I was listening to this song and I just HAD to do a thing of Rao with it, like the vibe of the song just made me think of her and there isn’t enough angsty symbolic art of her, even though her story is TRAGIC.
And yeah @nec-romantic-nightmare kinda inspired the red spider lily here, since they’re used to symbolise death.
But for my character building I decided to do for Rao as if she hadn't suffered enough in canon and my fanon
She has mommy issues lmao
In more,,,serious notes
She was abandoned at like 7-9 by a neglectful mother who felt Rao ruined her life and having some kid following around made her,,,undesirable(all you need to know is she was selfish).
She plopped Rao on the steps of ankoku temple and then never came back when she was 9 at most. The old head priest took her in and raised her the rest of her life to take over as head priestess after him.
That's why I made her,,,motherly in personality to most and especially Rak and so quick to not want to see the worst in people,,,,a part of her still has self blame for her mother leaving and why when she died she was just anguished and miserable for "leaving" Rakuen behind.
Also to make it hurt. Rao kinda looks like her mom tehe