Mithé Character Reference

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NOW we're talking. Here's true royalty with detailing up the wazoo and too many costumes. YAY.

NUDE but with no wang because I remain a coward. I like his belly, tho, and his back fat. Also the wild difference when you turn off the beard layer is hilarous. Pudgy old man -> KING. Mithé has not shaved since he was, like, 20, so you don't get to see it.

CASUAL Mithé likes to wear linen mostly, also cotton, both are good and comfy. He goes in for the embroidery, too, often with shinier threads like silk to remind people he's king, because he still doesn't quite feel like he looks the part. He prefers linen slippers over leather sandles like most of the kingdom, because he says they breathe better and he gets sweaty feet.

FANCY Getting swankier and here's some silk, yay! I'm quite pleased with how that silk came up. Anyway. Purple and blue, particularly rich because, if you remember the textiles post of the other day, natural spider silk is golden and impossible to dye anything but warm colours. Purple and indigo are already expensive dyes, plus the expensive silk, and that gradient in the fabric, omg so fancy. Also sparkly little diamonds, which I did indeed put a layer effect on because screw manually sparkling all those sparklies. Diamonds are comparatively cheap jewels in Tsyllaes because Kazin is volcanic and has a shitton of them. In the provinces where they're mined, they use the sub-par ones to tip their arrows in battle, that's how common they are. The particularly sparkly ones mostly end up in bulk on Tsaythi trade ships and sold onto Raykin and Llayad, who appreciate the sparkliness more than Kazinians who think they're bland and colourless and only good for battle. Anyway. This post is about Mithé.

CEREMONIAL I am so very stoked with this one you guys. So. The tradition with ceremonial robes is that the bottom piece is where all the embroidery and detailing and sparklies go, while the top piece is left completely plain. This is ostensibly to show everyone is, in essence, equal, and give poor people a chance to get actual proper ceremonial robes for their hrai-dani. So, how does a king make his completely blank top piece proclaim he is, in fact, the king? As I was pondering this, a picture of Kinkaku-ji appeared on my screen, as it tends to do. GOLD. Make the whole damn thing from cloth of GOLD and completely miss the point of the tradition. It's fine, people expect their king to be ostentatious. Also had fun with the patterning on the bottom piece, which you can assume continues down the right sleeve, too. I drew just the one, layered it over the robe, liquified it to fold over the folds then a bit of cutting around the bits where it'd be hidden. I was going to colour them on the inside but I like it with just the silver outlining. Why did I not make it gold thread? Because I like purple and silver, so there. Also I did two-toning on the purple, so there's blue in the reflective bits in the shadows. I'm so damn proud of all this fabric :D

ROYAL REGALIA Like Nol but just more. White silk and copious cloth of gold panels in place of orange silk and cloth of gold just for the trim. Extra twisty bits and sapphires where Nol just has a twist of gold, full depiction of Yan's yrae feather rather than just a few stylised links from it, and his crown has extra spikes, too. Mithé wears his crown for official royal duties and meetings with people. Hosting VIPs for a dinner doesn't count, hence no crown on the fancy outfit, but if ever he's in this uniform he'll have the crown. His gold looks less GOLD than Nol's for a coupla reasons, mostly that I actually looked up a reference for Mithé so I could really get the colours right, but you could also say Mithé's is made with white silk threads while Nol's uses natural golden silk threads.