#brinna

I know I’ve been doing a lot of The Gifted art lately, mostly because that story is so old at this point and redrawing my old art has always been a Thing for me.  I mean, the whole reason why I wanted to rewrite it was because the old version made me cringe and I felt I could do better. HOWEVER, right before The Gifted started eating my brain, Genetic Experiment was doing the same thing, to the point where I was .seriously considering writing it in April because I felt there was a really good story in there.

Roy: Eheh...well, not much, really. I mean, all kids misbehave occasionally, and--

Father Time: *chuckles* They were typical children. Allow me to give you a glimpse into the past. *he waves his hand, and two see-through images of Fairy children appear, a boy and a girl. Their mother Cori's voice is heard, but she is not seen*

Cori: Why are all the cookies gone?

Kid Roy and Kid Brinna: Uh-ohhh...

Cori: Did you two eat all of the cookies???

Kid Brinna: *points at Roy and whines* He made me do it!

Kid Roy: Did not!

Father Time: *the images disappear*

Roy: *pinches the bridge of his nose* How about you don't show your version of my baby pictures to internet strangers?

Father Time: But why not?

Mother Nature: The two of you were so cute! *pinches TF's cheek*

The distant sound of music, laughter, and the occasional cheer reached even this dark place, and Mother Nature continued, "You're missing the party."

Tooth Fairy sighed and turned to face Mother Nature. "Well..."

She already knew what he was going to ask her, and she smiled sadly and shook her head. "What you're hoping for...it's not--"

"But here it might be." They stood in The Hollow's cemetery, where his sister's wings had been laid to rest. "I've seen ghosts around this place, but I've never seen hers. Alpha says that...the...something between this world and the spirit world..."

"The veil," Mother Nature supplied before laying a gentle hand on his shoulder. "And she is right. On this night there is some overlap. But--"

"And maybe if I can see her, just talk to her for a few minutes..." Tooth Fairy had to stop speaking for a moment to keep control of himself. "I just wanna say I'm sorry..."

Mother Nature shook her head, but her breath caught in her throat when a faint figure appeared at his shoulder. The figure didn't have much substance, but she recognized her immediately. "That's not possible..."

"What?" Tooth Fairy turned to look where she was looking, and some sort of indescribable sound escaped him before he clapped a hand over his mouth. "Brinna! I...I'm...I'm so sorry...I..."

Brinna, for that was who it was, shook her head and fluttered her wings, which were once more attached to her back in her spirit form. "You always did take everything onto yourself, big brother. A people pleaser, through and through. I was wrong. I was stupid and stubborn, and I hurt you. You were right to yell at me that day. I'm the one who's sorry."

Tooth Fairy rushed forward to embrace her, but he passed right through her and fell to hands and knees, completely unashamed of the flood of tears he was in.

Brinna walked in front of him and knelt down. "What happened happened. It's done. It can't be changed. But I'm okay now. And you're going to be okay, too. It's time to let go..."

"I...I know." He sniffled and wiped his face, then gave a tearful laugh. "Love ya, brat."

Brinna giggled, already beginning to fade from view. "Love you too, fart-face. Now, pull yourself together and go join the party. Alpha is waiting for you."

Tooth Fairy heaved a shaky sigh, then felt Mother Nature's hand on his shoulder again. He got to his feet, and accepted it when she put her arms around him and held his head to her shoulder.

Her own cheeks were wet, and she smiled. "My child...my children...it would seem that Alpha's holiday has blessed you with a very precious gift."

Since I'm planning on rewriting this story, and it's over ten years old, that means a lot of redraws, lol. I thought it would be neat to draw the comparisons I did for the last version since I had changed most of the characters, and because obviously, the originals were over ten years old.

I started off with Bri and she turned out great. I really like how both versions turned out! The others ended up turning out great as well, which I'm thrilled about. So often one will turn out great and the others will be like....meh in comparison, lol. But the thing I love most is that there is a marked improvement from the originals, which were starting to annoy me.

I think with the original versions, I looked up the RGB values for the markers that I used, and used those for the colors, whereas this time, I used the actual colors I used for the digital art. Which was interesting, since I didn't have any digital art of Dessa (Danika's original name) or Shaylee. I did have a doll of Dessa, which I was able to pull the hair color from. The skin was easy, since I used the same skin tone for everyone back then, and Dessa has the same eye color as Damien, so that was easy as well. I used the green from the original version of these pictures, since it seemed to match better to the original design picture I had of her than the green I used int he doll.

Shaylee was a bit different. I had the skin, sure, but I pulled the hair and the pink off other pictures I had done around the same time, so I'm confident these are the colors I would have used for her.