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sword bisexuals

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Since my current comic (Dracula's Guest) is set in the 1890s I couldn't help thinking up an 1890s AU for my Search for Quintessence characters!

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So the AU is set in 1890s London

Willow- recently moved from Peru to UK and doesn't really like it here. His family were meant to move to his mum's home in Stockholm but ended up in London (idk how just roll with it) and put off leaving. He works as a gardener but does amateur boxing in his free time - he can fight alright and its extra income! That makes him sound tough but he's honestly a good boy who is just trying to get by.

Assana- shy young girl who's hoping to get into the London School of Medicine for Women. She grew up living along the coast in Whitby (her family are first gen norwegian immigrants) but she moved to London to study. I put her in a classic Victorian sailor outfit since she grew up by the beach!

Orolin- Honestly, I just wanted to draw Orolin as a newspaper boy lol. I think she'd kill that role. But in all seriousness, she's probably be aiming to work as a gardener like Willow! I envision them as neighbours in this AU

Aine- Orthodox Tewahedo nun on a trip to the London with her mother. She's pretty reserved but she's been in the convent since she was small so she's excited to get the chance to travel!

Illuna- French girl who works as a maid for a very rich family - She was employed by them back in Paris but came alongside a lot of the other staff when they moved to London. She loves glamour and loves perusing the latest Parisian fashion magazines that her mistress has shipped in

Ember- rich girl who is the daughter of a politician, often accompanying him on diplomatic visits. She's very sporty so she's almost perpetually in a cycling suit!

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"Whoever, fameless, wastes her life away, leaves of herself no greater mark on earth than smoke in air or froth upon the wave" (Dante, Inferno xxiv. 49-51)

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some recent Search for Quintessence doodles <3

1.) Orolin and the Queens 💐💀

2.) The Priestess and her knight 🌟🔥⚔️

3.) made a height chart for Willow and Lion since these 2 have a rivalry in the story 🌲🦁

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A compilation of some of the illustrations I’ve done for my fantasy epic, Search for Quintessence ✨

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OC moodboard

🔥⚔️ Anthrakia ‘Ember’ Seraphinos ⚔️ 🔥

              Embers and Ashes

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Something I found in my notes app today: "thinking abt the massive headaches ember must get with her huge ponytail" 😭

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More old Search for Quintessence doodles and shitposts!

explanations under cut ~ 

1.) Ember getting ready to square up!!

2.) Ember having to put up with the annoying teenagers 😔

3.) the 3 besties judging you (though the height difference is incorrect here, ems is a lot taller than the other 2)

4.) Assana’s intensely powerful water magic! Once she summons a wave it's game over for everyone 

5.) modern AU Aïne where she’s a popstar ☆

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There was a very very brief point in 2016 where I had considered changing Illuna's hair to blonde and giving her a strawberry, peachy pink colour scheme!! So her 1890s AU colour scheme is a callback to that. I like to use unnatural hair colours sparingly because I think that makes them pop more in fantasy settings, but ofc I decided to keep Illuna's signature lilac in canon, I think it really elevates her design!! And in Ember's home country of Pyropolis, vibrant hair colours are really common, hence her bright red hair.

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༻ Search for Quintessence ༺

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At the tavern

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BI BI BI 💗💜💙

some of my bisexual OCs! 

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Aren’t you tired of being nice? 🌊🔥

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The Priestess and her Bodyguards

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Introducing the main cast of my story, ✨ Search for Quintessence ✨

Search for Quintessence is a fantasy epic that’s been my passion project since I was 11- it’s always been my dream to turn it into a webcomic! I realised I’d never formally introduced the main cast here before so I’ll take the chance to do it now, especially now that it has a new member!

Character intros under cut ->

🍃 🏹 Orolin Lành Gyldenfeldt 🍃🏹 A bright bubbly 16-year-old girl from the small Hill folk village of Östberg, who wishes to make a name for herself as an earth mage and perhaps even find out the secrets to the elusive magic of the Gods, the Quintessence!

🌲⚔️ Willow Merewood 🌲 ⚔️ A quiet but gentle young man in his 20s, Willow works as a hunter and earth mage, trading at the market to earn his keep though, gradually, he begins to want to break this monotony!

🌊 💉 Assana Fjordland 🌊 💉 A shy 17-year-old elvish girl with a talent for water magic and somewhat macabre interest in medicine and alchemy, Assana aims to become a doctor (And hopes to make some friends along the way… 🥺)

🔥⚔️ Anthrakia ‘Ember’ Seraphinos 🔥⚔️ An elvish woman in her 20s who is the sole daughter of the powerful Seraphinos family of weaponsmiths, though Ember herself is generally the confident type, she is not so sure that weapon-smithing is the path she wishes to take

🌹 🎀 Illuna Élodie Mercier 🎀🌹 An outgoing and amiable feline folk woman in her early 20s, Illuna works as a maid at Palace de la fontaine but her real aim is to become famous and glamorous, taking on her alter ego, the elusive swordswoman, ‘La Femme Masquée’ (the masked woman) by night.

✨⭐ Aïne Alazar ⭐✨ The famed star priestess, Aïne is a beautiful but reserved young elvish woman, who wishes to prize herself from out of the spotlight and connect with her faith and her selfhood on her own terms

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Embers and Ashes