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Please bear with my less than clear lineart on this one, my camera and scanning program really hate my purple colored pencils for some reason :') Something about the texture of the purple wax just really throws it off.

This is Ely, "little" brother to Dawn's best friend Saoirse. Little in quotation marks because he's nearly seven feet tall. He's the secondary protagonist of my novel, and he's a wizard. In the course of helping out his friend from beyond the veil, he digs into some old books of Celtic lore and brute force teaches himself how to work the spells he finds. He's not much of a talker, and tends to take things pretty literally, usually only responding with blunt one word/one sentence answers. He's got some sort of neurodivergence going on but it's not really part of the story so I've opted not to delve into the specifics of it. It can be hard for other members of the team to coordinate with him, but he's an invaluable member of their friend group who wants to do what's right in whatever way his brain first tells him it should be done. When I write him and his relationship to other characters, I take a lot of inspiration from my own relationship with my autistic little brother and his unique brand of quirks. Kid's an odd duck, but living with him for years you come to understand his "language" and work with it. Ely is very much the same.

Design notes, I went full urban fantasy on this one. He's meant to be that kid who stays in his room with sweatpants on surrounded by comics and occult books. His coat is an obnoxious purple leather, with a star pattern echoing the stars you often see on stereotypical cartoon wizards. I took heavy inspiration from the beautiful geometric stars you often see on Islamic architecture. The blue hoodie and beanie are also a sort of modern reflection of that stereotypical Merlin sort of caricature. It doesn't really come across well in the drawing, but the pin on his beanie has a star on it, while the pins on his coat are meant to be alchemical sigils, specifically those simple triangle symbols used to denote the four elements.

And the drawstrings on his hoodie are glow sticks. Because nothing is more magical than glow sticks.

Description
Please bear with my less than clear lineart on this one, my camera and scanning program really hate my purple colored pencils for some reason :') Something about the texture of the purple wax just really throws it off.

This is Ely, "little" brother to Dawn's best friend Saoirse. Little in quotation marks because he's nearly seven feet tall. He's the secondary protagonist of my novel, and he's a wizard. In the course of helping out his friend from beyond the veil, he digs into some old books of Celtic lore and brute force teaches himself how to work the spells he finds. He's not much of a talker, and tends to take things pretty literally, usually only responding with blunt one word/one sentence answers. He's got some sort of neurodivergence going on but it's not really part of the story so I've opted not to delve into the specifics of it. It can be hard for other members of the team to coordinate with him, but he's an invaluable member of their friend group who wants to do what's right in whatever way his brain first tells him it should be done. When I write him and his relationship to other characters, I take a lot of inspiration from my own relationship with my autistic little brother and his unique brand of quirks. Kid's an odd duck, but living with him for years you come to understand his "language" and work with it. Ely is very much the same.

Design notes, I went full urban fantasy on this one. He's meant to be that kid who stays in his room with sweatpants on surrounded by comics and occult books. His coat is an obnoxious purple leather, with a star pattern echoing the stars you often see on stereotypical cartoon wizards. I took heavy inspiration from the beautiful geometric stars you often see on Islamic architecture. The blue hoodie and beanie are also a sort of modern reflection of that stereotypical Merlin sort of caricature. It doesn't really come across well in the drawing, but the pin on his beanie has a star on it, while the pins on his coat are meant to be alchemical sigils, specifically those simple triangle symbols used to denote the four elements.

And the drawstrings on his hoodie are glow sticks. Because nothing is more magical than glow sticks.