#the forest queen

[onestellarghost]

The Forest Queen

[brokenphalange]

Things that make me go AAAAAAAAA:

1. Injustice

2. When my neuro-system fails and I drop things because my hands don’t want to cooperate with me anymore

3. A podcast episode when it goes „I think you’re in need of a story. A story that has been denied you. So if you’d be willing to indulge me… There once was a queen. 🎶📣🎉SKYJACKS!!!🎉🎶📣”

@campaignskyjacks I’m looking at you 👀👀👀

[whatsuphoneybee]

🌱 I finished my Forest Queen Blanket!!! 🌱

kinda It’s less organic than what I wanted so I’m hoping to add some sew in some crochet foliage. But I don’t crochet.

If you crochet or know someone who does I’d love to commission a variety of small leaves and flowers to sew onto the blanket!

I could not tell you how excited I was to have this off the loom in time The Forest Queen arc!!! It’s made of cotton linen and took me a little under a year to finish. This blanket is a behemoth and just about covers a queen sized mattress.

I’m hoping to listen to some episodes underneath this blanket during winter break 💚

[immortalcowboy]

the queen and her changeling

[ID: a ditigal drawing of Travis Matagot and The Forest Queen from Campaign: Skyjacks. Travis is a white man with shoulder-length white hair. His irises and pupils are bright yellow and he has pointy ears. He is wearing a white shirt and cravat, a long green jacket with gold leaves embroidered on it, brown trousers, and green shoes. The Forest Queen is female-presenting figure who has vines for hair and her body is made out of wood. She is barefoot and wearing a long brown and beige dress. She has two antlers on her head like they are a wreath. Her feet and the bottom of her dress are covered in mud. She and Travis are dancing together. Travis looks upset, and The Forest Queen's face is obscured by shadow. The background is white with a dull-green border that has gold leaves running down either side. End ID.]

also just the lineart under the cut because im kinda proud of it :)

[ID: the same image as before, but just the lineart. End ID.]

[campaignskyjacks]

May I ask, when did you decide to make the Rusalka so significant to the plot, being the first fallen angel and also Margaret's mother? I was just wondering the thought process behind Rusalka and how she became the river milf we meet in Deuxmignon

Okay! This is an interesting road based on player choices.

First Rusalka was always a fallen as soon as fallen were a thing in the setting essentially. This comes directly from my efforts to honor as much of the Decemberists discography as completely as possible. In Rusalka, Rusalka one of the lies is literally

And all that you are is a star on the water

So I knew because angels are fallen stars she had to be be one of them because of this line. This explained her personality and motivations, she is both a creature of wrath and mercy. She punishes the ill deeds of humans and loves the loneliest souls. That is angel shit.

She became the first fallen and former angel of judgement after Gable wanted to explore the story of the skin on the bell. I originally just wanted to show the church was using the fallen they rounded up in creepy magic rituals, but in the interest of supporting Liz as hard as possible I made connections to important stuff to make that moment a bigger deal.

Being Margaret's surrogate mother in rebirth was a thing I wavered on– to the detriment of the overall story I think. I was initially toying with the idea of The Forest Queen calling the Mariner up through the river to drown Margaret and Travis. Again this was all in the spirit of making connections between significant things to make the PC's stories as significant as possible. However it became clear after the Nordia arc that it should definitely have been Rusalka.

I was hesitant to make it her at first because the killing of Margaret and Travis would clearly be an unjust thing and therefore outside of her character. However, with the forest queen making deals and my very real belief that immortal beings would pass through different phases in their personalities I feel like it makes sense. And whether it was Rusalka doing the initial drowning or not her stepping in to save Margaret and give her a new body to be reborn into makes perfect sense to me.

This evolved further when JPC came back for Dref's seance scene. He called death "the river" which was terminology I was initially avoiding because the river already means shit in Skyjacks. It's also very Greek and Roman and I frankly have not been drawing too much from those mythologies. Finally I read The Locked Tomb series and I wanted a bit of distance between my stuff and that stuff. But JPC said it and Dref is the authority on Death so I am not going to argue. This made The River even more important to death and gave Rusalka new narrative weight at a monster who lives in The River and drowns people.

She has an interesting contrast to The Cutting Stone who I think of as misguided mercy that boarders on cruelty and her as an avatar of sad and dark but earnest mercy.

Anyway, whether she drowned Margaret or not she saved Margaret and allowed her to be reborn. It is that connection to Rusalka and the river that allows Margaret to control water with magic. It is also that connection that allows Margaret to communicate and interact with the dead so easily. This is why she could teach Sweet but it was so dangerous for him to approach the river himself.

I hope this gives you a little more insight into the creative process and my timeline for that creative process!

[skyjack-off]

The forest queen

[gluttonous-kerfuffle]

Making my once in a blue moon original post.

Forever and always a Travis-liker 🤗

[xyl4-4444]

Dumping these doodles bcus Twilight Forest is STILL a GOATED Minecraft mod

[newwavesylviaplath]

lana del rey at the 2024 met gala after party

[rayroseu]

"Because i want you to live a long and happy life"

[oautincorrectquotes]

Ruby: I dare Emma to prank call her mom.

Emma taking her phone out: Pftt thats it? Siri call mom.

Siri: *Calling 'Mommy'*

Emma: no no no no

*Regina's phone rings*

Ruby:

[velo-cats]

Icewing

[illustratinghan]

little jude’s first time on a riding toad🐸🤭

characters by @hollyblack 🫶

follow me on instagram! @/illustratinghan

[swanqueenelmaxshadowhunters]

young queen Regina and knight Emma, pls and thank you

[skyjack-off]

Survival of the fittest is her rule, the wind is cold and wilderness so cruel, but should you survive this night and day, soon a new game shall arise, come child..let’s play.

[angelspearlheart]