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