A R4TR prize for for https://www.furaffinity.net/user/e5111/ a character design commission featureing Zella, from the commissioner's original story I'm Not an Evil Sorceress.
Story Synopsis:
Princess Adalind is miserable. She's caught in an arranged marriage, kept apart from the woman she loves, and can't even study magic openly for fear of being branded a wicked enchantress. But her problems reach a whole new level when she runs afoul of the Dark Sorceress, Phaedra, who is everything Adalind has vowed never to be. As she finds herself being pulled under the witch's spell, though, she has to wonder, is being a plaything of the Dark Sorceress really so bad? And could it be that Phaedra isn't all her reputation says she is?
Lady Zella of House Pontika is one of two ladies-in-waiting to Princess Adalind of Vernia, along with Zella’s best friend, Lady Serra. She is strongly loyal to the princess, despite the fact that Adalind keeps her distance; this loyalty on Zella’s part is largely owed to the fact that she has a crush on Adalind, which, in Zella’s general lack of self-awareness, she has mistaken for a form of hero worship on her part. Zella is quite clever when she puts her mind to it; she can be highly observant and makes connections others often miss. However, she has the tendency to go off on wild flights of fancy and become horribly confused, so she tends to act like a bit of a ditz.
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You can read the serialized story here on Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28941561 or here of Furaffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40243978/