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Bloody Valentine Mary

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Actually I really hate Gore like stuff. I can't look at it. But when I made this character, and decided to draw her, I realized.. well, now you HAVE to draw some Gore. x.x But it's not that much I think.. Mature Content anyway! :dummy:

May I introduce you - Valentina Maria Ballweber.

Please only read the story if you can handle her the themes death, old torture methods, rape and zombies.
She was a beautiful, angel like virgin. Exactly what you imagine when you think of the perfect priest novice. Golden hair, soft skin, tender voice, and a strong trust in the light. And if that wasn't enough, she was the only daughter of wealthy man. This way, the church made her the figurehead. She was the best example of what you would be if you just gave your life to the holy light.
But her innocence led her into trouble. One day she followed her pastor into the dark lower chambers of the church to bring myrrh she made herself. She never has been there before, and didn't expect what she found there. Not only were horrific instruments of torture in every corner, but she found her loved and trusted pastor raping a young village boy. Unable to move the bowl in her hands fell to the ground rattling, while she stared in the terrified eyes of the boy. The shocked priest pusted the boy away and stumbled over to her, grabbing her arm before she could flee. He throttled her screeching, pushed her away from the stairs and threw the young girl in an iron maiden. He shut the cruel apparatus and sealed it, so no one would ever find out who was in there, leaving Valentina alone in the dark, bleeding to death.
While this, the young boy ran away, knowing he was forgotten for the moment.
The next day the pastor went to Valentina's family, telling them the bad news. But not the truth, of course. He told them their daughter would have been guilty of fornication, and that she was sent to the exile. They never coped with their daughters disappearance, her mother never believed the story, and her brother left the military to search for her.
Long after this, the plague reached their village, and when Valentina woke up as an undead, the whole village was deserted. She was lucky to escape her iron grave which was damaged over the time after the village was forsaken. When she finally came free, after months being back to life in the iron maiden, she wandered around aimlessly, not knowing what exactly happened to her home.
Only after a while her steps led her into an asylum which just started to grow, in a city abandoned like her village, in a dead and hopeless land - New Foxhaven*, in the middle of the Plaguelands.
(*Original: Neu Fuchshafen)

Her past made her a strange being, but this wasn't uncommon for her kind anyway. She was scared of the dark, and fled to the chapel in New Foxhaven whenever the night came. She was one of the few undeads who still clinged to the light, and accepted the pain light magic entailed just to follow their belief. She was convinces the light and church never harmed her, and that it was the darkness itself that made her pastor act the way he did. For her the darkness became a demon that infested her holy leader, and could always infest anyone else. She soon became the highest Preacher in her new hometown, ironically her - an undead, the most unholy you could find.
She now spends her life with preaching and helping the town, saving many wayfarer that aren't welcome anywhere else but in that asylum.

But sometimes Valentine forgets that she is alive. When she smells the scent of myrrh, when she hears the sound of metal hinges, or when she gets lost in the darkness. She just forgets that she's able to move again, talk again, feel again. Most of the time, only the light of a candle can wake her up early from this phase, which was the first light she saw after she escaped her cause of death.

The young boy by the way, as much as her brother, are still alive. Valentinas brother found the young boy who fled into the forests, and saved him from starving. This way he found out what really happened to his sister, but when he came back to do something the village already was dead. After that, he and the young boy lived together, and soon were saved from the dying lands.



This is one of two versions of this drawing. To see what she looks like now in New Foxhaven, go here: fav.me/d7cnfev
And if you'd like to see her without the shadow at her front, please follow this link: sta.sh/0tetumn30sf
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