For the first time in human history, please allow me to introduce one of my main characters, and brain squatter for six whole years, Sylus Synclaire!

Yes. That’s him. That’s the boi in all his glory. He’s been years in the making and months in the refining, but here he is.

I had him rattling around in my head before I even had a plot. Before Jeron was even a main character. Sylus has been here from the absolute beginning and to finally see him, TRULY see him, is insanely emotional. I laughed, I cried, I had many little moments.

Rhett did an amazing job listening to me make words that I had zero faith in making sense. It took pretty much all night, but here we are! I still scream a little just looking at him.

Might be worth mentioning this is a full color image. We didn’t skimp on skin tone because Sylus HAS no skin tone. That’s 100% an accurate portrayal of mah boi.

I am beyond pleased with everything about it, but there are certain things I REALLY want to highlight.

His ears. I wanna talk about his ears. His little finny ears. For the longest time I wanted to do SOMETHING with his ears because, as we know, ears are pretty much accepted as a reference point for how human a character is. Sylus is not human and though he largely appears as one, he couldn’t make it all work perfectly. The two “troubling” points were always his mouth (shark mouth bru haha) and ears. Keeping his mouth shut eliminates the former problem, but the ears are just part and parcel with being his particular brand of Voidlord. That is, the fishy kind. He wasn’t originally a fish boi, in fact, I had no idea what he was. We just came to this by noodling backwards from “he has tentacles and I really like squids”. Which brings me back to HIS EARS! They have a little finny-ness to them, BUT, and this is hard to see at this angle because his hair obscures it (intentionally) he has mollusk funnels instead of ear canals! This was one of my beta readers’ ideas and I was like “Done. Perfect.”

Also his nose. We spent hours just working out his nose. Is perfect.

And his shirt. Iridescent isn’t exactly an easy concept to illustrate, but I think Rhett did a fantastic job getting the idea down on “paper”. It was probably the most arduous part of the entire process, but they made it happen and I couldn’t be happier.

Jeron’s up next after we finish Sylus’ character sheet so stay tuned for that! There’s some crazy exciting stuff going on right now!

If you wanna read a bit more about Mr. Synclaire (he’d cringe at being called that), he has a character bio page you can find here!