Ellen (Folklore) wedgie

A commission I took from an artist off DeviantArt. I asked for Ellen of the PS3 game, Folklore, to be bound by Victorian-era handcuffs, and hung in a painful wedgie, viewed from multiple angles.


This is intended to be the normal version, where the cage can be seen through in full. Here's the others:
Background (caged)
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This was intended as a sort of alternate version of a certain scene in Folklore where Ellen -due to a betrayal by the faery lord- has been captured and imprisoned, and is awaiting judgment in the courts of HellRealm. Despite what you might think, this isn't mere torture. As the story has played out, Ellen and Keats have been called to realms based on the lost thoughts, or final wishes of a dead person; no such thing has happened to open this particular gate, and take them to this realm. One denizen of HellRealm asks her along the way why she's found herself in a place intended for those to face punishment for their crimes.

As the story plays out, a distinct insecurity on Ellen's part is revealed: logically speaking, no one should travel to a supposed netherworld, meet faeries or be able to talk to the dead. Keats says at several points that there's no way such a concept can be real, and that these journeys can only be some temporary form of insanity. So who did she speak to? How did she know what those dead people knew? And why couldn't she speak to the one dead person with no connection to Doolin village 17 years ago? Lingering in the back of her mind was suspicion that made these trips to the afterlife had been a figment of her imagination, and that she knew what she'd known because she'd been the one to kill them.

Ellen didn't honestly believe this, but somewhere in the back of her mind the prospect made sense. This conclusion she'd reached had grown strong enough to break open a new realm created from living people's imagery of an afterlife made for eternal torment of the sinful. Ellen ultimately brought herself here out of a subconscious desire to be punished for crimes she's convinced she perpetrated, which culminates in facing the worst of her nightmares in the game.

(spoiler: she didn't actually kill anyone)

I've invented an alternative to the scene where Ellen's guilt is being pronounced, looking both miserable and yet resigned to her fate. Hope you like it.