Art by:
 LordDirk (Left)
 Betsy (Right)

A pair of drawings of one of the characters from the fictional story I'm writing. This is Smiling Bird the opossum, which I've gotten drawings of before. She is the wife of Beast Killer the mouse. In these drawings she is portrayed doing some of her daily tasks. On the left she is working on a blanket and on the right grinding corn. She and the tribe she belongs to are based on the cultures of the American Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, and Northwest Mexico. With all the stereotypical, inaccurate, and fetishized portrayals of American Indians on FA, I think it really nice to show something far more accurate and true to life, like in these drawings. It is important to note, that it is the people who worked these daily tasks and not the warriors that made a tribe. Often times modern society likes to look at American Indians as a very warrior people, and focus mainly on what the tasks of warriors were. Instead, it was the people of these daily tasks that kept the tribe going and functioning as a society.Very important to emphasize, especially when the warrior culture is often emphasized more.

She is fairly shy, and she is in fact mute; unable to speak. Nonetheless she has her own ways of communicating with the others in her tribe and is loving to everyone around her.