I’m trying to come up with a story for Casey Bohn’s upcoming superhero anthology. The first thing I did was look through my old sketchbooks for any unused ideas or characters I had floating around. And I found one: Mielikki the Ice Maiden. A character that has a story, I’m sure—I just don’t know what that story is yet.

Next step was to finalize a character design, since this character only ever got as far as a couple of rough sketches. I realize I’m working backwards here by designing a character before I even have a story, in the hopes that a story will present itself out of all the drawing. But what the hell. You have to start somewhere.

Here she is wearing a traditional (ish) viking helmet and a cape with fur-lined hood, and wielding a combination halberd and cudgel.

Here she’s wearing an outfit suggested by Robyn. You can see she’s more sylvan here, slender, with fur-lined hood, cape, and boots, chain mail skirt, and boobs popping out of the top of a corsety thing. She even has elf ears.

Here, she’s tall, lean, and muscular, and her outfit suggests medieval armor. (I think it does, anyway.)

Since Mielikki is a Nordic goddess, I originally had in mind a sort of larger than life, busty, muscular warrior woman. A female Thor, basically. Here’s my attempt.

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