"You Don't Know Me. I'm Not The Same Person Anymore."

The private study scene from "The Hands of the Emperor"

by giorgio_filippini_photographer

“Cousin Kip! Whatever are you doing here? Are you with the sky ship that came last month?”

“Yes. I am in attendance to my lord.” He gestured discreetly at his Radiancy, who was smiling more sardonically than benevolently and thus did not look exactly like the state portrait hanging directly behind him.

The Hands Of The Emperor, by Victoria Goddard

aka that one time HR was trying not very hard not to be this picture:

I too want to give Maomao a kiss on the cheek

EDIT: I made a follow up comic

“I love thee still.”

"One moment each morning in which you spoke as a person to another person, and was greeted as a person by another person: on such did the entire machinery of apotheosis stutter to a halt."

Hi, hello, I finished reading The Hands of the Emperor and started the little companion novella Petty Treasons, which is the Emperor and Cliopher's first meeting from the Emperor's point of view. It does not disappoint.

i should leave

i think the last emperor of astandalas artorin damara would be fixed by kissing a boy

reading artorin damara's pov isn't enough i need to eat him