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today’s warmup:

We

Are the Crystal

One of our two end of term workshops was with Serge Meirinho, who worked on Child of Light. We got to redesign Aurora as a new evil queen and a new young princess for a theoretical sequel, and then we took those designs and did some box art. 

I wanted to do a story where Aurora didn't become DARK when she became evil, but instead became brighter as her rule became absolute and her judgement of darkness harsher. Fig was born from a fruit tree in a graveyard that began to grow when Aurora and the firefly passed by the graveyard early in Child of Light ("don't they know stone seeds won't grow" or something to that effect was said, iirc.) Where Aurora's light is absolute, Fig provides shade and refracts its whiteness into color using the ornamental crystal shield that came from the grave of an old warrior from which the tree that bore her grew.