I wanted to tell a story here... a story about someone who has had nearly everything taken away and been thrown into a heap with the spare parts. Someone who has nothing left to take. But in that, she has power, and in the awakening of that power finds the will to start picking herself back up. It's the power of having nothing left to lose and every reason in the world to fight back. To take back some of what was lost, or to find your way as something new. I don't know if I made it there... I think it falls short. I wish I could take it further... one day, I may have the heart to try again. I broke everything on this. Everything. I feel like it's some of the best composition and story telling I've done... and some of the worst rendering. It needs to be fixed. It can't be fixed. If I can get the scene file to load at all, making adjustments just doesn't happen. I've found new bugs in the course of building this scene (some of which I have logged, some of which I never remembered what I did that caused the crash well enough to duplicate it and document it.) I crashed R4 more times than I can count, crashed DS at least a few times, and managed to hang my computer at least 3 times, BSOD it once and rolled back an overclock along the way. This. Was. PAINFUL. Total render time measures in the hundred+ hours, but I can't say that's accurate because after a BIOS update, my computer decided to hibernate when left on overnight and stopped rendering after an hour or two. I'm still fixing things after this one. The Photoshop work on this is heavier handed than I like... I've tried to have a lighter touch with post work and let the real render shine more the past year because PS was letting me get by with bad rendering... but this time... this time there was no going back to fix and render again. So, here she is, cast off, cast down, but never, not ever broken. While the image isn't everything I could want it to be, I feel like the worst thing I could do is leave her in the trash heap of draft renders, so I've done the best I can to bring her to light. I hope you enjoy and thank you for both looking and reading the long ramble above.