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I wanna use this chara in Artfight cause I like her design.

This is Mihaela, a character I play in a Fabula Ultima campaign, a JRPG inspired system. The campaign I'm playing in is based off Fairy Tales, SO, as the obligatory Slav, I had to represent.

She is inspired by the romanian Fairy Tale "Goat with three kids". A brutal story where a mother warns her kids not to open the door unless they hear her special song password. Obviously, they mess up, two of them get eaten and their decapitated heads are left for the mom to find at the windowsill because the wolf thought it would be funny to play a joke.
The mom and the remaining kid take revenge on the wolf by tricking it into a feast laid out for a wake, over a fire pit with a candle-made top. So as the wolf eats and the wax burns, it falls into the fire and... burns alive.
... you know, FOR KIDS!

Anyways, this version is modified to keep in theme with JRPG energy. She is also inspired by Kratos from God of War.

Info: Mihaela was born in Grimmhelm, a village sorrounded by the cursed forest, Lujer. Nobody knows what Lujer actually is, but one thing is for sure: It's more alive than regular plants.
Still the people in Grimmhelm are stubborn and often keep it at bay. So have Mihaela and her husband lived together there, having kids and a relatively normal life, besides keeping wary of the forest.

Unfortunately, Mihaela's husband had a mental breakdown and left her and the kids, leaving Mihaela to go alone out to get food.
Since they would be alone and the forest was full of Shapeshifting Nightmare Wolves, Mihaela warned them not to open the door unless they heard her very specific password.
With days of this happening, the wolves picked up on the password, Mihaela's shape and her voice and managed to trick the kids into opening the door.

The eldest was brave. He tried to fight and he did damage... but he was ultimately too young to be a monster hunter and perished.
The middle was cowardly. He hid well, but predators smell fear...
The youngest was both agile and clever. He hid up the chimney, the narrow space and smoke making it impossible for the wolves to get him.

As they left the devoured corpses and the decapitated heads in the house, Mihaela returned to a gruesome sight. She wailed into the night, her mind only saved by the final child coming out, scared, but alive.

Lujer would pay. Even as the wife of the house, her being a goat person gave her the advantage of a strong body. Armed with fire, axes and traps, she and her remaining son went out on a wolf hunt. They turned the forest into a wolf trap and subjected them to horrors and pain matching her own. She crippled the wolves with her axes and traps and set them alive, hunting them day and night, forming a giant fire scar following her hunt in Lujer.

She eventually left after Lujer's plant's were starting to react to her massacre, no longer safe to hunt more wolves. Sadly, they had no home to return to, as she used it as a trap to burn a lot of wolves alive.

The world outside of Grimmhelm is dangerous as well, however. Children are often hunted and kidnapped and a goat kid was a unique opportunity. Since Mihaela exhausted herself in the fight with the wolves, she could not fight the kidnappers, and was left on the ground battered and broken. In her rage, the demon of Wrath found her. She made a deal with it for power, as she felt all her cunning was all for naught. The Demon accepted, taking away her wits and cunning in exchange for strength and dexterity.

Now she wanders the world, hunting wolves and searching for her kid, her rage unsatiated as she is looking or a way to kill Lujer. Forever.

Art © ME!

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