Thanks for the critique and sketches MM, honestly she was just supposed to be standing there with the torch up but this raises a point in itself in that the pose is difficult to read.
The tassels are actually tentacles which are often portrayed as being stiff, this is why some are stuck one way and some are going the other.
(fanart because I can't find the official art anywhere)
Also you don't sound patronising at all, I love critique, even if it's just 'this is shit, hands don't work like that' or similar.