Gothic Kirie Knight and Shadow Demon

A dramatic vertical dark fantasy illustration in an intricate Japanese paper-cut silhouette style (kirie), featuring delicate black cut-paper lace over a warm parchment background. In the foreground from the thighs up, a [blonde armored female knight] faces slightly left, wearing ornate engraved plate armor covered in dense floral filigree, arabesques, layered pauldrons, gauntlets, and a sword hilt at the waist. Her long [pale blonde] hair streams wildly to the right in ribbon-like strands rendered as pale negative space with black ink outlines. Looming behind and embracing her is a massive [shadow demon] with a skull-like eyeless head, sinister grin, clawed hands, and a body of tangled black vines, smoke tendrils, and thorny lace cutouts. A flat, opaque [beige] square covers the knight's facial features, leaving her hair and armor visible. High-contrast gothic horror atmosphere, handmade papercut texture, sharp silhouettes, strictly two-tone black ink on sepia-cream paper, edge-to-edge ornamental filigree, cinematic backlight through paper. No text.