#i haven't talked abojt it much cuz there's a character involved i still need to draw

[snowbellecity]

hi hope !! since nerine is a museum curator, i wanted to ask if u imagine that thered be any pieces meant to depict az or xanthos in the museum ? 🤔 if so, how would they react seeing / realizing it ?

Hii thank you so much for the ask! I actually think about this kind of thing a lot because it's fun 😭 in fact, this art piece I made of them was drawn with the intention of it being something you may see in a museum.

(second pic is for crop 😭)

There's also a canon depiction of AZ in Lumiose Museum that can only be seen in the post-game :~) (I was hoping an HD version of the painting of AZ would be found in the leaks, but unfortunately not... 💔)

Before they reconnect Nerine gets kind of Weird about artistic depictions of AZ. She prefers not to engage with them if possible, though it's of course kind of impossible due to the nature of her work... at the same time, when it comes to keeping these pieces cleaned and organized, she pays extra attention to it...!

Nerine herself also has a portrait in the museum, though she denies that it's her if asked :~) her first husband, the man who established the museum, originally had it made as a gift for her.

As for AZ and Xan themselves, I imagine it's a complicated thing for both of them too 💔 especially before things start getting better. AZ seeing a painting of his younger self and being filled with a strange nostalgia, despite the fact he was miserable as king... Xanthos having conflicting feelings on his Legacy; his name itself has been lost to time.

There'll be a point though where they can start getting silly with it. A comic I want to draw at some point is Xan being mad over a painting of himself where the artist rendered him as a blonde(!), and when AZ laughs about Xan is like "Oh, you think that's funny, do you?? Well, look at this! This artist painted you with a tiny dainty little nose!!!"