PSA: Pythia/ AuroraCelest closed: 8/27/2018

8/ 27/ 2018 All known accounts for this user have been deactivated.

Toyhouse: AuroraCelest (inactive),  Pythia (old account), N3M3S1S
Deviantart: OracleDelphis / Rhoad
Furaffinity: OracleDelphis
Artfight: Pythia

In December of last year I opened an art trade thread and Pythia posted asking to trade for busts or chibis. I gave people the option of who they would like to draw and provided links to said characters. At the time I was delighted with the idea of getting a matching bust set for the twins my friend rps with me.  We agreed I would do a full coloured chibi for her drawing two busts, made using one base.  This can be seen below:

I finished my half of the trade as can be seen here, uploaded in my stash with the original upload date.  I unfortunately deleted my initial correspondence sending them the art as I didn't think there would be a problem.  I didn't hear from them for some time and they weren't active on toyhouse when I checked their login time, so I wasn't overly worried.  I assumed life had crept up on them and they were busy.  It's a usual time for exams and I'm a firm believer in life coming first.  Part way through January I sent her a note which showed up as read, but received no reply.  This bothered me as I had finished my piece and it seemed polite to at least acknowledge the sent note.  I left it for almost one week before noting her again.  She once again disappeared and I assumed life must have come up and so I waited.

By March I was fairly annoyed.  She had been logging in and had posted other art of her characters, but didn't give any hint of acknowledgment.  I made it clear if no reply was given I would assume it was not longer wanted and would tweek the design into something new and trade them.

It's been some time until I've been able to act as I've been scrambling with RL issues as well as keeping up with trades with others and commissions.  

Since then they have traded the character.

This isn't a callout, I just want people to be aware and possibly wary if doing trades with this person.  This isn't such a bad loss, but it was still time spent that could have been spent on my own work.

[EDIT JULY 1 2018]

Pythia has now changed accounts and is under the account name AuroraCelest.  I've been informed that they are still shirking their claims, though they have uploaded their characters on art fight.

[EDIT JULY 16 2018]

PaperTsubaki has been kind enough to provide a list of art forum threads that this user owes art on.  It can be viewed in the comments section here.

Currently AuroraCelest has been banned from the forums so this will put an end to them claiming any new threads or scamming any more people for the time being on Toyhouse.  It remains to be seen if they will finally do some of the art they owe.

[EDIT AUG 24 2018]

Once again they have apparently account hopped.  They also seem to have another account on DA that they have used to purchase adopts.