Lilian Nightshade wrote:Since my horses are finally done growing, I shall explain their theme. I like to call this Grief Litter, for it's based on the five stages of grief. That's why they folowed this rather... odd growth system. They were simulating the progress of the stages on a person, and each horse's design is also my symbolic interpretation of each stage.
Denial is something that breaks you apart, for you're constantly trying to ignore the harsh reality and thus start an inner conflict between what's real and what is not. Thus the "broken" appearance of the horse.
Anger is like an infection. It takes over when you're at your weakest and corrupts you from the inside out, and so I made the horse look infected, with spiderweb veins all over him.
Bargaining is "what if" stage, where you're constantly beating yourself over what happened and keep trying to change the past, when it's clearly no use. With this I made the horse look very weak, tired and beaten up.
Depression is such a vast field to explore and very hard to squeeze everything in one design, but basically I made the horse look half sick, half healthy, because while you look fine in the outside and everybody thinks you're ok, deep inside you're far from it. The horse also has a chain marking on his neck to represent the chained feeling depression has on you.
And lastly, here we have Acceptance. I wanted to make the horse look very peaceful and light, yet still bearing faint scars from the grief it passed through. After all, even though you may have achieved acceptance, what happened is something you will always carry with you.
Acceptance is every bit as beautiful as I hoped she would be - I am glad I hunted her down now. Your accompanying story was lovely as well!
I would have preferred them mythological-themed...
