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>>Folken Lacour de Fanel>>Gallery Where possible (like if I have a vague memory) I have given credit to the sources of these pictures. For more information, see 'Credits and Techy Stuff' in the Site Stuff section. Visitors are welcome to download any of these images for whatever purpose they please, on condition that they do not direct-link to any of them. If you do this, a big dragon will come and bite off your arms until you are sorry. Thank you! Enjoy the eye candy! >>Cover of Escaflowne video volume 6 - okay, I lied, I did scan this one when my friend Kevin lent me his tapes. A beautiful juxtaposition of harshness and delicacy, and nice tulips. Very reminiscent of an Edward Scissorhands poster showing Edward with a butterfly poised on the bundle of rusty shears that passes for his fingers. Tim Burton would love Folken. >>A not especially flattering picture of Folken reaching towards you. (This was the Zaibach Army 'I Want YOU' poster. A lot of young ladies enlisted and were very disappointed.) >>Folken looking sad about his claw. I love this picture. Look at his mouth! >>Character design sketch of Folken, very useful if you want to draw him yourself. I believe this and the two following pictures come from the The Folken Sanctum, which rocks. >>A vision of Folken in the afterlife, happy with his two catgirls. Please don't think too hard about how that works. >>Folken hushing Hitomi as the dragon stares them out. I guess he's seen Jurassic Park. >>Terribly cute picture of a teenaged Folken taking care of little Van - he's just read him something about dragons and you can tell Van is ready for beddy-bye. >>Close-up screencapture of Folken's face. You can see his eyes are sort of reddish-brown. What is it with albinos and Zaibach? >>Another screencap, slightly wider focus. Damn, he's handsome. >>Folken in his makeshift laboratory in Asturia, after defecting. Nice glassware. >>Another laboratory shot, with Hitomi talking to him. >>Folken's moment of truth. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction... so what happens when you kill a man who controls Fate? >>Giving orders to the catgirls. >>Folken holding Eriya in his arms - it's the fate-changing experiment on Allen and Hitomi. >>Even more design sketches - I have a thing about these. The pink background tells me it's from the lovely galleries of Esca... 'nuff said >>Shirt off. Wings out. Oh yeah. >>Headshot of fifteen-year-old Folken. His cute floppy-haired period. >>And... more design sketches. There's some duplication here, but some show certain things better than others, or include bits that others don't. >>The brothers years ago - cute little Van dragging on Folken's arm. >>Scan from the Memory of Gaea artbook - thanks to Kevin Pezzano of What Happened After? Mainly showcasing Van's childish cuteness (which is why you'll find it in his gallery too) but I love the drawing of the pair of them on the right. >>Cover of a Newtype film book showing Van and Folken with wings. You know this one from the site graphics. Lerv it. >>The Japanese version of that video cover - it's starker, less pretty bg. I don't like that boxy typeface, do you? >>Group shot including Folken - this is one of my favourites, the casting/voice recording/ whatever one where Dilandau is playing with Meruru and Folken is standing with his back to all the silliness. Yeah, like he's never played some dorky game with Nariya and Eriya. >>Another group shot - Folken looking very swish in top left-hand corner. Why is Allen looking at Hitomi like that? >>More groupery! Folken's on the left, behind Dilandau. Not a very good picture for Folken, but at least he looks better than Allen - scary eyebrows. >>Character design for movie-style Folken - ACK! He's gonna look like this? Oh, he's so not cute any more! I'll never complain about series-Folken's hair again... I now know for certain that it could have been worse. A couple of people have pointed out that the hair here is very reminiscent of Jareth, the Goblin King played by David Bowie in the movie Labyrinth, one of my all-time favourites. And hey, Jareth has a coat with the same kind of curly collar as series-Folken's sorcerous cloak. Now I find myself wondering if Allen's white owl has a secret identity... 29.02.00 - Hurrah! The gallery has been augmented by these pictures kindly scanned by the proprietress of Erdufylla's Garden of Anime Bliss, one of the nicest people you could hope to meet. >>Big, full-length picture of Folken - from his character page in the Memory of Gaea artbook. This is a fuller version of what I call the 'I Want YOU' picture, very good from a fanartist's point of view because it shows the structure of his clothes so clearly. >>Folken whispering in Van's ear - this would be just before the needle-jab in the back of the neck. A jury of other people who have little brothers would never convict him... although he does look very villainous. Well, he is a villain. >>A nice large version of the ghost-vision picture of Folken, Nariya and Eriya. Not many people get an afterlife full of pretty catgirls in tight leather minidresses; lucky stiff *^.^* >>Another one where Folken looks very wicked - nifty blue shadows and narrowed eyes. Quite apart from my Deep Thoughts on the Speculations page, it could just be that he dresses this way and does his hair this way out of an innate sense of drama and the style befitting a villain. I mean, you've got to look the part. It just wouldn't be the same if you tried to be a villain in cargo pants and a teeshirt. Your victims would feel cheated. Right? Villainy isn't just a craft, it's an art. >>Folken taking off his jacket, and looking considerably more muscular than I usually think of him as being. *Cartman voice* Beefcake... beeeeefcaaaaaaake! (I'll be quiet now.) >>Poor fifteen-year-old Folken looking intensely freaked out by his first good look at his new arm. Very good hair, though. >>15-y-o Folken with his arm torn off, lying in a pool of blood. Whenever I think I'm having an incredibly bad day, I compare it with this and realise I'm not, really. (Except the time the mop bucket at Burger King tried to kill me and I fell on my knee, the knee with the scar that I've had since 21 June, 1999, and it started throbbing and prickling again... chiku... chiku... chiku... excuse me, I seem to be channelling Dilandau. Anyway, that time sucked.) >>Another lovely depressing picture - Folken dead! Have you ever noticed how, no matter how many zillions of feathers float out of Van and Folken's wings, they never get that plucked-chicken look? Apparently that doesn't work any more once you buy the farm. >>Folken behind one of the Fanelian wolfmen - well, you can't see much of him, but he's there, and hey, it's a nice wolfman. >>With Hitomi, showing a lot of wing - I really do love black wings. (Just for the record, the first anime guy I had a crush on was Bad Bird in the Saban dub Samurai Pizza Cats. I remembered that the other day when I was trying to think if there's any sort of precedent for my Folken crush...) >>About a second before the other picture I have of Folken at the 'moment of truth.' I think he's still thinking 'Why have I got a pain?' >>Another shot of the fate experiment with Eriya. >>A very sweet picture of Folken sitting in a chair with Nariya and Eriya hugging his knees, cause he's their 'mental nourishment.' >>Looking sinister in the Asturian throneroom at Pallas. I would just like to say that if King Aston had any ancestors who actually needed a chair with a back that high, I wouldn't have liked to have met them. >>Watching Castel Fort burn - that's Allen's joint out in the swamps. >>Looking astonished at a bright light - an unusual shot in that he's put his 'good' hand outside his robes. >>Standing behind General Adelfos - if I were a grizzled old career soldier like Adelfos, I would probably get pretty annoyed at being bossed around by a twenty-five-year-old who looks like he wears makeup. >>Manga-style images from the back of the Memory of Gaea artbook - that is, b/w line drawings, not in the style of the published shounen or shoujo manga. >>A nice face closeup - what more need I say? 14.03.2000 - While I was going through my Big Fat Escaflowne Picture Collection choosing stuff for a forthcoming Allen shrine, I found another good Folken picture I'd forgotten about. >>A portrait cropped out of a group picture - so excuse the bits of Allen and Van visible on the right. 06.04.2001 - God, it's a long time between updates, ne? >>I have a cropped version of this playing-card picture in the Van galleries, where I said I wished I had the whole thing because that looked like 'a gnarly Folken' in the background. I was right! Nice Nariya & Eriya, too. 15.06.2001 - two lovely new high-quality pictures of Nariya & Eriya courtesy of my friend Lizz. >>Quite frankly, a rather saucy picture. >>Nariya and Eriya by moonlight. 30.08.2001 - a mess of lovely new high-res screencaptures, courtesy of the lovely Nariya. >>Folken in sepia-toned catgirl flashback mode. This picture makes me wonder very much whether he really needs to take his shirt off to pop his wings out, or whether he just does it because he knows he looks sexier that way. >>Folken patiently puts up with having his good arm chewed on. >>Folken, with wings akimbo, faces down an irritable Fanelian dragon. >>Folken offers his hand to Van. Given that it's a pretty spiky weird-looking hand, I'm not surprised Van doesn't rush to take it. >>Folken in sepia-toned Van flashback mode. I bet Van was born wearing a red shirt. >>Folken offers Van his sword back. Van stands there looking sulky because he knows he wouldn't look that good with his shirt off. >>15yo Folken wakes up post-op in Zaibach. Aiee, he's so cute! *ahem* >>Shading his eyes against the light. >>Folken comes perilously close to smiling! >>But then he looks like he's remembered something serious. >>Hey, who else wants to play with his hair? >>It's hard to overstate his gorgeousness. >>Folken preparing the cat twins for their blood transfusion. >>Folken hugging Eriya. Really, I can't see enough of this. >>The greatest kissy-face shot in all of Escaflowne. *drool* |
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