The character's name is pandora, the title quote is from a greek poem which describes the creation of Pandora, as a beautiful gift to the humans meant to trick them as punishment for going around the will of the gods. Some myths have her opening a box, but in this poem, pandora is the box, is the evil thing which causes men to grow old and sick and die.

It's a bitterly misogynistic view of the world.

This has always fascinated me, so I made a Pandora who is part beautiful and elegant and demure antelope (which, after polling people I knew, was labeled the most elegant and demure of creatures) but also part alligator. She is sweet and lovely, but only once you are drawn in do you realize what "evil" she has to give you: knowledge, which is not evil but is often misunderstood as evil. She's meant to be positive and subversive, but also somewhat bitter and reactionary, which is why i've put her in one of those "demure" poses from an old painting, the Grande Odalisque. But like Manet(?)'s Odalisque, this pandora is accompanied by a cat instead of a dog.

The best media comes to you sweet and whimsical and demure and easy to misunderstand, and only when you're caught up in it do you realize the importance of its message, and perhaps hte most important work of that kind for me is the harry potter book series.

in other news, watercolor hates me.