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For Crux: it was originally his outfit because of lore complications I was having with him. I knew I wanted him to have a missing/destroyed eye, but I wasn’t sure how I wanted to go about the design, whether it was just covered by an eyepatch, if he would’ve had it visible, or eventually what I settled on for Crux’s early design, having goggles that have an eyepatch built into them. Now though, Crux usually just sticks with a normal eyepatch, I think it fits him a bit better and when he’s with Blaze, he knows he doesn’t need goggles for extra protection.
For Valerian: it was definitely his looks. Designing a fankid between an OC and a canon character was something I’d never done before, and I wasn’t really sure how to go about it! I ended up going with a bit of a lighter blue hair color, and one thing that I need to change but haven’t yet is his eyes! There are those cats that have heterochromia (I think that’s the word?) in their eyes, and I wanna give that to Val since those cats usually have one yellow eye and one blue eye, and Blaze’s eyes are blue while Crux’s eyes are orange/yellow
I STRUGGLED WITH EVERY BIT I'M NOT GONNA LIE. 😭
To fitting them inside the lore took an extreme amount of time and wasted designs.
Their personality how it was build, and why it has kept them alive for so long and how would the people ineide the story respond to it.
Sorry I just like complaining, although I struggle alot with how I built Iru as a whole. Her personality and how she interacts can still confuse me although I think it's a bit of a charm, I really can't settle with it.
His fucking hair.
I was not sure what to do with it at all when thinking up of a design.
But im happy with what he got rn... fluffy
Jasper wasn't a "stable" OC when starting out. There were so many things with Arknights I was and am still learning about Terra, that when putting the details down fell short after the initial Concept. As I got more involved with research as the year went on, I constantly reworked her, even down to her overall design.
With that being said, there a still elements and bits of lore that I'm still reworking/refining, but I do have a solid foundation for Jasper, so we are getting there!
AHH yes-
For kingston I struggled w his design, esp the hair, at first. And then one day I drew him w the undercut and never looked back since AJKD
For Ruth the struggle is ongoing for like everything @-@ bc lore rewrite, but I think one aspect that I have trouble with... that is out of my control is like because people already have preconceived assumptions about her based on how she was previously written and I'm a lil afraid it will muddy how they read her lore... :'O TLDR: problem of differentiating Ruth's lore from her previous iteration is the hard part for me
Cetus' skin tone gave me some trouble at first if I'm honest. In my first drawing of him, I had him rather pale, and then every time I drew him I gradually colored his skin darker and darker until it got to the tone it is in his E0 sprite, which is his official skin color! I don't really have a good reason for why other than personal preference, the canon hunters are already really pale and it brings some nice variety for Cetus to have darker skin. I think it suits him so much better and seeing the old version of him makes me wince occasionally, lol.
Everything else about him came to me rather easy and I never found myself second guessing any other part of his design or characterization. He's been great in that regard! but yeah Cetus melanin-ification is real
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