#mercutio scaligeri

[ptashenka]

a little deviation from my usual content:

i've heard this song for the first time two days ago, blacked out and woke up to this

[hell-heron]

Heraldic crests for Montagues and Capulets according to the Romeo e Giulietta Ama e Cambia il Mondo musical! Made with the Worldspinner heraldry maker, reasoning under the cut

Shape and black banding vaguely inspired by this shot of La Haine. The choice of having the house symbol in gold and therefore have for both houses having gold and black as the main colors is due to the fact greed is repeatedly cited as the motivation of the feud, and in the play we have Romeo's lines "here is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls/ Doing more murder in this loathsome world/Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell"

The choice of a vulture for the Montagues is very supported in the text - Tybalt in C'est pas ma faute describes himself as his family's hand raised up against vultures, while in the part of La Haine where it appears the ladies are hatefully addressing one another's family ResJ-style rather than admonishing their own, Lady Montague says "you be damned, who have no humility/carrion fed to vultures"

The lynx isn't really mentioned in the lyrics, but obviously Tybalt has a lot of cat imagery and the family as a whole seems to share in that, given they're all very fond of the resident catboy. I chose the lynx specifically because I really like the idea of both families having a scaled-down, less noble, sneaky scavenger omen of death version of the overused heraldic symbols that are the lion and eagle.

This isn't really related to my choices but I find it really cool that (in universe) the heraldic symbol of the royal family is blue and yellow and we see the three members of it react to that differently - the Prince completely takes the blue off the picture to project neutrality, Mercutio embraces it, and Paris sensibly wears green, that allows him to wear a mix of both colors without showing any blue to his perspective father in law. If I picked an animal for them it would probably be a hound, since the historical Escalus/Scaligeri/Della Scala family had a lot of princes with dog-related nicknames. Mercutio also sings "the king of the world tremble if/a dog barks without a reason" which def fits as a dig to his family given his relatives kinslayed each other A LOT. Historically, their actual arms were red with a silver stair (and later additions such as dogs or griffins) but the musical design preferred to use the current heraldic symbol of the city of Verona rather than that of the family

[ptashenka]

oh, tybalt... if only there was someone out there who loved you

[ptashenka]

happier times in winter

[ptashenka]

mercutio della scala and tybalt cappelletti 🫶🏼

did some lazy art of my stupid boys, looking all handsome and dreamy. put a lot of thought into it and not a lot of work asfkjsk

technically just colored sketches with some textures thrown on top to make the pics presentable

[ptashenka]

i love this format sm i should make more of these

[ptashenka]

dressing up: mercuzio

when i say i can't draw clothes i mean i can do 14th century and nothing else. drawing for romeo and juliet has ruined my life forever

i'm always kinda torn on whether mercutio would wear a cross. on one hand i believe religion wouldn't mean much to him, on the other scaligeri were closely aligned with church, and it's also highly unusual for a person of that time period to not be at least somewhat religious... anyways, i've given him one here, mostly to make him look richer. babe can have a huge cross inlaid with gems as a treat

upd: here's tybalt to keep him company

[ptashenka]

did a small funny thing to get mе going with my writing. behold!

tybalt, as drawn by mercutio:

id: an extremely rough sketch of tybalt capulet. he has black hair tied with a ribbon, angular features, long nose, dark eyes, overexaggerated eyebrows and a small scar on the left side of his lips. he is dressed in black something that covers his shoulders and neck. the notes beside the sketch in mercutio's handwriting say, not a hair out of place; mean for some reason; Always angry; sharp; mysterious! Regrettably overdressed, with arrows pointing to tybalt's hair, face, eyes, cheekbones, scar and clothes.

mercutio, as drawn by tybalt:

id: a rough sketch of mercutio. he has an attractive soft face, a mess of curls, big eyes, triangular eyebrows, a big mischievous smile and lots of freckles. he is dressed in something quive revealing, implied to be a shirt with an unlaced front. the notes beside the sketch in tybalt's handwriting say, Mercuzio. with an arrow pointing to the sketch. there's another note in mercutio's handwriting on the other side of the sketch, which says, Wow— and a response to it in tybalt's handwriting, What. mercutio's note below it says, Would it kill you to be funny for once? to which tybalt writes back, Fine.

a continuation of the previous sketch:

id: the previous sketch of mercutio, but tybalt's notes now say: Angled. Messy. Blue. Has many freckles. Good smile. Messy. with arrows pointing to mercutio's eyebrows, hair, eyes, cheeks, lips and clothes. on the left, tybalt's notes continue with, Is this enough; below, in mercutio's handwriting: What do you think? and, later, Heeeeeeey—, then a sketch of mercutio's face presumably made by mercutio himself, making a funny face, and, the final note in mercutio's handwriting that says, Ok, you win, this is passable

[ptashenka]

mercuzio scaligeri

okay okay i know literally just finished his portrait but then i went "i can do better", and guess what i did!!

also, here's tybalt cappelletti to match. cursed be the day when i don't draw them together, and i figured since i'm reworking the first portrait might as well re-do the second one. so. yeah. boys

[ptashenka]

a little step by step for my own selfish needs