I wanted the lightest possible touch on a heavy idea — the brief asks for two women who became incompatible futures, so I built a world where they literally split the sky and now must meet on a platform suspended between their towers, belonging to neither. Karo Batak-Karelian is a fusion I've never reached for: highland Sumatran warmth fused with Finnic borderland bone structure, anchored by mint-bleached anime-coded hair and a clockwork bandolier so it reads instantly as cosplay. I chose her in the moment of CONFIDENCE, not grief — she's the one who can still read the wind, and she knows it. — Mira