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Published: 2017-08-09 19:37:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 882; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 0
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I hope you like this version of G'rierrah, and thanks for the amazing background-story again!

The Black Grotta suddenly appeared after a submarine volcano partially collapsed, causing disasters that lasted for months. Nobody knows exactly why it collapsed, but there are rumours of a mysterious entity inhabiting the dephts of the earth. So, to appease this entity, the K'hara, people of this world that lived by the sea, started making sacrifices. Every four years, when their two moons aligned, they would throw one of their own into the sea, hoping to prevent another disaster.

But one day, they chose a special girl, G'rierrah. She had been born beneath the moons, thus gifted, but the people did not recognize her ability. So, when she was thrown into the water and sank beneath the waves, she waited for the entity to consume her, but instead, she saw the Grotta and the powerful glow emanating from it. When she swam towards it, trying to hold her breath, she spotted a white orb floating in the middle of the cavern. But after she touched it, the marks on her body she had had since birth glowed and pulsated along with the orb's light. She suddenly found it easy to breathe as her skin became more smooth and scaly, her legs growing together to form a tail and strings of black light growing from her back. The entity had chosen her, the girl of the moon, to be its guardian and appease it.

Forever since, the sacrifices made by the K'hara were lead towards the Black Grotta by its guardian and put to sleep for one last time with her black light.


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Comments: 5

koromo-rab [2017-08-10 03:36:53 +0000 UTC]

that's a marvellous composition! you can totally do illustrations for storybooks ^~^

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PrivateCoppery In reply to koromo-rab [2017-08-10 07:11:27 +0000 UTC]

 Thank you very much! 

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FrancistheDragon [2017-08-09 19:49:38 +0000 UTC]

She looks absolutely amazing! Thank you so, so much for drawing her like this! 
I was really curious about what you would imagine her original form was like, and this is really cool. I love the usage of pink for her hair, her eyelids and her clothing, it's a great contrast to the dominant blue in the original picture, as if it would highlight how much she was changed by this entity. The background fading from red into yellow only adds to this impression, and the lineart reminds me of the DA Birthday template you illustrated, which also is different from the original image.

All in all, I love it! And I'll repeat this forever and ever!

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PrivateCoppery In reply to FrancistheDragon [2017-08-09 20:08:06 +0000 UTC]

I'm so glad you like it, since G'rierrah turned into a real person because of you - that's why I enjoyed this request pretty much!
And, yeah, I wanted to go for a more innocent look, a more bright and loveable character. I also choosed to draw her with closed eyes because of the contrast - since in the original picture the eyes were keypoints of the whole piece. 

So thank you again for the backstory, and the comment, and like everything!   

Ps.: That Birthday challenge really possessed me XD I'll have to hold myself back to not to draw every single artwork in that style 

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FrancistheDragon In reply to PrivateCoppery [2017-08-10 18:09:37 +0000 UTC]

You are very, very welcome! For everything! ^^
This definitely is what she looks like. After all, she was an innocent soul sacrificed to the entity to appease it, and her innocence was the price she had to pay to live.

Ps.: Yeah, I noticed ^^ *cough* Sea...abomination...something (Curse my short memory!) *cough*

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