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AE Days Of Our Lives: Lullabies From the Past

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The announcement of the Days of Our Lives Festival was bittersweet. It seemed to be even more painfully obvious what they were missing, but it was also a chance to show something about their homes that might have been lost to time. The two worlds had so much in common it almost seemed ridiculous to not spend this festival together, just like they had done not so long yet forever ago.
The difficult part, that wasn't as hard as originally thought, was figuring out what exactly they could do.
What should they show about their homes that people would enjoy? What were they even allowed to show? What was something they could all participate in? Buuut not draw too much attention. So many different categories to try and figure out, but in the end it inevitably came down to one: What was something they would just simply enjoying doing together?
There weren't any games like there had been in the other festivals, and most were wanting something a little more familiar anyways. The Airiusians couldn't dance worth a spit of cash, but at least they could sing and there was a certain beauty only a choir could contain.
It was about time they had a moment to themselves. A moment of tranquility and simple, pure happiness without having to worry about where or even when they were. Just raise their voices and bear their hearts without restraint and who cares if this world sees a glimpse of the past as well.

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Music has always been a part of all Aria, so much that it's not even a tradition as it is simply something inherent to the very world which the population interacts with almost as much as they do to the ground and air around them. Similarly to how it's on Earth, the rhythms and styles vary according to the place and culture it comes from and allow for a wide variety of sounds.
For Cephorim music is still a key part of their lives, but not as much as in Aria. Cephorim still has a lot of lullabies, children's songs, musicians etc, for fun as well as for historical or teaching purposes. The different styles depend on the place you go to as well. Though one common practice they have is that mothers will often make music boxes of a lullaby they sing for their kids.
Nagini is particularly fond of a certain lullaby she heard once while visiting there.

So, for the Day of Your Lives event, we decided to make a collab. Both of us are submitting the same picture thanks to that, but also both of us' babies are in there and it was worth it.

They are there for some lovely group singing, and I'm sure there was enough in their repertory to cover for what was from each of their homelands.
Besides that, it always amused me that all those characters of ours share the same silver-to-blue-to-blue-to-gold colorscheme. It looks like all of them were made in the same mold and look beautiful when gathered.
Mathias and Sabrina's eyes didn't match the colors so Awa was mean and clenched them shut.

Alternative titles: Everyone Has Silver Eyes, Pointy-Eared Club and Ael Stop Losing Your Feathers.

Sketch by :iconawa303:
Lines by :iconaealzx:
Flat colors and adjustment by :iconawa303:
Shading and retouches by :iconaealzx:
Picture description by :iconawa303:
Picture narration by :iconaealzx:
This is the most trade offs I've ever had in a collab 8'D Very interesting process indeed.
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Mistress-Lillum's avatar
Just like I said in Awa's submission, you guys did an awesome job with this~~ The atmosphere and composition of this work are amazing~~ You guys did awesome!! :heart: