#im stealing ur tag elder-dragon u cant stop me

[icebrooding]

So, I really love @elder-dragon’s gijinka AU, and when I encountered Drakkar for the first time while going through IBS, I kind of. Fell head over heels with the spooky lil creature. So I felt like, hey, I should make a gijinka of them since elder-dragon hadn’t (yet)!

Design ramblings, etc, under read more.

I was inspired in several places by the concept art for them when it came to their clothes, with the cloak meaning to feel something like the ‘decomposing whale carcass-like fur’. I also felt I had to keep the rather terrifying look of their skeletal-like face due to how much it stuck out to me (although I couldn’t represent it even remotely like how it should feel, hrk) so I interpreted it as a headpiece with a very long almost moss-like length of thick fur cascading down their back when worn. Their hair is meant to be somewhat stringy to give it a slight ‘wet hair’ vibe.

Fun fact, I have megalohydrothalassophobia, so Drakkar’s state as ‘massive skeletal-like whale abomination that can swim in ice’ is absolutely terrifying to me, but coupled with the general horror feel of the Marches and the rather unnerving soundtrack that plays for them, I am actually completely in love with it. Morbid fascination, one could say.