[ edit: I now own this design! yay! ] ❝ ...no use crying over spilled ink... ❞ ・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・ [ - n o r i n e i s t y p i n g - ] ✎ hi!! omg when I first saw blot's design I swear I FELL IN LOVE like seriously she seems like such a diva, she looks like she'd blow up the earth and skip away giggling lol <333 so aaaanyways I decided to enter for this DTA but then I just couldn't stop drawing her so yeah XD hope you like this DTAE!! [ note: that was a lot of yapping ] ・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・ ✎ t a b l e o f c o n t e n t s ↳ art ↳ bio/backstory ↳ credits ・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・ ✎ a r t 1 . fullbody ↳ [ notes: I decided to call her Rue!! I think it's a fitting name for her ] 2 . halfbody-ish with daisy ↳ [ notes: I had a ton of fun with drawing this!! ] 3 . reference sheet (shaded) ↳ [ notes: broken cuff, blue glow, and radioactive stuff will be explained in the backstory ] 4 . reference sheet (un-shaded) ↳ [ notes: I saved an un-shaded version just in case lol ] 5 . chibi fullbody ↳ [ notes: I looove how this turned out!! ] 6 . traditional art halfbody ↳ [ notes: see what I mean by I can't stop drawing her? I made this with acrylic markers on marker paper, and I'm so sorry the picture is low quality lol I swear it looks better in real life ] ・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・ ✎ b i o / b a c k s t o r y name: Rue pronouns: she/her sexuality: straight backstory: Rue was created in a section of a factory that was trying to make radioactive self-writing ink. However, in one of their experiments, the ink malfunctioned and became a cat. The factory workers freaked out and confined her to a small glass box in the corner of the factory where all their trash was kept. Once, they took her out to conduct studies on her, and they discovered that she could sense joy, and in fact, she fed off of it. They deemed her a dangerous creation, put a tracker cuff labeled 'INK' on her just in case, and sent her back into the glass box in the corner of the factory. Five years passed this way, and Rue was slowly starving. Hardly anybody came into her corner of the factory, and on the rare occasion that they did, they were so gloomy and miserable that she couldn't feed on any joy they had, because they didn't have any. Eventually, she became so thin that she could easily squeeze through a tiny crack in the corner of the box. So that's what she did. She escaped unnoticed from the factory into the vast woods beyond. She wandered through the woods and marveled at all the sights, sounds, and smells in it. She found joy in extraordinary abundance there, and for once in her life was truly happy. But it was not to last. For the tracker cuff on her foreleg was still working, and a week later she was tracked down and surrounded by factory workers. She put up a good fight, but unfortunately the factory workers wounded her fatally and she was unalived. (lol I couldn't say the actual word bc scratch would report me) The tracker cuff was broken in the process. However, Rue was so determined to have her revenge on the people who dared restrain her from all the possible joys of life that she came back as a shadowy ghost to haunt the woods and anyone who dared venture into it. She is still there to this day, searching for the factory where she was created. [ notes: I used the fact that radioactive paint was marketed when radium was first discovered, and that the element was supposedly called 'liquid sunshine' (which can also be interpreted as joy since "sunshine" has connotations of joy), as inspiration to build Rue's story. Additionally, pure radium faintly glows blue in the dark, hence Rue glowing blue when she's joyful. We all love a bit of science, right? ] ・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・୨୧・・・・ design by art by me ♡ [ - n o r i n e h a s s t o p p e d t y p i n g - ]
