Geektopia

Over at artword we're having Challenge 7: Point of View.

I worked together with miss_porcupine and she wrote a story called Matter, Form, and Privation featuring the different POV's of John and OC!Ailinthe, to which I did two different covers:




( Cover 1: John )


( Cover 2: Ailinthe )

This is in response to the artword Challenge #5: Wooden Horse

I'm working together with aesc at this. We agreed beforehand that we would work on John with a side of Rodney.

My first version of the graphic is this (click for larger image):



The fist thing that came to me was John with a wooden plane, and how he had given up on loving men because he wanted to fly. Basically I thought that John's darkness was self imposed. In the graphic I did all the John bits and waited for aesc's glimpse in order to find out what kind of Rodney it would be.

After the glimpse she sent me, I came up with this(click for larger image):



After reading, I realized that for aesc, John was outside and Rodney was the one sitting in the darkness. So I added Rodney in a torn picture and a line from the fanfic to give it a bit of context. Now I think the graphic has them *both* in angsty places.

The glimpse aesc sent me is this.

and the glimpse I sent her is this:



aesc's finished fanfic can be found here: A Moving Piece of Sun.