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Despite seldom getting to draw the Layne Raine version / era of Ceran very often? It's probably the fiction facet I daydream about the most! It's so ripe for plot and depth and one's convoluted conflicting emotional struggles! :D
Layne was famous. Too famous. It was the level of obscene obsessed fame that destructures a person into little more than a figurehead for the world to project all its love and frustrations onto all at once. He was a carefully cultivated facade, but that didn't mean the real Ceran wasn't still churning underneath— the actual identity where no amount of charismatic smiling and confident pose work on stage could suppress his unresolved self struggles. The needy cheering of a frothy audience was a high that no line of coke or vein pumped full of opioids could dare to compete with, but the withdrawal was no less detrimental. There was a constant need to perform, to overextend one's self, to maintain the affection and attention of the fickle short-attention-spanned masses, even as his sense of self rapidly evaporated in exchange for the desperate addictive drug of feeling wanted.
Layne was famous. Too famous. It was the level of obscene obsessed fame that destructures a person into little more than a figurehead for the world to project all its love and frustrations onto all at once. He was a carefully cultivated facade, but that didn't mean the real Ceran wasn't still churning underneath— the actual identity where no amount of charismatic smiling and confident pose work on stage could suppress his unresolved self struggles. The needy cheering of a frothy audience was a high that no line of coke or vein pumped full of opioids could dare to compete with, but the withdrawal was no less detrimental. There was a constant need to perform, to overextend one's self, to maintain the affection and attention of the fickle short-attention-spanned masses, even as his sense of self rapidly evaporated in exchange for the desperate addictive drug of feeling wanted.
Category All / All
Species Elf
Size 1558 x 1300px
File Size 1.94 MB
GOD this is the real lure of fame isn't it? I was raised in hollywoo so I grew up on the Fame Fable pounded into me loud enough that I am scared of fame, but my god. My god. This is why it's so scary tbh. It's scary because being WANTED is just. So rare. The ULTIMATE high. ;alksdjga;slkgj UGH I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS.
Also I squealed when I saw the white jumpsuit i literally JUST got finished seeing the new Baz Luhrmann Elvis film and my adoration was rekindled.
Also I squealed when I saw the white jumpsuit i literally JUST got finished seeing the new Baz Luhrmann Elvis film and my adoration was rekindled.
YEEEESSS, YES TO ALL OF THIS!!!! First off? I /loved/ that film, I'm so happy with it, especially because it ignited a lot of new and old love of the legend and the aesthetic! It finally made one of my main fixation interests relevant again, hahaha! It's nice to meet other people who enjoy and appreciate it.
BUT GOD YES, I adore getting to play with these sort of themes! As someone who is an introvert-lean with CRIPPLING pointless anxiety? I always thought the concept of seeking mass fame to be mind boggling, because it all seemed so OVERWHELMING and TERRIFYING to me. Constantly being watched, no privacy, every little action or inaction you taken being overly read into and put on blast, one side that just loves an IDEA of you instead of the real you and greedily demands more? And then one side that just HATES you for one petty reason or another. Yet at the same time? Particularly for those of us they grew up in abusive households and knew no shortage of neglect or unkindness, you can understand how all that attention and affection must be DIVINE in its own rights. Basically, it's a fascinating concept and interesting to explore in fiction.
ANYWAY I COULD BABBLE ON ABOUT THIS FOREVER, I hope I can create more art around it. :D
Thank you for having such an enthused response towards it. 💖
BUT GOD YES, I adore getting to play with these sort of themes! As someone who is an introvert-lean with CRIPPLING pointless anxiety? I always thought the concept of seeking mass fame to be mind boggling, because it all seemed so OVERWHELMING and TERRIFYING to me. Constantly being watched, no privacy, every little action or inaction you taken being overly read into and put on blast, one side that just loves an IDEA of you instead of the real you and greedily demands more? And then one side that just HATES you for one petty reason or another. Yet at the same time? Particularly for those of us they grew up in abusive households and knew no shortage of neglect or unkindness, you can understand how all that attention and affection must be DIVINE in its own rights. Basically, it's a fascinating concept and interesting to explore in fiction.
ANYWAY I COULD BABBLE ON ABOUT THIS FOREVER, I hope I can create more art around it. :D
Thank you for having such an enthused response towards it. 💖
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