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Dendroans Heirs (AU)

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An Alternate Universe drawing of my characters. Lines by *Potemkinbuster, colours by me.

I have to say.. I gave up on shading that one. >.< What could even have crossed my mind to think I would be able to chew such a big piece, well, I don't know. Maybe one day I will go back to it but right now i can't. This is my 8th colo ever and it took me something like 12 to 15 hours I think? (that bike killed me, no kidding...)

In that alternate universe, Dendroa is slowly coming over the memory of a terrible earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands people some twenty years ago, tearing a good part of the coasts and flooding the coastal cities.

To show support to the population, the royal couple, Oren and Enassan Takeravi, went and adopted one of the quake's orphans, Kiddo. The young girl, two years younger than Beeren and four years to Aeran, was barely a toddler when she got taken in but for all the care she received, motherly love was more found from maids and servants than from Enassan.

The true reason behind that, a reason known only to very few peoples, is that Kiddo isn't any orphan: she is actually Oren's niece, a baby born of his brother out of wedlock, a brother that died during the earthquake along with his mistress, Kiddo's mom. Oren decided to take the girl in to give her what he estimated to be an education fitting her rank and birth, despites Enassan reluctance, an opposition partly born of the fact that Beeren's complicated birth rendered her unable to have other children. She finally accepted but at the sole condition than the secret of her birth would remain a secret, arguing that a child born out of marriage would only soil Oren's brother memory and be used against the girl. She was persuasive enough than Oren accepted.

Enassan never managed to find the ressources to consider Kiddo as her daughter, someting Oren had hoped for and while she never was cruel to the girl, she also never showed love and always made sure she understood the differences between her and the legitimate heirs.
That backfired in an unexpected way as Kiddo found herself falling in love with Aeran, thinking they had no common blood at all. To stay near him, she started to work until she became the perfect PA: fluent in many langages, economics, politics, and such, she learned how to make herself both invisible and essential, while remaining too shy to confess her attraction to him.

When Enassan realised that, she decided to to her very best to separate them and nip in the bud whatever hope at a relatinship they could have and instead plotted to have Kiddo marry (or at least engage in a relation with) Sugeru, the older son and heir of Chomeï, the king of a neighbour realm. To that she used various means, up to asking Kiddo's to do this, as a show of gratitude for all that had been done for her, as Dendroa still nedded the ressources that Drechenval, Chomeï's country, could provide them.
It is important to note that Enassan didn't pick Sugeru randomly. For all her lack of motherly affection towards Kiddo and her aversion at the idea of her having a relation with her son, she chose Sugeru because she knew the young man had feelings for Kiddo and would love her and care for her, and she was sure that Kiddo would at one point develop feelings for him too.

Chomeï actually knew that Kiddo wasn't the random orphan they were trying to make her look like but believed Kiddo was in fact Oren's own adulterous child, raised among his legitimate children. Enassan's attitude towards Kiddo did bother him so much he would actually have agreed to such an alliance, if only to pull the girl off Enassan's sight and in a place where she could decide by herself of what to do, and not live a life of utter misery from the day Aeran would have to marry someone else.

In this alternate world, Aeran works the diplomatic and commercial office after a stay in the army while Beeren is idling along after ingeniery studies, and generally living his life along pretty girls and powerful bikes.
Aeran does enjoy to fly planes, while Kiddo's main hobby is actually skydiving, she is a fanatic for free fall and actually loves spending time with Beeren as he tinkers with her free fall wingsuits to allow her to fly faster and farther, while Aeran is their pilot.




I don't mean to frighten my readers but just so you know, this AU thingie of mine is almost as developed as my regular story, so if you wanna hear more of it, just say the word... :D

You will notice that they all have matching pieces of jewelry (green stone) and yes, it's meaningful ;)



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Art:


Lines by *Potemkinbuster
Colours by me
Characters, concept, story, me *spadiekitchenqueen


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Wiiolis's avatar
Good job with colours ^^
Btw that blonde guy in the middle is super sexy 8DD