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My involvement in the Hannibal/Scipio discussion on meme (this is entirely for my own reference, because I'm sure I'll lose all of these links for good if I don't make a record of them):

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/133216.html?thread=694349408#cmt694349408

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/133571.html?thread=696303043#cmt696303043

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/133791.html?thread=697892511#cmt697892511

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134016.html?thread=699137152#cmt699137152

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134331.html?thread=700968891#cmt700968891

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134519.html?thread=702453111#cmt702453111

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/134814.html?thread=704295326#cmt704295326

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/135100.html?thread=705911484#cmt705911484

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Also sorry I've been a bit slow on replies these last couple days! If you haven't heard back from me, I promise I haven't forgotten about you. I had a hectic, exhausting weekend of work and it's taking me a while to get back into the swing of things.

idk what's going on lately, but it feels like things have really been going my way these last couple weeks.

( cut for RL talk )

I'm also working on fanfic again (it's been so long, I missed this). Still in that Renaissance AU. I told

dhampyresa I wanted to write a 5 Things fic (Scipio drawing Hannibal) and idk I know what I'm like so I kinda expected that I would've given up at the first sign of difficulty and have abandoned it by now. But. BUT. I've just finished the first section, have an idea of the second and have written the beginnings of the third.

I'm super proud of myself, basically, so I'm sharing a little snippet of the first section (set in 1549, when Scipio is 18 or 19):

“Do you do me justice, Scipio?” Hannibal asks as Scipio sketches out the shape of his biceps, his forearms, his hands. He does not turn his head, but he catches Scipio’s eye with a sideways glance.

“I confess,” Scipio laments, “that I do not believe I do.”

What there is of the drawing is not unacceptable. Perhaps for another, it might even be considered fine, but he and Hannibal both hold him to higher standards than this. By his hand, it is middling at best and a poor likeness for its subject.

Figuring out the dialogue really threw me at first. I wrote the first 300 or so words as narrative, which came relatively easily, and then got to the bit where I needed to write Hannibal's first line up there and promptly freaked out that I didn't know how to write them saying things. I've kinda ended up just trying to capture an old sounding style of dialogue and hoping that I'm being vaguely accurate in terms of characterisation.

Renaissance AU of ancient history RPF was a very ambitious life choice. Especially considering neither of these things are anywhere near my area of expertise. This afternoon, I spent twenty minutes reading up on what kind of pants men wore in 16th Century Italy just so I could say Scipio had a boner in just the way I wanted to.

I got a bit excited about that oil painting filter thing that I used for that last post, so uh have some notes/a timeline and a bit more of artist!Scipio's masterpieces? For a given definition of masterpieces, since I'm mostly taking screencaps from Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare (which is a v interesting docudrama FYI) and manipulating them a lil.

I've been thinking a lot about this AU for the last few days, trying to figure out how exactly it would all work. My research into Renaissance artists tells me the age to begin an apprenticeship is around 10-12 (it's unusual, but not unheard of for it to begin earlier). Depending on the city, the length of apprenticeships is generally 2-3 years and they work up from menial duties & sketching to helping with backgrounds/minor figures in their masters' paintings & painting their own works. Once they complete the apprenticeship, they become a journeyman, who I gathered kinda just wanders around looking for inspiration to paint a masterpiece, which they would then submit to a board of some sort that decided whether they were good enough to be a master (& therefore get to have their own workshop).

( So, from that, I decided that Scipio was 10 when he became apprenticed to Hannibal and... )

Newly Discovered Sketchbooks of Publius Scipio to End Long-Standing Mystery
Hannibal Barca/Scipio Africanus | Ancient History RPF | G | ~500 words | AO3 link
In which Scipio is a famous Renaissance painter most famous for his portraits of his former master Hannibal. Who he was banging. Obviously.

So much love to the Hannibal/Scipio nonny on FFA who got me excited about these two <3

I am super new to Hannibal/Scipio and know next to nothing about the Renaissance period & art history, so please excuse any factual errors. (Although feel free to educate me! I will enjoy it & be very grateful, I promise!) On account of, yknow, Scipio not doing anything to earn "Africanus" in this 'verse & my unfamiliarity with Renaissance Italian naming conventions, I decided that the easiest thing to do was leave him as PCS II. Oh, and I've added a series tag because I'm hoping to write a proper AU, but we'll see how I go with that, I guess.

The "oil painting" is a manip of this image, because Alexander Siddig is forever my Hannibal. I couldn't have made it without this Photoshop tutorial.

( Sketchbooks claimed to be those of Renaissance painter Scipio have been sent for authentication by experts at the Louvre )

whatever, mortal.

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Fanfiction: "Newly Discovered Sketchbooks of Publius Scipio..." (Hannibal/Scipio)

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