* Sterling - DTAE *

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Meet sterling! Here’s a DTAE for eyespot because the character design is actually so freaking adorable! Adding more art and backstory soon :) Hope you like it! :D 1. Full of sterling! This took abt 3 hours and was so fun to draw! :D I like it, but the more I look at it the weirder it looks :’) 2. Lil icon of sterling! This took a little over 2 hours and omg I think it’s one of my favorite pieces I’ve done so far <3 she looks so pretty here! I also tried a new signature that I really like lol Backstory time!! Sterling lives in a sort of Victorian x sci-fi timeline of that makes any sense lol, like a utopian, modern version of the 1700s-1800s I think. She is 23 and straight, though currently not romantically involved :D sterling grew up on the land, around animals and nature, although her family was fairly wealthy and lived in the city. Sterling had a hobby of observing, catching and keeping butterflies as a child, creating her own butterfly farm and developing a fondness for eyespot butterflies. As she grew older, Sterling shifted from her “childish” interest in butterflies to tinkering, thinking and inventing. After graduating from school, an old friend reached out to her and connected her to a scientist who was looking for an assistant. Sterling interned for Dr. Ming, an inventor working on individual flight with a group of scientists and their assistants, a predominantly male group of intellectuals. Dr. Ming, the only woman in the group besides Sterling, advocated for women’s rights on the side. Sterling was also vocal about the issue, but she had a different hobby; while working with the scientists to study birds as a form of individual flight, Sterling secretly went back to her roots, observing butterflies as a possibility for flight. She often walks around with a cape fashioned after the wings of an eyespot butterfly, even if she isn’t quite capable of flight yet. Sterling currently works as an assistant to Dr. Ming on their flight project, and tinkers around with her butterfly ideas on the side, as well as advocating for women’s rights with the help of Dr. Ming. uh yeah, that’s sterling’s lore! It’s written pretty badly but i love the idea behind it and I hope you like it anyways! :D

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