#aleksander of hohenberg

[princemakr]

2025 is their year!

(wanted to try out their anime designs)

Reference:

[im-resident]

"We Stand in the Shadows of our Forefathers." Prince Aleksander of Hohenberg Sketch and Colour Concept.

[bookishfart]

I love them, your honor

[teenycabb]

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Aleksander of Hohenberg/Deryn Sharp

Characters: Aleksander of Hohenberg, Deryn Sharp, Ernst Volger (mentioned), Jaspert Sharp (mentioned)

Additional Tags: Post-Book: Goliath (Leviathan), Late Night Conversations, Light Angst, She/Her Pronouns for Deryn, Present Tense

Summary:

When Deryn finds herself caught in the tumult of her thoughts, she seeks the comfort of the sky, and inevitably Alek follows.

Language: English

Words: 2,071

Chapters: 1/1

[boredsquirrel]

Jumping onto the meme bandwagon a few weeks too late😂

[kajaono]

Leviathan pretending to be straight book but actually being a novel about a genderfluid/nonbinary/trans person, a bisexual guy and a lesbian is why i stan those books so hard

[hanribanri]

Reblog/ like if you post Leviathan-trilogy content, I have a dire thirst for more Deryn and Alek

[princemakr]

D + A 1915.

I messed up the quality for this one...anyway

reference:

[bookishfart]

It's been 13 years since I've drawn these dweebs 🫶

[boredsquirrel]

How Alek sees Deryn/Dylan during Behemoth.

[boredsquirrel]

Alek during Behemoth.

No explanation needed, kid was bi as hell.

[boredsquirrel]

My favourite Dummkopf and his creepy animal companion.

[boredsquirrel]

I have this headcanon that after working for the Zoological Society for a few years, Deryn and Alek just... start living their own life a bit differently than they envisioned at the end of Goliath. Because after a while, politics and diplomacy get boring (they're very good at it, but it's not the same).

Deryn can't be a midshipman in the Air Force? Well, she probably could be a boffin, she's got the smarts for that and she loves beasties already. It can't be that hard, after basically saving the world, right?

And Alek would probably start missing the clanker technology after a while. He's in a foreign country and piloting and repairing engines was part of his life for the course of the entire trilogy, something that always made him happy.

So, they build their own airship. Deryn fabricates its life-threads and Alek builds the engines, and maybe it even breaks the record that the Leviathan set before. They could travel around the world, maybe even doing some work for the society.

They spend some time in the clanker countries and Alek shows Deryn the castle he grew up in, and he finally sees his home after running away as a child. He can speak and hear his own language, connect with his people now as a commoner.

When they're in the air, Deryn can finally be who she is without pretense. She doesn't need to worry that her secret will be discovered, no, she's the boffin who fabricated this ship and the Captain too. Nobody can tell her what to do and who to be.

I know this is probably cheesy, but as I was rereading the books, I felt so sorry for these kids and how they can never fit exactly in. I also think that this idea is most likely present in some shape or form in the fandom, but I tried to make my own spin on a post-canon version of their life.

[boredsquirrel]

"Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos."

Aleksander of Hohenberg aesthetic.