"The winter, the moon, and me."

Part II, Winter Version
(Part I, Autumn Version)

I've been working on relearning French this past month- it's really one of the most beautiful languages to me. But it's only one of many that I want to tackle.
With any luck, Russian and Italian will be next.

But at any rate, here's Seven in her winter coat. I wanted to put icicles in there somewhere, but I felt like adding them would have been unrealistic and pushed it over the 'too fucking crowded' line.
I was conflicted about adding candles, and even more so about having the one in her hand lit. I adore Phantom of the Opera- and winter makes me think of it. So ivory candles seemed perfect and abstract, but there's a kind of catch.
Seven is a fire elemental, and I've always tried to force myself into fitting the fire element- but in reality I was born a water element because I'm a Scorpio. Naturally all of that stuff is just fun to read and muse on- not something to mold your life by or base decisions on, but I've always enjoyed the idea of elements being assigned to people.

Now, Scorpio is the last water element of the calender year, making it the 'coldest' water element. (Or at least, to me it is the closest to winter. Pisces is the water element thawing into spring)
And I always hella fought that whole 'born under this element' thing, because I think fire is the most interesting element. It's tricky, because almost everything about Scorpio's definition points towards a fire personality- but they are water. (keywords like intensity, the 'sex sign', passion, their mythological animal is the Phoenix, scorpions living in the desert- one of the hottest places on earth, their colors being reds and blacks, their stone being opal when there are strains of opal called fire opal, etc) But by the standard kind of definition the elements are personified by- I am unarguably a water element.

And after Frozen came out (which oh man- I'm sure everyone got some message out of that that they could relate to or that helped them in some way- which is great) I finally felt proud of being a 'water element by sign'. I can parallel my life to a few things in that movie. Like the water element, appearance (well, if Elsa was a chunk with really goofy expressions), her being set off after her sister and a dude wound up together suddenly, dat insecurity tho, you name it.
And fucksake, Korra makes it pretty cool too. (Although Avatar makes every damn element look amazing)

But instead of throwing some water/ice elemental stuff into this picture with Seven, I decided to keep it as it's been and skip that. AT LEEEAAAST, for now.


And for anyone who is into that kind of element-personality junk, here's some snips:

Stuff
And stuff
And more stuff


A-LONGA STORY SHORT,
I enjoyed drawing this.
Yee


P.S. EDIT Thanks for the response! I was told to provide evidence that my account was still being watched and that works perfectly- the name calling is a great addition as well.

Seven, Art ©