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 Atelier 

*shrug shrug*
I dunno~just wanted to play with different shading/linework in which I am tired and procrastinating on my homework!! woooootowoot~
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After Octavia managed to escape from the strange stalker person dude she experienced a few flashbacks, aaannddd that caused a bout of anxiety. She used to believe that the harm she'd experienced before joining the circus was all in the name of love, that it was a normal thing. The girl foolishly clung to this as a way of securing her own worries that Claudius really did love her. Of course when the previous event happened all of his lies were revealed, and it turned out everything she let him get away with was wrong. It was wrong to laugh it away, it was wrong to smile in return, it was wrong to think it was even remotely acceptable. It's as if she distrusts her own judgment at this point, if that wasn't right, then what is? Her flesh hurt now, but it wasn't the worst kind of pain she'd felt before. Was that normal, or was it wrong too? It's too confusing. Who can she really trust? She's too nervous to go outside by herself now... 
Why does this new-found knowledge agonize her so much more now than it did before?
This sucked.
A lot.



Ps she's not like, bleeding out or anything, I just had fun with the different shades and values of the colors~so it's just design-work!