#lunar chronicles kai

[lucydoodlessometimes]

Eternally loyal to the lunar Crown (after a fashion, anyway), lunar guard Winter Hayle closes out our main cast! It's been very fun, and I don't plan on abandoning the world of the Lunar Chronicles (or this version of it! I do have a couple bonus pages planned, including a Jacin with the scars I forgot to draw last post).

Winter approaches Jacin's plot points with a bit more of a smile, and thus finds herself getting along much better with the Rampion crew while she's with them. Though she keeps her characteristic airy demeanor, it's as intentional as any other guard keeping a still mind- Winter is almost wholly unreadable to the outside eye, save for her devotion to her prince, who she values above all else. Dressed in the dark uniform of the lunar guard, she fades into the background of luminescent artemisia- or at least, she tries to. Notably, she keeps her hair cropped a bit shorter and held up in a ponytail for practicality's sake, and lacks three distinctive canonical scars down her cheek. (additionally, her uniform is inspired by Clara's uniform in Nutcracker and the Four Realms, because that movie changed me irrevocably and I think the effect is about right)

Cinder | Kai | Cress | Thorne | Scarlet | Ze'ev | Jacin

Original au by @healing-winston-pratt

#lucy doodles #my art #lunar chronicles #fanart #reverse au #alright guys. I think i included everything i needed to in this one #heres hoping #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles fanart #tlc fanart #winter #winter hayle #winter hayle blackburn #tlc winter #lunar chronicles kai #jacin clay #lunar chronicles winter #marissa meyer #i have school tomorrow #;-; #i have no more ramblings tonight. this will have to do

[definitelynotisabel]

wtf do people without fandoms do with their life? like actually what do you do when you don’t have something to dangerously obsess over. the last time i wasn’t a part of a fandom was in fourth grade.

#what do you do #fandom #fanart #fanfic #fantasy #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #percy series #percy jackon and the olympians #the lunar chronicles #the rampion crew #across the spiderverse #the hunger games #aaron warner #shatter me #hazbin hotel #avatar the last airbender #percy and annabeth #annabeth chase #books #peeta mellark #katara defense squad #katniss everdeen #prince kai #katara #kenji kishimoto #harry potter #mauraders #divergent

[frckldmnstr]

and some sketches

#the lunar chronicles #tlc cinder #tlc fanart #cinder #cinderella #linh cinder #queen levana #marissa meyer #prince kai

[mellendraws]

So this is love mmm 🎶

#cinder #the lunar chronicles #kai x cinder #cinder x kai #kaider #bookish art #YA Books #artists on tumblr #mine #linh cinder

[impossiblesuitcase]

You know the line in Cress where it mentions the rumour that Cinder "seduced Emperor Kaito and was now pregnant with a Lunar-Earthen-cyborg thing"?

Imagine if Kai was just a little more unhinged. He doesn't want Cinder to get captured and killed, so at a press conference he practically pulls the Peeta Mellark 'If it weren't for the baby' line. A journalist asks, "what of the rumour that the fugitive is carrying your child?"

And Kai, with a solemn expression, says cryptically, "these are hard times for all, for a number of reasons. Even for myself."

The world explodes. The EC military are freaking out because they can't risk harming the future heir, so the worldwide hunt for Linh Cinder is thrown in for a loop. Alas, Kai doesn't know that Cinder is Selene, so by implying that she is pregnant, Levana is even more determined to kill the two heirs to the Lunar throne and hunts Cinder even more viciously.

Meanwhile Cinder is furious and mortified. Thorne teases her endlessly about it ("I am NOT pregnant! We haven't even hugged!" "You were smooching him at the ball!" "That's different!!"). When Jacin says the line, "one more fling with your toy before he becomes Levana's property", she punches him twice.

Then when they kidnap Kai, she rips into him. "You made me out to be a teen mother! Do you know embarrassing that is?!" He rebuts, "I was trying to help you!"

One successful revolution later, the public are confused why there's no mention of this 'baby'. So in an interview, Kai is asked, "so, is Queen Selene pregnant with your child or not?"

Kai bursts out laughing. "Pregnant? Wherever did you get that idea?"

"...you confirmed it in a press conference."

"I never said she was pregnant."

He straight up gaslights them into believing he never said a thing. It's hilarious. And then when Cinder and Kai are eventually married and actually pregnant, the world is scared to believe it and be tricked again.

#every day i descend further into madness #i will create a headcanon one day that even the bravest of you cannot accept #tlc #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #kaider #prince kai #cinder #emperor kai

[winterczn]

the literal crown prince of the eastern commonwealth after his crush said no to going to the ball with him twice, ignored 6 of his comms, and didn’t want to go eat lunch with him:

video by rydrxve on tiktok!

#the lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #emperor kai #emperor kaito #linh cinder #selene blackburn #kaider #he is kenough #incorrect tlc quotes #your honor i love him #this is basically a kai fanpage #i havent even watched watch the movie yet

[rachbananas]

kaider brainrot every hour on the hour

#kaider fanart #kaider #fanart #the lunar chronicles #linh cinder #prince kai

[thetlctrash]

OH MY GOD GUYS THIS IS NOT A DRILL

ITS OFFICIAL GUYS

#the lunar chronicles #thelunarchronicles #marissa meyer #tlc fandom #tlc cress #the rampion crew #linh cinder #carswell thorne #tlc cinder #tlc #tlc winter #tlc wolf #lunar chronicles #cinder #jacin clay #wolflet #tlc thorne #tlc kai #kaider #cresswell

[snowdropo-o]

Mm i love themm

#linh cinder #prince kai #emperor kai #cinder #the lunar chronicles #artists on tumblr #digital drawing #art #book fanart

[linh-cindy]

I FOUND THE BEST QUALITY ONE

#the lunar chronicles #tlc #the rampion crew #linh cinder #kaider #tlc cinder #emperor kai #prince kai #the lunar chronicles fanart #tlc fanart #YES #WOOP WOOP

[signedbybriar]

Levana leaving the moon to seduce an 18 year old who just lost his father

#the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #books and reading #books #pls no spoilers past book 1 #linh cinder #prince kai #queen levana

[lucydoodlessometimes]

It's everyone's favorite criminal mastermind, the famed Captain Cress herself! I'm still ironing out how exactly she changes visually- hence the lack of notes in the image- but I figure I'll just go ahead and note the important stuff here, since I didn't do much costuming to make notes about.

Her hair is a bit straighter than her canon iteration, but not much different in length. She wears pants far more often, and generally has a more cool and self-assured disposition. I want her appearance to generally feel more grown up to reflect her self image (though that's still being ironed out in my art style... so many versions of her face) but she's not as direct or prone to flirting as Thorne was. Also, she retains her love of acting and general tendency toward escapism!

I hope to get some more concrete character interactions drawn sometime soon-ish, but I also intend to get similar character sheets done for the rest of the main cast eventually.

Cinder | Kai | Thorne | Scarlet | Ze'ev | Jacin | Winter

original au

#lucy doodles #my art #reverse au #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles kai #cress #crescent moon darnel #lunar chronicles #tlc cress #mention of #carswell thorne #reference sheet #lunar chronicles fanart #fanart #my fanart #heaven forbid i post any time before midnight

[therealkaidertrash21]

Kai when Cinder didn't laugh at his joke:

#I'm obviously exaggerating #but i thought it was at least a little funny #very little #but enough #also excuse the awful picture i took #i kinda gave up #the lunar chronicles #tlc #cinder #thelunarchronicles #linh cinder #lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #tlc tag #prince kai #kaider #emperor kai #emperor kaito

[frckldmnstr]

Well I drew this for a competition… and… I lose Never mind

#the lunar chronicles #cinderella #cinder #linh cinder #tlc cinder #tlc fanart #prince kai #queen levana #fanart #marissa meyer

[mellendraws]

Rampion squad >>>

#mine #fanart #artists on tumblr #bookish art #the lunar chronicles #cress darnel #cressxthorne #cresswell #jacinter #jacin clay #kaider #cinder x kai #scarlet x wolf

[impossiblesuitcase]

Cinder is jealous. She's jealous of her step-sisters. They have pretty clothes and soft hands and a doting mother. She has none of which. Her sister Peony is her only human friend and even seeing her in a ballgown sparks "envy" in Cinder, because Peony gets a dress and can go to the ball. Cinder can't.

She doesn't believe she could be pretty. She's too clunky, she's not curvy. She pins it down to being cyborg or just naturally inadequate. Cinder doesn't have nice clothes or fancy things. Kai gives her gloves and they are "the most beautiful thing she had ever owned." And then they are ruined, like all the pretty things in her life. She has to survive, endure, and with that she doesn't have time for prettiness.

But Kai's first impression of her is that she's "cute" and "pretty." He calls her pretty in public, and he calls her pretty in his private thoughts. "Your pretty new mechanic in the lobby", "the pretty young mechanic at the market." He finds her gorgeous with her glamour, and his "knees threatened to buckle" in her beauty. Everyone else thought she was gorgeous, but no one was swooning the way he was. The glamour had amplified the attraction he'd already had towards her.

Thorne, upon seeing a cyborg stumble into his jail cell, has the first instinct to flirt with her. Not recoil, because of her metal and skin, but flirt because she's a girl and that's his favourite pastime. And what distinguished her from the many other pretty girls he normally flirted with? To him, "her irritation made her prettier". Her disgruntled personality, who she is, is her prettiness.

Adri tells Cinder that if she can't cry, she can't feel love. She does love, she loves so much, but she doesn't have time to grieve her sister or her anonymity or her freedom when she has a revolution to start. She has to tough it out.

When she's bound up in Kai's arms she feels safe, delicate, "almost like a princess."

Cinder pretends she doesn't have a crush on Kai because having a crush on a celebrity is "preadolescent," the trademark of immature, lovesick teenage girls. How can she be girly when she's a grimy mechanic? She "doesn't know the first thing about makeup", because do you think Adri would have ever let her buy some to try? Would Cinder have even bothered, believing nothing could improve a cyborg?

She dreams of "going to the ball and dancing with the prince." And when Iko teases her, Cinder says, "we all have our weaknesses". It is a weakness to be in love, because someone like Kai couldn't love her. She imagines being at the ball, "jealous of the girls who swooned to catch Prince Kai's attention." Jealous that they can be open with their attraction, jealous that he would pick them over her.

But he loves her. And when he does, she can't process the feeling "of being desired". She wants to carve 'C + K' into a wall, then berates herself for such "whimsy." Because deep down, she's always wanted to be wanted, and that truth is her weakness. But war doesn't last forever, and soon, she has no reason to hide that. There's no reason it would be a weakness.

Cinder is comfortable in baggy cargo pants and messy hair but she also dreams of wearing a beautiful ballgown. She loves her coronation dress. She calls the empress crown 'stunning.'

She never becomes obsessed with frills or glitter, but she slowly leans into soft, pretty things. She has a necklace from Kai and her engagement ring. It's sparkly and yet, Cinder, the so-called 'tough, aloof tomboy' thinks it makes her metal hand look "elegant". Maybe she starts wearing bracelets and earrings because they don't bother her when she isn't working on something mechanical. She doesn't even notice until Thorne jokes that she wears more metal in jewellery than the whole metal of her hand.

Maybe she buys herself a new set of tools with pink and blue iridescent handles simply because finds them pretty. Maybe when her friends tease her about how in love she is, she starts to acknowledge it.

Cinder is not some stereotype of a leading female character who is strong and as such cannot be feminine or soft or emotional. Was she given the chance to be?

Let her be soft. Let her be delicate. Let her pretty.

#tlc #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #selene blackburn #emperor kai #kaider #carswell thorne #ive had this sitting in my drafts for years #dont know why i never finished #i clearly had too much to say