Operastalker pt2

(Part 1)

Alright, so now that I've thought about this for two months straight and read the original novel of Phantom of the Opera, there has been some shuffling of roles.

Specifically, I was wrong about Raoul being Fathom. That role is much better filled by Clearsight's school friend Listener. (Still not romantic, though.) *

FATHOM, displaced from the role of Vicomte and probably not ever right for it in the first place, now shares with Indigo the role of the Persian, book Erik's old friend who gets cut from nearly every adaptation of PotO despite being the coolest character in the book.

Meanwhile, we also have here the character who was easiest to cast--Carlotta and Allknowing are just straight up the same character: the skilled, respected professional who resents being replaced by the antivillain's young, talented crush.

Also featured are Silverclaws (based on La Sorelli from PotO-the-book, who has no equivalent in either the musical or WoF) and Daddy Daaé (who just doesn't get a name, I guess, because neither Tui Sutherland nor Gaston Leroux thought he needed one).

*Brown-tabby-stripes Listener comes from user Oleandy on DeviantArt, who I'm not going to link to because Mom doesn't want my little siblings (who follow this blog) running around on DeviantArt.

I drew this months ago and then completely forgot about it

Ibex of the SkyWings

I've been drawing a lot of Operastalker lately, so I figured it might be nice to shake things up and draw a WoF tribe other than SeaWings or NightWings. Featuring my favorite SkyWing design I've done and the dragon it goes to, who I should really change the personality of because he is much too obnoxious to look that cool.

The Falconry Chronicles: Page 13

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*Insert obligatory coronavirus joke*

And we are back in business, baby! Hopefully on the alternate Fridays schedule again, but my wrist still hurts and I've gotta revise some layouts before I can draw the next page, so we'll see.

Fun fact: I nearly managed to post this without the first speech bubble. I have no idea how.

Foeslayer

The next Falconry Chronicles page is coming, but it's gonna be a few days late. I'm still readjusting to schedules, and I have to be a bit more cautious than usual because my wrist has started hurting.

In the meantime, have this messy sketch:

The Princess of Decay

An MLP OC I came up with last month: the alicorn in charge of maintaining the cycle of death and regrowth in the face of a society that not only controls its entire ecosystem, but also possesses magic powerful enough to manipulate time. 

She isn't part of the governmental structure of Equestria, although she is an ally to the royal family, and prefers to work in solitude much of the time. Her duties include insuring that wildfires happen often enough to maintain a healthy ecosystem, making sure things grow back properly after natural disasters, keeping ponies from figuring out immortality spells, and repeatedly explaining that yes, carnivores are necessary.

She doesn't have a name yet because there are no synonyms for "decay" with positive connotations. I'd like to have her show up in Falchron at some point.

A sketch of Hela, the Norse goddess of death, and all the canines associated with her: Garmr, her guard dog; Fenrisulfr, her brother; and Narfi, her half-brother. Wow, it's been a while since I drew Norse myth characters, hasn't it?

(I've always pictured Garmr as a Rottweiler for some reason. Don't ask why.)



In other news: we are done with moving out now, which means I'll have time to draw Falchron again! I'll try to get a page out next Friday, although no promises--I haven't even figured out sleeping at a consistent time yet, so it's possible I won't be able to get into the swing of doing scheduled, non-packing things right away. And I still need to do layouts for the next few pages, and probably re-familiarize myself with the style after not drawing ponies for a few weeks.

(Seriously on the sleep thing. Since we left I've gone to bed at 1pm (after packing all night and driving all morning), 6pm,  and now it's looking like it's gonna be 4am. I think I drove myself to exhaustion so many days in a row that my body hardly even registers regular everyday tiredness anymore.)

One last Falchron filler sketch--this time the Falconress as a more realistically proportioned pony. (I hesitate to say she's wholly realistic, as she is still bright red with wings.)