colored maudra seethi from this set of drawings, did you ever see a gelfling so beautiful you started crying
seethi headcanons under the cut :3
i imagine she inherited the maudra title young following her mother's death (she looks so young compared to the other maudras!) and, being a young gelfling surrounded by matriarchs, maybe struggled to integrate and get along with the other maudras for a while. she understood gelfling law in theory but in practice it doesn't come naturally to her, and the maudras being a sort of old ladies club didn't offer a lot of help at first.
probably she resolved this by withdrawing her personal feelings and emotions from her maudra "persona," she tries to be completely objective, plays by all the rules and waits for others to express their stances on a given matter before offering her own input. the other maudras opinions on this behavior range from annoyed to indulgent, most of them were there while she was struggling and they understand the need to separate their personal lives from the lives they lead as maudras.
gelfling autism
the shape of the dousan headdress is determined by how much hair it needs to hold--seethi has lots and lots and lots of hair, but she almost always wears it tied up or braided back to keep it off her neck in the desert heat.
the loss of her mother, which i imagine was unexpected and came at an already-fraught time in inter-clan relations/shifting skeksis policy/some other drama, had a profound effect on seethi that gelfling close to her recognized--the dousan perspective on death helped her rationalize and accept her mother's death, but she's never quite been able to move on.
the little hair charm at the end of her necklace is a lock of her mother's hair
whether in maudra-mode or not, seethi comes across like she's sort of floating through life, a bit detached from everything but still held down to thra by virtue of existing on it. she becomes more grounded in reality when a present situation or task demands her whole attention
related to above, she realizes she actually quite enjoys fighting during the outset of the garthim war, because unlike maudra work it's fast-paced, physical and decisive, and she doesn't have to worry about doing it "right" so much as just surviving to fight another way.
seethi lost a lot of her friends when she became maudra, unable to maintain relationships as the role demanded more and more of her time. :C
despite the kind of unwieldy shape seethi actually likes to wear the headdress because she thinks her ears are too big. when she wears it she has to trade big ears for a fivehead, but a big forehead is a feature of beauty among dousan (but not among stonewood, thats why they all have bangs)
since dousan aren't a part of the alliance of the crystal, seethi has only met the skeksis incidentally when some event necessitated both she and a skeksis ambassador attend. after maybe the third or fourth time this happens she decides to take a leaf out of maudra argots book and just sends a messenger with a no-show letter.
during aor seethi is the second youngest maudra, a little younger than mera (spriton maudra) and youngest of all being ethri (sifan maudra). mera became maudra not long after seethi, although at an older age, and adjusted pretty well to the position, so she and seethi get along well being closer in age than the other maudras. ethri became maudra under similar circumstances to seethi (sudden loss of a mother) so seethi and mera advise her where they can and do their best to make themselves welcoming presences for her. mera is better at this than seethi lol
related to above, this is why they all kind of cluster and make the same choice to support seladon when fara issues her challenge for the crown.
I just wanted to combine all the (canon) Gelfling portraits I made in my Lineless style (so far) into one post. I think I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable the more I draw the cute little creatures!
It’s a real shame there’s barely any information about Maudra Seethi from both AOR and the book series. She’s the only one of the current maudras we know the least about. Aside from attending to Seladon’s coronation, the other notably significant thing she’s done was lead the funeral rites in Flames of the Dark Crystal. The official website has this little small blurb about her taking funeral rites seriously and making sure she passes it along to future generations, but that’s it. That’s all we know about Seethi.
She’s such a cool looking character I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HER. Seethi has the best design out of all of the other maudras.
