Rhythm of Affirmation (part two – part one is here)
Renarin finds himself a sought-after bachelor after all. It’s a fruitless endeavour, ladies. Aaah, the fluff. A particular shoutout and thanks to the lovely people on the Bridge Four discord server for helping fine tuning the dialogue Finding ways to depict rhythms is an interesting challenge, especially with RoW and more listener and singer POVs in mind :)
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[ID: Page 9 / Five panels Upper row left: Renarin staring at the floor in front of him: „Brightness Jaral this time.“ Upper row middle: Close-up of his face „Alt feels like it is getting worse.“ Upper row right: Close-up of Renarin’s hands. His left hand’s fingernails are digging into the back of his right hand. „Adolin saved me, but then even he was joking that … now that he was married…“ Lower row left: zoom out to Renarin, head and hunched up shoulders. He is blushing in his cheeks and ears „I too could…choose…“ Lower row right: Rlain’s face side glancing at him with a light amused expression, a white line implying the rhythm he is humming audibly.
Page 10 / 5 panels Upper left panel: Rlain is visible cut off in the foreground. Renarin is looking at him angrily still scratching the back of his hand: „That is not funny!“ Upper right panel: Rlain: “You’re right. I’m sorry.“ He gently takes Renarin’s right wrist in his own hand. Middle panel: close-up of Renarin’s right hand in Rlain’s. The scratches are visible on the back of his hand. Rlain is lightly caressing it with his thumb. The light carapace on the back of his hand and fingers sets itself off against his dark skin. Rlain: „Did she press the matter that much?“ Lower left panel: Renarin is holding his head with his free hand: „No, but she was really direct. Even suggested that we… could be…“ Lower right panel: slight zoom in on him. He looks dismayed and a bit horrified „…intimate.“
Page 11 / 6 panels Upper left panel: Rlain and Renarin are silently sitting next to each other. Rlain is amiably watching his friend while Renarin absentmindedly fidgets with one of Rlain’s carapaced fingers. Upper right panel: Rlain: „Does the though of someone wanting to mate with you repel you that much?“ Middle left panel: Renarin looks at Rlain, taken aback. „What? No!“ Middle right panel: He glances to the side in confused frustration. „Yes?“ Lower left panel: „Not with someone acting like her!“ Lower right panel: Renarin sighs and lets his head hang.
Page 12 / 7 panels Upper left panel: Again they sit in silence. Rlain still watching while Renarin plays with one of his fingers. Upper right panel: close-up of Renarin glancing down at their hands. Middle left panel: close-up of Renarin’s index finger tracing along the rim of the carapace on the back of Rlain’s hand. Middle center panel: Renarin’s face looking down again. His face seems a bit wistful. Middle right panel: Both hands, Renarin’s ishovering above Rlain’s palm, softly touching here and there. lower left panel: Renarin dares a glance upward to Rlain, his blush returning. Lower right panel: Rlain and Renarin sitting next to each other, Renarin turned his flushed face away from Rlain with an almost pouty expression. Rlain states attuned to amusement: „You are making a lot of funny faces right now.“
Page 13 / 5 panels Three panels upper row: Renarin seems to collect his thoughts and his courage. He looks away from Rlain: „For a partner I’d rather…“ he cautiously glances back towards Rlain „… have someone I can easily talk to.“ Two lower panels: They silently stare at each other. Then Rlain jaw drops, as the implication seeps in. Renarin pulls away his hand from Rlain’s and calls defensively „Now you’re the one making a funny face!“
Page 14 / 4 panels Upper panel: Rlain grabs Renarin’s hand again, taking it in both his own and talks to Peace: „I am just surprised“. Renarin sits huddled, staring downwards, but his body is facing is listener friend. Lower three panels: Renarin stares at him with wide eyes. Rlain slowly guides Renarin’s hand towards his neck, placing it on a piece of carapace that sits on the height of his throat.
Page 15 / 4 panels Upper left panel: soft curvy lines in the background depict a lively rhythm coming from where Renarin’s hand is placed. With half-closed eyes he is trying to read the rhythm under his fingertips. Upper right panel: Suddenly he seem to have found the meaning of what Rlain was attuning to and looks directly at him, his face full of excitement and surprise. Lower panel: They both smile broadly at each other. Below is a small, horizontal title card: „Rhythm of Affirmation“]
Rhythm of Affirmation (part one of two, part two is here)
The time felt right for some more Rlainarin fluff, so please excuse (or join me in) my indulgence
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Comic of eight pages in warm oranges and cool browns Page 1 / two panels
Upper panel:. We see Rlain’s back as he approaches Rock standing next to big caldron handing out stew to a woman in a Windrunner uniform (a long flaring coat with a bread cloth belt). On some table next ti them bowls are stacked and Rock’s oldest son is handling something in a a large bowl. Next to him a solder in the normal Kholin (dark trousers and a shorter tight fitted jacket) uniform is picking something from the table. In the back big steps of stone are occupied by other soldiers, leisurely eating and chatting.Rock calls out to Rlain: „Rlain! Isn’t Renarin with you today?“ Lower panel: Rlain (he also wears the old Kholin uniform with a bridge four patch on the shoulder) picks up one of the bowls: „No. He has to attend a lighteyes thing.“ (The lines going towards his speech bubbles are drawing rhythmic waves) To his right Rock’s son is happily kneading bread dough.
Page 2 / four panels Upper left: Close of Rock filling the bowl. „You know I am glad I send hin to you that day on the plateau.“ Upper right: Rlain is receiving the bowl, taking it with both hands, looking down at it. Rock: „ I did not expect the to of you to become such good friends.“ Lower left and right: Rlain looks up: „We just find it easy to talk to each other.“„Both of us…“ He hesitates and glances to the side (his speech bubble line becoming less regular and more insecure) „… weird.“
Page 3 / 3 panels Upper panel: zoom out, we see a bit more of the room and its structure. The big stone steps surrounding the floor in a circular fashion. In the back is the entrance, a large open stone arch. Large tripods holding bowls with fire are placed here and there although the scenery is lit fairly light. Rock laughs: „Ah, everyone is weird in their own way. All those airsick lowlanders? Even up here? Still very weird.“ Lower left: close up to Rock’s face as he glances down at a black shock of black hair passing him. „Especially this one.“ Lower right: Slight zoom out. Rock is grinning down at Lopen, a big hand on his shoulder. Lopen wears a Windrunner uniform holding a cup and a bowl in his hands. He looks up at Rock over his shoulder and asks „what?“
Page 4 / 2 panels Upper panel showing Rlain, Rock and Lopen. Rlain looks at Lopen with his rather expressionless face and says: „You’re weird Lopen.“ Lower panel: The same frame as the upper panels but now Open grins smugly and answers: „A well-honed skill.“ Rock grins at this. Rlain just stares.
Page 5 / 3 panels Upper panel: Rock and Rlain watching Lopen falling horizontally out of the right side of the frame. From the bowl in his hands spill some droplets of stew. Middle panel: Rock shouts „Don’t spill my stew! It is good!“ after him, while Rlain shuffles away to the left .Lower panel: We see Rock in the background standing behind his caldron, calling to Rlain walking away in the foreground: „And you! Just because he is not here doesn’t mean you have to loom alone in the corner. This is Bridge Dour, and you a part of it!“ Rlain answers: „Yes. Yes.“ In the background we see utensils on the table, the soldiers on the stairs and several tripods with bowls of fire.
Page 6 / 5 Panels A series of images showing Rlain eating his stew alone (a scribe and a female Windrunner chat in the back at the highes step). A Bridge Four member passes by, smiling and patting him on the shoulder, close-up of the bowl on the stone-step, Rlain being given company bei Lopen, Huio and Punio, while some other Windrunner crosses in the foreground. Lopen lies in the step above the one Rlain and Huio are sitting on. His grinning face propped on one hand. Huio holds a bowl and spoon in his hands and Punio stands in front of him with his back to us.The long horizontal panel shows Rlain sitting alone again. He holds a fly goblet in his hands and is crouched forward his forearms on his knees, silently watching the room.
Page 7 / 4 panels Upper panel: we see the lanky figure of Renarin in fancy lighteyes attire lurk at the entrance of the room. A woman with a sack over her shoudler is passing in the corridor behind him. Middle left and right panels: Close up of Renarin’s face and shoulders, There is silver ornamentation on the shoulder parts ans the collar of his dark coat. He nervously looks to the left and then towards the viewer. His brows in a continuous crunch of unhappiness. Lower panel: He stiffly walks towards the calmly sitting Rlain, his shoulders hunched, arms tucked to his sides, fists clenched.
Page 8 / 3 panels, all showing Rlain and Renarin next to each other Upper left panel: Renarin plops himself next Rlain who watches him with calm curiosity. Upper right panel: Renrain sits very stiffly. Wringing his hands between his knees. Rlain still says nothing. Lower panel: Rlain sets the goblet to his side next to his empty bowl and asks: „What crumbling pricked your toe?“
“I’m not like other fans. I actually engage with the text’s themes instead of making memes or shipping characters. Only I truly understand the author’s intent.” girl you can do both
The text’s themes are WHY I love my favorite ships, and I explore them while I contemplate their rightness together.
Also, pretty people kissing hot.
Above ID: screencap of a tumblr tag that says “#*incorporates the text’s themes into my pwp*”
ID: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OKAY GOTTA BREATHE BE COOL BE COOL BE COOL So this is Rlain and Renarin standing SO EXQUISITELY CLOSE, staring into each other’s eyes, both wearing Bridge Four uniforms. Rlain is in warform. Both men’s bodies are facing toward the viewer and leaning into each other, Renarin’s shoulder pressing into Rlain’s chest (like, Renarin’s shoulderblade pressing against Rlain’s pec-plate? Words are hard).
Rlain has a long-fingernailed hand caressing Renarin’s neck in a manner that feels kinda possessive and controlling and kinda creepy and also sweet and super hot? Rlain’s other hand is holding Renarin’s near-hand, and Renarin’s far hand is poised in surprise at his waist, like he doesn’t know what to do with it and/or this handsome crab giving him bedroom eyes.
Renarin is blushing and wearing rectangular glasses, because we are good people who deserve good things. His expression is mild, fitting nicely into Dalinar’s descriptions of him showing limited emotions, and I feel like I can project any emotion I want onto this expression and feel like it’s subtly represented there? It’s wild. He has adorably big, round ears and properly epicanthic folded eyes and an awkward little mouth and a long, narrow nose I want to boop.
Rlain is… oh damn, Rlain. Rlain is gonna seduce all your sons and all the handsome princes. His skin is red with a few streaks of black marbling horizontally across his eyes, nose, and mouth, nicely accenting/contouring his features, making him look like a sexy demon. He has long, dark eyelashes half the women on Roshar would kill for, plus the aforementioned bedroom eyes with black irises and dark grey sclera. He has a short black beard and elegantly undulating carapace framing his eyes and the bridge of his nose and sweeping backwards to where the back of the head meets the neck. He’s maybe three inches taller than Renarin and has a generally broader torso, whereas Renarin’s torso is more dorito shaped. Rlain has a tiny speech bubble with a single musical note, probably the Rhythm of Temptation. Godspeed, you precious nerds.
jurble:So there’s speculation in this thread about whether the Singers have a Fishform relating to the Thrill getting tossed into the sea…
and that makes me wonder - are all Singer forms predetermined by whatever deity created them or evolution, or can new ones arise spontaneously when new spren are created?
Brandon Sanderson: New forms could exist.
Fishform? The word “waveform” was right there.
ID: Renarin and Rlain catch a wave on a wide surfboard in Lamaery’s Beach AU series. Rlain stands in the classic surfer position, knees bent and arms spread wide and body facing to the diagonal, and Renarin kneels at the front, holding the sides, laughing with joy as the wave crests behind them and the wind blows his hair back. Renarin wears blue swim trunks and has a long, skinny build with light tan skin. Rlain is in “swimform,” a form of the artist’s invention similar to warform, but with streamlined orange carapace and webbed fingers to propel him through the water and a crest on his head reminiscent of a shark’s dorsal fin.
@lamaery I heard y’all were doing beach scenes and here’s a doodle I dropped on one of the discord servers a few weeks back, to add to the insanity. Enjoy!
