Captive Prince - Blog Posts
my parents 😭😭❤️❤️
a kingdom, or this.
i tried explaining the plot of the captive prince to my sister and she listened for about ten minutes and then said "so like if paris fell in love with achilles but also paris wasn't a loser" and u know what. she's right
Kyrie (eleison) 2020, 10x20-ish mixed media on masonite Media, in no specific order: Watercolor, acrylic, acryla gouache, gold and silver leaf, gold mica flake, lace
Done for @capri-bigbang2k19
According to the date on my phone, I finished the sketch in late August. I finished not too long ago, making this my first painting of 2020. How fitting, given this piece includes a lot of firsts: mounting a piece on masonite with matte medium as an adhesive; using squeeze bottles and blunt needles to do fine lining/piping (I need to go thinner,) and making shell gold for the purpose of being liquid gold paint (a technique adapted from how Russian icon painters make shell gold, which is both time-consuming and kind of fun.) I also used matte medium as more adhesive for the lacing after looking into how collage and assemblage artists make their pieces stick without fear of glue breaking or yellowing.
I'd visit this intermittently along with working on bees for my local town - it became a form of therapy in which I was allowed to “get real fucking weird,” as some professionals say.
The dried grass, camellias, roses, sweet peas and baby's breath are a reference to my writing contribution to the Captive Prince Big Bang, which needs to be worked on oops, but I got until Saturday.
Title is from the Christian liturgy, but also a reference to my album of 2019: Lingua Ignota’s Caligula, specifically If the Poison Won’t Take You... (TW: loud music, references to domestic abuse.)
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince), Damen/Nikandros (Captive Prince), Damen/Laurent/Nikandros (Captive Prince) Characters: Laurent (Captive Prince), Damen (Captive Prince), Nikandros (Captive Prince) Additional Tags: 5 Times, mild d/s dynamics, Interrupted Sex, Interrupted Blowjob, invited to join in, Sharing, Double Penetration, Spit-roasting, bottom!damianos, Semi-Public Sex, Public Blow Jobs Summary:
Damen misses Nikandros, and Laurent plans to do something about it. Or: four times Nikandros walks in on Damen and Laurent, and the one time he’s invited.
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Gift fic for @seas-of-ios/@stillwaterseas for Captive Prince Secret Santa 2018
Hah so here's the piece for @laurent-ofvere for the @capri-bigbang2k18 fic "From the Depths" specifically this bit:
Damen could feel the water seeping into his pants, the fabric sticking to his thighs. Damen pressed the heels of his feet into the stone and pulled off his boots, but was otherwise unbothered. Water dried, and he wasn’t above relishing in the fact that he had managed to incite a reaction, despite the indifferent gaze with which it was delivered.
“If you wanted to get me wet so badly,” Damen said. “You could have just asked me to jump in with you. I don’t mind water.”
“If I ask you to leave, will you do that?” he asked. “I mind you.”
Aaah only took me half a century to edit it the way I like it but traditional art /shrug; really happy to have done this ♡
Oh my god it’s done.
So been on a fanart-for-fanfic kind of kick and this one is inspired by/for @steelestingray‘s Of Kings and Curators! It’s been really refreshing just making things for things I like versus worrying about monetizing, cons and the like. I really enjoyed the mental image of Laurent having an aura that goes between gold and blush and blue and wanted to play around with it (the blue, I could lie and say was deliberate, but my brush flicked some ink. I just shrugged and went with it.)
I still feel like Laurent came out looking like a J Crew/LL Bean model mixed with a history T.A. with the sweater-vest but honestly, I’m glad I stuck with it.
Detail shot from the salt wash because I told myself I wouldn’t, but I have the impulse control of a toddler.
Graphite (2H and 2B,) watercolor (Daniel Smith,) Liquitex Iridescent Gold ink, and Pilot Iroshizuku inks in Kon-peki (Cerulean Blue) and Syoro (Dew on Pine Tree/a really lovely blue-green.)
It was true that Nicaise's complexion wasn't quite as clear as it had once been, between his slight stubble, and the temporary imperfections that inevitably heralded the transition from childhood, and the way the Akielon sun had peppered his otherwise pale skin with constellations of freckles over years of exposure. His lips were also no longer quite as pouty as when he'd been fifteen. In general, Nicaise's youthful roundness had sharpened. It had left his jaw more angular, and his cheekbones prominent enough to cast slight shadows that sharpened his face. They emphasised his eyes, which were no less huge, or any less blue, framed behind long eyelashes that were dark even tonight, when he hadn't bothered painting them after the exertions of the hunt.
That was all just part and parcel of Nicaise now looking more like a man rather than a boy, in Nikandros's opinion. He looked different, but certainly not lesser than before to anyone who didn't prefer unripe, doll-like features. Nikandros knew that Nicaise was painfully aware of how men with such preferences did exist. Apparently, those courtiers might be among them. But Nikandros definitely wasn't. Nikandros kind of wished that he could claim that he didn't find the signs of Nicaise's maturity attractive, because it was Nicaise, but Nikandros wasn't a very good liar when it came down to it.
"You're more appealing now by far than when I first met you," Nikandros assured Nicaise.
Nicaise met his eyes, not quite hiding his surprise. Or his hopefulness. "Yeah?"
It sounded like he was asking for more than Nikandros's confirmation of what he'd just said.
Despite himself, Nikandros heard himself saying it anyway. "Yes."
From @justanotherdaylikeanyother's Inevitably Ensnared (Chapter 8 specifically,) which I enjoyed immensely from start to finish (and honestly, the entire Veretian Flytrap series deserves a read.)
I actually had a lot of fun illustrating a scene from here and just really love being able to illustrate an older Nicaise (I had a little too much fun with the freckles but whatever, it made up for screaming at rendering drapery. Chiascuro helped with the background though.) In person, the eyes were done with a bit of colored pencil to make the blues pop!
Drawing an older!Nicaise for a fanfic that I adore that recently ended 💖 hoping to get this done to work on paintings and get juices flowing for Big Bang stuff
Being secretive on which one bc I'd like to tag them/the fic when finished (but kudos for guessing)
