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Day 4 of Margaret week
Image description: Travis is on the left looking at Margaret, while he shuffles a deck of cards. A red string goes from his pinky to Margaret's, who is looking at Travis a bit exasperated. The red string is surrounded by glowing butterflies giving them a soft warm glow.
hiiii first of all the maiden and the hart is soooooo fucking cool and good goddam it made me cry fr also idk if this is ok 2 ask but did u just come up with the story recently for margaret week or did u already have the hart root origin myth figured out?
I knew that I wanted hart root to litterally look like the roots are a beautiful set of antlers branching into the earth. It seemed natural for the folktale element of that being a "hart" (or stag deer if you aren't familiar with antiquated animal terms) having its antlers or skull be planted to grow the first one. Once we add deer to the mix its only a matter of time before I decided it should connect to The Changeling, The Queen, and The Maiden.
With that little seed rolling around in my head I had a possible origin myth on the backburner. When Margaret Week popped up it gave me the excuse to actually write it.
Things kind of fell into place as I wrote things down. The original draft didn't have much of the hunter/prey stuff going on. The hunter was going to find the Hart already injured and have every reason to shoot him, but stay her bow because he represented what she wants. The hart was going to be moved by this act of mercy and offer to help the hunter, then lay down his life to help everyone trans.
The problem was this became a wild thing to justify. Since all the pieces were there, I decided to make the hunter into The Maiden and have it be a previous– and possibly ancient– Changeling cycle. The love story made way morse sense and thematically hit way harder. Also the idea that trans medicine existing out of an act of love and compassion resonated with me.
Fun fact: there was the version of the story where The Maiden eats a hart root seed and has the hart's child. It's very "tragic folktale bittersweet" so it might have fit. However, I decided an HRT story should be a fundamentally trans narritive. I wanted to disconnect the idea of femininity from fertility. Old folktale stuff can be okay, but it's old so it can be harmful without conscientious questioning.
Anyway, I hope that helps!
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a digital drawing of Margaret from campaign skyjacks. she is a woman with brown skin and dark curly hair wearing a green and white skirt, a grey corset, black boots, and a white blouse. she is kneeling in front of an altar with her body oriented away from the viewer, but turning to look toward you. the altar is covered in miscellaneous coins and bars as well as eight lit candles and a figure modeled after the cover of the decemberists album “what a terrible world what a beautiful world”: it is a woman standing on a winged globe holding a sword im one hand and an unloaded bow in the other.
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in honor of margaret week, please enjoy travis’ first look at her in the temple in nordia ♥️
I like how all the lovely Skyjacks fan artists have been like “Ah yes Margaret Week, a week dedicated to my favorite character who I love dearly. She’s brought me so much joy and has helped me through so much <3. Anyways...” *draws her lifeless corpse floating in a river*
This was really hard but also really fun, I think my next project is going to be some more dice, or maybe a necklace. I leave for college in four days so I’m trying to use some of the wood I can’t bring with me
Not me crying at work after listening to Margaret’s last words in Skyjacks Episode 116...
Day One of margaret week (The River)❇️ ❇️ ❇️I drew Margaret like Ophelia- that's it that's the whole thing
Image description: A drawing of a Woman with curly dark hair and a green dress laying in a river bed. She is surrounded by river reeds, twigs, and water lilies. In each of her hands is a water lily. Evening sunlight gives the water a golden glow, and golden light orbs dancing.
Day 3 of #margaretweek Red Strings!!! This is really were I solidified the hc of Margaret's magic being cool glowing butterflies just because I really like drawing cool glowing butterflies
Image description: a pair of two hands on a green background playing cat's cradle with red string. In the center of the string is the symbol of a lily. Surrounding the hands her soft glowing orbs and butterflies.
