“…I’m on my knees and the water creeps to my chest. But plant your hope w

“…I’m on my knees and the water creeps to my chest.
But plant your hope with good seeds,
Don’t cover yourself with thistle and weeds.
Rain down, rain down on me.”
- Mumford and Sons

It’s my good OC: Hölzerne Seele and this piece was commissioned by the lovely @mshy88 !! The story with this character is that: through tragic events, a young girl in green had lost hope in her life and decided to hang herself. Just before the weight was applied on the rope, the branch snapped before she died, causing her lower half to sink in a swamp near the forest. Her legs decomposed, causing them to become nutrition for a large tree nearby and as a result, she was trapped in the woods, unable to be free from the dark murky waters. Unfortunately, through starvation and unheard cries, the girl was no longer alive, yet her soul could not move on and rest because, being entwined with a living tree meant that she was forced to stay embedded in the soil of the earth. Through myth, some say that the girl realised that her life before wasn’t as bad as it seemed compared to the fate she was given afterwards. Such dismay and longing to go back caused Seele to physically tear out her eyes and plant them in the soil. That way, when they decomposed, her eyes became the thistle and weeds which peer in envy at any travellers who had the freedom of living. Some who may have had the misfortune of encountering her, mistake her with a wooden mermaid as the tree looks like the tail of one. And like a mermaid, Seele sings in desperation for somebody to be lured by her sweet song and finally set her free…
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