#it's been such a long time since I've tried drawing ru in kelpie form!

[carewyncromwell]

“Every day they shout and scold and go about their lives, Heedless of the gift it is to be them! If I was in their skin, I'd treasure every instant!”

~“Out There (cover)” by Elsie Lovelock

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Yay, more content for my kelpie kiddo, Ru! 🐎

So the second one has actually been half-done in my sketchbook a long while, mostly because I kind of lost inspiration aside from “let’s experiment with Ru’s wardrobe as an adult.” Ru’s main fashion quirks are all there in that look -- un-Victorian-approved long hair, large diamond earrings and a few rings, wearing only a coat and no shirt so as to avoid the high collars...I even dusted it with their shoes being rather high heeled rather than of a more masculine style, despite wearing pants and a men’s waistcoat. But anyway, after finishing the sketch at the top, however, I found a perfect contrast, so here it is -- this is Ru at the beginning and end of their journey. 

At the top, you see Ru as a young kelpie colt of two years, still living in the Black Lake all alone and dwelling on the fascinating, intriguing things they’ve seen in passing at the wizarding school next to the Lake -- longing that they could, in Quasimodo’s words, “just live one day out there.” 

To contrast, at the bottom, you see Ru toward the end of their life, in their more established human form. They still appear quite young, but that’s only to blend in their appearance with their peers (who are in their 40′s) -- in truth, Ru’s rather old for a kelpie at the time, and they’ve started to have more difficulty changing their appearance, a clear sign of old age. And so, taking a moment to themselves under the stars outside their and Estrid’s home in Denmark, Ru can’t help but look back at where they started and wish that their time on Earth wasn’t doomed to be so fleeting. 

Have a magical day, all! Happy holidays!

#hphlh #hogwarts legacy #my art #ru ollivander #for the record this song is my favorite disney song of all time as well #I've personally always identified with it and that line in particular was always my favorite from the time I was little <3 #it's been such a long time since I've tried drawing ru in kelpie form! #it was tricky trying to mess with the proportions to make them more 'pony-like' #their mane is a lot shorter because I see kelpies growing more seaweed-like hair on their bodies as they age #when they die they decompose in such a way that all that's left is that kelp