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Raistlin x/and Crysania mini AU where they're just cute lil critters
they're for an animatic i'm working on
yeh i love dragonlance so much is literally the only novels i read :D
i love the new trilogy :) so much drama lol
you've gotta be kidding me if there's not enough fanart of Raist when he becomes a god.
this is based of the book description (except the horns/ears???): - his figure is blacker than the darkness around him - only his eyes can be seen - astinus sees his hands clench so he must have hands - described as 'black robed figure' (kinda forgot abt that)
i tried to make the horns kinda like rabbit ears cuz yeah lol
When I talk about the concept of Raistlin using a powerchair, I do not mean a headcanon/AU of him having disabilities/severity that he doesn't have in canon.
He canonically struggles to stand and walk even with his staff as a mobility aid. I thought I might have overestimated how much, but having began to read Dragonlance properly (yes, I finally did it, though it ended up to be one day and I don't know when I'll get back to it) I found out that I have *under*estimated it. In the beginning of DoAT, a lot of time he can only walk with Caramon's help, not even just his staff. He literally needs a wheelchair.
I'm saying powerchair because he has whole-body weakness and likely pain (I don't think I've encountered descriptions of the latter directly yet, but from other things I'm certain that he canonically has fibromyalgia). Also because I need a powerchair bc of the same + specifically shoulder & upper arm issues but would even without them.
Headcanons and AUs where he is more disabled than in canon are absolutely valid, and all the power to you! But also please acknowledge the extent of his canonical disability, and the fact that that extent does warrant that need. These things go hand in hand!
I'm honestly quite unhappy with specifically the painting of this, at least in comparison to my previous one (not posted) — which idk about publicly posting bc it has a self-portrait 😭 — but decided to post it anyway.
I'd been unhappy with my previous depictions of Raistlin for several reasons, perhaps I'll write a separate post about it, and recently I read a new bunch of bits from the books and today realized that now, a few days, a bit more stuff later, I do have a distinct vision of Raistlin's appearance in my mind!
This is my very first attempt to draw, which also turned into the very first attempt to paint, this new version. More to come! (As of current plans)
This has a different skin tone than what I used in my previous paintings of Raistlin as well, tried to replicate what my brain has pictured to me probably based off some of the illustrations, and the way I rendered the old one doesn't work on this one, haven't yet fully worked out how to render it and perhaps I'll change it again, back to the old one or to something new.
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A digital painting depicting, in portrait form, Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance, specifically — in the timeframe around the beginning of the Legends trilogy. He is looking skeptically towards the viewer's direction but not quite right in it, his head slightly bent down as part of his posture.
He is a thin human in his late twenties, but he looks probably quite a lot older than that, and his hair is thin and fully white. His skin, meanwhile, is literal metallic gold in color and, partly, in texture. His irises are also golden, and his pupils are in the shape of hourglasses. His hair is long, straight, down at the bottom but pulled back at the top; his lips are cracked, and blood vessels are well visible in his eyes. There are bags under his eyes as well. He has a large forehead and a receding hairline, eyebrows that meet in the middle and a crease of frequent frown between them, a nose with prominent both bridge and tip, a narrow chin and a rather narrow, but not quite, jaw. He is wearing a black shirt with a standing collar and a black robe with its good down.
A bit of cloudy color — purplish, whiteish — is behind him; the rest of the background is black.
The artist's signature, in thin, mostly translucent white brush, reads:
Discord: leviathan_0084
Jan 19/20 night 2024
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So I am finally writing a canonverse fic where Raistlin uses a wheelchair.
I headcanon that, like me (and I do think it's really canonically likely from what I know of canon...), Raistlin cannot use a manual wheelchair, so I suppose his chair has to work on magic.
The thing is I know nothing about dnd. And I'd like to find a way for the chair to move without him actively having to move it with magic himself, because it would probably strain him?
Only found manual chairs by tumblr searches "dnd wheelchair" and "dnd magic wheelchair".
Today's mobility aid update: apparently, I am now a Full Time Wizard Staff User.
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Tl;dr: I'm a cane user who needs more support and has shoulder problems, I am beginning a cosplay of a dnd wizard, and turns out that apparently a staff is better for me than a cane.
(still planning to try forearm crutches and would like a powerchair eventually but well, I'll compare all those too. And for now, I have my staff.)
& also, the wizard I'm cosplaying, Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance, is canonically very disabled and uses his staff as a mobility aid.
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Backstory: https://www.tumblr.com/dyspunktional-revan/717836384898023424, also some follow-up https://www.tumblr.com/dyspunktional-revan/719407235725492224 (I did try two canes and it was *horrible* on my shoulders).
And now I've been planning a cosplay of Raistlin Majere (who, by the way, canonically uses his staff as a mobility aid!! A young mobility aid user (25 in the first book (Dragonlance series), had to use a mobility aid since 21)! A disabled magic-user who is disabled not because he is magic-user (has been disabled all his life, an event that disabled him much more at 21 was related to magic but the disabilities themselves were not magical — his body was just severely weakened and broke down more; and *couldn't be healed* for magical reasons but not from magical afflictions)! And more and more and more I love Raistlin so much).
There had been several things at home that could go for the staff's pole but they all needed work and weren't very handy to walk with. But now I got a new one — a drape runner that wasn't holding in the wall and had to be taken off; and — this particular one was already an appropriate length. And empty inside, and thin and firm enough at the same time thanks to being metal (wrapped in some kind of plastic). I still had to give it some tip to stand on, and it wasn't even cut straight. It's 25mm and the standard cane tip is made for 20mm.
And then my mother had a genius idea. She took an old cane tip, and *shoved it in*. And it holds perfectly.
Now to the mobility aid part!
So, now I have a proto-staff I can actually walk with, and at first I felt like my cane was mostly better. But then I wanted to stand up and my legs hurt really bad, I took my cane at first but then I decided to take the staff instead — it can offer more support, especially if I hold it with both hands.
After a while, I put it down and took my cane — and realized that the staff was actually better. My shoulder instantly felt much worse. Idk about the rest because I just put down the cane and took up the staff again, and had been using it for the rest of the day.
I'll probably still need to use a more conventional mobility aid outside (when not in costume)... For one thing, I don't think anyone's going to offer a bus seat to a guy with a wizard staff rather than a cane or a crutch (eh. Also that applies to when in costume too, thought about that long before I'd thought of actually using the staff as a mobility aid outside of cosplay).
Although perhaps btw I could, like, try to ask, hey I have leg problems, I actually use a cane when not cosplaying, could you please,, Idk.
As I said in tl;dr, I'm still planning to try other mobility aids, planning to buy at least one forearm crutch as soon as I can go out (currently ill). I'll compare that and the staff too, might alternate like folx do alternate their conventional mobility aids? And eventually I would like a powerchair, don't know if it can ever become possible for me.
Raistlin using a powerchair. You agree. Reblog.
(I’ve been thinking a lot but I’m artblocked so this)
your discord pfp and your tumblr pfp are locked in a room together. what happens?
[Image description:
A digital painting depicting Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance, at the time of the Chronicles trilogy. He is shown about half body, partly with his back turned towards the viewer, but his head turned, in side profile, looking at the unseen character who is looking at him from about the same angle as the viewer. Raistlin is angry, frustrated, tired, and is addressing the unseen character with the words, written in the painting, the letters red with a gold shine: “Nothing. Mind your business, Half-Elven.”
Raistlin is a twenty-five year old human, but several of the features typical to young humans were altered in his body. His hair is already fully grey, and his skin is literal metallic gold; so are his irises, and his pupils are in the shape of hourglasses.
He is very thin, with sharp but still somewhat soft features, and wavy hair that reaches almost the bottom of his shoulder blades, fully down and parted in the middle. He has thin eyebrows that meet in the middle, circles under his eyes, and thin, cracked lips. His eyes are bloodshot, and there’s a little blood on his teeth.
He is wearing a red robe and a red cape that also covers his shoulders, with a wide black border with thin gold ornament. With one hand, he is leaning on a dark brown wooden staff; the top of the staff is not visible in the painting.
The background is an irregular texture of brown, lighter behind Raistlin and darker towards the edges.
The artist’s signature, placed beside Raistlin’s back, reads:
Discord: leviathan_0084
Nov 21 2023
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The plaintext version is under the second underscore divider.
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“Do you see no hope?” “Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.” “Are you saying we should just give up?” Tanis asked, irritably tossing the bark away. “I’m saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open,” Raistlin answered. Coughing, he drew his robes more closely around him.
— Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
Emphasis mine, plaintext below.
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“Do you see no hope?” “Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.” “Are you saying we should just give up?” Tanis asked, irritably tossing the bark away. “I’m saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open,” Raistlin answered. Coughing, he drew his robes more closely around him.
— Dragonlance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
A mage of time doing a sburb any% speedrun: “If i run at this tree in the right spot while doing a backflip i glitch through my land and make it directly to my quest bed. Doing this will kill me instantly and that’s perfect because if i execute it correctly i’ll end up on my quest bed, this allows me to god tier before even starting my quest.”
@dalekdi RAISTLIN BINGO
(though yeah in your AU he's Void bc Tas is Time)
After the Test of High Sorcery.
(Still mostly haven’t actually read the books, sorry; and yeah, the robes are a different type, forgot it while sketching and then ultimately decided not to fix. Maybe it’s a different one)
(Either way, this is now one of my most favorite things of mine. Wow)
[Image description:
A digital painting depicting Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance — soon after he has passed his Test of High Sorcery.
He is shown from the chest up, at a ~3/4 angle, and his head is turning towards the viewer — and someone talking to him offscreen. He’s just been through hell and looks exactly like it. He’d much prefer not to be talking to that offscreen someone right now. He is frustrated, angry, and *very* pained and exhausted.
He is a twenty-one year old human. However, several traits typically distinctive of both of these categories have been changed. His skin is literal metallic gold. His hair is grey. His irises are also golden in color, and his pupils are in the shape of hourglasses.
He is very thin; his hair reaches past his shoulders and is heavily wavy in texture. His eyes look very large and round, and are very bloodshot. There is also blood on his bared teeth. there are deep dark circles under his eyes. His face is pretty angular but those angles are rounded, his nose is wide and rounded in shape, his eyebrows are thick and meet in the middle, and his lips are on the thin side.
He is wearing a white shirt, and a red robe with its hood down over it.
The shadows on the painting are deep.
The texture behind him is a mess of gold, with red over it. Behind it, the canvas is very dark.
The artist’s signature, placed at the bottom of the image, reads:
Discord: leviathan_0084
Oct 19–20/21 2023
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That we are still brothers
Inseparable brothers
[Image description:
A digital illustration depicting the Majere twins, Caramon and Raistlin, from Dragonlance. Caramon is kneeling beside Raistlin, his arms wrapped around Raistlin’s shoulders, and his chin resting on the top of Raistlin’s head. Raistlin is sitting/half-lying on the ground, his hand clutching at Caramon’s shoulder, his head leaning on Caramon’s chest. Both their expressions are pained. But they do also look like they are really getting rest and emotional closeness.
Caramon and Raistlin are both humans in their mid-twenties, and they are semi-identical twins, but even to the “semi” extent it’s not particularly visible. Technically, they have the same facial features — wide, sharp noses; thick, meeting in the middle eyebrows; and both have circles under their eyes, thought that is more due to exhaustion, and Raistlin’s are decidedly deeper; and they have the same heavily-wavy hair texture. Both their hairlines are receded, but that’s only visible on Caramon because his hair is half-up and Raistlin’s is fully down. Both their hair goes past their shoulders.
Caramon is fat and massively built, has pale skin and brown hair, and a full beard. Raistlin is very thin, and his skin is literal metallic gold, and his hair is grey.
Caramon is wearing chainmail, a red cape, and leather forearm bracers. Raistlin is wearing long red robes and leather boots. The cape and the robes are the same shade of red, and the bracers and the boots are the same shade of brown.
Behind them, is forest. It’s dark.
The artist’s signature, placed at the bottom of the image, reads:
Discord: leviathan_0084
Oct 12 2023
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С почином в этой соцсети меня :>
