The best thing from the Kingdom Hearts fandom is whenever Riku is portrayed as an "ethereal" being in fanarts and fanworks 💖✨
And by the way, Nomura himself got to give Riku wings indirectly on some of his artworks
time-schwime
“Daud and the Parabola of Lost Seasons” – Bunting’s apartment
So Sokolov painted a portrait of Daud and I want to know how that went down…Did Sokolov approach him? Did he approach Sokolov? Did Sokolov do it from memory and hazy descriptions people gave him? It doesn’t look exactly like him, so I could believe it was done off of hearsay rather than an in-person portrait sitting. Daud is wearing a mask in the wanted posters (as discussed in this excellent post), so it’s not based on them.
This is in the art dealer Bunting’s apartment, does that mean Bunting commissioned it? Having a deadly, feared assassin hovering over him as he sleeps does kind of fall in line with his kink(s).
Or is this a widely-available piece that nobles and other well-to-dos have in their homes? Is that the reason everyone in Dunwall recognizes him on sight even though he’s supposed to be this shadowy master assassin? When you grab it off the wall, it gives you 300 coin (presumably you sold it on the black market), which means there’s a market for it. Someone is willing to buy it off you–but did they just buy it because it was a rare find? Like an item of curiosity to have in their home, or their client’s home?
Was it a marketing ploy? Were the murder orders drying up, and Daud was like ‘well fuck maybe I’ve got to put my face out there to remind people my commissions are open’?
As far as I know, this is the only time the painting appears in the game–and I don’t think Daud would have a copy made for himself, he doesn’t seem the type.
I have…so many questions.
