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Naava is probably my oldest character up to date, but there isn't any drawings of her here on DA, aside a quick sketch in scraps and a cute drawing by ~Nooruska. There are reasons, MANY reasons for this. One of them being that I've been overprotective on her, as she is my most precious character if not kind of personal as well. She's also the most difficult one.
Seriously.
I have loads of ideas for her, loads and loads of adventurous death defying ideas. And that was a problem for the longest of time, since I just couldn't figure out what I excatly wanted her to be. What were her motives and wishes. And then there were lots of nagging details like how experienced she'd be in magic, what would be her special skills, or like what the hell she's been up to this whole freaking point?!
So for many years I've had a cycle that I'd doodle sketches of Naava, come up with ideas but quickly deemned them as stupid and trying to push her away forevers, only for her to start appearing again in my sketch book. It's almost like she already has a will of her own, that stubborn little scamp. :>
I guess I just didn't want to inroduce her to the world yet because she was so incomplete (like I haven't done that before :B), but anyways, I was thinking of her again recently and concluded that if I ever made a comic of her, I'd need a solid origin story. And then suddenly, a random inspiration. So yeah, I finally do have a story of her written down for the most part. Huzzah! I don't dare to say it's the most original origin story ever, but it's so far pretty intact and it ties together a lot of a characters and events, so I guess it'll have to do. I won't reveal anything other than it's going to be sad, but she has a good spirit on her so there's hope for her. :lol:

So what kind of a character Naava is excatly? First things first, she's a hiisi, a mythical being from Finnish folklore. It kind of depends on who you ask what a hiisi is, since their description can range from a spirit being to a demon, but they're generally though as vile. Naava on the other hand is kind and gentle. Her story takes place in Finland roughly around end of the Viking era, but I might take some "artistic liberties" on the accurancy of history. Only a bit. And yes, like mentioned before, she does magic. I see her as a practical healer type, but her skills will get more refined once I get on to writing more stories.

Oh yeah, and Naava's name is Finnish for the type of lichen that hangs from trees. A lot of characters like to compare her hair to lichen 'cause it's so shaggy.

As for the painting itself, it was originally going to be a little potrait but changed plans and ended up painting the whole body so I hope her anatomy didn't turn out too weird. It's a bad habit of mine, I really should get rid of it. <__<
And incase you're wondering, those 'corn shoes' are made out of birch bark.


Whoa, I sure write a lot more than usual when tired. I should be sleeping right now so pardon me if any of this doesn't make sense. :P
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Naava! Muistan kun joskus vuosia, vuosia sitten näytit ekan kerran luonnoksia tästä tyttelistä. Oli ehkä aavistuksen verran eri näköinen, tukka taisi olla ehkä enemmän alaspäin menevä. Tai ehkä muistan omiani, ken tietää. :p Anyhoo, kivan näköinen on Naava, tykkään erityisesti mekosta ja "essun" (ei taida olla oikea termi, mutta väsy enkä keksi parempaa sanaa) koristeista. Anatomiasta en nyt osaa sanoa sen ihmeempää, erittäin hyvältä näyttää minun silmiini. Uuh, ja kivet Naavan jalkojen juuressa on muuten ihanan väriset, näin randomina kommenttina!

Juu, heissan pitkästä aikaa! Eipä ole tullut kirjauduttua tänne sisään, öh, varmaan puoleen vuoteen. Mitäpä siulle kuuluu, ei ole pitään aikaan nähty taasen? :<