A collage of all of them, and another art I uploaded earlier to bring them all together <3
"Tiny Mighty One" and her treasure, a ring. She will purr if you pet her gently with a single finger, but she might also hiss at you if she doesn't feel like being pet.
This one comes with a short story. "Mindless" :)
"Husky" -- The spirit of the dog Phaedra had when she was a child... invisible to her, but Alia can see him.
"Enchanted"
"Pattern" -- Half dream and half creature, Morpheus is Alia’s Dream Guide, mentoring, helping and protecting her when her dreams turn bad.
Snowmaker is a huge, ethereal snow leopard whose coat is made up of a billion snowflakes, which get shed and then drift off to float down to the world of the living – a gift to bring something soft and white when it’s cold and dark outside.
This is one of the landmarks of the spirit realm. It exudes a strong peacefulness and is overgrown with mushrooms; there are always a few creatures around it… and yet Alia can’t help feeling sad.
Bloom - one of the oldest Guardians. He doesn't care much about Alia, instead preferring to be a mentor and protector to the newer spirits.
Bess is the Mother of All; unifying the “typical” four elements and greeting Alia once she’s made it past the Kraken, the first time she visited the Spirit World. Bess is also the one who helped her sort of come to terms with her past.
"Tread"
The Kraken guards the gates to the Spirit World and is the first one Alia meets when she finds herself there.
"Treasure" - Phaedra's most prized posession. a bracelet carrying the wooden beads she and her eight closest army friends made back when they were all still alive; when one of them taught the others how to carve beads and they created a friendship pact.
"Dark" -- Sometimes, Alia's nightmares follow her out of her dreams.
Why buy a dog toy for a dog when you can use it for your owl spirit friend
"Ripe" -- Smiley's passage brings the harvest to ripen mysteriously. Alia makes them a pumpkin lantern because she can.
Dandelion is the opposite of Snowmaker. Snow and ice thaw under his paws, and he spreads the seeds of rare plants native to the area just by running through it!
"Coat" -- Phaedra loves wearing swooshy coats with big hoods and too many layers; especially when she can combine them with sweatpants, running shoes and big bushy scarves. Who cares about fashion, right?
“Look, Morgan, I’m a dragon!!”
Alia likes making costumes, using both bought and self-made pieces :)
If you don't have wings yourself, you will have to build them from the materials available to you! Older Alia <3
Snuffy is one of Alia’s best friends. The two of them were each other’s main playmates during Alia’s 10 years of coma-dreams, and now that Alia’s back in the “real world”, Snuffy is (of course) coming with her.
A bit late but hey, better late than never. Some of the arts I did during last October, developing my multimedia WIP story "Hope Beyond" through the official inktober prompts (and sometimes little short story snippets. Most of them were too long to include, though). I hope you enjoy them <3
The mid-piece of the collection image is one I did before Inktober, of Alia and Rhisíl, a Guardian of the spirit realm.
The story is a hopepunk magical realism story about 3 women helping each other through their various traumas, as they grow and heal. Alia spent 10 years in a coma and is now a child in a 19-year-old's body, who can still see the creatures from her coma-dream. Morgan is her older, estranged adoptive sister (whose parents died in that car crash with Alia) who finds herself the only possible care taker. Phaedra is their next-door neighbour/war veteran, who retired after losing her company and her leg. The story itself will be a mix of 3rd person narrative, diary entries and comic.