Tag: Laero

Playing around with tattoo designs for Kradhi.

Laero are so big into spirit animals and nature spirits that I imagine they tattoo their kids to resemble the animal guides (hence her stripes and spots). They probably also use a lot of religious imagery but I don’t have religious symbols for Laer developed yet so that’s not there.

Her other arm is more bragging type. The chercov is the king of the animal world and that’s Kradhi’s spirit animal so naturally she’s gonna flaunt that. I want her right arm to be kind of like the Siberian Princess in tattoos except it’s all the animal spirits with the snowlion at the top.

Laero tattoos are actually scarification (usually done with a blade made from antler or bone) with ink made from norwood leaves rubbed into the wounds before they heal. So they’ll be blue/green/teal depending on the season the tattoos are done.

I’ll have to figure out the specifics later and also draw Retta’s tattoos as well. Which I think I’ve already done but Whatever.

Also just for Kaze she’s smiling, sort of. 🙂

Thinking about tattoos because Kradhi probably has at least a few. And I know Retta does as well. Neither of their cultures use metal though.

Probably for Kradhi it’s scarification with ink dumped into the wound (ow, but I know it happens…) and with Retta I think they probably use needles made of bone or something.

I gotta figure it out.

I think the Summer Brigade does something similar to Henna but Nelli’s been gone for a long time so she doesn’t have any anymore

Ok Retta doesn’t show up again until the others are already fighting so I’m going to take this opportunity to have her get the fuck out of dodge. Maybe Bozier tries to come on to her or something I don’t fucking know.

This is literally the hardest part so far of this story because What?

But I also don’t want to take it out because she doesn’t have very many scenes to begin with so there’s not a lot of ‘closure’ on her story and what she’s doing. Aaaaaaaaaaaa

lanonima:

I must have been in a hurry to get to the next scene because this is the only thing in this chapter lol.

Too bad I’ve actually been cutting out a lot of Retta’s scenes so this one will probably go too.

Why why why did I do this to myself? What kind of scene was this supposed to be? I’m just starting at this stupid chapter trying to figure out where I was going with this.

The last chapter about her (which I took out of this draft anyway) didn’t end very well so was this supposed to be her getting captured or something? A duel? And escape? When does Retta show up again? Not til the final battle I think. WHAT THE FUCK BRAIN. WHAT IS THIS.

Don’t tell the others but Kradhi is my favorite main character and Gheist is my favorite secondary character.

If you round it down to top three you probably end up with Kradhi, Seneria and Tanwen as the best MCs and Gheist, Retta and Saoirse as my favorite supporting characters.

Which is great because Kradhi and Saoirse share a lot of similarities (small feisty redheads that want to fight everything and also want to bang their exact opposite), Seneria and Retta share some too (rash, adventurous and manipulative princesses who get carried away with their ‘heroics’) and Tanwen and Gheist are also similar (traumatized losers who feel much more comfortable letting others make decisions than acting on their own) so you have a nice little thing going here.