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Kostya's Heart(h) {art}
Another piece inspired by the utterly gorgeous fic, "Sup From My Mouth" by AtlinMerrick.
This is the companion piece to "Siska's Seraph." It seemed only right to give us Kostya's first impression of Siska; dark but bright, a fire of love that's burned low, waiting to be coaxed forth with tender care and feeding to roaring warmth.
Some notes on the symbolism in this one; Siska's experiences in Japan have shattered his faith in God, so why does he have a halo? Because this is what Kostya sees, and he sees the divinity within the man as himself, separate from the idea of church or any other higher power. The flames are the banked fire that Kostya glimpses at the heart of this outwardly quiet man.
You can also see this on AO3
Kostya glanced again at the distant table. At shadows hollowing cheeks and eyes and between the bones of a man's hand, at the fall of long black hair to the collar of a black coat. Yes, that was the word, dark. The priest was dark but somehow bright too, like hot coals banked beneath ash.
...Konstantin nodded and nodded, his mind entirely muddling the words parrot with baby with rain with fire with children with priest, and out of all of that he was left with the image of a dark-haired man sitting at his fire, smiling at him and talking and talking.
This is the companion piece to "Siska's Seraph." It seemed only right to give us Kostya's first impression of Siska; dark but bright, a fire of love that's burned low, waiting to be coaxed forth with tender care and feeding to roaring warmth.
Some notes on the symbolism in this one; Siska's experiences in Japan have shattered his faith in God, so why does he have a halo? Because this is what Kostya sees, and he sees the divinity within the man as himself, separate from the idea of church or any other higher power. The flames are the banked fire that Kostya glimpses at the heart of this outwardly quiet man.
You can also see this on AO3
