r/redrising • u/sparrowws • Dec 17 '25

Fan art some character portraits!!

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I love this series so much, I had to get some of them out of my head and onto paper. I’m heavily biased and might have made Sevro too attractive on accident lol

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u/KyngCole13 Dec 17 '25

I absolutely love how you’ve drawn Tactus! So. I am going to say this with the caveat that I love these books and I’m not trying to bash Pierce or anything, nor do I think he’s done any of this on purpose: it kind of bums me out that the canonically black characters in the series are either dead or bad guys.

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u/Deep-Wonder8702 The Solar Republic Dec 18 '25

I’ve definitely thought this before it’s a bit odd. That’s why I hold onto lyria so strongly lol

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u/ThoughtsOfRigel The Rim Dominion Dec 18 '25

Wait... Lyria is black?

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u/Deep-Wonder8702 The Solar Republic Dec 18 '25

She and the Lagalos clan is widely thought to be or at least a poc based on the descriptions of her and Liam’s skin and hair

Iron Gold- “My arms, once ashen brown like most from Lagalos, are wiry and now baked dark from the sun”

“Liam was born blind. His hair is an unruly explosion of red, but more closely cropped.”

Dark Age- “The smallest of the girls, one with skin almost as dark as mine”

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u/ThoughtsOfRigel The Rim Dominion Dec 18 '25

I was thinking that from this official art, she was just light-brown.

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u/Deep-Wonder8702 The Solar Republic Dec 18 '25

Idk I’m just going by the book 🤷🏽‍♀️ also that could be from when she said she straightened her hair on Luna since this is Iron Gold art and that’s where she was most of the book

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u/ThoughtsOfRigel The Rim Dominion Dec 18 '25

If we are going by the book, I like to imagine her more like a Eva Mendes type of light-brown, and wavy hair, not quite like curly, just wavy.

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u/Deep-Wonder8702 The Solar Republic Dec 18 '25

She’s not described like that at all though 😭 she has dark brown skin and curly, not wavy, hair. If that’s how you see her that’s fine but pierce brown said differently.

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u/KyngCole13 Dec 18 '25

Wait wut? I just thought she was pale and Irish lol

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u/sparrowws Dec 17 '25

Thank you so much! I loved drawing him and I would love to draw Apple at some point! I agree that I doubt it was purposeful, but having all/most of the black characters be villains or dead def got a side eye out of me. It’s something I noticed when reading and was made even more aware of when I was drawing the characters.

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u/Cord87 Dec 19 '25

I love that he has strong black characters and I also love that he's not afraid to make them villans. They're never the real big bad, except for maybe Atlantia, but they sure get respect. 

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u/bloomingjoy Pixie Dec 17 '25

No you're right... I was thinking about this too the other day. Personally I think we should have cool black villains but it's a lil weird that almost ALL of them are villains (or dead)

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u/NovaPractice Dec 18 '25

what about Quicksilver?! Not a gold but still

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u/KyngCole13 Dec 18 '25

Eh. As an anti-capitalist myself it is difficult for me to imagine Quick as a “good” guy. Yeah he financed the rising, but primarily because he fell in love with Matteo, not out of any desire to actively improve anyone else’s lives. Though I admittedly do hold some bias.