Inktober 2025 — Day 6 — Pierce

This prompt took much longer than expected, partially because I got sick for a day and needed time to recover. The other part was coming up with ideas for the prompt, which one to go for, and choosing what characters to use for said idea. I had considered drawing someone getting their ears pierced, and while I still like that idea, I couldn’t think of a single character who doesn’t already have their ears pierced but whom I could imagine doing so. In the end, I went with the idea of a sword piercing through someone. Or rather two people.

So, Elephant in the room: I am not a direct fan of Honkai Star Rail. By that I mean the majority of what I know about the story comes from one of my best friends info dumping on me whenever there’s an update or she finds something about her favorite characters. But I love hearing what she’s interested in, it sounds really interesting, and I also info dump on her plenty of times so it’s fair. It’s part of being best friends. ☺️

Two characters my friend talks about frequently are Mydei and Phainon. Their backstories, powers and positions in the story, cursed fates, and so on. So pulling everything I could remember, I thought of a scene where Phainon ends up stabbing Mydei in the back while they’re having a moment, but ends up piercing through himself as well. Honestly for my very first time drawing anything from this series, I’m fairly happy with how it came out. I know I probably missed some details in the outfits but I still think they’re recognizable. I can only hope I’ve done at least some justice for the Honkai Star Rail fandom. (I also haven’t shown my best friend this yet, so I’m curious how she’ll react. Hopefully she likes it! 🤞)

Also, I didn’t realize until now that I wrote “pierced” instead of just “pierce” and I’m not going back to change it now. Sorry, but I’m exhausted.

UPDATE: I realized I didn’t draw Phainon’s sword’s guard correctly and completely missed the sun design. I felt really bad especially because my friend really loves the series, so I went back and fixed it, as well as fixing the prompt just because.