how it should have been- but thats not what really happened, is it?
Nyx, my beloved.... the first version being from a better world where they got to learn to be a person at their own pace- instead of literally cutting parts away from themselves to stop being hunted down and treated like a wild animal.
The problem, of course, is that they very much are one after being hunted for so long.
First has them unmutilated, earfins intact and with a healthy weight. Their hair is blue-white and they are resting with ease.
The second, is as they are in reality, a pact marked by the bone 'crown', ears trimmed, weight lost, and of course the big scars. The sealskin they lay on has its visible eye open as well, and the same scars nyx has are mirrored.