"…Would you do that, Dente? Please… For Umasho and the others…"
"Ah Sachika… No matter what I say, you won't change your mind, huh?"
My @girlsremixex exchange gift for ao3 user PsycheDelic138
Some extra concepts and notes below
Concept Sketches of Sachika Amane in different AUs and Rider designs, including Granute (based on Candy Cane Snails), Lollipop (a slight different version of the Gurucan form from the comic) and Popsicle (the Sorbet/Frappé esque power-up, with popsicle-like chainsaws as weapons) designs.
Notes transcription:
Candy Motif: Lollipop
Granute Motif: Candy Cane Snail
Other forms: Popsicle, candy apple, chocolate lollipops (or pocky), popcorn? Pies? THAT CHOCOCONE IDK NAME
AU inspo: "What if Sachika was an amnesiac Granute lost in the human world?
I particularly love her as human and I'm still on the hill of "she should drive a Vrocan mecha suit" (btw thank you ao3 user spectralspooks for the Sugar Blaster!!! <3), buuuuuuuuuut I'm a monster/suit lover so ofc I'm giving this a try <3
ALT: Maybe instead of amnesiac/lost, she's a sort of refugee escaping from the Stomach dominion? I just think a lot about the moment she almost recognized Lango in the early episodes.
"It seems like I never struggled in life" still one of my fav Sachika moments I'd like to have incorporated — hence the amnesia
ALT Inspo: Granute Swap — In which Hapipare are Granutes and Stomach are humans. Shouma is pretty much the same, Lakia is human ofc.
BTW Gotta love the Candy House movie for making AUs sorta canon
Granute!Sachika summoning familiars to work on Hapipare — could you imagine?
Snails make their shell throughout theur whole lives, a sort of "autobiograph". Granute!Sachika could have lost her shell and made her amnesiac.
If you're keeping track, that's our one and only female rider in the show gone (after winning a single fight, with help, and getting a fraction of the screentime of the men), with the only other potential one being The Lady who 1) they seem uninterested in showing us any of her agent past when she presumably had a driver, and 2) has a driver in present day that she wears on her wrist and does not get to transform with. Cool cool
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