Princess of the Birds


- She's suffering from a genetic disorder called Phenylketonuria. Physically this disease does not appear in deformations of any kind, except the specifically pale complection, but it perturbs the brain's growth -> she's mentally impairment.

- She comes from North. Her dark brown eyes are the counterweight for her very light, almost white hair and skin. Uncommonly beautiful.

- Excluded from the society as several-year-old child, she had become a foundling in the touring circus, where the people made her believe she was a bird. She has been imprisoned in the cage and given the metal beak and wings, that made her look like the Falco Rusticolus. Since then she has been exposed as a star-turn and got the title of Princess of the Birds. She has no other name.

- She is in her late teens. Her physique is very frail. She's unable to speak but makes strange noises such as frightened moans and shrieks, that remind the bird's screeching. Deadly afraid of the people. Behaves like a baited animal; the shows terrify her. Calms down only surrounded by birds, as she believes to be one of them. Emotionally is still a child.

- Probably the inability of diagnosing and treating the sickness will cause her death at age of twenty or thirty.



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This is my take on the theme of Create your Own Original Princess Contest by

Trades of use: inked in a traditional way, shading added digitally.

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