#010425

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Louis via instagram story - 01.04

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[allou-a]

Our dear Kristen Applebees...

What did they do to her. Where is her tie-dye :(

Okay, but in all seriousness, they butchered my girl.

First off, her mini and her official art are both heavier-set than she is in the Webtoon. Now, I know that this is a thing Webtoon does, where they are allergic to having fat protagonists, but like, c'mon. She's not even fat in any of the other art, she's just not skinny! And she's what, 13, 14, at this point? She's not meant to be skinny!!!

Also, similar to Adaine, she doesn't have her casting focus on her in the comic. Her staff is her focus, but it's just- not there in the Webtoon? I like that they've included the corn motif, but she's a bible-belt girl, she should be showing off the corn motif, not just letting it show subtly.

I get that tie-dye is pretty hard to draw consistently, and that's fine, but changing her t-shirt out for a pale pink or purple (because lets be real, her parents would not let her wear a blue item of clothing (Gasp!)) and then stuck an image or corn on the front, or the rising sun, just something to represent Helio or Sol. I'm kind of upset because it means that the "Yes!" and "Yes?" t-shirts won't have the same impact, but I recon they can still do something good with it. I just hope they don't make her all girly when she leaves the church, because it's pretty established that no matter what god she's following, Kristen is a butch. But once again, I know Webtoon, and they like their girly girls...

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[dailytomlinson]

Louis via instagram story - 01.04

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Figueroth Faeth, rockstar extraordinaire (eventually...)

Look, the first thing I'm going to comment on here should be pretty obvious to any fan of D&D. Why is Fig listed as a "Half-Devil" when she's a Tiefling? My partner suggested it was a copywrite issue, however the concept of "Tiefling" (including the name!) falls under the Wizards of The Coast "Systems Reference Document", which is a list of the aspects of D&D that fall under the OGL / Creative Commons licencing. The term Tiefling is free use under the CC-BY-4.0 licence- that is to say, as long as it is mentioned somewhere that the term comes from "Dungeons and Dragons, as created by Wizards of The Coast".

Honestly, that and the lack of guitar are my main issues with Fig's design. Again, she's a caster-class (bard), and she doesn't have her spellcasting focus!

I think she does share an issue with Adaine though- why are her ears so small. Fig is half-elf, and she should have the ears to match, considering that (SPOILERS!) she looked like your average elf for the first 13-ish years of her life. I think once again, it falls under the awkward Webtoon-ification of the art style.

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Three panels of Adaine Abernant, all official art...

The odd one out, of course, is the first (top-left) panel. That's the webtoon introduction panel. The others are the official Adaine mini from the tabletop shots (top-right), and the art of the Abernant family (left-to-right: Angwyn, Arianwen, Aelwyn, and Adaine) from the first podcast episode.

Why are Adaine's ears so small? In all the official art of the podcast, her ears are pretty fucking noticeable. And yet, when it reaches a webtoon, she's an anime elf. Compared to ears that make up half her head in the art & her mini, they're just pointy human ears when it comes to the webtoon.

Also, her orb is tiny. There's a whole fuss made about "how is she meant to carry that" in the podcast, and yet when it comes to the webtoon, once again, it's shrunk. That thing is hand sized at best. I don't really want to get into the whole symbolism of her parents giving her this orb as a gift but also just not considering her needs at all when it comes to giving that gift, but shrinking it in the webtoon almost takes away from their first impression, to me. (Also, we haven't even seen her carrying the orb in the first three chapters? They're meant to be the equivalent of the introduction, but her casting focus isn't even there?)

Finally, the Hudol uniform. Honestly, I quite like that aspect of the redesign. It makes her easier to draw repetitively, and removing that large Hudol emblem, while taking away from the iconography of Hudol as this over the top fancy-schmancy high school for posh nerds, works.

Honestly though, Adaine's redesign looks like one of the best, out of the Bad Kids'. I'm genuinely scared of tackling some of these.

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