#or citra and rowan

[skybluearia]

One thing i've realised while reading the scythe is that it's not... character-oriented? (Lol sorry if it sounds unusual, non native english speaker here) like there are a ton of characters here, but the main focus of the books is on the course of events rather than the depth of characters. I feel like we only have a shell of who these characters really are; maybe it's just me but i feel like we don't have enough interactions? I love the political intrigue and the general idea of the series, but I feel like there are a lot of emotional aspects that were left unexplored (like many relationships between different characters and also i felt lack of... Characterization, maybe?) for example between marie and citra, cause we know that they were close and even became friends but we don't really get to see how they became close, we were just informed that through spending time as teacher and apprentice they somehow found a friend in each other, there were also really few conversations between them, I NEEDED FAR MORE. I know that the whole point of the book was to explore a world like that and the things that happen to scythedom but it would be nice if the feeling and characters were more in the spotlight.

[only-a-moment-ago]

[air-of-the-waterfall]

Citra's middle name is Querida. I don't speak Spanish, but I'm pretty sure "querida" means "darling."

Greyson's middle name is TIMOTHY, which apparently means "God's honor," "honored by God," "honoring God," etc. which... lmfao I love him so much.

Rowan's is Daniel, which means "God is my judge."

So, we have: Citra "everyone's angel to protect at all costs" Terranova, Greyson "the Thunderhead's blatant favouritism" Tolliver, and Rowan "only God can judge me" Damisch.

Sounds about right

[herwold]

The best ship dynamic is "i'll die for you" person and "i'll kill for you" person

[thejudeduarte]

If he's not willing to wait 117 fucking years for me then I don't want him

[arcofacatboy]

[scythe-gaga]

What u mean marie curie died in the end of the second book???

She survived and lives happily married with Michael and her adopted children Citra and Rowan.

I have no idea why you would think she died, you must have misread that.

[writingdesksrasin]

AOAS is actually so weird out of context. The main baddie is literally from mars, he killed an entire planet, was beheaded, and then started wearing one of the MC’s best friend’s body like the other 17% of the headless horseman for the ~drama~. One of the main driving plot points of the first book is Mars Man kidnapping Basically The President’s daughter and forcing the MC to babysit her against his will while he studies to get his license to kill. My man floods Basically NATO with mind-controlled sharks and yells “lol nope, u thought” while watching world leaders get eaten from a helicopter. The B-plot is New Jesus trying to navigate the intricacies of religion and developing a dysfunctional-ass found family that consists of his tour manager, a stubborn but devout theatre kid, a jean-cloaked ex-killer, and Robot God. He falls in love with a sexy sea captain who gets possessed by Robot God bc it’s in love. There’s deep talks about nature and morality of humanity. The two MC’s bang while dying of hypothermia while sinking to the bottom of the ocean. This isn’t even half of it.

[alma-n]

He deserves to scream into the void as loudly as he can :)💕

[meezimoo]

ref sheets for citra and rowan! I know that their outfits change periodically throughout the books, so I just tried to keep this ref sheet as their most iconic, general appearance. That's also what I'll be doing for most characters moving forward.

Anyways, the next batch of designs I plan on doing is Goddard's little group (as per request of @scottishgremlin, since they wanted to see scythe rand!)

[troyssix]

shout out to arc of a scythe for ripping me to shreds <3

[beesinmypancrees]

end of scythe and early thunderhead quirks because i refuse to shut up

apparently every character is strong enough to carry every other character. like yeah i totally expected curie to be able to just, hoist citra everywhere but reading that citra CARRIED (not dragged) faraday (you know, a grown ass whole ass buff ass man) was a lil jarring. i know they’re all buff as shit but faraday has to be bulking i mean cmon

rowan is so emo oh my god

brahms sniffed the air when he realized someone was following him

neal has a personal vendetta against xenocrates cause WHY DOES HE FEEL THE NEED TO MENTION THAT HE CAN BARELY FIT INTO A CONFESSIONS CHAMBER

this one is from scythe but rowan knows what a tweaker is only because he was so depressed he got his nanites tweaked. he’s so emo and for what

[only-a-moment-ago]

Rowan: It's nice to be wanted, yknow? Citra: Not by the law!

[guidot-hen]

Me when I accidentally get obsessed over something released years ago that isn’t mainstream…

Did I do them justice?

I am setting out on a mission to at least try to draw a few arc after a scythe characters, I love the series SO MUCH!!

Tyger is next on my list

[thejudeduarte]

Me when my teacher mentions Marie Curie in physics:

[arcofacatboy]

Please read this whole post, there’s no meme or catch to this, I’m not staying quiet on this.

this is the first post I’m making about Neal Shusterman’s recent actions - the second is about AI art usage, but this is so, so much more important.

Neal being complicit in the genocide that is occurring currently in Palestine and Gaza. Neal seems to have just gotten back from a book tour promoting a graphic novel he wrote, called Courage to Dream, which is about the Holocaust. He sent an email to everyone subscribed to his online newsletter.

Neal took this as an opportunity to state that he saw how “both sides” - both Israel and Palestinians - were doing things he did not condone, and that he would be remaining neutral.

Obviously Neal isn’t wrong in some of his wording, but what he’s fundamentally trying to say here is wrong and harmful. It doesn’t take someone who has lived through genocide to recognize that a genocide is happening. Genocide is a complex topic, but not in a “both sides should be shown kindness” way. It is complex in the fact that this has been going on for years, that history is repeating itself, and that people in positions of power are so easily falling for Zionist and colonialist propaganda because of their own bigotry and bias against those living in Palestine. How did you just go on tour promoting a book about the stories of people who were being targeted and killed in a genocide, and your first statement upon returning from that tour is to email all the subscribers of your newsletter that you’re “not qualified” to talk about genocide, and that you’re refusing to support the people being eradicated? Why did you write a book about genocide in the first place if you didn’t think you were qualified to talk about it? How do you write a whole graphic novel detailing the stories of people in what is the most known genocide in modern history and not see that Israel is trying to wipe Palestinians off the map?

Being opposed to genocide isn’t a simplistic opinion. It’s fucking common sense.