This description's longer elsewhere, but this site has a word limit.
Not the first time I've had to abridge for here (or thought I had to: since I first thought the word limit was a character limit. There is a separate, not shown, character limit as well though....)

The villain couple~ I’ll talk more about Hadley here though since I've talked about Aurum before
She’s a british girl with a curse that Aurum met as a teen. She’s not much better a person than her boyfriend… just seemingly not as actively malicious- and more than anything, busy dealing with his bs.

This is a combination of two sketchpages. You can tell I was figuring out how I wanted to draw Hadley as I went… The top-left is sort of the first time I was figuring out her colours

Top middle: Hadley is definitely Aurum’s number one supporter. He does not appreciate her enough.

Top right is when Hadley and Aurum were teens. They met around this time, Hadley’s family having moved to America from London recently.
Since they both were still living with their families, they looked very different…
This would also be not long after Aurum lost his left eye, but you wouldn’t be able to tell.

Middle right: It’s not the most visible, but I realized the thing on Hadley’s cheek kinda resembles an eye. You can tell Aurum’s made this joke a million times already…. but I mean, how many people get to make that specific joke, right?

Bottom left: Ok so listen, right? Your boyfriend comes home with this ‘cursed artifact’ that glows bright green. Even though magic definitely exists, you can’t rule out the possibility that’s just radioactive, right?
He does this shit every week.

Bottom right: Quote from Snapcube’s Sonic Riders improvised fandub