Elysia's contract with Medea stipulates that upon her death, Medea claims full rights to her in both body and soul. Medea currently takes the form of her last Reaper: an Elezen by the name of Aemelie, though she talks little about her.
This is not to say that Medea is incentivised to bring about Elysia's death. Reliable partners are hard to find, and the longer one lives the stronger they grow, offering a far greater return when her time truly does come.
Medea is uncharacteristically amenable and charismatic for a Voidsent, but make no mistake; she views all matters as transactional just like any other denizen of the Thirteenth, she has simply recognised the importance of a fulfilling working relationship for seeing a contract through to it's end. Though she may smile and joke, it is but an act. Though she may lend power, she will always get her due.
(pls click for full view the tumblr compression is hurting my soul ;w;)
you know how it is, sometimes they drop the fits of some of your favorite FF characters ever in the game and you get a little bit of amano in your system that needs to come out
w/many thanks to my static raid-sister Ari for playing the role of Lenna and @viiioca for the helpful suggestions and guidance on postprocessing!! the original artwork by Yoshitaka Amano as well as some other b/w and color versions below the cut:
original concept art of Faris and Lenna for Final Fantasy V by Yoshitaka Amano
All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question:
Why, given life, are they meant to suffer? To die?
Literally been crying or on the verge of tears all morning thinking about Venat....
Happy Hatching Tide from Kathaverse!
I haven't really shown off everyone here on this blog because I've been kinda lazy... >w< but if anyone wants to ask me about any of them then please DM me :3 PLEASE O.o
For the past few weeks I was trying to find a way to recreate the battle portrait from FF14 as there was a few characters that I want to see in that style but don't officially have one yet. I think I got it down more or less (see image below) so I thought it's a good time to share what I did.
First of all, I made a few files that would help make life a little easier. They can be grabbed here .
Note: I did use Reshade to do a bit of work at the screenshot stage to help speed up the process but the same effect can be recreated in Photoshop with a vanilla screenshot. There are a lot of tutorials on how to do comic/cartoon effect in photoshop and those would make good bases to work off of.
Step 1: Take the screenshot with the PortraitBase Shader on. I usually take two screenshots. One with "Comic" on and one with it turned off. This is so that I have more to work with if needed.
Step 2: Drag all the screenshots into photoshop and remove the background. In photoshop, arrange the layer so that the screenshot with the Comic lines visible is on top of the one with the effect off.
Step 3: Duplicate the the layer with the "comic" effect and apply Blur->Gaussian blur (radius 0.5)
Step 4: Take a look at the hair. In Eric's case, It still doesn't look blur enough to me so I used the blur tool and blurred it a bit more
Step 5: Create a new layer above the layer in the previous step and use the brush tool to start outlining the edges. Where to outline is up to you but the idea is to make edges defined so that it looks more like a drawing.
Step 6: Duplicate the outline layer and then hide that layer.
Step 7: Merge everything under the outline layer.
Step 8: Drag and drop the "Texture.png" into the project and Clip it to your character layer. Set the blending of the texture to "soft light".
Step 9: Drag and drop the "stroke Texture.png" into the project and Clip it to your character layer. Adjust the size till you are happy then set the blending to "overlay".
Step 10: Adjust the opacity settings of both texture layers until it looks good to you.
Step 11: Click on your character layer and go to image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation (note: you will see I dragged in the official Hades portrait as a point of reference to work off of). Adjust the saturation till you are happy.
Step 12: Go to image->Adjustments->Color Balance and adjust the color till you are happy. In this example, since Eric is also wearing the Sophist robe, I tried to match that color to Hades' Sophist robe color.
Step 13: Once you are happy, drag the "Template.png" into the project and scale that to the size you want. Make sure it is completely covering the character. If it's not, you can just use paint more of it with the brush tool to extend it till it covers everything.
Step 14: Hide the "template.png" layer and select your character layer. Use the magic wand tool to select the outside of the character.
Step 15: With the selection still selected, click on the "Template.png" layer and press delete on your keyboard. You should now be left with a blank in the shape of your character.
Step 16: Drag the"Template.png" layer to be below your character layer. Then click on your character layer and clip it.
Step 17: Click on the "Template.png" layer and add a 2px stroke and shadow to it.
Step 18: Drag "Back_Deco.png" into the project and place it behind your character. Scale it till you are happy with it.
And that's it! Now you can recreate portraits for any NPCs that you want (in theory). A lot of it is also fine tuning to what you want but this should at least give you a decent base to work off of :)
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