#sefferine

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The Sefferines - introduction

Semi-18th-century-accurate versions of my boys for @rypnami's Pirate AU !!

So, to address the elephant in the room: Yeah, I changed their last name. But I changed it to what the Sapphirius surname used to be, canonically, because that's close to an actual English surname (Sefferin) and idk it just felt more fitting for an AU where magic doesn't exist

Click below for close-ups and my not-at-all-concrete thoughts about both of them ↓

Captain Arcanus

Well-known PRIVATEER (not pirate). Mind you, basically the only thing that makes him not a pirate is the fact that he has a Letter of Marque, because bro certainly plays like one

40 years old

Aristocrat sort of. He's an incredibly wealthy merchant but he's also not particularly favored by the upper crust of England because of... well, you know, being a few steps away from a pirate.

Anderson's (I'd wager RELUCTANT) ally

Uses a singular pistol and his very precious cutlass

Very homosexual because it's the pirate AU goddammit he gets to be gay - only less of a flirt than Sebastian bc Can has a whole demographic of people cut out of his dating pool LMFAO

Does not grow body or facial hair, like at all. He got made fun of for this in his youth and called a snake, and now he bears that symbol with pride

"I can bully my crew but if YOU bully my crew then you're dead" - would not hesitate to kill a crew member who betrayed him, though

Ship is named The Ouroboros (desperately praying that's not taken by Sebastian already, I read through everything and couldn't find a name rahh) and she's the only woman he'll ever love

There's a ponytail in the back there it's just not visible from the front or from the angle I decided to draw him at lmfao

Yes I clearly spent more time on his design than I did Cael's leave me alone I like older men

Gets his wife's name wrong whenever asked about her or forced to return to land and see her

Loves his son, and as much as he's lived for the sea, he regrets missing a lot of his boy's teenage/early adulthood years

Def also believes in the supernatural to some significant degree

Caelestus - Navigator

(His color palette is basically the exact same as his normal ref. If I ever make him a ref for this AU, I'll update this post)

21 years old

Is probably one of the least experienced sailors in this entire AU 💀

But very good at maps and navigation!! He's spent a lot of time studying the stars and while he's not much of an artist, he enjoys mapmaking and enjoys writing even more

Joined his father on the Ouroboros at age 20-ish to both get away from his stuffy, lonely, unfulfilling, and sad upper-class life and to bond with the parent he rarely saw

Acquainted/friendly with Ominis Gaunt

Nerd, NERDDDDDD, and this includes in the 🤓 way. Bro's not tryna be rude, he genuinely thinks he's being helpful when he's being semantic and correcting people

Pretty dang good with a sword, surprisingly, having done a lot of fencing lessons on land. He's also really agile and surprisingly strong and gets stronger the more he's on the ship and has to climb up to the crow's nest and help out around the ship

Has this very idealized version of his dad and his life, does not realize how awful of a person he actually is for a while and sees what he does as a privateer as heroic until witnessing its reality

Half-decent with medicine, but that's not his role

Heterosexual (always gotta have the token straight)

Cutlass was a gift from his dad years ago, custom-made

Misses his mother when they're apart but they had a strained relationship his whole life, it's complicated

Speaks an absurd amount of languages... but not... super well

[met-european-sculpture]

Woodwork and ceiling from the Tapestry Room from Croome Court by Sefferin Alken via European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Medium: Plaster, wood, tapestry

Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/202126

[rypnami]

AAAA LOOK at these handsome lads!!! i adore them!!

also token straight is so real cos everyone else is fruity af

The Sefferines - introduction

Semi-18th-century-accurate versions of my boys for @rypnami's Pirate AU !!

So, to address the elephant in the room: Yeah, I changed their last name. But I changed it to what the Sapphirius surname used to be, canonically, because that's close to an actual English surname (Sefferin) and idk it just felt more fitting for an AU where magic doesn't exist

Click below for close-ups and my not-at-all-concrete thoughts about both of them ↓

Captain Arcanus

Well-known PRIVATEER (not pirate). Mind you, basically the only thing that makes him not a pirate is the fact that he has a Letter of Marque, because bro certainly plays like one

40 years old

Aristocrat sort of. He's an incredibly wealthy merchant but he's also not particularly favored by the upper crust of England because of... well, you know, being a few steps away from a pirate.

Anderson's (I'd wager RELUCTANT) ally

Uses a singular pistol and his very precious cutlass

Very homosexual because it's the pirate AU goddammit he gets to be gay - only less of a flirt than Sebastian bc Can has a whole demographic of people cut out of his dating pool LMFAO

Does not grow body or facial hair, like at all. He got made fun of for this in his youth and called a snake, and now he bears that symbol with pride

"I can bully my crew but if YOU bully my crew then you're dead" - would not hesitate to kill a crew member who betrayed him, though

Ship is named The Ouroboros (desperately praying that's not taken by Sebastian already, I read through everything and couldn't find a name rahh) and she's the only woman he'll ever love

There's a ponytail in the back there it's just not visible from the front or from the angle I decided to draw him at lmfao

Yes I clearly spent more time on his design than I did Cael's leave me alone I like older men

Gets his wife's name wrong whenever asked about her or forced to return to land and see her

Loves his son, and as much as he's lived for the sea, he regrets missing a lot of his boy's teenage/early adulthood years

Def also believes in the supernatural to some significant degree

Caelestus - Navigator

(His color palette is basically the exact same as his normal ref. If I ever make him a ref for this AU, I'll update this post)

21 years old

Is probably one of the least experienced sailors in this entire AU 💀

But very good at maps and navigation!! He's spent a lot of time studying the stars and while he's not much of an artist, he enjoys mapmaking and enjoys writing even more

Joined his father on the Ouroboros at age 20-ish to both get away from his stuffy, lonely, unfulfilling, and sad upper-class life and to bond with the parent he rarely saw

Acquainted/friendly with Ominis Gaunt

Nerd, NERDDDDDD, and this includes in the 🤓 way. Bro's not tryna be rude, he genuinely thinks he's being helpful when he's being semantic and correcting people

Pretty dang good with a sword, surprisingly, having done a lot of fencing lessons on land. He's also really agile and surprisingly strong and gets stronger the more he's on the ship and has to climb up to the crow's nest and help out around the ship

Has this very idealized version of his dad and his life, does not realize how awful of a person he actually is for a while and sees what he does as a privateer as heroic until witnessing its reality

Half-decent with medicine, but that's not his role

Heterosexual (always gotta have the token straight)

Cutlass was a gift from his dad years ago, custom-made

Misses his mother when they're apart but they had a strained relationship his whole life, it's complicated

Speaks an absurd amount of languages... but not... super well