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Just two dads accompanying the little one on a trip to see her hometown and maybe take out a dragon or two while they're down there.
only *looks at 1998 calendar* 5 months late 💀
#Xenotober2025 ・ #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 20 ・ 20日
Death Knell ・ 弔鐘
It was the prompt that gave me the most vivid idea so I had to see it through completely; kinda subtle fisheye perspective (which I was completely new to), fully painted background, and all. couldn't possibly finish it during October when I was feeling swamped.
It's something I've always had in the back of my mind ever since idk it might've been back in 2024 on twitter?, when I asked you guys what you thought that sound was down there and iirc it was Nohar who suggested it could be Zeboim's nuclear siren?
So that's been my headcanon ever since.
I think Bart would probably be the most fascinated by this info they learn down there. Anything that answers his burning question of "why does my mind-control Gear sometimes randomly go super saiyan? i need to know what activates it ( °^° )"
Thank you so muchhh!!! Yeah this one took a while to really see through to the end. Streaming my art really helps me lock in though, so it helped to stream at least part of this one to get past the little roadblock that was figuring out the boys' angles within in this perspective.
Yeah, Zeboim is so desolate and abandoned, but especially haunting in how it's so well preserved; to the point where 4000 years later their technology still works down there and there's still paper that can be read.
One of my (many) favorite details down there is the restaurant (that Big Joe is in), how the chairs are still stacked up on the tables, exactly how they were left 4000 years ago. It's those little environmental details that I love so much about Xenogears.
Another of which being the convenience store here (I always wanted to paint it for this reason). It being placed in such a way that you're more likely to enter this building before all the others, and immediately when you do you're greeted by blinds and a cashier till.
The sudden hit of personal familiarity in the mundane details of this modern setting just blew me away. Exploring Zeboim is a top 5 video game storytelling moment for me through environment alone.
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Wedding art is so fun because you have permission to go all-out fancy 😊
Timelapse and info on the details below for those who're interested~
Definitely wanted to incorporate their Chinese & German influences into it. So much wedding fanart goes with flat boring modern western styles with little personality.
Now for anyone interested, I'll proceed to explain ALL of the details (bc I love it all a lot), but I'm curious how many details you initially caught!
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So fun fact, traditional German wedding dresses were mainly black before Queen Victoria popularized white. And of course, the main German wedding dress color palette is black/white/red (with perhaps a green sash for luck), so yknow, exactly Elly's color palette, it's perfect.
Rather than a sash I incorporated green through the Wave Existence inspired earrings instead 😄
I was going for a German dress from the start, but realized later that the German colors really remind me of Aruru's wedding dress (white/red/green/blue), the only in-universe idea of what one of their cultures' wedding dresses looks like. Really colorful, a classic wedding dress.
Was looking up traditional German bridal attire after I'd already started sketching and it was like,
"there's 4 main things: black, floral crown, accessorized w/family heirlooms, and a lace-edged veil (that they can do the Schleiertanz [wedding veil dance] under)", and I was like nice, I already checked all the boxes, if only the Nisan rosary was visible at all here 😅
And yeah the schleiertanz was what inspired the veil as it is. Sounds like a lovely wedding tradition.
Kinda hard to see at this angle, but Elly's specifically wearing a German dirndle style wedding dress laced in the front and roses at the bust. Would've given her a red skirt too if it were at all visible.
And ofc I always love balloon-style-into-form-fitting lace sleeves; they kinda remind me of Elly's uniform as well, big shoulders down to long gloves.
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Then looking up Chinese wedding hanfu I realized it had some of those (german dress) colors as well.
Red male hanfu were for the highest ranking in society, blue & green were the next two down in social rank, hence why you don't see green often, but with a sashed hanfu all colors can be represented.
Then paired with the fenghuang guan…
So male fenghuang (known in the west as ""Chinese phoenixes"". double quotation for the incorrect name)—specifically more modern fenghuang with the tail of a peacock—have an odd number (yang) of tail feathers and female fenghuang have an even number (yin) of tail feathers.
So 5 was perfect for inlaying the 5 Chinese sacred colors, white/black/red/blue-green/yellow, in its tail feathers. Then the 3 jewels on top would be red for joy/celebration & yellow for huang/virtue. (huang means yellow, wong is an alternate romanization, the color yellow is a color symbolizing nobility, the surname Huang/Wong/etc has heavy ties to [and originates from] emperors & nobility)
As for the fenghuang patterning on his hanfu and the fenghuang guan, as to why he's fenghuang themed...
Feng is an alternate romanization of (part of his given name) Fong.
…and huang is an alternate romanization of wong…
fenghuang, Fong Wong
(Even tho when saying his name the Wong should come first, as it was deliberately that way in the JP version of the game [compared to other chars, even Shitan's, Japanese inspired as he is, didn't start with Uzuki, it was only Fei and Khan, but NOT Karen]. It was only reversed for Western players in the localization, for who don't know Chinese family names come first.)
Not to mention the symbolism of the phoenix is Fei 100%
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Did a lot of research about Chinese male hairstyles as well, but I already went all out on ko-fi about that so I'll just screenshot it. Very interesting info, even if I didn't actually end up using much of that knowledge here, considering this was only Chinese-inspired, as the Wongs are.
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As for the handfastening rope, this is where I wanted to pull in Xenogears' celtic influences.
It's got an eternity knot specifically, white & red, & with gold accents.
Gold symbolizing prosperity/success, mainly there to tie it further into their whole color palette; Red symbolizing passion, courage, & strength; and of course, White symbolizing purity, new beginnings, & fresh starts, which I felt was the most relevant to them. 🤍
(ꈍᴗꈍ)~♡
Uploaded the CSP master file to the pinned ko-fi folder, for those who wanna go digging through its many layers 😄
(and the high res versions directly to ko-fi ofc)
I like how it doesn't really look out of place at all without the veil, even with both their hands being positioned for holding up the veil specifically, like Fei's fingers extending as they are.
The handfastening rope being there does it, I think.
The rope was actually an idea that came later on, after the schleiertanz (dancing under the veil) inspiration.
I don't even remember where the idea came from to include it, but I figured a mix of different cultures represented like that made sense for the setting, especially bc XG takes so much Celtic inspiration.
Also I realized way into painting it, but...I love how Fei's ahoge sticking up out of his ponytail like that is like a fenghuang tail feather itself 😄
Odd number!! lol (referring to the original post's notes)
for some reason yall have stuck around this long so now your gonna get the MOST self indulgent sammi posting with the awnser to this
we go back to 2014 when i first watch that shitty live action mario movie, it was so bad i loved it so much. i knew it sucked but i was SO into it i loved it so much
and i specifically had a small crush on the lady who played the character big bertha, who was based on a one off comic character who was a giant cheep cheep who had a crush on mario. and in the movie was was also into mario. and let me tell you 14-15 year old cringe ass sammi drew SO much fanart of her as a mermaid who was in love with mario
so this one goes out to little crange ass baby nae nae sammi
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Wedding art is so fun because you have permission to go all-out fancy 😊
Timelapse and info on the details below for those who're interested~
Definitely wanted to incorporate their Chinese & German influences into it. So much wedding fanart goes with flat boring modern western styles with little personality.
Now for anyone interested, I'll proceed to explain ALL of the details (bc I love it all a lot), but I'm curious how many details you initially caught!
-
So fun fact, traditional German wedding dresses were mainly black before Queen Victoria popularized white. And of course, the main German wedding dress color palette is black/white/red (with perhaps a green sash for luck), so yknow, exactly Elly's color palette, it's perfect.
Rather than a sash I incorporated green through the Wave Existence inspired earrings instead 😄
I was going for a German dress from the start, but realized later that the German colors really remind me of Aruru's wedding dress (white/red/green/blue), the only in-universe idea of what one of their cultures' wedding dresses looks like. Really colorful, a classic wedding dress.
Was looking up traditional German bridal attire after I'd already started sketching and it was like,
"there's 4 main things: black, floral crown, accessorized w/family heirlooms, and a lace-edged veil (that they can do the Schleiertanz [wedding veil dance] under)", and I was like nice, I already checked all the boxes, if only the Nisan rosary was visible at all here 😅
And yeah the schleiertanz was what inspired the veil as it is. Sounds like a lovely wedding tradition.
Kinda hard to see at this angle, but Elly's specifically wearing a German dirndle style wedding dress laced in the front and roses at the bust. Would've given her a red skirt too if it were at all visible.
And ofc I always love balloon-style-into-form-fitting lace sleeves; they kinda remind me of Elly's uniform as well, big shoulders down to long gloves.
-
Then looking up Chinese wedding hanfu I realized it had some of those (german dress) colors as well.
Red male hanfu were for the highest ranking in society, blue & green were the next two down in social rank, hence why you don't see green often, but with a sashed hanfu all colors can be represented.
Then paired with the fenghuang guan…
So male fenghuang (known in the west as ""Chinese phoenixes"". double quotation for the incorrect name)—specifically more modern fenghuang with the tail of a peacock—have an odd number (yang) of tail feathers and female fenghuang have an even number (yin) of tail feathers.
So 5 was perfect for inlaying the 5 Chinese sacred colors, white/black/red/blue-green/yellow, in its tail feathers. Then the 3 jewels on top would be red for joy/celebration & yellow for huang/virtue. (huang means yellow, wong is an alternate romanization, the color yellow is a color symbolizing nobility, the surname Huang/Wong/etc has heavy ties to [and originates from] emperors & nobility)
As for the fenghuang patterning on his hanfu and the fenghuang guan, as to why he's fenghuang themed...
Feng is an alternate romanization of (part of his given name) Fong.
…and huang is an alternate romanization of wong…
fenghuang, Fong Wong
(Even tho when saying his name the Wong should come first, as it was deliberately that way in the JP version of the game [compared to other chars, even Shitan's, Japanese inspired as he is, didn't start with Uzuki, it was only Fei and Khan, but NOT Karen]. It was only reversed for Western players in the localization, for who don't know Chinese family names come first.)
Not to mention the symbolism of the phoenix is Fei 100%
-
Did a lot of research about Chinese male hairstyles as well, but I already went all out on ko-fi about that so I'll just screenshot it. Very interesting info, even if I didn't actually end up using much of that knowledge here, considering this was only Chinese-inspired, as the Wongs are.
-
As for the handfastening rope, this is where I wanted to pull in Xenogears' celtic influences.
It's got an eternity knot specifically, white & red, & with gold accents.
Gold symbolizing prosperity/success, mainly there to tie it further into their whole color palette; Red symbolizing passion, courage, & strength; and of course, White symbolizing purity, new beginnings, & fresh starts, which I felt was the most relevant to them. 🤍
Where Fei has a lot of scrappy, light-on-his-feet muscle-memory power behind his martial arts, Id has so much elegant fluidity & finesse with his kicks & spins and this pose embodies that for me. I've wanted to draw something like this for a while.
Id's animations themselves don't feel as heavy hitting, like you don't feel the SLAP like you do with Fei's animations bc Id's movements glide and flow so smoothly from one movement into the other, but once you see the damage numbers you're like OOF IM SORRY ELLY 😭😂
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