This is a rambling post, it may not make sense idk-
I love everything about Lorentz Butterfly omg. Thank you bluepoch for making morally ambigous women in this game.
Her superiority/god complex letting her exploit empathy & kindness of others (with also a fair fascination about it too): (from her character story)
This is such a cold and ruthless way to put it; no wonder Anil was calling her a control freak near the end of the event story, because it also tells alot of her interest about the storm, as written in her story section she has a gift when she can identify patterns naturally on instinct
But (i think it was chapter 5 or 7 i don’t remember) we know that the storm doesn’t follow one which honestly add to the curiosity, because if you can deduce something based on data whenever something doesn’t click right you’re amused, why aren’t you following a pattern? why can’t i predict you? where do you come from? When did you start existing? (Literally lorenz butterfly theory displayed what’s become known as “sensitive dependance on initial condition” which fits a lot on her character and her subsequent passion about the storm & chaos) (also fun fact Edwart Lorenz was a methereologyst) So literally her whole gig became “trying to understanding what you cannot percieve” Then to add to the joke: her color blindness, specifically red, as what her psycube show-her looking directly at a RED butterfly;
Wanted to update my tarot card garments sheet and re make my attempts at trying to guess
Tbh Sentinel could fit for the strengt card too but for the aestethic i think justice fit- . I think it’s more probable for characters who only have 1 garment yet (even though Isolde death card would be hype but-) so i tried to pick from that roster of characters. (Except for Regulus ‘cause she’s BP favourite child, alongside 37)
(If you ask me i think for the Emperor card they will sadly put Igor there, because the only other character would be Shamane sooooo idk)
"The blood on your hands is something you won't lose, all you can choose is whose"
Artist's Notes;
"Epic the musical reference? In my Reverse 1999 post?" More likely than you'd think.
The first thing I want to discuss with this drawing is the difference in rendering style. Instead of just keeping with my lineless style, I instead opted for a more painterly approach that involved using my thumbnail I made in my sketchbook as my base and then continuing from there. I found that this really helped give the whole drawing a very painterly look, and while I don't know whether or not I want to keep drawing like this, I want to incorporate some of the lessons I learned from the lessons in this piece to my usual style. For the colours, you guys know the drill, put down the base palette, once the rendering is done, use a gradient map to pretty up the colours, add some more depth and contrast, and get a better idea on what to do for the lighting. I feel like I'm starting to love rendering metallics, as her shoulder decoration was really fun to do (NO IT WAS NOT THE FUCKING DETAILS WERE A FUCKING NIGHTMARE TO DRAW AND I HAD TO FINAGGLE WITH IT SO MUCH I WENT INSANE-) and hey! I actually put some effort into rendering the bullets this time! Look at that! It was interesting seeing the different look I got by using a different method, and I was even able to get a neat pseudo-lineart effect by taking advantage of the fact that most of the sketch's outline became transparent when I removed the background, and when I filled in a copy of the drawing with black and put it underneath the main drawing, it looked really cool! I even did some lineart for the gargoyle-shadow-demon, which we'll get to in a bit. Below I have some progress snapshots showing the sketch from my sketchbook and then some progress on the rendering before I fixed up the proportions because sometimes, certain stylization decisions just kinda look better in a sketchbook than digitally... and I don't even wanna talk about the nightmare that was drawing her hand because I did not plan this out at all
If you've played the game you'd probably be able to guess what specific moment this is from...with some liberties with the colour palette because I initially had something gray in mind but when looking at the actual chapter itself realized it technically should be a lot more red but oopsie I didn't actually plan the background out too well so fuck it, let's just roll with it. The demon-gargoyle shadow was the most fun to do though, I do the same sort of technique I do whenever drawing Keiki's weird fire dragon thing, where I separate different parts of the shadow's body and mess around with the opacity so it looks more abstract and ethereal.
I'll be honest, I wanted this piece to feel a lot more... intimate??? I don't know if it's the right word but I wanted it to be more about Sentinel, the bomb, and the devil, especially because this whole drawing was inspired by that Epic the musical lyric I threw on top of the post. Literally. When I finished my previous drawing and completed reading through the story that one lyric just immediately resonated with me and I realized I had to draw her again. The composition was also something I had to noodle with quite a bit, since I didn't meticulously plan for this drawing like I did with my previous drawing of Sentinel. Speaking of time, happy holidays everyone! I'm gonna need to quickly get a drawing of Keiki done before the new years to keep with my annual tradition of drawing her at the end of every year because it's fun seeing how insane I become with each rendition of her.
Wait what the fuck was I talking about, oh right Reverse 1999 and my other favourite character! I also wanna inform you guys that she is at max resonance now... Look I don't give a shit about the meta, I don't care if I didn't put her with the popular resonance plan everyone puts her on because I want her attack points to be over 2000, I will get Nautika when her rerun comes around in another year, and in the meantime I just need Rubuska to come home because she also uses the bloodtithe mechanic AND I WANNA HAVE MY FAVOURITE HOMELESS HEALER BALKAN VAMPIRE CHILD IN MY SUITCASE GOD DAMN IT!
I would also like to talk about story breifly as I have finished the 11th Chapter and OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY I never realized how so many of my favourite characters followed the same arc of realizing the path they're going down is going to be a dark one, accepting it, and continuing to go down it. And the way it ended just OOOOOOOO it was so fucking good omg. The funniest thing about it however was seeing how nonchalant she was about Ladislas getting choked out by the devil in a hallucination, but the moment a bomb drops on Marsha in that very same hallucination she freaks the fuck out. Like, seriously, the moment she saw Marsha in her hallucination in Hill 299 she immediately put down her guard. What also gets me about the two of them is that both of them have control over the states of their body somehow. Sentinel is able to turn her outer body to stone, and Marsha can control the chemicals and functions of her bodies system, to the point where she's able to numb herself to feeling pain. Like, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I can't get these two out of my HEAD I LOVE THEM!
Also, this line from Merel fucking got me when I was reading through the story.
Like....girl let's just put on our thinking caps for a second here and look at our current situation right now LMAO
Also, since we've seen that Arcana can fuck with historical events to make them go differently, this opens the door to soooooo much alternate history stuff you have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually got a story arc where the cold war in the 1950s...wasn't exactly cold and the world got into a big-ass nuclear war. What I'm trying to say here is that Reverse 1999 could basically make Fallout but better. That would probably be saved for a really big anniversary story event because good lord I can only imagine that being intense as fuck. I feel like it could also be a good opportunity for there to be a lot more cool playable Awakened characters, or even just explore how radiation impacts arcanists compared to humans. I am so excited for where this story could go next, I love this game so much.
