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Sorrow Arcturus

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*I'll start off by saying I messed up on this one by forgetting this was supposed to be monochrome when I used red on her hair. An accident I was not willing to redo since her hair took a while to do. *Lazy* Also, not sure if the symmetry is still off, or that creepy smile plays a part. Need to study scars to be more believable, too.

Sorrow began her life in the servitude of a poor woodman's family, having made it past her infancy on the compassion the wife had for her at the time. What remained of it was the fact that they did not kill her knowing she was a Penumbra. Instead, they saw other uses for her and allowed her to live chained in the woodman's wood shed. To whatever she thought of her situation was masked by knowing no different, although the outside world from the window offered temptation and curiosity.

When she was six years old, the nameless child was on punishment, not being fed for three days. In her pangs of desperation, her natural strength overtook her and broke the chain that held her. Not being the brightest either, she tried to fix it before the woodman's came back only to have him find her free. Unable to explain since they never taught her to speak aside from the words she picked up, the girl fled her beating and was some miles away before she realized she was far from "home".

Despite the comforts of the familiar, the girl continued moving forward in exploration of the vast outdoors, learning she was fast enough to catch small creatures, but not the foresight of knowing to cook them. Not many days past before fortune had it that a band of Penumbra refugees escaping persecution came across the child. Thinking the disfigured child had escaped some terrible fate of her own, they took her with them to the Underworld network in Regalia, capital of Rayne.

It was here the girl's fate changed when Bal Hora's Moon sect was searching for potential recruits, employment impossible for Penumbra besides the most demeaning and laboursome. It was the high priestess in fact that selected the girl, sensing potential and something kindred in her. Because of her condition, Ovara Marie named her Sorrow and her tutelage under her continued throughout her years.

As a young woman, Sorrow became masterful at "wild magik", or conjuring spells from instinct alone since reading and education in general did not come easy for her. This was to Ovara's dismay, and her strict rearing continued. Always a strict disciplinarian on her, Sorrow was never allowed to call or refer to her as mother, at least not until Ovara's sister was brought to live with them and recover from grievous injuries.

Daily attending to her, eventually Cachusa was able to move and speak, not long sensing the same Ovara did in her. Upon learning what little there was to know about Sorrow from them both, Cachusa was moved by something beyond curiosity to learn more. Sorrow led the sister's back to that forest where Cachusa was able to confirm whom she beleived Sorrow was; the baby that Miriam had thrown from the cliffs long ago.

Sorrow could never press her to reveal more, so she decided a personal trade. Havng shadowing a certain child and family for many years at Ovara's personal, furtive request, Sorrow surmised it was in fact her daughter. If she could bring the girl back with her, such a favour would grant her closure, even if for worse. Her disobedience lead her closer to the truth and irony of fate in that the one raising the girl was name Miriam, like Cachusa' daughter.

She also stumbled upon part of the reason Mila was kept away but observed. For the most part, it was to keep her from Moon sect's bishop, Vladmir Blair. Never having loyalty to anyone but Ovara, Sorrow continued her personal mission to mend the web that had been created so long ago and discover the reason for her abandonment. This began Sorrow and Mila's journey together...

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Huh Your bang on About the Scar its good! and About that symmetry is a little off if you Draw a line From the bottom of her jaw and up to the tip of the Skull then draw a separate line from one side of the eyes to the end of the other side I think you'll see Were its off in places. But all in all Great work.

Ps.
I Know her head is Tilted.
Its a hard Angle to get right.

(:-D

BluMiu responds:

Haha, thanks. I'm pretty critical of my first attempts on characters because they turn out less than perfect. I'm using PaintToolSAI, so it doesn't really have tools to help you line things up, so this was all free-hand, and yeah, off by much XD I recently found a way to make straight lines to use a rulers, so that will help future frontal portraits.
And yes, the tilt is tricky. I should have rotated the canvas, but never thought of it xD

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