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Compromise
Hi y'all, I wanted to share a painting I've been working on for months. Posting it now because I told myself I can't fuss with it anymore in the new year lol.
I started this after my first playthrough where I romanced Shadowheart, and we took the astral touched tadpoles together. I was struck by the contrast between her new, white, Selunite hair, and the dark veins, eyes, and new powers of the tadpole.
To me, her becoming half illithid showed how desperate she was to survive, to continue her journey as a chosen of Selune and find out what that meant to her. She had just been given a glimpse of something so bright, and now she has to succumb to darkness in order to preserve that light within herself.
I LOVE Shadowheart. I think her story is extremely well done and compelling. I hope I captured some of my feelings about it in this piece โจ๏ธ๐