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
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I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give me, but I will not become a monster myself.
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Tlc as phrases that my friends and i said
Thorne, about Winter: Oh great! You're here. CAN YOU HELP ME INTERROGATE HER
Cress: I am the new Sherlock Holmes
Cinder: ah. delicious water.
Peony: *runs* WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
Iko: MATH HAS A PROGRAMMING ERROR
Winter: *waves at the moon* HI
Jacin: I'll beat you on the head with this water jug I swear
Scarlet: i wanna be where no ppl are
Wolf: look cherry tomatoes
Kai: Are you ok
Cinder: no
Iko: BLACKPINK is my gasoline
Winter: I can't live without milk
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Jacin I need you to get your head out of your ass too, for the sake of my bloodpressure, please.
She was still a princess, and he was still nothing.
Boy if you don't knock that the fuck off and just fucking kiss her like you mean it I will get violent! She loves you and you love her and that's all that matters, not her social status (conferred on her by the stepmother who hates her, she was born to a 'lowly' 'nothing' guard, just like you), the people may love and revere her but what matters is how she feels and she loves you, you dumbass (affectionate but frustrated)!
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Winter Hayle-Blackburn from The Lunar Chronicles. Full time-lapse will be posted to instagram.
Sorry for not making anything for TLC for so long. I’ve finally been able to lift small things again since I caught Covid in April, and it’s been difficult to finish things quickly when borrowing a different device to draw. It’s not my best, but at least it’s something for now.
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I haven’t gotten into it on this blog, but I’ve been super into The Lunar Chronicles since September 2022. Anyway, below are my late night ramblings that nobody cares about on why Angel with a Shotgun is Jacin Clay’s song. I’m making this list at 1:45 in the morning while I’m supposed to be packing for a trip, so this isn’t gonna be neatly organized or coherent lol.
Spoilers below for Cress and Winter btw
Alright, so we’re properly introduced to Jacin during Cress. He’s made a couple cameos in Cinder iirc (at least one) but it’s during the third book we finally learn his name, personality etc.
A crucial part of his character is of course, his Princess Winter, aka childhood best friend/crush. Typically around others he’s serious, sarcastic, cold. But with her it’s like….I mean look he keeps his face and mind blank around others as a place guard of Queen Levana’s would but whenever it comes to Winter it’s just….his face visibly changes ok this doesn’t make much sense now that I’m reading it but onwards.
Onto the analysis of Angel with a Shotgun and how it relates to Jacin Clay
““And they say before you start a war, you better know what you’re fighting for. Well baby you are all that I adore, if love is what you need a soldier I will be.”
-He stays as a puppet of Levana so he could stay and protect Winter the best he can, he doesn’t want to leave her alone. He knows Levana despises Winter and would take any chance to hurt her/kill her (as shown when she inflicted her scars and when she gave her letumosis.)
-”I’ll throw away my faith babe just to keep you safe, don’t you know you’re eveyrthing I have.”
-He’s not loyal to Levana whatsoever (“I serve my princess, no one else.”)he’s loyal only to Princess Winter. He risked their lives and kills Ryu in order to fake her death and help her escape.
-”“Sometimes to win, you have to sin.”
As I said above, betrayed Rampion crew and killed Ryu for Winter.
-”“And I wanna live not just survive.”
He wants to be a fuckingh doctor ok he doesn’t wanna be a palace guard he wants to be a doctor. He wants to live.
Anyway, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, I love Jacin Clay and this essay isn’t structured properly but I stand by every word goodnight.
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