She is, for a moment, a stranger. A figure out of history, or myth. So far from the regicide player who laughs unabashedly at all her many conniving triumphs, Heinrix’s higher faculties left in ribbons on the floor after an hour of enduring her little teases. This, he thinks, is the woman from Heliora’s stories: the one from another life she never quite betrays the details of.
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I am SO thrilled with this amazing piece from @vasiliquemort and how WELL they’ve captured Heliora!!! The stance, the expression—and especially the way she is backlit, rendering her face in such a way it is harder to remember her distinctive features, harder to pick her out in a lineup… >:) PERFECT crime lord energy, I am utterly in love!
Thanks eternally to @infernaldaydreams for using some of the money from her latest round of commissions to gift this to me—it has truly revived my spirits in ways I’ve sorely needed these past two months. Creatives supporting creatives is how fandom stays alive and vibrant, and I am truly so glad to have such an amazing and thoughtful friend. 💛
