#cell shading my beloathed

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I watched one YouTube video and it got me out of art block so I redrew an old mermaid design from 4 years ago to celebrate mermay :)

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I saw this and had to draw her in an outfit from one of the comics

WAIT. big girl padme. you agree

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Hypatia Info Dump

Hypatia Dogmatiko (Pasha to friends, family, beloveds, and One Beloathed) is the OC that gets sent to Tir Na Nog for adventure and fun

I've mentioned previously that Hypatia's concept started off in 2020 as a dead woman, but after a revamp of her family's lore (and Plenty of motivation from needing an oc for NDM! And even more from @bella-daonna !) She gets to live.

Which is everyone else's problem forever now, and it Is my ultimate goal for her to annoyances to lovers every route. Every route. 

Hypatia's 'canon' route is definitely going to be Flannán, though she'll of course be used for all 6 of the love interests she is a slut and I love her. Hypatia is quick-witted, a little mean when it's fun, but very compassionate. She's pansexual, demiromantic, she's a switch leaning domme who loves to tease in and out of the bedroom. She can definitely be stoic, aloof, apathetic or seem just straight up grumpy when first meeting her (especially due to that ever present frown. She has a resting bitch face she can't help it) but she's got the ability to be kind, and is joking a lot more than people think she is. Her symbols are lambs, the full moon (it's in her eyes, literally it's part of the process of shading her eyes) and luna moths. She's also got autism, because I have autism and it was going in her anyway. Her perfume smells like almonds, chocolate, and old books, and I am very excited to use for NDM and write about torturing her. And fluff, fluff too. 

More details (because I cannot shut up about her) will be below the cut. 

I'm going to very briefly go over her family (as their lore is not compatible exactly with ndm canon, and largely they're not much but backstory for Hypatia in this case anyway) and then go over Hypatia in more detail 

Her family tree with some in character annotation for the fun of it

Hypatia's parents are Galatea Dogmatiko and Acis Dogmatiko (formerly Vivek), they immigrated to Ireland when Galatea (Or Galah for short) was pregnant with Hypatia due to... Conflict between her and her family, though this meant leaving behind a more well off style of living, neither of them have regretted the decision. Especially as it allowed them to raise Hypatia and her siblings with indulgence and freedom. 

(Silas, Galah's brother, and Delilah, her sister-in-law, were named by @bella-daonna so the reference to critrole is their fault ) 

Hypatia is, obviously, the eldest of her siblings, followed by the twins, Eos and Hyp, and then the baby of the family Aether. 

Eos and Hyp are more often rivals than they are co-conspirators, a rivalry that Hypatia does exploit when one gets on her nerves, and together they might make a good grab for a cluster of brain cells. They're both annoying, and chaotic, and love their big sister, even if they'd never admit it as they get older. 

Aether, the youngest, is extremely haunted in every canon, verse, or au. As the youngest she's doted on, especially by Hypatia, before falling into TNN it wouldn't be an uncommon sight to find Aether underfoot around Hypatia.

Hypatia worries greatly for her siblings, especially for Eos who besides being an asthmatic has a poor immune system in general. Before she begins the ride to Galway, Eos comes down with another bout of sickness. The desperation to get home again is, of course, greatly increased when Hypatia remembers this fact.

After all, she wants to help her sister, and she doesn't want her dying thinking she's abandoned their family. If it comes to that.

Hypatia herself is one of the (outwardly) least expressive of her siblings. Which, due to her unintentionally rather sullen or grumpy neutral expression, has her come off quite harsh. That doesn't mean she isn't harsh, she certainly can be. Often she speaks her thoughts before she thinks of their impact and appropriateness, truth, as she sees it, spills from her easily. Her tongue is quick and sharp, and her glare sharper. She is not without kindness, or a strong sense of justice and equity, though. She can be brusque, but she has a strong desire to help people and being quite stubborn, you might not have a choice in that help.

She can seem apathetic, or sarcastic, but more often than not she's quite sincere in kindness. Though it might take some work to see beyond the persona that's put upon her, and maybe even some friendly(?) debate. Though some of her quirks relate to her autism, sometimes not grasping facial expressions as well or reading social cues, a lot of her quirks are learned from her family or grown from the way she's been treated by non-family members growing up.

There are few things, and people she's afraid of, her growing romantic interest in certain people is one of them, by the time of NDM's beginning she's never felt romantic attraction, being demiromantic. Though she can certainly appreciate a few things about people that might begin to ever so subtly spark that interest.

Romance does make her a bit nervous, she's got a desperate desire to be seen and understood but worries that she won't be liked for the person she actually is rather than who she is perceived as. She's worried about giving herself up only to have someone else be disappointed in her, that they spent the effort getting to know her and the pay off isn't what they wanted. That she isn't what they wanted. In fact, she's so terrified of romance, of sharing her life with someone, before NDM she pictured herself as never finding anyone. She could simply be a fun aunt to her siblings' children. Otherwise, she isn’t intimidated by very much, other than heights and spiders and failure to accomplish her goals. Normal stuff. 

Hypatia is an incredibly intelligent woman, sometimes to her detriment when that combines with that mouth of hers. Her love of reading was given to her by her mother, from countless bedtime stories of course, and often as she grew up was her only company outside of her siblings and... One other person. She's particularly observational, and does actively try to infer knowledge from the world, people, and conversation that happens around her. Acquiring and hoarding knowledge is something she's inclined to do, the more she knows, the happier she is. The less she knows, the more uncertain and cautious she becomes. Of course, she'd have to feel like she doesn't know much or anything to be concerned, a rarity in itself.

While intellectually she's skilled, her physical skills lack in most areas aside from one: Running from things

Hypatia may not have any skill whatsoever with weaponry, or climbing, or many things requiring hand-eye coordination...... She Does happen to be particularly fast, and rather enjoys running, and as a child used to race her siblings or other children she had something to prove to. If she cannot solve conflict that gets physical with words (or maybe gets physical because of her words) running away is her next plan of action and there are only a few times it hasn't turned out well for her. So it's not a bad track record! One incident in particular did lead to a scar on her lip and a rather badly chipped tooth.

This scar and chipped tooth of Hypatia's didn't come from an accident or from any sort of clumsiness.

It came from her best friend (term used very loosely) her worst enemy and her beloathed, a man (at the time a boy) her age called Giovanni.

Giovanni's feelings and intents are... Messier, a little more distorted. And were often kept under wraps or rather subtle for a long time until they were about 13-14 years old, during a game or competition that had Hypatia gaining the upper hand thanks to her speed, something went very wrong, and Hypatia got her scar on her lip and chipped tooth after Giovanni knocked her off her feet and smashed her face into the ground.

Giovanni is Hypatia's best friend from childhood, he's the son of her mother's best friend, and they spent a lot of time together growing up. For a long time she was very, very fond of him. He was, and is, her only friend up to the time of the beginning of NDM.

He had to get pulled off of her, and they were not friends after that. Neither were their parents.

He doesn't hate her, however, that'd be too simple to do their... Relationship justice. He despises her, he wants to be her source of fear and joy, and he wants to spend a good amount of his time making her miserable and dependent. He feels very entitled to her life itself. Whether it's hurting her as he did or worse, or meddling and manipulating her relationships to make potential suitors jealous or turned off, he wants control.

He's affectionate and brutal to her in equal amounts. Hypatia tends to avoid him more as she gets older, and he hasn't done something awful to her so publicly since her tooth.

As a character he's awful, as a plot device he's my favourite boy ever, and I love him Soooooooo much.

Unfortunately, he won't feature in any fics that take place during the events of the NDM story, but before and after are fair game. And AU's.

Forgetting about Giovanni, the relationship she has that means the most to her would naturally be her relationship with Flannán.

I think, unfortunately for Hypatia, he draws tenderness out of her a little too easily. She wants to care for him, she wants to look after him. I can definitely see them butting heads very early on, they’re both stubborn and Hypatia can be unintentionally harsh but honest, but I think for once Flannán might draw out more active consideration for her words from her. She is demiromantic, and it is going to scare her a little to fall in love with him, but I also think it’ll be so easy for her to fall in love with him regardless of the time it takes to get her to admit her own feelings. She will definitely want to be something, someone, safe and comforting for him. He’ll certainly make her feel safe, which isn’t exactly something people tend to make her feel. 

She likes his hands, a lot. And his hair, she could spend a lot of time braiding it while waxing philosophical at him or talking about absolutely anything in the world together. She definitely wants to hear stories from him, she wants to hear anything and everything he wants to share with her, she wants to know him.

And she wants to be known by him, for him to know the differences in subtle expression changes and how to make her smile and laugh. She wants to know the same about him, she wants to know how to make him happy.

Which is a terrifying thought.

It is an appealing thought too. 

Side note, she'd even be willing to get a tattoo that reminds her of him. Which would look like:

Other than that I don’t think there’s much more to say on Hypatia, there’s probably things im forgetting and tidbits I haven’t included but this is enough on her I think. Other than playlists there’s not much more to share! 

I love this woman, as much as I cannot wait to put her through agony, I am so excited to see her happy with her boy. 

Hypatia core

Giovanni and Hypatia

Flannán and Hypatia