# schema: EXT13 | profile: domain | density: rich | form: blockform
SUBJECT: A tall slender apparition of a girl with ash-lavender hair falling past her waist, her face cast in shadow save for one pale luminous eye and one faint ember-red eye. A dark flower ornament rests at her temple, and two eclipse-black rings hover like false moons on either side of her head. She stands centered between two great stags as if presented by them, their bodies cream-fawn and their heads swallowed in shadow.
ATTIRE: A short-sleeved dress dyed in a vertical gradient, blood-orange at the bodice fading through apricot to bone-cream at the hem. The bodice gathers at the waist and the skirt falls in soft pleats below the knee. Her bare feet disappear into the grass.
ACTION/POSE: She stands perfectly still, one hand rested gently on the near stag's back as if blessing it. Her other hand holds a small white talisman card raised toward the viewer. Her posture is upright, patient, ceremonial.
EXPRESSION/MICRO ACTION: Her visible eye glows without warmth, fixed directly on the viewer. Her mouth stays unseen in shadow, offering no comfort of expression. A slight tilt of her head reads as curiosity rather than threat.
ENVIRONMENT: A night forest clearing where darkness is total beyond a small island of tufted grass. Faint dark-green canopy smudges hang overhead while tiny pale fireflies drift in a loose constellation of watching eyes. Two antlered stags flank her as guardians, their antlers catching starlight like bare winter branches.
LIGHTING: No visible light source exists; the figures seem lit from within by their own pallor against the void. The girl's dress carries the only warm glow, ember-orange dimming to cream. Eyes — hers, the stags', and the talisman's drawn sigil — punctuate the black as cold white points, yet nothing casts a shadow.
CAMERA/COMPOSITION: A first-person viewpoint from ground level, as if the viewer has fallen backward into the grass. Two out-of-focus human hands reach into the foreground from the lower corners, framing the apparition. The girl and stags hold the middle distance, centered and symmetrical, in a wide landscape framing.
AESTHETICS: Flat matte digital illustration with minimal shading and soft airbrushed gradients. A folk-horror picture-book mood, quiet and uncanny. Vast fields of pure black negative space dominate the composition.
PROPS: A small white paper talisman held between her fingers, marked with a single open-eye sigil in black ink. The drawn eye seems to look back at the viewer.
MATERIAL/TEXTURE: Smooth matte surfaces with no specular highlights, like gouache on dark paper. The grass shows dry brushy strokes while the figures remain clean-edged and flat. The dress gradient is soft and powdery.
COLOR PALETTE: Near-total black surrounds a narrow palette of bone cream, pale fawn, ash lavender, and a single flame-orange gradient. Cold white dots of eye-shine and fireflies prick the darkness.
MOOD: Hushed dread mixed with sacred invitation, the feeling of being found by something old in the woods. The reaching hands make the encounter personal, as if the viewer is the one being approached.
STYLE REFERENCE: Contemporary Japanese folk-horror illustration lineage, akin to liminal yokai-encounter picture books. Movement-level aesthetic anchors only, original composition.
