Heavy stones fear no weather

Well! It's Zukitz birthday and here's a little gift! Her style has become one of my main inspirations, not to mention she's a kind friend and overall cool person. She's been working on a webcomic for some time now, and it's just so up my alley I couldn't help myself getting hooked from the very beggining. Some fanart was obviously on the way!

Drawing this was HARD, and not because of technical reasons, it was mostly because every time I was looking for references I stumbled across this picture and I swear I'm still not over it. I'm actually pretty embarrassed of my comment there because I was legit too hyped to react. Ah, and because the more I see adult Reyez, the more I wonder how is that cinnamom roll going to be a king during a war help him.

As for the picture itself, I guess I let headcanons take over a little bit, but that's because so far I can only speculate about what will happen once the prologue's done. But I can imagine that these two will have to go through hard times, especially because their interests and upbringings might crash a lot when they're older. I'm wishing they don't end up having to directly fight though. My heart is weak.

I went with the song Empire as a theme because I always thought the "empire for two" line would mean the joining of two different worlds rather than two specific people, so it's kinda fitting. Also, the blue colors of Reyez design remind of water, while Noel has had a fire motif going on for some time now- river, illuminate! I wanted to add some other characters but I think I'll wait til we know more about them.

Oh gosh I don't think I'm making sense here I'm sorry. But yeah I love this webcomic so much. 

Happy birthday Abz!!
Also I have a version without the black bg in case you need it for any reason!!

Art by SadMilks
King and Lionheart by Zukitz 

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