#no regrets tho i love me a smol nico

[kindred-spirit-93]

bonjour from the account im more active on and dedicated to my literary & potential future artisitic shenanigans! thanks for replying :)

woah what? where can i find it? do you by chance mean samirah from the magnus chase books? either way id love to see it!!

i am indeed (what gave it away lol), and im honoured. i do however have a suggestion if you could be kind enough to indulge me; could i possibly give you a description of an oc of mine instead?

her name is Hilal, which is arabic for crescent moon and is a daughter of hades. you can read more about her concept idea here and find her @bright-side-of-the-moon

general description & some random ideas, have fun:

warm olive complexion, oval face, long lashes and round brows

flowy headscarf, dark academia aesthetic, muted earthy tones (esp sage or rose paired with black)

perpetual ink stained fingers & dark under eye circles

variable eye shape: rbf = sharp and half lidded almond shaped, any other kind of emotion = comically large and round

irises of the most boring shade of brown (except, say it with me now, in the sun, where they seem to faintly glow the colour of honey and molten gold)

about a pomegranate taller than nico, carries a black satchel she embroidered with flowers and skulls with jewels for eyes (hehe)

maxi skirts, ankle boots, cardigans, sliver cyanide ring for giggles or a plain black one idk (one for each child of the underworld aw)

sorry if this is too detailed or not enough lol, idk which style u prefer to draw/ doodle in or what u have in mind. feel free to use any, add ur own, or do something entirely different :D

heyo! (didnt realise 'your voice shall be heard' was literal lol) hope youre doing well, love ur lil nico and hazel and dread persephone to death :D

have u ever considered drawing a hijabi doodle? would u draw a hijabi doodle? maybe one next to a smol nico? for research purposes ofc.

id love to see it in your art style & if not thanks for entertaining the thought :)

also this is what played in my head while scrolling through ur blog lol

*by smol nico i mean 3 pomegranates tall approximately.

I would love love love to do a hijabi doodle! I admittedly haven't drawn many hijabs since my last Simarah art months ago, and I would love to practice! By the looks of it, you're muslim, right? If you want to, I could draw you with Nico! (Just give me a quick description like eye shape, hijab type, preferred hijab color, rough skintone color, etc.) If not that's totally okay :D

[ellie-sande]

a deanoru analysis from someone that cannot stop thinking about their dumb-asses🥺🥺🥺😩😩

i was meaning to write this when the season came out.... but finals happened so we at it now. right, so at this point, we all know that i love me an interesting queer dynamic (euphoria and cazzie analyses here) and deanoru is by far both the simplest but somehow most intriguing one to dissect.

here’s the fuck whyyyy :)

nico: i feel like nico’s the only character in which clothing and makeup plays an important role in analysis, mostly because she’s a goth kaweeen. i think that nico’s wardrobe (predominantly black with the occasional white article of clothing).... the TASTE of it ALLL. nico usually wears black, so the times in which she’s wearing white are hella significant. i think it’s important that the first time that nico and karolina have a legit convo post-break-up in season 2 occurs when both of them, more importantly, nico, is wearing white. that’s the first time in EPISODES that home bitch is being honest about her fear of herself, the weight that being the leader puts on her, her emotional state, and her absolute REVERANCE for our bby karolina. 

it’s the first time her guard is down completely since before jonah.

and that’s a theme for her wearing white in general. she wears black with white accents in 3x01 in which she’s devastated about the possibility of losing karolina but optimistic in her and her team’s ability to get her back. she wears a white and black outfit when the team searches for alex in 3x08, where she and karolina start to heal as a couple, confess their love for each other, stand by each other. it’s also the ep in which we see nico’s greatest hope. that wedding made me fucking tear up🥺🥺🥺. i think, overall, nico is the most human of all of the runaways because she represents this duality that’s present in a lot of people: she’s an amazing and supportive friend and leader, but uses isolation as her self destructive coping mechanism. she’s passionate and fueled by love, but also extremely broken and scared which leads her to sometimes succumb to the darkness within her. she’s caring, kind, and warm in her own way, even if she tries and fails to put up a hard facade. she’s complex, and that’s what makes her so compelling. 

....also, she protective, but she a smol bean uwu*

karolina: ooooohhh bitch, home girl is soooo much more flawed than people give her credit for. i think people have a tendancy to assume that karolina’s this unproblematic bean that’s perfect, buuuuuuttt... sis. she is sooo much the product of her upbringing, it’s fucking insane. to get the obvious stuff out of the way she’s: nieve, trusting to a fault, overly optimistic, extremely family-oriented (even tho that’s bitten her in the ass a lot), she has this need to be a peacekeeper, to be there for everyone, she has a fear of being alone, has the ability to not be honest, can be pretty selfish sometimes. it’s especially obvious in the scene in season 2 where she confesses she’s been seeing her parents. her first reaction after assuming that nico was okay was that everything was okay and they could go back to how they were, but that’s obviously not the case. in a lot of ways, she betrayed her friends, especially nico (she’s such a fucking puppy, jeSUS). but the interesting thing about her is that most of her flaws are her strengths taken to an extreme, while most of nico’s flaws are her fears overpowering her strengths. ain’t that fucking BEAUTIFUL. the TASte. the ART. moneT WHOOO??? never heard of her

deanoru: the poetry of it allllllll hennyyyy. i see a lot of people thinking that they are foils, which i agreed with for a while, but then... an epiphany occured to me today like the second coming of christ. the reason that nico and karolina are so interesting to watch is because they’re more similar than they are different. they have a lot of the same strengths. nico and karolina are both: caring, kind, passionate, strong-willed, believers, rebellious, family-oriented, protective, intelligent. the difference is their weaknesses. nico can be overcome by her fear of herself or others which leads her to have the ability to be callous, cold, closed-off, a lone wolf. karolina’s weaknesses lie in her strength. that’s what makes them a compelling couple to watch. the difference in their personalities lie in how they attack pain and frustration, and nico has been through the most. i think deanoru’s first scene in the bathroom is so indicative of their dynamic. karolina’s first words to her are that she doesn’t have to hide behind all that makeup and i think that the statement works in two-fold. first is that nico obviously is using makeup as a mask to further isolate herself, which we’ve already established is her form of self-destruction, and throughout the seasons, nico’s most impactful emotional beats are done when she’s almost bare-faced: it a visual queue to the audience that she feels safe enough to let her guard down. BUT the statement is also hella judgemental on karolina’s part, which i think is a part of her arc in season 3. a part of her is scared of nico’s darkness and what could become of it. her biggest fear is losing nico to the darkness. her disdain for witchcraft is mostly rooted in that: a part of her is scared of nico’s darkness and her tendency to use it as a tool for self-destruction.

the finale: that shit hit different. i absolutely loved that they chose to show that nico and karolina weren’t together after the events of the fight. it shows that there were problems that weren’t resolved, especially nico’s tendency to isolate after she feels as though she’s endangered people she loves. it showed that the writers acknowledged that these characters are flawed and human and they let them be that way. they are all driven by familial bond and when a piece of that family is taken away from them, they fall into their old habits. that’s the most human shit i’ve ever seen. but most importantly, this last episode does an amazing job at summarizing the theme of the season: failure is okay and human, and strength is found in love. some people think that the fact that a version of nico and karolina’s doesn’t end happily is depressing or discouraging but i think the opposite. the ending of the show was forgiving on the characters, especially nico, because they were able to change their pasts and make a brighter future for all of them. in the back half of the episode, older deanoru look at baby deanoru having a conversation that probably felt like a resolution to all of their problems in that moment. nico appreciated karolina believing in her and was appreciative of it and they had a wholesome kiss and that was it. nico, being from the future knows that her greatest mistake is not staying next to karolina and growing with her because of her tendency to work on her strengths and run from her weaknesses, to isolate herself. the ending is forgiving and kind in a way that i don’t think i’ve seen enough people appreciate: nico was able to affect her future and make it something better, something that we all we wish we could do and the fact that her biggest regret was shutting karolina out and isolating herself to work on her powers says a lot about their bond. also, that last line from alternate reality karo and nico: promise me that you’ll find me????? absolutely beautiful. do i smell... SOULMATES????

anywhooo, i hope this was satisfactory. lmk what y’all think bc i love a good conversation 😩