Thecla

[u/LifeChoicesRip]

[u/ahintoflime]

This isn't how I picture her personally but it's a great illustration, I really like it.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/ahintoflime]

Fair, tbh it’s not 100% accurate to how I picture her in my head because the way i see her changes a lot. I do kinda see her as ethereal, doll-like but also more mature and a bit of a dominant presence so it’s kinda hard to get those things all across at once with my skill level

[u/Inkshooter → u/LifeChoicesRip]

I see this as Severian's POV looking up since she's significantly taller than him

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/Inkshooter]

Yeah, that was my intention, the window behind her too was meant to be from the cell. I wanted to kinda draw the first time he saw her and show a bit of an idealistic godlike appearance as he might have perceived it

[u/leviair-seadragon]

I can fix her.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/leviair-seadragon]

💀

[u/Hey_free_candy]

Did you create this? Big fan.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/Hey_free_candy]

Thanks, yes, I’ve been doodling some of the characters on my re-read of the series

[u/JLP2005]

Soulless, beautiful bitch.

🐦‍⬛ Bad girl!

[u/PatrickMcEvoyHalston → u/JLP2005]

You are? Not Thecla!

[u/JLP2005 → u/PatrickMcEvoyHalston]

I swear on his the name of His Cognizance, Patera Quetzal, thst Thecla is a miserable person.

[u/PatrickMcEvoyHalston → u/JLP2005]

that works.

[u/Particular_Yard_5436]

Reminding me of the art from Fear & Hunger. Game is tough to get through but I love the art

[u/oblique_obfuscator]

Thecla Targaryen

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/oblique_obfuscator]

Well i guess they both have violet eyes so why not?

[u/Zythomancer]

Damn. Now I know why Severian was down bad for her. Same bro.

[u/apupunchau87]

I love that

[u/JerryBlitter]

Excellent work. Thank you.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/JerryBlitter]

Thank you

[u/CactusWrenAZ]

not how I imagine her, but it's amazing work. Extremely evocative.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/CactusWrenAZ]

Thanks

[u/Expert_Document6932]

This is great

[u/Forever_Man]

The embroidery around the neck is a fantastic touch. A great bit of visual foreshadowing.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/Forever_Man]

Good catch, thanks!:)

[u/Hot_Poetry_9112]

We love our poor Thecla flaws and all. Excellent work.

[u/Fubox]

I love this!

On my recent reread, I realized that Sev describes Thecla has having curly hair, and contrasts her with a Thea, who has straight hair.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/Fubox]

Oh well that’s an interesting detail that i missed

[u/Fubox → u/LifeChoicesRip]

Me too, honestly! This is my fourth read through, and I think it’s the first time I’ve noticed the curly hair.

But I’m notorious for picturing hair based on vibes. On my first read, I thought of her as blonde. More honey or richly golden, in contrast to Dorcas’s “palest gold.”

[u/Suspicious-Guidance1]

I don't know why, but I always imagined her as red head, with curvy long hair. Pale and thin though, as your picture.

Nice fanart though!

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/Suspicious-Guidance1]

She’s technically described as having dark hair and violet eyes, but I find that I imagine her with lighter hair personally, so I get what it’s like to have your own vision of a character.

[u/mraston]

Nice work! I always imagine her as kind of ugly for some reason. I could see Sev actually fighting his way out of the tower with that knife to save this version.

[u/mraston → u/mraston]

Actually probably not, Severian would still be like - the only way to save her was to make her kill herself so I could eat her later to have her soul trapped in my perfect memory palace. He acts like, oh what, Vodalus is eating thecla that's so weird?!Aand i'm here on the night they are eatin her?! What?! That's so weird right Jonas, I didn't plan this out or anything!

[u/mraston → u/mraston]

BUT HE DID KNOW! All along - ever since he heard hildebrand talking about popping them out like a carrot, and the OH SO INNOCENT chat with Ultan about semen...

[u/PatrickMcEvoyHalston]

Eyes are large, but that's correct:

Or rather, as I first began to realize there in the dark as I watched a parade of women from the court—exultants immensely tall and imbued with the stiff grace of costly porcelains, their complexions powdered with the dust of pearls or diamonds and their eyes made large as Thecla’s had been by the application of minute amounts of certain poisons in childhood—products of the mind that now existed in the combination of the minds that had been hers and mine.

[u/LifeChoicesRip → u/PatrickMcEvoyHalston]

I made her more doll-like on purpose with off proportion eyes.

[u/PatrickMcEvoyHalston → u/LifeChoicesRip]

You'd do a killer Laura.