Happy Yuletart, Mific!

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Title: Death Gliders
By: Leyna
For: Mific
Media Used: Digital Painting
Rating: G
Fandom(s): Stargate Atlantis
Warnings: None
Summary: Steampunk!AU. The Pegasus Expedition journeys to a distant archipelago where they find the beautiful deserted City of the Ancients, awaken the deadly Wraith fleets, and become entangled in the politics of the God-Kings and their City-States. Here, John and Rodney escape from the city of the Serpent-God in stolen Death Gliders.
Notes: Thank you Mific, for the SGA inspiration. Your request for "Any setting. Any type of wings" got me speculating - in a Steampunk!AU are the Puddlejumpers and Death Gliders individual winged antigravity transports instead of small spacecraft? I chose to paint Death Gliders because the Goa'uld designs were gorgeous, and I wanted to play around with some of those elements – plus the thought of a SGA team vs Apophis confrontation was fun.



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Comments

[leyna]

I'm glad you like it. Thank you for the inspiration!

As soon as I saw your prompt I had all kinds of ideas. What would puddlejumper wings look like? What would Rodney be doing (craning his head trying to see the mechanical aspects, looking wide-eyed and unsettled? geeking out?). Is John more distracted by the joy of flying or Rodney's reactions? Then I saw a gorgous photo of a stormy sky over wheat fields, which inspired the colours of this and for using the bronze goa'uld designs instead.

[mific]

The more I look at the picture (and I have been, quite a lot!) the more the feel of it, and the colours, reminds me of old icons, with John and Rodney as angels or seraphim or something similar - with several sets of wings. The colours have that glowing bronzy-gold richness. *hugs picture*

[leyna]

Old icons, and renaissance angels were definitely part of the inspiration, once I had the colour palette sorted :D