I've created a whole headcanon around jewelry culture in the outernet for AvA, which would apply to king and purple, so I chose what they'd wear, aaand i ended up making full designs for both of them
The big headcanon will be another post, BUT, for now, here's my new designs for king and purple, and i'll explain the meaning behind what jewelry they are wearing
Starting off with king! pre and post AvM s3
I forgot the earring on pre-AvA s3 so mb, he would be wearing it.
The anklet is because he's mourning gold (same hex), the earring is the hex of what i imagine gold's mother would be, and solid color bracelets represent the stick's children. It took awhile to figure out post season 3 king's cloak color because the red is so iconic, but i decided gold's color since wearing the hex of a stick is considered honoring them in the headcanon. I'll probably make another design of him for casual wear, since i don't think he'd constantly wear this LMAO
i cropped these individually so sorry about the different shape images lol
Heavy inspo from @skybristle! Love their purple design btw, go look at it! The cuffs are another part of the headcanon, where essentially, once a stick graduates, comes of age, or something similar, they get to go get an armband(s) or cuff(s) in the hex of their parents, the design of it typically being the child's choice. The cuffs are the hex of purple's mother, though the yellow lining is actually navy's complimentary color.
But wait! I hear you say, What's that thing on purple's arm in the s5 design?
I'd wait till the big headcanon post, but i love the detail so much i'll talk about it here. King got it, intending to give it to gold once they graduated as a gift to give him right after. Gold, of course, died before they did. And after a long while, king eventually let go, and gave his to purple. Purple totally didn't start sobbing uncontrollably.
Also here's just,, purple without either the elytra or wings,, when i put it with the other two it changed the size of the other arts to where they're cut off and i didn't wanna do that lol