Medusa Serpent Crown Starlight Shadow

An enchanting yet tragic close-up portrait of Medusa before her curse fully took hold, depicted as a stunning young woman in her mid-twenties with pale alabaster skin, delicate aristocratic facial features, and hypnotic luminescent emerald eyes glowing with sorrow, her hair composed of living emerald and viper-green serpents coiled intimately around her head like a regal crown, scales glinting with iridescence under light, clad in a dark velvet green chiton robe with delicate gold serpentine fibula brooches at her shoulders, seated inside an ancient ruined stone temple open to the night sky, illuminated by cool starlight combined with soft glowing moonlight filtering down upon her face creating high-contrast chiaroscuro shadows across her cheekbones, micro-expression blending sorrow, dangerous beauty, and solitary power, close-up framing focused on her face and writhing serpent crown, shot on Leica SL2 with 85mm f/1.4 lens, shallow depth of field rendering background overgrown marble ruins into buttery soft blur, tragic dark fantasy color grading with emerald greens, silver moonlight, and obsidian shadows, hyperrealistic 8K photorealistic render.