Revenge... is best a dish served cold
Sure, it's an old cliche, but that's what's sung in the ending theme to Gankutsuou, and it's not cliche for nothing - it fits the personality of the Count quite well.
I've finished watching Gankutsuou so it's time to make me some more walls! The bishounen flood continues (after slight derailment by Kino wallpapers, which are always top priority :D) with the Count of Monte Cristo. Scans from here and here. I removed Albert, because he's such a pansy. Redid the patterns and all. I also patterned the outlines for more effect.
The celestial mobile background was drawn in Illustrator based off of the intricate clockwork mobile at the Count's residence in Champs Elysee (basis), using Clock of the Sun and Moon as a starting point. Drew in the eye-compass (a creepy thing I must say) and added all the little floating spheres, including two constellations; the (big) Dipper and Cassiopeia.
The starfield is an old one I had from a Stellvia wallpaper with numerous modifications. I ended up making the entire background golden to contrast with the Count's blue hair and face and to match with his outlining.
I wasn't originally going to make this a celestial wall, but when I was positioning stuff, I dumped in the starfield so I would have a non-white background, and because the original scan was celestial. It looked pretty good like that, so I stuck with the idea.
This wallpaper is dedicated to KiWiB0RG who was sweet enough to send me most of the episodes after I got frustrated with the lack of xdcc bots serving this series in AniKraze's channel.
EDIT: As per some comments, I've changed the text to the same blue as the Count's hair. It makes sense, since "revenge is a dish best served cold".
EDIT2: I pulled the title of the wall directly from the lyrics to the ending theme; Jean Jacques Burnel altered the pattern of the words to fit the beat of the song better.
You Won't See Me Coming Lyrics