Thought it would be fun to try and draw teen and grown designs for the girls… notes under the jump (some manga spoilers in them)
I figured when you get a little older you get more free rein in what goes under your uniform cloak.
Teen Coco turned down a new/longer apprentice cloak when she hit her growth spurt. She just let her original one out at the shoulders. On the one hand this is because she’s treasuring the skills her mother taught her; on the other she still feels like an outsider and like she doesn’t deserve nice things.
As an adult she’s really enjoying different fabric embellishments and textures. The ribbon roses at the sides of her hat are in honour of how her mum used to wear her hair on special occasions.
I think she’s probably a teacher.
It’s important to me that her scar from Silver Eve persists.
Teen Agott had another shitty interaction with her mum and cut her hair even shorter. She doesn’t actually like it this short but whoops, gotta wait for it to grow back.
Her blouse is one of her uniform dresses that Coco hemmed shorter for her and dyed purple when it got badly stained and torn. She is much more moved by this than she’s willing to admit, but Coco does notice how often she wears it.
They’re doing more outside study/work outside the atelier, so she likes tall boots for practical reasons.
Adult Agott is letting go of a lot of her childhood need for control. Dressing a little more fun and comfortable.
She grows into an hourglass figure like her mum’s, but she doesn’t have to hate that she resembles her anymore because she knows who she is.
She’s a librarian, but not at the Tower of Tomes; she’s at a city library near where Coco teaches where she can actually interact with people and help them find resources.
Teen Riché’s design was based on an idea I had where she leaves the atelier for a while to travel with Alaira and Euini. She still wears her Qifrey hat to show her loyalty, but her clothes are much more practical for wilderness treks.
She puts on a good bit of weight but barely gets any taller. Short queen.
Grown Riché made her hat embellishments out of her crystal ribbons and they’re very shiny and impressive. She runs a contraption shop.
Unlike Olruggio, who works on commission, Riché makes whatever she feels like and sells them when they’re done, meaning her shop has surprise drops of fascinating new concepts and people come back a lot to see what she’s made lately.
She has a very flat affect but she’s so happy.
Tetia was the hardest for me to design but I’m quite pleased with the eventual result.
She’s the only one of them we haven’t seen as a wee thing, so I made her hair a big old poof because I love that.
Teen Tetia is putting on a brave face but whatever ended up happening with Eoleo really messed with her views of magic and people and friendship. She’s having a harder time trusting people.
Teen her is less different from tween her; she’s mostly just fluffed up a bit and is hiding in her cloak more.
Girl has the hugest of growth spurts and becomes long and lanky and strong.
Adult her is me trying to find a balance between her hyper-femme, lacy, ruffly tastes and the practical necessities of a traveling public servant who does a lot of physical work.
She’s travelling around helping people like she always wanted! A little more wary, refusing to be taken advantage of, but she’s not letting it stop her from doing good.