"My name is Legion, for we are many."

Happy New Year, everyone!
Let's hope its a good one!

This is a very important piece to me, because it represents me and my different sides so well. The changes I've gone through as a person.

I grew up on the countryside and was rather conservative in many regards. A bit of a feminist I suppose but very backwards when it came to other social issues such as LGBTQ or racial inequality. I was just your typical Christian white girl in blue jeans and a shirt. Was brought up to be a tomboy and always take care of myself. Life was simple back then. My blue dragoness Lily came to represent this side of myself.

When I was 16 I left the small local school to attend high school in the city. I was suddenly exposed to so many people and cultures I had never encountered before in my life. Suddenly I was in the same class like people I used to loathe, such as extreme leftists, radical feminists, LGBTQ people... Suddenly I was confronted with a lot of ideas and experiences I had never come accross before. My own thoughts and ideals were challenged and often turned over. I started to change, and started to clash a lot with my family instead. I left Christianity behind, and soon I realized that I was bisexual myself. I got together with a girl for the first time and soon I'd be taking part in LGBTQ rallies. I became politically active on a liberal-left view. At the same time I started dying my angel curly blonde hair black and soon I shifted over to become a full on goth girl, which is represented by my old main character Valcyrie. I got really into metal and adopted a whole new artsy and free lifestyle. The Rock Rebel was born.

But time went on. I grew up, life went through some dramatic changes. If someone had told 18 year old me where I'd end up now I would never have believed them. Nowadays I'm a broken shard of the person I used to be. I've taken some serious and permanent damage. Patched together and repaired time and time again. I've gone from a simple, happy and good-hearted girl to a dark, moody and complicated creature. I'm being kept alive by medical science in a drastically altered body with pieces of metal attached and fused to my biological form, struggling with substance addiction. This is represented by my new main, my cyborg form of Valcyrie (Mechina Mk. II).

I've gone from almost authoritarian to almost anarchist. From a natural purist to transhumanist. From straight to bi. From Christian to Pagan. Yet, I have left the city to return to the country side. To gardens, animals and solitude. To peacefulness. And when I'm doing homesteading, or taking care of my garden or my house like my dad taught me to, I really feel like the country girl I grew up as. And these 2 sides of me, almost like 2 different personalities, clash and fuse to form one. Sometimes I feel like one or the other, but yet we are the same. 2 in 1. So different, yet so alike. A duality in equilibrium. This is my existance.

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This piece was gifted to me by  aiona1 and I love it so much. I've been saving it for the right moment to upload it, and now feels like one. I just gained 1000+ watchers and it's a new year with new challenges. It's a very dear and special artpiece for me.

I hope this new year will be better for you all