Happy 3rd anniversary! Destra's page was one of the first character pages I ever translated, so here's a cleaner, more accurately translated version. Translation notes and image ids under the cut.
"pg 7" was weird, since the actual page 7 in the book is some of the title art for Triangle Strategy (so no characters, just typography), so I'm not sure what it's referring to either way. Possibly some other reference material not included in the book?
I noted this on the first version of this post as well, but one thing of particular interest that came up was that note next to Benedict. The first line reads as “Secretly” and the second + third seems to be this phrase:
It seems like it has a variety of meanings, including potentially romantic ones, but I’m not sure contextually how to read it. I went with “caring for” as a hopefully middle-of-the-road sort of option.
[image id: A single page of concept art from the Triangle Strategy artbook, posted once in Japanese, and then in English. This page centers around Destra and her design and backstory. It shows several images including several of Destra while she's pregnant with Serenoa, as well as one where she's meeting Regna while serving him at a tavern (labeled, "Image of how their relationship began at a tavern"). Another set of images shows Serenoa between Destra and Regna's profiles, indicating the resemblance between them. Toward the bottom half of the page, there are several additional drawings. Under one label, "When she was poor", there is a drawing of her in peasant's clothing, with some details pointed out of her kerchief she wears tied around her hair, captioned "Clever and energetic, she did her best in all circumstances." There's also a drawing of her as a child, sitting down and holding her stomach as if hungry, captioned, "As a child she may have been starving...". Another drawing shows her in a barmaid's dress, labeled, "When she worked in a tavern." Another drawing is labeled, "As a mother," and shows her pregnant while Benedict is visible at a desk behind her. A caption reads, "Benedict in his youth, caring for her in secret." A last label reads, "As a mother and lady of region A," where she's pregnant but wearing much finer clothing with a mantle reminiscent of Serenoa's own. A note toward the bottom reads, "This is reference material concerning the protagonist's mother, even in her younger days. It explores the question of 'To what extent is it useful to focus on her appearance?'" The last illustrator's note reads, "When designing Serenoa, I first drew his mother and then tried to figure out what characteristics he would have based on his genetics. (Naoki Ikushima)" /end id]
