about ✈️... hm...
it started when i read shatan's character story. the 7 cm thing kind of just catches you... but the ✈️ from that day was soooo different, i pictured a happy go lucky protagonist type, but the current ✈️ isn't very protagonist-like at all, it’s like the ship of theseus at this point. if you see the original ✈️ design draft, the design is similar on the surface, but also completely unrecognizable at the same time. so imagine how it is aside from design… it’s completely different now. so right, i made a design but then forgot about it for a few months. until the end of last september, i was on a trip and ended up doodling her on a hotel paper, so i was like "right, i made something like that". i went back to actually research without thinking much of it, not realizing i'd fallen into the hole.
you know? there's a lot of interesting things about ✈️. it's not just his literal pedigree that puts pressure on him from the family angle. his trainer's (who trained 🌼, him and 🧪) father trained his grandmother. his jockey rode grandmother -> mother -> both sons. his owner used horseracing as a family activity and had heavy personal investment in the grandmother’s bloodline… it’s a lot, it’s a very dramatic story even before ⚡️ ever enters, or hell before ✈️ is even born.
and the 7 cm itself!! the misfortune of the 00 generation!! they didn’t really have a happy ending at all as racehorses, but i’m glad irl ✈️ got to live a long life when most of his family were not able to 🥲
my favorite thing about ✈️ is that he’s so cute🩷 (cullen top 10 kimoi otaku moments)
seriously, if you look at my locked account (which anyone can enter) half the tweets are me taking screenshots of old recordings of paddock vids and old races like very cute🩷 kawaii🩷 so polite🩷 ✈️kun got praised so much, erai🩷 (no it’s seriously kimoi) (he’s like an idol to me)
i know my feelings are extreme, but if my design can incite even 1% of that feeling in people, then i feel like i did something right. i hope it’s like that for you guys too because i want to convey his charms succinctly... <-guy who wrote 20 essays in one month