This Is What Makes Us Girls

"Remember how we used to party up all night?
Sneaking out, looking for a taste of real life...
Drinking in the small town fire-light...
(Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice!)
Sweet sixteen, and we had arrived
Walking down the streets as they whistle 'Hi! Hi!'
Stealing police cars with the senior guys
Teachers said we'd never make it out alive...
There she was my little best friend
High-heels in her hand, swaying in the wind
Then she starts to cry;
Mascara running down her little bambi eyes:
'Ellie, how I hate those guys!'

This is what makes us girls!
We all look for heaven, and we put love first...
Something we would die for; it's our curse
Don't cry about it, don't cry about it -
This is what makes us girls!
We all stick together, 'cause we put love first...
Don't cry about it, don't cry about it -
It's all gonna happen...

That's where the beginning of the end begun;
Everybody knew that we had too much fun...
We were skipping school and drinking on the job...
... with the boss...
Sweet sixteen, and we had arrived
Baby's table-dancing at the local dive
Cheering our names in the pink spotlight
Drinking Cherry Schnapps in the velvet night...
Girl, we used to go break in
To the hotel, glimmer and we’d swim
Running from the cops in our black bikini tops
Screaming 'Get us while we're hot! Get us while we're hot!'
Come on, take a shot!"

Lana Del Rey; 'This Is What Makes Us Girls'

Commission for my OTT in November, by the wonderful and talented Tisha Appadu/Shania90 here:
Go check her out!

Music by the wonderful Lana Del Rey, with Ellie McKar as the Cheshire Cat, Pyrrha Alexandra as Alice, and Nom-Nom as the White Rabbit! (Pyrrha copyright to Namco, Ellie and Nom-Nom to me!)

Tisha has an amazing style - a little anime-like in some ways, but (like RadProfile and ShadowsOfLight) vastly superior to the usual anime look. Her character's faces in particular are amazingly expressive, conveying beauty and tragedy all at once.

This picture is also inspired by this picture by Mysterious-Joker here:
Again, this picture conveyed so much yearning and potential heartbreak - it was exactly how I saw our two young starcrossed lovers.


OTT backstory: 'HeavenElly Creatures'

Ten years after she was rescued from the Phantom Pavilion, Pyrrha Alexandra returns to face the girl who murdered her father. Can she show forgiveness - especially considering how idyllic her life has been since her mother remarried and Pyrrha was adopted into a new tribe, complete with an adoring younger sister, Ellie.

In return for helping her mother Sophia rescue her, the Goddess of War, Freyja, bids Pyrrha to take up the sacred Helm and make war upon the infidel Southlands. Will she fulfill her duty, or decide to aspire to her childhood dream of being a vet?

And more importantly than any of that, Pyrrha has turned sixteen, and boys are starting to notice her... Her sister Ellie has never experienced jealousy or hatred before. Now, she is unable to cope with these new feelings that rage through her. If they think she will not kill to keep her beloved Pyrrha, they are very mistaken indeed. As the Harbinger of the End Times, Ellie's wishes become reality.
There Will Be Blood.

As Wendy Darling before her, Pyrrha must make a choice. Will she choose a mortal life, a layabout husband, screaming kids, a large mortgage, endless bills and an early death from lung cancer? Or will she choose an eternity with her clingy younger sister, a unique immortal friendship with an adoring catgirl who grants unlimited wishes?

On November 16th, we shall have an answer...