#sko-ella

Anyways their dynamic basically boils down to these images:

Im putting the last doodle under the cut cause it is of truly atrocious quality and I can tell this even late at night and sleepy 😔

Anyways Bonus doodle + aftermath

So for a bit of context, Sko-Ella was inspired by the Scandinavian folktale of the same name. The folk-tale goes as follows:

One day, the devil was feelin pretty bored and wanted to create some drama between a newly married couple. So, he meets Sko-Ella, who agrees to cause a little drama as long as she gets some new red shoes.

Then, Sko-Ella goes to the couple and tells the wife her husband’s having an affair and if she wants his love back, she gotta cut a lock of his hair in the dead of night. Meanwhile, she tells the husband his wife is going to kill him that night 😭😭😭

As expected, the husband freaks and basically only pretends to sleep that night. When he sees his wife get up with some scissors, he assumes Sko-Ella was telling the truth and kills her.

Anyways the devil hears abt this and is utterly horrified cause he just wanted some entertaining drama and didn’t think Sko-Ella’s idea of causing a bit of mischief would be fucking masterminding a whole ass murder.

Bro is so disturbed that he hands Sko-Ella the new shoes from the end of a pole cause he wants nothin to do with her at this point.

Anyways I heard this story and thought, man Sko-Ella gotta be an extreme individual. I can make a slasher from this 🙏

With that out of the way, here’s her lore:

Sko-Ella's been around since the medieval times and is known by many aliases (Red-Ella, the red witch, the lady of faces)

She basically travels around the globe, collecting slasher masks and cursed artifacts with her whole goal being to make merry and have fun

As you can tell, she’s pretty extreme in personality. Her idea of a small prank is straight up psychological torment and it’s not a proper game unless several people are at risk of dying. She will go way too far in every aspect of whatever she choses to do 🙏

However, she sees herself as being very reasonable and doesn’t really see why anyone would fear/avoid her. She’s just having fun, after all! Essentially she’s like one of those prank youtubers who pretend to kill your entire family in front of you and then turn around laughing cause “It was just a joke!”

Her title as lady of faces comes from her ability to disguise herself through magic. Nobody’s ever seen Sko-Ella’s true face and she’s difficult to track due to how many personas she’s cycled through over the centuries.

What went down in the 1600s:

After fucking around in Afro-Eurasia for 4 centuries, Sko-Ella decides to visit the New World. At one point, she ends up encountering Otchaly (Kiezu’s son) on the run from slave hunters and on the lookout for his dad. Otchaly manages to convince Sko-Ella to help him out and she decides, why not, it’ll be a fun game. (Never ask Sko-Ella for help, guys 😭)

So while they make their way around Massachusetts, Otchaly gets to know Sko-Ella and he def ain’t a fan of what he’s seeing. He doesn’t rlly trust her, especially with the whole witchcraft and darkness thing goin on.

Anyways once they make it to Nevermoor, stuff goes abt as well as you’d expect. Otchaly has a valid crashout abt finding out his father is a slasher, absolutely refuses to believe it, and is convinced the darkness is mocking him with his father’s face. Kiezu is equally as shocked and ngl almost ashamed. Wematin ain't happy abt this either.

Anyways, Sko-Ella decides why not spice up the game and helpfully tosses Otchaly a weapon. Wematin reaches for his spear. Things escalate and pretty soon Sko-Ella is burning down the roots of the darkness. And she def does not stop there.

Rafiq stares at her with a nonchalant face, but his eyes say otherwise. They were hardened like stone, as well as fiery with caution.

"We meet again."

— Rafiq Ajam ( @doctemi-and-friends 🌟 )

"Uncle!" Sko-Ella grinned, tilting her head as she gave a mocking bow. "Finally chose to say Hi I see."

La leyenda de Sko-Ella, una mujer que asustó al propio diablo

La leyenda de Sko-Ella, una mujer que asustó al propio diablo

En un mural de una de las paredes de la antesala de una antigua iglesia sueca del siglo XIII, en la zona norte de la ciudad de Uppsala, puede verse una imagen muy curiosa: el diablo tiende a una mujer unos zapatos rojos atados a un palo. Al parecer, esta pintura medieval de la iglesia de Viksta es una representación de la leyenda de…