[WAR: Season II] Drawn Art

[Elysia]

Name: Elysia
Team: Yoga Bears
Myth/Legend: Princess Mononoke/The Spirit Princess
Summary/Link: I'm a link to the best movie of all time's wiki page [spoilers!]
It's, uh, not a real-world legend, but Miyazaki has kind of been a legend in the film industry, and also he makes movies with beautiful backstories and things. I chose to illustrate the titular Princess Mononoke (translates roughly to "the princess of the wild spirits"). In-universe, Princess Mononoke is seen as a legendary spirit of the forest, and the people of the surrounding villages mistake her for a human girl who has been overtaken by the forest spirits (she's really just a normal human girl who has a penchant for climbing things, biting people, and riding giant wolves). She rides alongside the wolf spirit, Moro, and Moro's two cubs, and she often wears a mask lined/with a giant mane of with wolf fur. She repeatedly attacks humans who infringe too far into the forest, and she and Moro attempt to defend the forest and its spirits from the humans. Although she was a human who was abandoned by her parents as they fled from the forest spirits when she was a baby, she believes herself to be fully wolf, and will lash out at humans in a feral rage if they harm the forest. She is accepted by the spirits and feared and reviled by the humans, who view her as princess of the monsters.

Also, because I'm obsessed, here's the link to one of the more memorable songs/repeating refrains from the film, titled "The Legend of Ashitaka".



/tried to go with a more jagged style here because San is a bad*ss