Nullroid the drawing blog

Another drawing from my changeling series about a girl figuring out that shes a changeling but she still aches to belong with her human family. She starts understanding why she feels different, but no one had noticed the swap.

It’s been a year since I got my diagnosis and when I did I got a hankering for drawing changelings. It just made a lot of sense for me with its roots in disability and it would explain the discomfort of why a child could look like family but still be so different.

Lore dump from Wikipedia dot org;

🪺A changeling is a human like creature that’s a replacement left by a supernatural being after kidnapping a human being

🏰In medival Scandinavia it was generally believed that trolls or beings from the subterranean realms exchanged their own children with human children

📖 Some modern scholars have argued that stories of replaced children originated as folklore explanations of disabilities, neurodivergence and developmental conditions

📚Changeling tales support other historical evidence in suggesting infanticide was a solution when a child had been replaced. This often due to difficulty providing for said unfortunate child.

Went for a troll tail design for the changeling as it made sense to me 😤

It’s been a year since I got my diagnosis and when I did I got a hankering for drawing changelings. It just made a lot of sense for me with its roots in disability and it would explain the discomfort of why a child could look like family but still be so different.

Lore dump from Wikipedia dot org;

🪺A changeling is a human like creature that’s a replacement left by a supernatural being after kidnapping a human being

🏰In medival Scandinavia it was generally believed that trolls or beings from the subterranean realms exchanged their own children with human children

📖 Some modern scholars have argued that stories of replaced children originated as folklore explanations of disabilities, neurodivergence and developmental conditions

📚Changeling tales support other historical evidence in suggesting infanticide was a solution when a child had been replaced. This often due to difficulty providing for said unfortunate child.

It’s been a year since I got my diagnosis and when I did I got a hankering for drawing changelings. It just made a lot of sense for me with its roots in disability and it would explain the discomfort of why a child could look like family but still be so different. Part 2 is queued up for next week.

Lore dump from Wikipedia dot org;

🪺A changeling is a human like creature that’s a replacement left by a supernatural being after kidnapping a human being

🏰In medival Scandinavia it was generally believed that trolls or beings from the subterranean realms exchanged their own children with human children

📖 Some modern scholars have argued that stories of replaced children originated as folklore explanations of disabilities, neurodivergence and developmental conditions

📚Changeling tales support other historical evidence in suggesting infanticide was a solution when a child had been replaced. This often due to difficulty providing for said unfortunate child.