Thorin Stonhelem’s design and inspirtion is from @determamfidd. Akhsan is loosely based on Martin Sensmeier… because of course.
*SCREAMING* JON. VAL. THIS. IS AMAZING. HOLY SHIT. you know I have to put akhsan and khalei in, i JUST HAVE TO, i love them far far too much. THE CART IS INCREDIBLE. The pig! AHKSAN. HIS DESIGN. IS JUST. lshgsjkh *flails madly* THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
oh, and also: *continues to scream bc SPARKLE DREW MY VERSION OF THE STONEHELM and i am cry bc he is my lovely impressively clueless goober with the two-tone hair and kjshdgjkhsfg he’s BEAUTIFUL*
*stares at Akhsan some more* goddamn *fans self* same, Stonehelm, same.
Post-battle in Sansûkh chapter 40, just after Akhsan busts into Erebor on his wain like the kool-aid guy. 1k ish words. For @determamfidd as always, thanks for letting us borrow
your characters. Akhsan enjoys your world.
Characters: Akhsan (OC),
Thorin Stonehelm.
Thorin’s
head jerked up at the sound of the click,
click of footsteps on the dark stone. The oil lamp set
before him had almost gone and it was burning low – in a few
minutes, it would plunge into him and the tomb into darkness. Still
he remained, staring, staring at the stone.
“It
didn’t go… it didn’t go as expected,” Thorin whispered to
himself. He could still smell the burning of the mountain; even as
the fires in the stores lay extinguished, the smoke yet curled and
nestled into every nook and cranny of Erebor, ash flickering down
onto the wasted battlefield below.
For the amazing, wonderful and brilliant @dain-mothafocka. I hope you like it, my Queen!
Basically I have been won over to this ship 😀 Jeri is my OC and Khalei belongs to Jade, but goddamn do they make a hot pair.
Bit of background: When writing this, I wanted something of the lazy langurousness of sliding, slow kisses; something of the ease and warmth of these two. Jeri’s understated humour and Khalei’s confident charm, bouncing off each other and melding into something deep and stable and sensual and dreamy. I wanted to write the sort of simple, evocative theme that makes someone close their eyes and imagine the heat radiating from sun-warmed stone – or soft, tattooed skin.
I also wanted a departure from the more Celtic-based folk tradition I have been using for most of my Dwarf compositions… Khalei is, after all, a Blacklock! And so we have some sliding notes and chords inspired by Jewish and Middle-eastern music in there.
I was going to add a descant and a verse in Khuzdul, but you know what, I think fussing with it more might disturb the atmosphere I am trying to capture! I do hope I succeeded, and I do hope you enjoy this short little thingy.
Aw Yiss 