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Everyone, meet Azel Halgal.
Azel, welcome to deviantArt.

Azel is a character from Mori Kaoru's latest work, Otoyomegatari, otherwise known as A Bride's Story. Mori Kaoru is known for her Victorian era series, Emma and Shirley Madison. If you still can't remember, it's stories about maids. This time, however, we go to Central Asia and discover the tales of young marriages and perhaps conflict between the English and the Russians?

OK. Sure. Azel isn't a bride. Pfft.

He is the eldest brother of one of the main characters, Amir Halgal. Azel appears as a stoic man although it is implied that he cares for his sisters. (In the series, his two sisters died after marrying the ruthless Numaji and the clan wants to send Amir to marry him despite she already being married to Karluk. Even a sane person knows that losing another sister to a cruel man is an unlikeable idea. Sheesh, clan, even if you want to reclaim yours lands, don't treat the females of your clan like objects.) It seems like the clan prefers to use Azel (and his two cousins) to do their dirty works and it's difficult for him to disobey the clan elders because it's clan orders and all. Ugh. Obligations!

So, enough of me blabbering. Go and read this awesome series!

But before that, let's talk about this colouring. There's no colour reference so I have to use my own guesses. I assume Azel has the same eyes colour as Amir, so I did a similar colour to her eyes. His clothes were a pain to colour especially the patterns. I suppose his skin could be darker but considering the fishing village cast has darker skin tone, I'll make theirs darker when I do colour them in the future.

(c) Mori Kaoru, Otoyomegatari.