#aelwyn + adaine

[kalinaapologist]

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the abernant sisters

[spiderziege]

Mordred Manor! (with close-ups under the cut)

edit: i just put up some new drawings on my ko-fi, so if you wanna print this out as a poster or something, you can find it there at full resolution in the 'Misc Art' folder! :) (personal use only!)

[rrat-king]

just got my d20 calendar and this spread of trackers moon haven?????? i will cry. @sydsketch your art means the world to me (i apologize my phone camera doesn’t do it justice)

[xiewho]

i WILL take any excuse i have to draw the abernant sisters Btw

[operationslipperypuppet]

does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes

[cowgirls-blues]

I hope we get to eat ice cream and cast magic forever.

[jq37]

I find it interesting that Oisin's snarky, kick her while she's down comment to Adaine was to say that she's not a very good diviner when Aelwyn, even at her most villainous, was so sure that Adaine was the greatest diviner alive that she was comfortable staking the entire evil plan on Adaine stealing that book. Aelwyn was a total bitch to Adaine but she never underestimated her.

[heckblade]

the mordred manor sisters ribbing each other playfully, doing catty annoying sibling shit and laughing about it together makes me fucking CRY. like all four of these girls, in their own ways, have struggled with feeling rejected by their blood family, the fact that they get to have that experience with the family they built is just. everything. please excuse me I need a minute

[rebelsafoot]

photos taken moments before 16 cats are bought

[bog-owl-riel]

i seriously cannot get over the abernant sisters being THE sisters ever… from “…and though you have not earned it, i do love you.” to “PLEASE come to my apartment with 10 cats, i miss you” and awful insults and curses to playful banter between sisters. from “you’re the absolute worst” to “we should do magic and eat ice cream forever!”

they’re both still figuring out how to be sisters after years of being pitted against each other…but even after everything they went through, they still met each other on the other side of it and they love each other.

they LOVE each other.

sure it’s hard to say and sometimes it’s awkward because of how they grew up. they joke about it and poke fun at how aelwyn in particular has gone through so much in the past year alone.

but god, do they love each other.

“will you be my big sister?” will always stick with me. the innocence of wanting to believe in the only other person that understands everything you’ve gone through. of wanting to give aelwyn a second chance, not because she earned it, but because of the simple fact that aelwyn is her sister.

i love the abernant sisters so much and i miss them already 😭

[acourtoffeyandfables]

How do you make fun of wizards? Call them a jock

[kalinaapologist]

it's almost 4am and i am. simply. thinking about adaine and aelwyn. they grew up together, binded by blood and their wretched parents. adaine felt she was disposable, clawing to keep up with aelwyn. reading book after book, working on her cantrips, building up her spells — working and bleeding and trying, trying, trying, but never could be enough

aelwyn. working just as hard to stay in the good graces of her parents. tearing down adaine at every step, too. with every breath and every rung, they both tried to tear each other down.

in quiet moments, though, almost completely without words, adaine would braid aelwyn's hair and aelwyn would use a mending spell to iron out adaine's school uniform. they'd brush their teeth in silence in the shared bathroom. looking at each other, afraid and comforted by their similarities. flinching at the voice of their father — adaine shrinks in, aelwyn puffs out her chest.

they're kids, small and scared, but together, at least. the yellow light creeps into the living room, their hushed laughs fills their chest. they are sisters, blood and hatred tangling together, forever bonded.

there is no love that is stronger than 2 sisters who have fought their entire lives to be better than the other. in the end, though, it doesn't really matter. their mother and their father had greater matters than their daughters. they have each other.

aelwyn and adaine hold each other, stroke each others hair and whisper secrets to each other, like: i love you, you are the deep sick feeling of trust, i would do anything to keep you.

it's 4am and i miss my sister. there is nothing greater than a love from siblings who have been through what you have both endured.

[one-1-eye]

i hope siobhan thompson knows that “i don’t love our parents, but despite the fact that you have not earned it, I do love you” is carved onto the surface of my brain and I think about it constantly

[smolandweirdwriter]

something about adaine's father giving her a giant, perfectly round orb and then adaine continuing to summon a perfectly round familiar, a perfectly round dog that means something but i can't articulate it right now

[xiewho]

complaining about high elves and sharing inside job gossip. the sisters ever actually

[awgeezitsthetoiletnator]

this feels more like a @caitmayart easter egg than a plot-related thing, but aelwyn’s cats look like they correspond to the non-adaine bad kids.

the little gray one is riz

the one-eyed tabby is fabian

the scrappy orange one (playing with a ribbon!) is kristen

i’m split on whether the black cat is fig or gorgug - my gut says gorgug but with all the talk around fig’s luck right now, a black cat seems appropriate

the siamese is whoever the black cat isn’t

or maybe i’m pulling a riz and it’s just a coincidence