Merlin as Cerunnos
Title: Merlin as Cerunnos
Artist: altocello
Rating: Mature, see content notes
Character/relationship(s): Merlin
Content notes: Drawn using watercolor pencils and sepia toned ink. GIMP used to correct contrast lost when photographing the original, and to add my sig. Really NSFW. Not porn, but it is an unabashedly naked man.
Summary:Merlin as Cerunnos, the Horned God, alternately known perhaps as Herne the Hunter, or Arawn.
Artist notes: The runic tattoos are Welsh runes of the saying, "Hir yw'r dydd, a hir y'wr nos, a hir yw aros Arawn," which in English reads as "Long is the day, long is the night, and long is the waiting of Arawn." Whereas Arawn and Herne are associated with death and passing to the afterlife, Cerrunos is associated with the male side of Druidic fertility rites, especially Beltane. But all three are associated with The Wild Hunt, and all three have stag's antlers. By rights I should have included the Cwn Annwn (hellhounds) but they didn't fit in the composition very well. But I did get the owl in there!
I owe massive thanks to amphigoury, phoenixacid, and reni_m for the beta and also for being enablers. My first ever naked man, and the first time I've given Merlin tattoos. Whew. Nervous and pleased, all at once.
[ETA: thanks also to castmeaway for the ideas on where to place the tattoos! And because I'm a dork and I forgot to put some words in a couple of those sentences up there, lol.]
A more SFW version, as well as an unframed version can be found at dA and AO3
Artist: altocello
Rating: Mature, see content notes
Character/relationship(s): Merlin
Content notes: Drawn using watercolor pencils and sepia toned ink. GIMP used to correct contrast lost when photographing the original, and to add my sig. Really NSFW. Not porn, but it is an unabashedly naked man.
Summary:Merlin as Cerunnos, the Horned God, alternately known perhaps as Herne the Hunter, or Arawn.
Artist notes: The runic tattoos are Welsh runes of the saying, "Hir yw'r dydd, a hir y'wr nos, a hir yw aros Arawn," which in English reads as "Long is the day, long is the night, and long is the waiting of Arawn." Whereas Arawn and Herne are associated with death and passing to the afterlife, Cerrunos is associated with the male side of Druidic fertility rites, especially Beltane. But all three are associated with The Wild Hunt, and all three have stag's antlers. By rights I should have included the Cwn Annwn (hellhounds) but they didn't fit in the composition very well. But I did get the owl in there!
I owe massive thanks to amphigoury, phoenixacid, and reni_m for the beta and also for being enablers. My first ever naked man, and the first time I've given Merlin tattoos. Whew. Nervous and pleased, all at once.
[ETA: thanks also to castmeaway for the ideas on where to place the tattoos! And because I'm a dork and I forgot to put some words in a couple of those sentences up there, lol.]
A more SFW version, as well as an unframed version can be found at dA and AO3