Boxjelly1

Hi all! The pirate illustrations I've been posting were for a YouTube video I've been working on, sharing my creative process for desigining costumes and creating characters to go along with them. If you're interested to check it out, you can watch the video here:

Working on this recent Darach illustration has me thinking about his and Claire's story. They're some of my oldest characters, though I've never written anything for them apart from the descriptions for their art. I have too many in-progress writing projects to take on another right now, but I wanted to get some ideas down -in the very least to organize my thoughts. Like many of my OCs, I came up with these characters when I was a teen. So the original idea I had was that the main protagonist, Claire, was a teenage girl in a modern setting who was born with the gift of true sight (e.i. second sight, Fae sight etc): she can see through fairy glamour and perceive magical creatures. The original story idea was a coming of age, in which she moves to a small town to live with her strange uncle and explore her gift in the wild countryside, aided by her new friend Darach, a shapeshifting pooka who acts as her guide to the fae. When I do eventually sit down to write this (which I hope