I got the chance to draw Miriel for the FE Compendium , a fanmade collection of portraits of each character from the Fire Emblem series. She's my favorite character from the whole series because she portrays science so well. So I decided to give her a slightly anachronistic lab setup, with some modern chemistry equipment like a ring stand, a beaker, an Erlenmeyer flask, a graduated cylinder, and a Bunsen burner (albeit a magically powered one) - which was more-or-less all invented in the 1800s (according to my quick Google search). But then she still keeps the quill pen she uses, and the definitely-against-lab-dress-code loose robes and hat.By the way, she's doing a real experiment: the Elephant Toothpaste experiment. I highly recommend checking out this video about it , if you have just eight minutes to spare, but in short, hydrogen peroxide rapidly decomposes when you add potassium iodide to it, which produces oxygen gas, which can get stuck in bubbles if soap is added in the mixture, too. The results are very foamy. Heating stuff up isn't necessary in the experiment, but I wanted to show her using her fire tome. Also, maybe she's investigating how quickly the reaction goes off when you heat the potassium iodide more (since hotter chemicals tend to react faster in general).Anyway, that was a lot more chemistry than I expected to be doing when I took on this project about drawing Miriel. If you have a chance, check out other artists' depictions of other Fire Emblem characters!