Ragnarok Online Fanart - Yggdrasil

For those of you who aren’t fallowing MY BLOG, Friday night I got struck with the idea to draw this picture and the moment I drafted it out- I HAD THE BLEEDING URGE TO RENDER IT IMMEDIATELY! It barely took me… erm.. Three to four days to do both pictures, but IT WAS SOO WORTH dropping EVERYTHING for! AND GOD- I IMPRESSED MYSELF! I'VE NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE EVER RENDERED SOMETHING SOOO VIVIDLY STRAIGHT FROM MY MIND!!!!!!!!! Anyway! Here we have my RO Assassin Kaiser and Bard Evangeline. The picture was inspired by this really short alternate universe plot that I was hatching behind the scenes- I suppose it takes place in-between version one and two of the story lines for our characters.

 

To make a long story short, a chatty, socialite Assassin questing for “reverence & wisdom” from the Yggdrasil tree crosses paths and falls in love with a bard with an enchanting song, journeying to return his recently deceased Grandmother’s ashes to his family’s burial site, while dying of a genetic disease. Mixing business with pleasure, the Bard over exerts his vocals and straining his health with no means of curing himself. Deserting the Assassin merely inches from the Yggdrasil to resume his journey to the burial site, where he poison’s himself to end his lineage. The Assassin however collects his corpse, reaches the Yggdrasil, and wishes for the boy’s life instead of reverence & wisdom. Unable to return the Bard’s destroyed voice with his life, The Assassin sacrifices his own voice, granted in a kiss, so that the boy will always be able to sing for him.

 

And the moral of today’s story is “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

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