Candidates for 16...

I should have known this wasn't going to be over... it's NEVER over >_<. I have 15 characters on the crew, though the original limit was going to be 16. I WILL have 16. The design will not be compromised. DESTROY. DESTR-, uhh, anyhow...here is a candidate. More shall follow. Those with higher reception will get NPC or sequel status, and those with a lower reception get the BLAGOLE.

 The first candidate! 

Before and after...another tale of indecisiveness and eventual fixing of a design problem!

Aye, as you may have seen from an older post, a character who has been in the design document for about a year now got fused into a creepy vanguard-ish looking girl with a laughing demon on her medical skirt. So yes, today, we mourn the passing of Renatta Tescadero.

 RIP 2010

Or do we? I got a spark of "Who cares?" and drew her again, with some differences. Yeah, after nearly losing a character design I liked quite a bit, ANOTHER character in the lineup got out of line and got destroyed. Yes, after pages and pages of background writing on characters, one of them stood out as so underwhelming that she ran into the Knife after dark. Will she be in the sequel? Will she be an NPC? Who knows, and furthermore, who cares? The character that met the Knife is... Malinda! Battle-wise she is outclassed by everyone and she brings diddley shit new to the table. So... in memoriam, here is Malinda. Wave to the crowd Malinda, exit stage right.

 Let 'er ROT - 2010

Fuck it, if two redesigns don't save the idea, and the character is useless, what's the point of keeping them? If she's lucky, she will be with the cast of Shattered Fates 2. But then again, this girl is a water elemental, and the main character of SF2 is going to be an ice elemental. At this point, you're probably wondering, "Hey Baroquemoon, you said you drew Renatta again! How does that look?" See for yourself!

My own shortcomings with drawing hands poorly or not at all because I hat drawing horribly incomplete or strange looking hands notwithstanding, I think this design works for a redesign. How about you?

My mantra!

I heard this tune in a dream once...just before waking up. I rushed to my computer to try and recall the beat, but for some reason I almost forgot the song for the entire day... just before sleeping, I remembered it again and reconstructed it in Famitracker. Then I went on FLSTudio and made a more techno version of it, and for this blog, I slowed it down a bit. The stinger? In the dream, this was played on a really dainty sounding harpsichord. The deal with this song is that I hear it many dreams now, and whenever I feel like... ANYTHING, just listening to this will unscrew any hell I am going through. Maybe it'll do the same for any of you, or maybe it'll just be a big what the hell moment. Either way, enjoy!

A bit of a fusion

Yeah, I dunno, but because I didn't wanna drop a character design, I fused it with another.

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... I dunno what I was thinking.

A black haired Talaya

Yeah, just an idea.