiarity only furthers those rifts. ]]

Drow can't live in peace

I started reading the Archmage and here's what I think about it all.

Let's wish Jarlaxle strong nerves so as not to tear off the psionicist's ear

Drizzt's cheerful family

At Do'Urden House, other family members rarely argued with Zaknafein. Everyone knew that diplomacy was not the weapons master's forte.

P.S. Dinin is a charming asshole

Kimuriel's Incredible Party

Sometimes I'm a little Kimmuriel too

Welcome to my family, my love.

I wondered if there could be something in a foreign culture that is not obvious to another culture? I think Drizzt is saying here: I thought you understood everything right away.

P.S. one drow is good, many drow are fun

Inktober 2023

I'm not sure I should participate in this. It seems like a responsibility to myself, but why not try to test my skills.

Inktober 2023, day 1. Dreams

What are you dreaming about?

Inktober 2023, day 2. Spiders

Inktober 2023, day 3. Path

Inktober 2023, day 4. Dodge

Inktober 2023, day 5. Map

P.S: Sorry, Diatryma ran off to investigate

Charismatic psion

When you did something wrong and pretended to be a bunny

Sad Jarlaxle

Winter Is Coming

Take care of warm sweaters for your drow

pre-holiday bustle in the Mithril Hall

keep your cats safe from Christmas trees

Holiday Traditions

Give up, Zak, she's very persistent.

pattern with Christmas mood

P.S. I decided to try the chibi style in drawing. It was fun to draw these little legs ^.^

Who will be Santa?

No, Zaknafein, those around you are not crazy. These are just such traditions on the surface.

Jarlaxle, you are irresistible, keep up the good work

I'm still learning to draw

I haven't posted drawings here for a long time because I didn't draw drow, but now I'm drawing a series with drow (and weird humor). I hope that the drawing courses benefited me and I will publish drawings here soon.

How can mermay and drow be united?

Dialogue somewhere in Luskan.

Yvonnel: So, I found an interesting book and I'm going to take a vacation to study it.

Gromph: What?! You can't give up everything like that! You have a lot of responsibilities! Wait, what book is this?

Y: The Ancient Magic of Transformation, by W. Disney.

G: Very strange runes, better give it to me.

Y: No, but you can study it with me on vacation.

G: This can be very dangerous magic.

Y: Come on, what could go wrong?