The Day Our Paths Crossed

This is a historic moment, guys. The first time I've ever been pleased with one of my own drawings of Timpani and Blumiere. Oh, you better believe I've tried. But when a couple really matters to me, I'm terribly self-conscious about drawing them.

Now you get to see my Blumiere, who looks much like Bleck as we know him, except... he has hair, which is in consequence of him being younger, not his transformation. Of course, if this was in color, you could see he glows blue light as opposed to red-orange (hence his name, blue + lumière, which is French for light.), but we already knew that. The other big change is that he has a more normal mouth, as opposed to the epically spiky mouth. I always portray Bleck with this, not just because it's badass, but because I perceive it as being one of the key symbolic elements of his transformation. As he lost the desire ever to love again, he lost the ability to give a kiss.

I meant to make this look something like a Chinese or Japanese ink-brush painting, since the music that plays during Bleck's flashbacks is so... Eastern-sounding. And calm and melancholy and it fits so well, especially with this first scene. "I remember that day... the room was warm." Gah. Just hearing that music makes me get all emotional!

Said artistic style also fits well with the abstract, foggy, incomplete aspect of this being but a memory.

Timpani's bringing him some tea and pulling the covers back up, because he's messed them up in freaking out that he's in a human's house, a forbidden and foreign place. She's letting him know it will all be ok.

Timpani and Blumiere (c) Nintendo/Intelligent.