So after I saw Hamlet at the Stratford Festival this year, I may have gotten the idea for a bit of Suikoden fan art, with Odessa as Ophelia.

I've had the line art done for awhile. I cannot, however, find my pencil crayons, which saddens me since that is my favourite medium to work in. I had to resort to markers instead, and I am not very happy with how it turned out. When I do find my pencil crayons, I am going to redo this piece.

The particular inspiration came from the following lines said by Gertrude in Act IV, Scene VII:

When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook; her clothes spread wide,
And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and endewed
Unto that element, but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears; but yet
It is our trick; nature her custom holds;
Let shame say what it will, when these are gone,
The woman will be out. Adieu, my Lord;
I have a speech o' fire that fain would blaze,
But that this folly drowns it.

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