#the elvin world is sucky

[crymeariveronceagain]

Biana Vacker with Vitiligo: a concept

I cannot draw for the life of me, so I cheated and used THIS PICREW-- ALL CRED TO ARTIST.

Hear me out for a hot second.

Biana Vacker has vitiligo. She had it long before she got her scars, but it’s something that has always set her apart, made her different.

And her family is very concerned with that whole... y’know... different-than-other-elves thing. They always have been, right?

Maybe it’s not so bad, maybe it’s not that hard on her, but from a very young age, Della covered up any visible marks on her daughter with makeup. As Biana got older, she started doing it herself. 

Maybe that’s how she got into makeup to begin with. The fact that she needed to know how to blend it all together. 

And maybe she went through that phase where she absolutely hated the fact that she needed to wear makeup every day. But maybe she realized “This is something I know how to do, so I can make it my own.” Maybe that’s why she loves it so much. She learned how to make herself feel confident, radiant, wonderful with makeup, the same tool that for so long she’d been using to hide something that belonged to her. 

But maybe she never stopped covering it up. Maybe she was scared of what other people would think. What her mother would think, her father, her brothers, her friends, her enemies. 

Sure, Makeup was hers, now, makeup was something she enjoyed, but every day, without fail, she covers it up. 

And then with a crash of splintered glass, her world is cut into shreds around her--and with scars, scars and scars and scars, dragged like sharp nails across her back and arms and face--

Comes a strange element of freedom. 

Because she looks different now. She can’t cover up all these scars. 

All she can do is accept that this is who she is, now, 

“These scars are a part of me, now.”

And she decides, somewhat in the same rush, that her vitiligo is part of her too.

Its not something to hide, it’s not something wrong or bad-- it’s just a part who she is. 

Just like Sophie’s eyes are brown. Just like Keefe has freckles littered across his nose. Just like Linh’s got a scar across her wrist. Just like Tam has a birthmark on his shoulder. Just like Dex’s dimples.

So she stops hiding it. 

Because maybe... there was no need for that in the first place.