Boy King; Throne
A gift for monicawoe for spn_j2_xmas. I'm out of days of extension and still not happy with where I'm leaving the color, but with any luck I'll come back and get more shading and color detail in and, well, probably sweat and more blood, let's be real. I hope you enjoy as is! <3
Warnings for a lot of bones and some blood.
The Boy King with yellow eyes drinks blood from a goblet while seated on a throne made of human bones draped with suspiciously-colored fabric and pillow.
This is more or less the place holder for where I will blather about the process on this when I've had some sleep, including the headcanons that developed about this throne.
ETA Process/headcanons/ideas on the throne (C&P'd from commenting below because I'm gonna be lazy now for a while): Okay SO. The throne. I remembered Monica's prompts here and in AntiXmas about Sam meeting other Sams and also the throne of Hell shaping itself for the new king. The longer I worked on the bones, the more I thought about the sizes of the bones and judged them against Sam and whether some would be a little big even for him, or would be small as from a child or teen, and the more I thought about the source of the bones. I wrote a non-con porn this summer which I know wouldn't be up Moni's alley, but the pre-porn part had Dean in hell cataloguing all the time he'd spent with his own removed bones (before Sam shows up and they just. Take over. <3 ). So I thought maybe part of taking the throne would be building the throne - either the throne builds itself from the tribute pieces brought by the prospective King or a silent thronemaker does as the pieces arrive, and you won't know it's done until it decides it's done. There are about thirteen bodies here, and I thought either: 1) these are various Sams either from different eras or different worlds, possibly including young Sams, who the BoyKing has had to take apart (not sure if it's Sams that exist out in life or Sams produced by Hell) as part of the process of his Becoming and the throne's Becoming, or 2) because Hell puts you back together post destruction, he's taken the bones piece by piece out of his own body. Or some of each. (He or Dean or the thronemaker can shape the bones as needed, as with the fibulae becoming sharpened spikes.) Of course building it from the bones of non-Sams conquered would work too but I kinda loved the self-version. Making his power from his own self and his own sacrifice, and in a way that's appropriately destructive and terrible and torturous for, well, Hell.
All that of course would mean the throw he's on is also leather from his skin, dyed with his blood, as is the cushion (stuffed with hair??). Whether that's his own blood he's drinking, too, or what he's taken in tribute from demon minions, his brother, or demons he's destroyed, I'm not sure.
I feel like the yellow stones in the goblet that match his eyes are important to all this too. Perhaps the throne or thronemaker can turn eyes into precious stones?
Basically, if I weren't already braindead and late, there'd have been at least a ficlet for this.
(Fun fact: All the bones are modeled on real human bones and I know which each piece of the throne is. Also, there are approximately thirteen skeletons represented here, though not all pieces are used from each and some have been carved and shaped.)
More process: When I got Moni's signup asking for no porn, I panicked. Naturally there is a ton of id overlap and clearly I am happy to make non-porn, but I initially pulled one giant blank; my sense of identity of self as porn-creator is apparently stronger than I realized. But Sam drinking demon blood is one of my favorite ever things and plenty pornographic, so I got really excited about that.
It wound up leaving me rushing to finish all of the bones last minute (okay last several hours) but I did my posing and likeness from scratch, without tracing, the modeling program I usually use, reference photos, etc. Well--not entirely true, I was partway into the pose and the wonderful amberdreams sent me a great reference from the Sims of a guy lounging on a chair one leg up that was super useful for finishing out posing him. I got very kind and encouraging betas from both amberdreams and a_biting_smile who held my hand and helped with the panic that kept flaring up. Turns out when you're already indecisive, this year and a free hand makes decisions, uh, impossible? ^_^; So their patience and encouragement I was on the right track was huge.
Digital format meant I was very lucky and could mirror while I was working on the throne, copy chunks, layer in ways that made erasing conflicting lines easier, etc. I love the tablet so much, y'all, I can't even say.
What else... ah, we'll call that enough for now.
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