Hollow

A 7-year-old girl painted this. Not drew. Painted. White and teal on brown kraft paper, claws and grin fully intentional. She put mushrooms at his feet and a sun in the sky. Both feel right. Aethara rendered Hollow as a cinematic fantasy creature custom animated character, placing him in a glowing mushroom forest exactly as she imagined it. The wild white fur. The grin that's friendly and unsettling at once. The claws raised just so. All of it exactly as she painted it. She knew what she was making. It just needed a world dark enough to live in.