I’ve seen a few comments about wanting to see what Kotallo looks like without his paint and armor, so I did my best (while blushing the whole time lol). I think I’m pretty pleased with the result, although he looks so bare, it’s kind of weird!
I got so fixated on this for like a week that I made myself physically ill in my pursuit of,,,, well, not this lol, but *lies facedown on the floor* I really need to do something else now
[ID: A digital painting of Daniil Dankovsky in rumpled shirt, open waistcoat and pants, clutching a broken bottle of bright red panacea that is dripping down onto the floorboards, while the other hand tries to half-heartedly push away an executor (with feathers instead of cloak). The one visible eye of the executor glows bright orange and illuminates Dankovsky, and it holds his upper body up from his hospital bed by the neck, while the other pale, skeletal hand is in the process of closing his eyes; one remains open through it’s claws, and stares desperately at the cure slipping through his fingers. His legs are tangled up in a bedsheet. The scene is backlit in blue by the constellations through a window. \END ID]
i’m literally years behind but i feel like there’s an implicit threat whenever fjord wakes up from one of uk’otoa’s dreams, choking on sea water. as if the god is saying “remember where you were when I decided to save you. it’d be so easy for me to drag you under once more.”
and then there’s fjord vomiting gallons of water after the greater restoration. the water never got removed from his lungs after he drowned. it was just suppressed. uk’otoa never saved fjord from drowning. he made sure that fjord kept drowning, but was unaware of it.
