#maelen

This was SO much fun! Thank you @sugacakes for inspiring me 💖

While painting her, I came up with such a heartbreaking backstory and I felt so connected to her throughout.

She was called Maelen and lived a quiet life with her wife, Selenya, living off the land. She contracted the Dreamscourge and before long, the sea called to her and she answered that call.

Now she drifts through tide and transformation, known to the people as Thalassira. But Selenya still stands on the shore every night whispering her true name into salt and starlight hoping the sound of her devotion will carry on the ripples and reach her lost love so that even for the briefest of moments…she might remember their life together.

AND I managed to get the full time-lapse!! The file wasn't too big! 🥳 I love how she looked like one of those trolls for a bit while I figured out her hair bahaha