#Aisfa the dryad

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A bunch of Lotff doodles that got buried or that I forgot to post

forever unfinished

You can tell which arts are before ANuli lost faer leaves. ANd I lost the fragments I tore off so... yea anywho Anuli has broken leaves on one side.

"Draw your mood in this chart" Anuli gets sudden bursts of happiness and overall the constant guilt isn't treating faer well. Kamari refuses to acknowledge how bad being the High Protector is. And Ankh does know shit about feelings.

Anuli's pondering, and has gotten very comfortable with the idea of trying to get faerself as upset as possible.

yea

They have a veryyy cozy backstory. Like full of fluff.

At 3am

They are bonding

Names. (Kamari means moon.) Alsoo nooo I don't know how languages work here. Ankh just means 'eye' so like... IDK what to tell you.

Ignore how Sitara's design looks a lot like Aisfa... I'm going to change Aisfa's design a bit.

Also these are subject to change... because this was the original idea for them

Anywho so Sitara hangs around Anuli for another reason that I couldn't draw that well.

The siblings. (There is a height difference... I just didn't draw that. ANuli's a lot smaller than most dryads... although no one knows faer age and everyone ages differently.)

Kamari didn't think faerself one to hold grudges. Fae doesn't usually.

sobbing and crying. The only expressions I know how to do.

About the height difference of faries. Techincally if you go by trees then Ankh is a lot taller than Kamari... but techincally trees are terms for tree like things that are wildly different and at some point the fact that they are all bipedal makes no sense anyways. So... suspend your disbelief? I did at one point try to design bird-like and four-legged dryads and ended up drawing what was easiest for me. I went crazy trying to get everything scientifically accurate soooo theyyy'reee nooot. The tree society is accurate and that's about it.

Ehhhh I'm not that good at drawing anything but floating heads (and I only know how to draw arms when they're bent). But here's Kamari!

(And so all sorts of dryads will have all sorts of different body types and proportions and suchh... so basically I'm giving myself lotsss of creative liberty here)

Sitara and Anuli yeyey

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@waitingforthesunrise @sm-writes-chaos

@holdmyteaplease @full-on-sam @osbob-the-existent

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@sleepy-vix @starryeyeddarlings @sea-dwelling-wizard

@snowpoet123

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Curious.

(winner gets art, backstory.... something. You pick... and i'd like to know the reason why you picked your choice. Thanks <3 )

Some of these names took research and lots of changes. Others needed improv. ANd they stuck.... *sigh* (all the "A" names... there's too many)

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Land of fallen fairies Q&A (thanks for 125 followers!)

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send in asks with the emoji and a lotff character will answer the ask + give a gift of some sort.

📖Anuli will answer your question and recommend a story (show/book/anime/manga/etc.) that fae think you'd like

💐Ankh will answer your question and recommend a plant based on your vibe

🎶Kamari will answer your question and recommend you a random song that I've been playing on repeat

💕Aisfa will answer your question and make a mood board based on your vibe

☠️Nali will answer your question and give you a random quote based on your vibe

💫Sitara will answer your question and give you something random of your choice

transcription:

Anuli *nervous sweating and yanking faer antenna: We have to answer questions. (Fae's overthinking a lot but I don't even know what I wrote for that.)

Ankh: I can answer questions to the best of my ability....but I'm not the one to ask about emotional qualms

Kamari: Ask away

Aisfa: I hope we can have a bonding experience together

Nali: Hmph. What a great way to distract ourselves from the slow fall of society

Sitara: I'm still confused on why I'm the favorite

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ASKS SO FAR

What's Kamari's favorite weather/season? (thank you for the ask @emabatis

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The people have spoken~~~~

(comment/reblog any character questions below! /not forced)

Welcome to the Land of the Fallen fairies...

~~character Q & A~~~~

Reblog or comment any questions you have for the cast below! (You can make a general ask or one for a specific character.)

Characters (from top to bottom): Anuli, Ankh, Kamari, Aisfa, Nali, Sitara.

Gently tagging: (thank you for participating in my poll!! <3)

@squarebracket-trickster @lxmelle @awleeofficial

@holdmyteaplease @gummybugg @waitingforthesunrise @osbob-the-existent @sm-writes-chaos @clearcloudlesssky

(Why is it that I'll get art block for some of my characters but art-easy for others? Nali and Asifa were easy but Ankh gave me so much strife. Anuli, for some reason, is always easy.... and I'm supposed to have the doll BECAUSE I won't have to draw faer a ton... *sigh*)

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I love yaelokre so much.

LIke tell me that isn't the most beautiful thing ever.

So.

Lotff human AU music tastes

(the playlists are not reflective of what they would listen to... just what I associate with them):

ANuli: anything with a story behind it. Yaelokre, Marina and the Diamonds, musical soundtracks (I only know of the sound of music because of @celestialsun123, so yes. Anuli likes that.) AJR, Soundtracks like how to train your dragon, star wars, interstellar, Alien stage, along with songs with deep lyrics to analyze,

Sitara: Vocaloids, fae got Anuli into them.

Kamari: fae likes instrumentals, musicals (Fae would listen to musicals with Anuli and it would be their thing), Mitski, I'm just going to say desi classical music because I KNOW the vocals in there are INSANE. And fae would love Alein stage (so would Anuli.)

Ankh: doesn't listen to much music at all. Mainly health podcasts. Kamari got faer to listen to music and ANkh just likes whatever Kamari likes.

NOW FOR THE DUO I NEVER MENTION!

(but has the most romantic vibes despite not being in a world of romance? Tbh I would ship human AU versions. not the cannon ones though)

Aisfa: fae only listens to happy music. Exclusively happy. In as many languages as possible. So like the basic pop songs from 10+ countries.

Nali: My chemical romance.

The dearest, most wonderous people, otherwise known as the lotff tag list:

@waitingforthesunrise @sm-writes-chaos @holdmyteaplease

@full-on-sam @osbob-the-existent @awleeofficial

@clearcloudlesssky @gummybugg @sleepy-vix

@starryeyeddarlings @sea-dwelling-wizard @snowpoet123

lmk if you'd like to be added or removed <3 🌿

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Also curious

(how have I not asked this yet? I just asked for dynamics and the amount of you that really like Anuli and Kamari warms my heart.)

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Nali and Aisfa since they're new. (Yes, tLotFF finally has a 'bantering because of difference in outlooks' pair)

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The results are in....

reposting just in case

I DID NOT EXPECT THIS!

AT ALL

PEOPLE

I thought Ankh and Kamari would get all the votes.

BUT NOPE! They never get back together satosugu style. hehehe. Ankh has no one else left, so fae will forever try to take care faer friends, and Kamari, even if they don't want faer around anymore. Kamari is so conflicted, it would be so easy to fall back into being around Ankh again. To enjoy faerself again and just be... Kamari.

But no, fae can't forgive Ankh. Fae's made faer choice. ('we could've made better ones, but I don't have any regrets.'

Kamari: You were a wonderful experience.

Ankh: You were... everything.)

heheheheheh

And for the one person that voted for the quartet. Yeah, I liked them too. They will forever live with fond memories of their time together... but know that Sitara's death made it impossible for them to still be friends.

BUT Anuli and Kamari! Thank you all for making them win!

Because I was imagining that Anuli would leave and the entire story fae would imagine being around Kamari (faer happy ending) again, while thinking that fae doesn't deserve it. THEN there would be a scene where Anuli (in a cloak or smth) would see Kamari again, they would exchange a few words. Kamari wouldn't know that fae was talking to Anuli. Anuli would be close to tears.

They would part ways after a few moments.

"That was the last time I ever saw Kamari, my happy ending."

*fade to black*

It was painful even for me.

NOW THEY GET A REDEMPTION ARC

... well ... sort of.

I have a plan for how I want arc 1 to end. Tragically. For everyone. Then I want to do a trial run with a... charity thing? And if the goal is completed then I'll finish the rest of tLotFF.

Anywhosies. Thank you all for joining along with my silly little fairies. <3

@waitingforthesunrise @sm-writes-chaos @holdmyteaplease @full-on-sam @awleeofficial @clearcloudlesssky @gummybugg

Let me know if you wish to be added/removed to the tag list <3

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I DID NOT EXPECT THIS!

AT ALL

PEOPLE

I thought Ankh and Kamari would get all the votes.

BUT NOPE! They never get back together satosugu style. hehehe. Ankh has no one else left, so fae will forever try to take care faer friends, and Kamari, even if they don't want faer around anymore. Kamari is so conflicted, it would be so easy to fall back into being around Ankh again. To enjoy faerself again and just be... Kamari.

But no, fae can't forgive Ankh. Fae's made faer choice. ('we could've made better ones, but I don't have any regrets.'

Kamari: You were a wonderful experience.

Ankh: You were... everything.)

heheheheheh

And for the one person that voted for the quartet. Yeah, I liked them too. They will forever live with fond memories of their time together... but know that Sitara's death made it impossible for them to still be friends.

BUT Anuli and Kamari! Thank you all for making them win!

Because I was imagining that Anuli would leave and the entire story fae would imagine being around Kamari (faer happy ending) again, while thinking that fae doesn't deserve it. THEN there would be a scene where Anuli (in a cloak or smth) would see Kamari again, they would exchange a few words. Kamari wouldn't know that fae was talking to Anuli. Anuli would be close to tears.

They would part ways after a few moments.

"That was the last time I ever saw Kamari, my happy ending."

*fade to black*

It was painful even for me.

NOW THEY GET A REDEMPTION ARC

... well ... sort of.

I have a plan for how I want arc 1 to end. Tragically. For everyone. Then I want to do a trial run with a... charity thing? And if the goal is completed then I'll finish the rest of tLotFF.

Anywhosies. Thank you all for joining along with my silly little fairies. <3

@waitingforthesunrise @sm-writes-chaos @holdmyteaplease @full-on-sam @awleeofficial @clearcloudlesssky @gummybugg

Let me know if you wish to be added/removed to the tag list <3

This ends in tragedy

Also ends in tragedy

... This too.

...

What about this?

.. Anuli only gets one chance... heheheh

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Let me know if you wish to be added/removed to the tag list <3

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OOohhh okay.

There's been... quite a few changes (At least on my end, I think on the macrolevel things are fairllyyy similar)

But!

So overall I've been heavily focusing on the Anuli backstory portion. This is what I've been rewriting all year, but I think it's for good reason! It's finally getting to a place that's richer and more nuanced and has some plot elements.

Anuli now has access to talking to the pixies from the very beginning. Because fae's alone and tethered beside Kamari's tree for long stretches of time, fae ends up telling stories to faerself about everything and everything, trying to keep this villainous, tether-caused feeling from taking over faer. (Anuli's overstimulated from the tether and the temperature, under stimulated from the lack of things to do, but fae doesn't know that.)

And there's this flower patch that fae likes lying beneath to calm faerself down... because Anuli's roots slightly curl around the sunflower's fae hears bits and pieces of their whispers and chatter to each other, and it's a very large part of keeping faerself okay when Kamari's away (that rhymed wow).

When they wilt in the fall, Anuli freaks. Fae comes to the conclusion that they forgot how to be yellow and tries telling them a story that should remind them. (I'm letting Anuli be a little silly instead of some washed up college literature professor /silly)

And ends up contacting the pixies, who've been translating the sunflowers' abstract feelings into words for Anuli.

A bit of background! Pre-pixie crisis, dryads were the fairies who had access to how the outside world looks. Pixies, being these abstract, semi-hive mind, mental fungal fairies with no set identity, never really see the outside world, so they get all their information from dryads.

Considering climate change, habitat deterioration, all that jazz, pixies wanted as much information from the dryads as possible so they could formulate possible solutions for how to deal with changing conditions.

(As far as they are concerned, this is this world-disease. Humans are only these annoying pests that came along with it, and no fairy really pieces the 'humans are the cause of it all' together. They don't have history textbooks sadly.)

A fun little thing pixies do, being fungi (it's an interesting thing to look up, mycorrhizal fungi), is conduct trades of nutrients between trees, and when the soil quality begins to deteriorate, they withhold nutrients from trees, prioritize some over others, get some trees addicted.... it's a whole thing.

The dryads call this the 'pixie crisis' and afterwards, they shun all pixies, reducing them to the bare minimum needed to survive, and no longer giving them any information from the outside world, essentially cutting them off.

Then comes a little dryad who wants to remind the sunflowers of who they're supposed to be. It's the only information the pixies have gotten in years.

So of course (I still have to figure this part out) they'll cause issues now that they have Anuli to describe the outside world.

This, along with Anuli breaking faer tether, leads to Anuli becoming a fallen fairy, having to fight Kamari in the Battle of the Fates.

So of course, Kamari tries to save Anuli.

Which causes the Elders of the Unseen to send in other ambassadors.

(Annnddd I still have to figure this part out too)

But a heavily injured Kamari and a saved Anuli make their way to leave Trinity Hollow with Ankh, who's mostly there to take care of Kamari and has a grudge against Anuli.

That's the plan for now! Anuli wakes up old, godly beings, Kamari suffers, Ankh loses everyone but Kamari, Anuli's mental health goes to garbage. Tragic little found family!

Thanks for asking!!! <3 <3 /gen

I'm currently making a Sitara doll for art, and I'm hoping I can make everyone size accurate.

In other news... I'm trying to work on a blog post about revamping Aisfa and Nali (the two other members of Ankh and Sitara's friend group that fell apart after Sitara got condemned)

Whenever I have access to the things I need to put words out, I never say anything.

Then when I lose access, that's when I have all the ideas.

So.

For now, for today, what would you like me to say?