User blog comment:EtherealNyx/Design Contest!/@comment-26423188-20160627012452

Alright! One wolf girl coming up! OWO I don't think I did as well as I could have, but I hope you like her nevertheless:

Okay so for Val, I was very intrigued by many things in the story. First off, she's a wolf. Duh. That's an inspiration I used. Also, there were stones, crows, and three droplets of water concerned, so I added that too. The remaining things are a little more interpretive. In the story, he transform twice, once into a horse, and another time into a princess with magic. And he escapes(like Houdini!) both times. Plus, he meets the prince at a crossroad. Magic, crossroads, what do you get? Hecate! And Hecate fits rather nicely into the themes she has already!

The inspiration from Hecate was horses, black sheep, and snakes as animals. Then, crossroads, the number three, and torches. Also colors and metals but that's for later. As said before, horses were in the story so yeah. And the sheep? Well, Val is a wolf, and wolves + sheep appear regularly in fairytales. Snakes are there because they appear often too! Crossroads represent change and important decisions, both of which are found in fairytales. The number 3is often called the magic number, and it is a recurring theme in fairytales. Torches are there for no reason. The colors of Hecate are gray, black, purple, and shades of oranges. Gray and black for gray wolves, purple for royalty (the princess) and orange because no reason. Both silver and gold, silver since it seems similar to gray, gold for royalty.

For the actual outfit, I was inspired by more edgy-punk-esque clothing, because wolves are apparently seen as outlaws/fugitives in Russia. Val wears a very layered look, with lots of faux fur. A long sleeved shirt with one arm strapless and the other ending in a fingerless glove, it is mainly gray and patterned with stone-like cracks, however, it fades to orange at the hem and sleeve(for the stones in the story). Over this is a black crop T-shirt patterned with orangey gold horseshoes (horses) and a fluffy gray fur collar. A purple sleeveless crop hoodie is worn over this, with gold royal-esuqe spotted fur trim on the hem and hood (for royalty). An orangey-gold pattern representing crossroads is patterned on the front.

She wears ripped gray jeans underneath the shirt, and a knitted purple and black skirt is tied on, with fluffy sheep-like pompoms. Her shoes are ankle hiking boots, with gray fur trim, a torch for a heel, and three horizontal (plus one) buckled straps across to create crossroads. A fingerless glove made of black fishnet with gray fur trim is on her left hand. Three rings (for three) of a wolf, sheep, and crow skull. Three earrings (again, three) one is a torch, another is a flying crow, and another is a horseshoe. On the other ear is one earrings with three raindrops, for the three drops of water in the story. A crown for royalty, with a wolf howling in the middle. She wears it over her bun.

Black lips and yellow eyes because wolf. Tan skin and grayscale hair. Bangs, bun, shoulder-length hair. When feral fangs will grow longer and pupils turn triangular (three!!!) Dark eyebrows. Sharp fingernails(painted black and chipped). Orange snake bracelet(quite literally). Alright! Wolfy girl is done! Just another submission and I’ll be good to go! ^u^ Clara will come probably on Tuesday, if not sooner, or if I can’t, on the 4rth of July(late evening).