so I worked on this piece to share with Leigh during tonight’s meet and greet but WHOOPS I only had sixty seconds and no screenshare capabilities so here it is instead!!!! my love letter to one of the greatest scenes in King of Scars
GRISHAVERSE BIG BANG 2021: When Good Loses Its Grip
Synopsis:After holding back Calamity Volcra for 100 years after the Great Calamity and defeating the monster alongside her trusty knight Dimitri, Leoni Hilli is back. With a spring in her step and a feeling of hope for the first time in a century, Leoni is feeling happy… of sorts.
There are mysteries to unfold, caves to explore, and dungeons to master. When Leoni and Dimitri stumble upon a book that contains the secrets of Hyrule’s creation, the descendant of the goddess Hylia and the triforce of courage must descend into the depths of an ancient civilisation in order to find the source of unearthly tension. There, a monster is revived, Dimitri changes, and Leoni is left facing a threat bigger than she ever imagined.
Forced to live the same day again and again, Nikolai must find a way to rid of himself of the predicament all the while trying to save their unit from the war. But the outcome of it was always the same—a death he can never seem to prevent.
Word count: 4148
Nine hundred and forty-seven.
Nikolai didn’t know why he hadn’t lost count yet. Day after day, new information was stored in his mind—the battle plan, the training and warnings, everything. But losing count never happened, and it was that many times the day of the invasion had been reset.
Nine hundred forty-seven times he woke up in that ship with his rank demoted to a Private. Nine hundred forty-seven times he saw the people he would be fighting with on the beach the next morning, but would never make it through. Nine hundred forty-seven times he died and lived the same day over and over.
And nine hundred and forty-seven times he had crossed paths with humanity’s Storm which was Zoya Nazyalensky.
Genya Safin was a minor character that I really liked in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy with a small Cameo in the SoC duology. She’s supposed to be in King of Scars too and I’m really looking foward to it!
I really enjoyed King of scars and I wanted to try my hand drawing something darker for Nikolai. Took me two tries but I managed to capture what I wanted. I’m definitely going to have to do a matching Zoya, she’s so flawless
Remember their slow-burnsss?? cuz I do, it’s like an addiction. Ohhhh it hurts so gooddd BURN me alive. Damn I will never forget, I will never forgive what they do to me ☝ They are the best. They are superior both— individually and as a couple. No one’s doing it like them. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH ☝
- Nik tries to hide and avoid his feelings for Zoya in the entire book: Is this love?
- Me about to throw the book every time I read their interaction: it’s obvious, you dumbass.
my bookcon haul!! it’s certainly not as many books as last year, but I would consider it more of a success cause instead of wandering around aimlessly I actually had books that I knew I wanted to get - if you want to here more about my haul you should totally check me out on youtube orrrrrrr, if you want to nab that extra copy of king of scars, check out my insta cause I’ll be posting the giveaway for that soon! (both of those handles are @ oliviaslibrary)
I absolutely adore @lbardugo‘s GrishaVerse and I’m so excited for Rule of Wolves and the upcoming Shadow and Bone show so I made some fancy eggs to celebrate!
