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Casbah's Toyhouse: Casbah on Toyhouse

I got some sudden inspiration for a general backstory for my SandWing OC Casbah and so I drew a possible scene in his story in the form of a fake screenshot. I will first explain the context of this scene, and then the inspiration for it.

Casbah grew up in a rich family with a structured lifestyle and a lot of rules. His parents are the leaders of a small town in the Sand Kingdom, and so it is like the "royal family" of that town. In this family, they can only marry through arranged marriages, or to someone the "king" and "queen" approve of. Casbah has a fiancée that his father had approved of (or arranged him to marry) at first. However, something happened, like maybe she broke the law or something, and so his father decides to condemn her to death. Angry, Casbah threatens to kill his father if he kills her, and so this drawing is an angry confrontation of Casbah and his father. (I haven't fully decided what was going to happen next, but I was thinking after Casbah's fiancée dies, Casbah finds that he cannot bring himself to kill his father, and so Casbah flees from his town.)

I was inspired as I was reading Sophocles' play Antigone for a class that I was taking this past semester. This drawing is based on the scene where Creon (the king) had condemned Antigone (his son's fiancée) to death for breaking the law and so Creon and his son Haemon have a conversation which turns into a heated argument. The quote in the drawing is based on Haemon's line: "Then she shall die - and her death will bring another." I realize that Haemon was actually threatening to kill himself if Antigone died, so I changed the quote to make it seem a little more like Casbah was threatening to kill his father rather than himself.

Wings of Fire (c) Tui T. Sutherland
Art and characters (c) me

Description
Casbah's Toyhouse: Casbah on Toyhouse

I got some sudden inspiration for a general backstory for my SandWing OC Casbah and so I drew a possible scene in his story in the form of a fake screenshot. I will first explain the context of this scene, and then the inspiration for it.

Casbah grew up in a rich family with a structured lifestyle and a lot of rules. His parents are the leaders of a small town in the Sand Kingdom, and so it is like the "royal family" of that town. In this family, they can only marry through arranged marriages, or to someone the "king" and "queen" approve of. Casbah has a fiancée that his father had approved of (or arranged him to marry) at first. However, something happened, like maybe she broke the law or something, and so his father decides to condemn her to death. Angry, Casbah threatens to kill his father if he kills her, and so this drawing is an angry confrontation of Casbah and his father. (I haven't fully decided what was going to happen next, but I was thinking after Casbah's fiancée dies, Casbah finds that he cannot bring himself to kill his father, and so Casbah flees from his town.)

I was inspired as I was reading Sophocles' play Antigone for a class that I was taking this past semester. This drawing is based on the scene where Creon (the king) had condemned Antigone (his son's fiancée) to death for breaking the law and so Creon and his son Haemon have a conversation which turns into a heated argument. The quote in the drawing is based on Haemon's line: "Then she shall die - and her death will bring another." I realize that Haemon was actually threatening to kill himself if Antigone died, so I changed the quote to make it seem a little more like Casbah was threatening to kill his father rather than himself.

Wings of Fire (c) Tui T. Sutherland
Art and characters (c) me