All Hallow's Eve

Sol Vovovska

Jelka Babinski aka J.B. aka Jelly Bean...okay, maybe it's just Jelka. But she does have the same initials as jelly beans, and I think that is important. I haven't been able to start writing my Six of Crows fic, but I can draw Jelka, and that's what matters. :)

I hope you all know how long it took me to figure out her hair. I actually have an entire sheet where I was just trying to figure it out

This came about because my first version (short auburn) looked too much like Wylan when I drew it. I'm still not 100% on it but oh well. It's a story, not a comic. (And no "change her bangs" is not an option. Her shitty cut-by-a-preschooler-with-safty-scissors bangs are saying. She's like 16 and cut it herself, leave her alone ;-;)

So anyway, I don't know if there's going to be any love interest, I mostly just made Jelka and this plot because I wanted to explore those extra sun summoners made at the end of Ruin and Rising. Because like...someone's gotta have feelings about that. You can't tell me that every new sun summoner was like "ah, yes, I have now been forced to be part of a marginalized group that I was probably raised to believe is evil! Let me go join their secret glow stick division!" and all those people obsessed with Alina were just totally normal and chill with their Saint (as far as they know) being obliterated to empower a bunch of randos.

Well, I mean, you could. I wouldn't believe you, and you're so boring for that, but still.

So yeh Jelka's a sun summoner. But like...kinda shit at it? Because I have this theory, like, in my head, entirely unsupported by canon, that the sun summoners made from Alina's powers are a lot less powerful than she is. Because, even with her powers boosted by three amplifiers, it's still one person's power spread over like...IDK enough for them to make an entire division in the second army for them.

So Jelka really just has the approximate power of, I don't know, a light up sketcher.

Which are cool and all, but not when they're supposed to be your literal super power. The light does produce some heat, and she could technically blind you if she jammed her hand five inches from your eyeballs. So basically her "role" is glorified space heater (which is admittedly very useful in Fjerda) and to make the enemy go "OH MY GOD SUN SUMMONER" because they're rare and assumed to be powerful.

Also it keeps your food warm. Which is great for her because she has a restaurant (or, well, mostly bakery/café, but there is real food.) That is is the main use of her powers.

None of that is the point, though. The whole sun summoner thing is just for her development because's like...well, there's got to be some reason I've been given these powers. Can't possibly be that my town was destroyed by the fold, so I happened to be there when people where given these powers. Couldn't possibly be a coincidence. Naaahhh that's ridiculous, everyone knows things must happen for a reason and there is no coincidences in the world.

No, she is not using predetermination, "everything happens for a reason", and the idea of a greater purpose to avoid addressing the trauma of having her entire live obliterate and irreparably changed by a megalomaniac and a literal saint, who are both dead, and also the saint was trying to save the world, so she can't even really blame her, and neither knew she existed and it was never even about Novokribirsk or the people living there, so really it could all be pointless and no one will even know or care about her suffering.

Why the hell would you think that? Ridiculous. This is healthy coping.

You know, if a tree falls and there's no one there to hear it, did it ever make a sound? Did it ever fall — ever exist — at all? More existential thoughts with Coruscant_Cosmonaut at six. 

I'm so sorry, I torment my characters so much. I am a terrible OC parent.