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How shocking - another Historical AU painting! This is the last of my recent trilogy of Stargate Atlantis Alternate Universe paintings. All are based on other people's prompts from Challenge communities, but all also represent genres I enjoy (Steampunk, Detective Noir & Regency).

For the Paintedspires Challenge. The Prompt was "Regency AU, a rendezvous on a balcony"
Influenced by the works of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen & Bernard Cornwell, my original intent was - Rodney & John escape the Drawing Room, to have a friendly conversation on the balcony. While I was painting, both their expressions turned more serious. My friend ~talietha suggests that Rodney is discussing Byron's The Corsair, while I think John (the one in the uniform) is newly returned from the Peninsular War - and (to use modern terminology) is still somewhat shellshocked. I tried to suggest a little of John's isolation in the painting.

If the costumes are familiar, I based many on the 1995 Pride & Prejudice, and John's is from the ITV Sharpe series. All the background characters are also from Stargate Atlantis (some more succesful in likeness, than others!).
As always, many references from SGA used, though I'm rather pleased that I also drew various limbs unreferenced (those would be the wonky looking ones).
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SGA Regency AU by *leyna55. From the suggester:"Every once and a while you run into a piece of fan-art which stops and makes you go "hmmm". This is not just a polished fan-art for Stargate Atlantis but it is also for the Victorian Steampunk genre too." ( Suggested by *bolsterstone and Featured by $aunjuli )
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*PegasusForlorn Apr 15, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
This is stunning! I absolutely LOVE your artwork! (:

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*leyna55 Apr 16, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you! I had a great time painting this one (just whoa - too many characters in one picture. I haven't tried that again :D)

And thank you for the watch and the :+fav: s, too :)
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*PegasusForlorn Apr 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You're welcome! =D

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Mood: Big Grin ~MsAnthropia Feb 16, 2012
Great art and an excellent concept! I too love SGA AUs - especially such splendid ones :D
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*leyna55 Feb 20, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
SGA AUs are so much fun :) There are lots of great AUs in the fandom, and I could resist some of the prompts.
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*Yeoyou Aug 26, 2011
Way too much love for the characters, setting, details, clothes and everything for this picture which I have seen before but I do not know whether I already commented so...here's (maybe) another one :D

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*leyna55 Sep 1, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I love the Regency setting, and I had way too much fun thinking about the SGA cast in this AU :)
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*Yeoyou Sep 1, 2011
one can see that in the picture, I think :D I'm still mulling over the idea of an AU fanfic in the style of "The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle. There's just so much that would fit Stargate! :)

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*leyna55 Sep 1, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
The Lost World and SGA sounds like a great fit. Added dinosaurs is always a bonus, too :)
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*Yeoyou Sep 1, 2011
well, actually, there wouldn't be any dinosarus. It just happened that I was sitting in one of my English lectures about Early Modern Britain in university when they talked about all the fears and worries and concepts of the noble savage vs. cannibals (I think Wraith are sort of cannibalistic, considering they've once been part human), the whole Darwin/Evolution thing, Britons trying to seize hold of the whole world, bringing their ideas and often enough unleashing catastrophes (hey, the Atlanteans woke the Wraith! Nice start in the new galaxy!) plus their enthusiasm about new scientific developments etc.
So I thought 'Hey, that fits'. Of course I will (if I ever get around to writing it) have to make quite a few changes in order to make it work but I still think there are many parallels to discourses and literature of that time.

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