I forgot to complete my valentines art but to make up for it heres a really cool Rimuru design made for class. Current names I have for it are "Dragon God Rimuru" or "Slime God Rimuru"
I'm just gonna paste the mini essay I sent to some of my IRL's explaining the design (and some background info about the series they needed) since its a good enough explanation
First off, the large details of the design. This form is supposed to be a combination of how their worshippers see them in-universe as a god(they accidentally became the center of worship in their nation) and their identity as the 5th true dragon aka pillars of creation (technically they're a subspecies of true dragon called an ultimate slime but they're just called the 5th for brevity's sake) each of which has their dragon forms based upon a different irl mythologies dragons with the visual features tying all 5 of them together being that all of them having golden eyes and 4 wings.
The wings are modeled off of the actual wings Rimuru has and utilizes multiple times throughout the series to stabilize their flight with gravity manipulation (most iconically in the meggido sequence) but with feathers on the inside as the dragon (more draconic god but yk) I model it after is the Quetzalcoatl, which is commonly known as a winged serpant, hence the feathers on the inside of the wings. The regular wings are based off of their brother/dad Veldora's (Rimurus inital slime form was created via Veldora's leaking magicules [magical energy] but as all true dragons view each other as siblings either term would work but siblings is the more common term to use) wings as he named Rimuru and made their elemental attribute Storm making them grow in that attributes direction until their evolution/awakening into a true dragon. That connection to Veldora also is the reason for the tattoos on their body as Veldora has some small lightning-y ones around his eyes and on his arms so I made them a more central feature and more fluid due to them being a slime.
The reason for the 3 arms is due to me bringing in some bhudda elements as bhuddisim is very widespread in japan, which is where they were born an raised before getting reincarnated. Also, 6 arms on a godly character just almost always looks cool as hell lol.
Now for their clothing. The pant and shirt combo is based upon their actual outfit from their true dragon awakening, but with new patterns. For the shirt, it has the eye pattern and red gem of the anti magic mask which was likely made by an alternative version of themselves at the start of a time loop given to them by another person brought into the cardinal world who is the reason for them having a human form and its appearance. The belt buckle is changed to look similar to the mouth area of said mask as well. For the pants, its coloration was changed to be closer to Veldora's coloring, including some lightning patterns on the inner area. The circle patterns are actually supposed to be atomic structures of 2 elements, hydrogen (the first element and what stars are mostly made of) on the top ones and fluorine (the most reactive element) on the bottoms, complete with marking the positive or negative charges on them.
Now for the smaller details, the halo behind them is based upon their "worldmaker" appearance's halo in the mobile game. The red gem is the visual representation (along with the red in the eyes) of their partner Ciel, a manas (a named ultimate skill that has an ego) who has been with them since the start, and is essentially a sapient quantum computer, this connection is also shown on their tabi shoe adjacent footwear with 2 charms of Rimuru's slime form have that same red orb in a place reminiscent of where a bhuddist third eye would be, showing the enlightenment of and built from Ciel's existence, the bhuddist 3rd eye also has the nickname of the "Eye of Wisdom", which works well with Ciel evolving into a manas from the ultimate skill [Wisdom King Raphael]. The wings on the head are there both because its a very good way to give a holy vibe, plus it looks cool lol. On both of Rimuru's sets of hands are simple colored rings representating the other 3 still existing True Dragons and their primary elements going from oldest to youngest in descending order (blue for the oldest Velzard, red for Velgrynd, and purple for Veldora).
they're so silly lol
