me, starting Captive Prince: oh dear, her name is Jokaste? this is not very promising.
me, in the middle of Captive Prince: oh God, Jokaste is PREGNANT?
me, at the end of King’s Rising: they don’t know if Jokaste’s child is Damen’s or Kastor’s? a lot of really messed up things have happened in this series, but at this point, as long as neither Damen nor Kastor end up ALSO being Jokaste’s son, I’ll take it as a win.
me: the bar is on the ground.
me, at the end of the trilogy: as fvcked up as this was, nobody actually produced a child with their other child or their parent, so that’s a plus? I think?
This is a re-post of a revised version of this art. A couple of people have pointed out that Damen looked too white, which was a fair point, so I wanted to revise it.
Damen actually started out much darker when I first began drawing, but I got too wrapped up in the act of drawing itself, as well as adjusting for overall colour balance etc. that I didn’t even notice the end result until Anon pointed it out! Definitely a case of needing to take a step back from my own work than anything intentional. As someone with an Asian heritage, whitewashing is the last thing I’d do. Hope that clears everything!
….in Damen’s mind’s eye he would have found him a little older, sixteen or seventeen, old enough that Damen’s nineteen-year-old self could have begun, with all the exuberance of youth, to court him.
first time drawing Captive Prince so ofc i had to draw tween Laurent and Damen because i’m trash for cheesy high school AUS especially canon ones as @loooreleii so gloriously pointed outinthis text post i have no excuses also lol those backgrounds were a pain
The idea is to have composer!Damen and singer!Laurent reluctantly working together (and then form romance coughs) Thank you @winmance for indulging me!!
Once or twice before, he had thought about this moment. In his most private thoughts, he’d imagined it happening with the two of them alone together. He hadn’t imagined it like this, the private made public, and painful. He didn’t have Laurent’s ability to hurt with what mattered most.
I did this Captive Prince sketch a long time ago ! But I lined it on Procreate last week at the convention and I coloured it and… I’m so happy with the result ! It’s probably from the beginning of their relationship, where Damen could have killed Laurent asap haha !
of the last 24 hours, i have spent 4 sleeping and the remaining 20 reading all three captive prince books (and summer palace), so, you know, here we are, i guess
Capri Week Day 2: Freedom / “I think before you came, he didn’t really trust anyone.”
“He looked at the gleam of the gold where Guerin placed it, halved, on the workbench. […] It drew him forward and he touched it. It was still warm from the skin of his neck, like it was part of him.”
Captive Prince Reverse Big Bang 2019 - @capri-bigbang2k19 Laurent/Damianos, G, completed, 20k tags: merman!laurent, blacksmith!damen, demigod!damen,
“Hello?” he calls and the singing abruptly stops, the last cut-off note echoing off the rocks around him before they too fade into nothing. “Are you alright?” he tentatively calls, his voice thick, and receives nothing in answer but the sorrowful tune still rings in his ears. He sighs, looking away from the cliff side and down at his one submerged foot. He swings it from side to side in small figure eight motions, watching as the waves distort the shape of his foot and the fit of his sandal.
“I know how you feel.” He says quietly to the sea air, wiping his tears away with the heel of his palm.
“Do you?” A voice asks back and he startles so badly he loses his balance and falls off the boulder he’s been sitting on and into the ocean. When his head breeches the water it’s to the sound of laughter echoing off the cliffs around them – and to the sight of glittering blue eyes. “I apologize for startling you.”
Gills, webbed and pointed ears. The haunting singing from before. A tail.
“You… You’re–” He can’t make himself say it. It’s impossible. Isn’t it?
“A Veretian?” The man says, his speaking voice just as melodic as his singing voice.
Here is my entry for the Captive Prince Big bang 2k19! ( @capri-bigbang2k19) it took a long time to finish and I am super sorry for the delay but I am super happy about how this came out in the end!
While doing this I got to work with the amazing @exalted-one who wrote and amazing fic to accompany this piece:
