micathemineral:

teroknortailor:

ladyyatexel:

So people asked for more of this and I may have vaguely promised more of it.  It’s Orphan Time~

Again, sorry for the random color splashes, and some of the grey masses on people - the paper in this book is horrible and it seeps when I watercolor on it and erases poorly. I’m doing my best to just fill it as quickly as possible, haha. The color seepage on this is actually from the New Year’s Bashir and Garak picture, though, so it’s almost appropriate?

So as I said in the last one, I’ve got focus on the other kid this time. This is the Romulan/Cardassian hybrid with the serious issues. 

First on the agenda here is just a continuation of the last doodle (‘gonna catch Romulan AND DIE’) from the previous set. 

Then we get into damaged kid zone. 

Damaged kid, as it turns out, I accidentally named after Garak’s not-father from A Stitch in Time? When I was combining syllables to try to find something that sounded like a name, I landed on ‘Tolan’ and liked it, forgetting that it had been mentioned a glancing once, and totally out of context in the whole chapter and a half of that book I’d read. So now I need to decide if I can name this kid after the man responsible for most of Garak’s awesome, especially when this kid’s sister, Mira, has a name so close to Garak’s mother’s name. I’ve gotten really used to his name in the time it took me to realize I’d borrowed it and I don’t know what else I’d call him! But there’s the background on that, feel free to voice an opinion. For the sake of my sanity, I’m just going to use it for him for this hunk of commentary.

Also, in the event you are interested in more background on these shenanigans, the comments on the last one have a conversation between me and a friend here on dA that turns into a giant spew on my part about how some of this orphan business goes down or was thought out.  It’s the one I linked to up there, check it out if you’re interested in watching me talk in long paragraphs about orphan drama even more than I am here.

AS FOR DOODLE TIME, next to the ‘contagious’ drawing is just an older head shot of this kid. The Romulan in him gives him the kind of creasing in his forehead, pointed ears, and a greenish-yellow tinge to his grey skin. He looks more Cardassian than Romulan, by far, but Cardassians would look at him and think something was off, which is totally demonstrated by Mira in the drawing below where she tells Bashir that Tolan’s face is broken, and they should get her a different non-broken new sibling. This drawing is part of a series of ‘break Bashir’s heart’ that I am apparently fixated on with regard to this kid, because that doodle, with Bashir saying ‘there’s nothing wrong with him’ makes the one on the bottom of Tolan getting angry kind of very sad. 

NOW THAT I’VE LED YOU ALL AROUND THIS PAPER, the remaining drawings are him and Garak, because I needed to do some of Garak with these kids that wasn’t all >:[ I became really fond of the top one and decided to color it both because it was sweet and I thought it would be a good chance to show some skin color. 


TA DAAAA ORPHAN TIME

YAY MORE CARDASSIAN WAR ORPHANS DOODLES!!!

I can’t express how much I adore these. (I would watch this show and/or read this fic in an instant.)