Six Of Crows Babes

Six of Crows babes 

AU to distract myself again

Lotor joins the Paladins and explains his past in doing so, and Shiro relates since he, too, was a gladiator and tells Lotor that, if he ever needs anything to come to his room and talk. After just the first night Lotor begins having nightmares of his past actions, traumatic moments, and awful fights in the arena. He shakes and he sweats and he doesn’t know what to do. He remembers Shiro’s words, walks to his room and knocks on the door. Instantly he breaks down crying.

Shiro hugs Lotor in his arms and brushes back his hair. He attempts to reassure the Galra prince, tell him it’s going to be ok. But Lotor can’t sleep and Shiro, being such a big person has a large bed enough for 2. He gives half of it to Lotor for the night, figuring sleeping alone isn’t good for either of them after something like this.

Lotor watches Shiro go back to sleep. He realizes he wants the Paladin to wake up again, he just wants to hear his comforting voice. He reaches a hand out to his back but draws it away and makes himself think he’s being irrational.

Every time after this, when Lotor has a nightmare, he goes into Shiro’s room and the two share the bed. Sometimes the two say nothing, and they just nod and share the bed after Lotor enters the room. They do this numerous times, and Lotor every time attempts to touch Shiro’s back or arm or hair–something to let him know Shiro is real and he is there and he is truly that close.

Several months pass. Lotor’s nightmares slow, and he’s able to handle them on his own so it’s been ages since he slept near Shiro. But one night he remains awake and cannot fall asleep in his own bed. He rushes down the hall to Shiro who asks if it’s a nightmare, but Lotor just walks to his side of the bed, lies down, and rolls onto the side facing Shiro’s back and wraps an arm around him.

Shiro smiles. He presses his hand to Lotor’s and tells him, “I was wondering how long it’d be.”

Plenty of you lovely book nerds already spotted it but now I can share my Six of Crows gang illustration for the @illumicrate Grisha Box! ✨ 

For those asking: it’s currently exclusive to Illumicrate but might be available in my shop in a few months, if I can sort it out :)

a quick Diaval sketch because I rewatched Maleficent and the guy stole my heart…. again

So not only is Lotor physically distancing himself from the rest of his team, but he’s crossing his arms across his chest so tight, he’s making an even bigger barrier between himself and them. He looks like he’s deep in thought and I feel like here he’s honestly just totally shut down for one of the first times in the series that we’ve seen so far. He doesn’t even have a weapon on him to fight back against Acxa.

Lotor’s closing himself off to everyone, including us, the audience. We haven’t been let in to his mind or his heart. And I really, really hope that the paladins can give us that insight and at least we get a little peek.

This isn’t asking for a redemption arc. Lotor doesn’t need redeeming. He needs a story, and it’s clear he’s reluctant to tell not only his generals, but us, too.

Anyway I just thought this imagery and body language was pretty interesting. There’s definitely so much more to this than we know right now.

Here’s to hoping we get some deeper insight into his plans, and what exactly he’s hoping for with all the quintessence he wants to gather, and the Sincline ships.

Monty and Percy from Mackenzi Lee’s novel The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. I haven’t even finished the book yet, but I adore it, so I had to draw for it!