#tidetress

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Commissioned Witch forms for @nkmblackhyuuga !

I (still) don't have an updated pricing sheet for my commissions but feel free to email or message me for a quote!

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A bunch of commissions for @nkmblackhyuuga of a winxsona in various witch uniform designs, and an alt outfit for the associated pixie!

you can find my commission info here!

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The water edition of the Elemental witches! Known as Tidetressess

Lore and design notes below!

So just like the Sirenix quest a witch looking to become a Tidetress has to obtain a Sirenix pearl through one of the challenges and present it to the source of Sirenix. Unlike fairies however, witches usually work more closely with the elemental companions of each quest (in this case the selkies). Witches need a gift from their elemental companions to add to their uniform in order to handle the ethereal power bestowed by the elemental quests. Witches becoming Tidetresses get a selkie’s coat. This does no harm to the selkie (no controlling powers or bodily injury or anything, its just the portion of skin that a selkie that sheds every few years) but is deeply symbolic and lends a drop of infinite ocean magic for the witch to build on. The elemental witch forms still influence the witch’s biology, so here Lucy, who has strong Nixie (freshwater mermaids, distantly related to the salt water variety but are more amphibious, have a much smaller population, and are less involved in human society) heritage has finned ears, arms, and hands, in addition to gills, and Nixie like eyes. Stormy, as an Androsian, has a little bit of merm somewhere in her family, so she does have webbing on her hands and ears but it isn’t enough to produce any other effects. 

The look of the Tidetress uniforms are often similar to whatever the Witch’s already existent uniform is based on, but it’s not a one to one. The tail for Tidetressess are more seal like than fairies because of the selkie influence. The uniform also features the a swim suit like top strung together with pearls and water/foam cloth panel type things (sleeves, coat-tails, or high waisted skirt type thing). The patterns on their tails are usually a bit more symbolic of the witch’s preferred spell usage compared to the abstract fish-like patterns common in sirenix fairies. Their fins also have the witch’s signature shape at the very tips.