An illustration featuring two FFXIV OCs: Ryuhiko Chastain Kikuchi (Raen Au Ra, he/him and she/her pronouns) and his mother, Kikuchi-no-Hanami (Raen Au Ra, she/her pronouns).
Kikuchi-no-Hanami is a dark-skinned woman with white hair, blue eyes, multicolored horns and a tail like a fish, and matching scales on her face. She wears a primarily red robe with golden and black accents, a circlet featuring a moon, and a nose ring with a decorative chain - a Nath. Her hair flows behind her as she stares forward, face impassive and holds her arms around her son. She sits upon a tamatebako, an ornate casket.
Below her is Ryuhiko, a dark-skinned person with strawberry blond hair, turquoise green eyes, multicolored scales and horns with a secondary black set of horns atop his head. who looks over his shoulder while clinging to his mother. He wears a turquoise garment with golden accents, including a serpent-themed piece of arm jewelry.
His expression is wide-eyed, fearful and nearly indignant; while his mother accepts the cycle she perpetuates, he is defiant, even as he clings to her - desperate for her guidance, for her to join him in freedom, even if he knows she will not.
Behind them both is their legacy: the blue serpent, continuing the cycle, endlessly eating its own tail.
—ouroboros, the cycle of the sacred devourer
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