#Cyprian

[awanqi]

Promo art I did for C.S. Pacat's Dark Rise.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Terracotta warriors, Cypro-Archaic II, Cypriot

Buried beneath the unassuming landscape of Agia Eirini lay an ancient sanctuary that had remained hidden for over 2,000 years.

Spanning an area of nearly 4,000 square meters, the site contained an extensive collection of terracotta figures – over 2,000 in total – ranging from life-sized warriors and horsemen to smaller religious and domestic figurines.

The terracotta army at Agia Eirini likely served as a ritual space for the training and veneration of soldiers, with the figures representing both individual warriors and collective military units.

Interestingly, many of the warrior statues were found in a state of partial disrepair, with broken limbs or missing weapons. This suggests that the figures may have been intentionally “killed” or “decommissioned” as part of a ritual process, perhaps to symbolize the transition of a soldier from active duty to the afterlife.

[dragonarie]

Cheeky little tropes meme based on my annotations for Dark Rise and Dark Heir.

Gonna present it to my friend to convince them to read the series.

[ironized]

Dark Rise Character Posters // Magdalena Pągowska (lenyan_art @ twitter)

[lisawn]

handsome stranger

[bvrtysbvtches]

[juvive-1234]

Actually . I lied. Put your clothes back on, I’m going to explain to you how dark rise, more specifically the stewards, perfectly represents religious trauma (Brainwashing, manipulating, attempting to destroy anything different then their morals) and how James and Cyprian are two sides of the same coin.

[javasleeps]

Me: *checking the dark rise Fandom on EVERY platform known to man everyday for any sign of a book 3 update*

I'm so ready

Guess I'll just read the books again..

[disgruntledwyvern]

James and cyprians relationship truly does fascinate me. They hate eachother for such valid reasons, James was directly involved in cyprian’s brothers death and the death’s of the rest of the stewards. And cyprian is a representation of the people that drove James out for something he couldn’t control and tried to kill him. They’re also both just. Complete dicks.

And then in dark heir we get that scene by the river. Where James is clearly trying to reach out to cyprian and grappling with his own conflicting feelings about the stewards. Where he directly says that he didn’t enjoy seeing cyprian kneel to the Devil like he’d made Marcus kneel. The entire exchange really hammers in that these are two teenagers raised in what amounts to a hardcore cult, but who had very different experiences of leaving that environment. James’s treatment and the way it shattered everything he’d known all his life and left him to figure it out, and the way he clearly built the stewards back up in his head after the fact, vs cyprian never questioning it or having any reason to stop believing in the steward ideals or the things he was taught. Both of them have the mentality of extremely isolated children in their own ways, kids think in black and white and now with the stewards gone they’re both being forced to confront that things are gray. But cyprian clearly isn’t ready for that yet, and he certainly can’t accept that from James yet because James is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people cyprian cared about including the torture and murder of his brother. So the exchange ends up being a conversation of their conflicting viewpoints where they can’t yet really make any real progress.

It’s tragic because they’re the only two people left alive with the experience of being raised with the stewards from birth, of never really having a choice about it, but they both have different experiences that are so at odds that they can’t actually find solace in that shared situation.

[marzipanthots]

I hope Violet and Cyprian had some time to catch up and relax before the storm🥺💔

Final couple who won 4th place on the best couple polls!!! ✨✨

Thank you for 300 followers on tumbler!!! 🥹💕

(they got 4% on tumbler and 0 VOTES ON TWITTER💀 ) but I think they deserve to be second place with Sandy and Philip🥺💕💕!!

[picturebird]

You gotta be a team player, James

[mysteryofvampires]

"This would kill a victorian child" ❌️ Boring, lame, basic

"This would kill Cyprian" ✅️ Creative, unique, funny

[beeneedssleep]

More of the dark rise kids in modern highschool!

As much as I love angsty aus, they've endured enough in canon.

[bumblebee-be]

i just finished dark heir and i am indescribably unwell if anyone has read this please tell me you’re also losing your mind and scream with me !!!!!!!!!

[laur-the-cat-prince]

camping modern AU. if anyone wants to write the fic you get my whole heart 💜

[blottyink]