"She is a child of the dark, but her magic deceives her bringing forth good over evil, pretty instead of ugly, and so she hides from the Others."

An entry in the official photomanipulators "Anti-Cliche Contest"

The contest challenges photomanipulators to create a deviation that "avoids all clichés or uses them with a new twist". I thought I take a cliche of the dark female figure in a dark forest and give it a different look; i.e. dark but still bright, butterflies over the cliche crows, a background with a sense of depth instead of flat. I started to include another figure, because a single figure has also become quite a cliche, but I really like the lone female in this one.

In addition, the background is not a stock photo but rather a deviation, an edited photograh. I want to give special thanks to *LightSource for allowing me to use his deviation "A Clearing State 2" for the base of this manipulation.

Stock: (girl); (butterflies); (tree brushes); (texture); beneaththestorm (hair brushes); and other texture by StudioVision.