I am this🤏 close to drawing my oc for King Baldwin IV since I've seen so many people do the same here on Tumblr
I want him in such a catholic medieval way I’m so serious.
I would to wait for marriage, veil after marriage, read to him, play chess with him, play with his hair, write poetry for him and all that
Me asf (I have liked like 2 men irl, I suck at chess, I'm not even catholic)
Drew the meme, it's literally them coded 🐉⭐
I'm close to 1k followers, I just know it
Might as well draw Vashti and Radja's son, Radu cuz it's been awhile and I just drew his dad.
No matter which answer you say, he probably won't like it. Even tho I had him for over 2-3 years now, it's so hard to figure out my story for him and what I actually want it to be. One thing is certain, he will always have mommy and daddy issues lol
need this
I found this doodle on my ipad so why not post it
My Lute redesign 😳💫
I realized that I haven't rlly drawn serious art of my oc Radja since 2 yrs ago(the shitty low quality doodles don't count), and the design wasn't even finalized so--this isn't super finalized either lol
Anyway, there's just way too little art of him
My feminine urge to buy a boy bouquet of flowers and tuck the prettiest one in his hair>>>>
The masculine urge to giggle uncontrollably but also get really flustered and bright red in the face and fall in love
"Young Baldwin seems to have possessed a naturally strong constitution, and he was also gifted with undeniable qualities of character and a strong, lively intelligence. William of Tyre, who was his tutor, says that 'in his childhood he was very handsome, with a quick and open mind, and he rode very well, better than his forebears had done.' 'Never forgetting an injury, and still less a kindness,' he had 'a retentive memory, was well educated with an excellent memory for tales and a fondness for telling them.'
The child must have realized very early that his disease was incurable, and his reaction shows great strength of character. He wanted to forget and make everyone else forget, right up to the end, that he was sick. But by the time King Amalric died, young Baldwin's disease had made such progress that it was already beginning to show, and 'the people of the kingdom felt great grief when they looked at him.'
From 1175 onward, the regent and the barons of Jerusalem were able to count on an unexpected ally, and a more valuable one than might have at first been thought. At fourteen years the young King Baldwin emerged as an intrepid fighter, capable of leading his troops into battle and later on of commanding them personally in the field. He was seen at the side of the constable and the Count of Tripoli, riding at the head of his troops and taking part in raids and diversionary campaigns [...]. At the time the King was still too young to actually command his army, and his principal function was as a symbol and an inspiration for his men. They were all happier marching under command of their lawful King. Young though he was, he was like the flag, to be protected and followed through the thickest of the fight, and he was not afraid of personal danger. [...]
When he came to the throne, he had [...] been a leper for ten years, and although the disease did not begin to make rapid strides until puberty, it must, even in early adolescence, have weakened and exhausted him. It is unlikely that anyone would have dared to reproach him had he wished to consider himself an invalid, yet he behaved as though he were perfectly well.
He had been educated, as became a prince, by knights and masters of arms and also by churchmen [...], and these had not failed to teach him patience and prepare him for the harsh trial that was to be his life, and to arouse in him a sense of duty and pride in being, despite his infirmity, King of Jerusalem and Defender of the Holy Sepulcher. Whether as a result of education or temperament, Baldwin IV seems to have had little inclination to self-pity. The young King overcame his illness with all the determination of an adolescent who knows he is physically weak and is bent on proving to everyone, himself included, that he can equal and even surpass others. He may have been a king who had the misfortune to be a leper, but he was also a leper lucky enough to be a king.
He loved power because it was all life had to offer him, and he very early evinced a wish to govern by himself, and would not tolerate disobedience. A temperament of this kind can easily degenerate into tyranny and capriciousness in one so young, but Baldwin IV had a lively and precociously mature mind, and was sincerely concerned to do his best for the good of the kingdom; and this right up to the time when his sufferings began to drive him out of his mind. [...] Up to the last moment he wanted to be a king and a general, and he wanted to be obeyed. It was his way of clinging to life, and he was a terrible fighter."
- Zoé Oldenbourg, The Crusades (1966)
King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem depiction in historical art part 2
his and hers respectively