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Lavis, Guardian of Fire

From time to time, I remember this poor character of mine... Especially when I'm feeling low and tormented by memories of my past errors. She is the personification of fire, at least how I imagine it to be.
Fire can be many things, like a light in the darkness, it can warm you when you're cold, it's energy, allows you to cook food... But it's also dangerous, destructive, uncontrollable. Fire is fire. It's part of the nature, and nature isn't always kind.

She hates her own nature, doesn't matter how hard she keeps on trying, no one ever seems to understand that she isn't bad, she's just... Herself. Beautiful, warming, bright, but also scorching hot, burning, dangerous. She didn't choose to be the way she is, why anyone would ever choose to be hated by everyone? Pain bleeds through the cuts on her skin, anger burns her from the inside out, sadness is tearing from her eyes, while her mind screams "Would anyone ever truly understand?"
Mareena, the Guardian of Sea, is the only one who can touch her, feel her, love her. They both know how much their love hurts, but they just can't be without the other.

Initial sketch

Initial sketch

Lineart

Lineart

Flat color. To capture fire in a drawing is no easy task, so I was just messing around with brushes

Flat color. To capture fire in a drawing is no easy task, so I was just messing around with brushes

Changed background color to better visualize the behaviour of fire and the general mood, while also shading

Changed background color to better visualize the behaviour of fire and the general mood, while also shading

Putting effort on showing how the light generated from the fire behaves in relation to the body

Putting effort on showing how the light generated from the fire behaves in relation to the body

Finished piece

Finished piece