❝ Sketchtember "Books"



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inspiration SSRPG character Paige Harden ( née Skeeter) (sweetpinkpixie)
materials Ohuhu brush tip markers, copic fine inking pens 0.3

Yet another obvious one from the random generator, Paige is my little author (to date she has two poetry books published and a handful or articles and short stories in various magazines and anthologies) and it was a complete coincidence that her name is a homophone of 'page'. As a student at Hogwarts, she was always writing in her journal (she had a few for various purposes) and read often...so there is a very obvious connection between her and books. I did not just want to draw a stack of books and leave it at that, even if they are meant to represent her own journals, so on top of the open book is a sprig of jacaranda flowers. Another totally unintentional coincidence is the symbolism of these particular flowers which I happened to stumble upon long after I had started playing her as a Hufflepuff first year.

Paige is also a Seer and has struggled with this ability for the majority of her life since it began manifesting itself. At first she was drawn to some 'power spots' of prophets, oracles, and seers from the past...she first found a calling to Greece and the Temple of Apollo. In Harry Potter, we know that magic always leaves traces, so when Paige visited the temple her Inner Eye resonated with the ancient energies of the Oracle of Delphi. There are also some loose connections with the goddess Athena, who is a goddess Paige always felt a connection to...mostly because she was always depicted with an owl and owls are her favorite animal.

Years later, while struggling even more with her Sight and who she was, Paige began feeling a connection to Argentina for some reason and spent time volunteering there during the summer. The allure to the country only grew over time and once I started doing some research into things I found out about the jacaranda flowers and how they bloom in November and Buenos Aires its just covered in a blanket of purple. Paige has always loved flowers (one of her best subjects in school was Herbology) so this was a really nice little coincidence to stumble upon. Paige is also extremely interested in the language of flowers, so I naturally had to look up information on these flowers and what I ended up finding was just...I couldn't have planned it better if I even tried Turns out these flowers have a connection to an Amazonian goddesss who is sort of an equivalent to Athena...and so it was Paige's Inner Eye also guiding her in this direction and towards another sort of power spot to help her come to terms with her Sight.

I was absolutely mind blown that all these little hunches and instincts for where to take her in adulthood accumulated into this completely coincidental series of deep cross cultural and continental connections from ancient civilizations and just...RPGing is a crazy ride, isn't it?