#erwin gates

[belywiel]

I was supposed to study for my exams BUT THIS GAME SUDDENLY POPPED UP. You just can’t dislike one of the characters.  I’ll do something better when I’ll have free time x’D

[makiokuta]

Beautiful commission by @kawamamilosc of Erwin from April was a Fool!

Thanks again for the commission; I love how it turned out~! (Consider commissioning Nika for yourself!)

[makiokuta]

Happy Birthday to Erwin Gates~!!

Our one and only Trash Prince (Mayor) complete with his most valiant knight. In what can only be a fantasy dreamland. :/ Ah, it’s nice to get this done on time.

(Society6)

[makiokuta]

In April was a Fool, I was a bit confused with Erwin's bad ending. I figured that He believes May is April, and May goes with it. It felt a bit rushed, and I kinda wondered what actually happened. If that's all it is, I'm sorry for wasting your time!

No reason to apologize! It’s certainly not a waste of my time. :)

Spoilers for Erwin’s Bad ending in the ask and under the cut! (plus lots of text because I ramble a lot)

You have the just of it. May sees that Erwin is really slipping hard right here and she believes that the only way to save him from this and from everything else is to just accept that MAY can’t and only April can. So she tosses away her own identity in a last ditch effort to pull him out of Evil’s lies.

In many aspects of the story she struggles with the idea that she’s there to replace April, that May doesn’t and can’t have the same impact on these people as April did. Erwin’s past dwells on that the most.

This scene in the inn, she’s making a very direct comparison between herself and what she heard about April:

“I raise my hand, looking at it with slight disdain. Though I lived on a farm, my parents never had me do much manual labour; the skin on my hands is soft and spongy. Squinting, I try to imagine them worn and rough from holding a sword until I can’t keep my eyes open any longer.”

Erwin’s route is also the one where I feel the affection bar less means ‘affection’ and more means ‘trust’ and May’s own confidence in her ‘relationship’ with any given characters. (storywise, it’s really handled that way a lot more than ‘how much they like you’ in most cases)

“I lower my head slightly as he tucks my hair behind my ear. I understand now, there’s only one way to save him. It isn’t coincidence that has brought us together. It’s destiny: a destiny that I step in and fill the hole in his heart.”

If you get the bad ending, May doesn’t trust that she herself is someone capable of saving Erwin from Evil.

All that being said, it’s important to note that they BOTH know she’s not April. That’s what this line was for:

He reaches out, pulling the hair that is tucked neatly behind my one ear loose.Erwin: “I’m sorry I’ve hurt you so much.”

To establish that even Erwin realizes that deep down this isn’t right; she’s not April. But it’s by May’s own assurance:

“I reach up, tucking it back in place. It belongs there now. He seems troubled by the response, unsure what to do next.“

They are both willing to fall into this delusion and see it through. What fallout will that have? You’ll all see ;D

I’ll certainly look into the writing at that though. There is a good chance that the scene might be rushed. Unfortunately, making a game in three months does that. (In particular, the drop out of the other party members in the scene didn’t come off as elegantly as it did in my head. It was supposed to give the feeling that Erwin and May were shutting them out one by one and drawing into their own little world.)

[makiokuta]

To the anon who asked if I have any of the original design sketches; I sure do! The image at the very top is the very first drawing of the characters and in the order they were designed too! At this point, they were little more than one line descriptions in a text file shot out on the fly between Jen and I during brainstorming. As you can see, their appearance hasn’t changed much at all, mostly the style changed.

The second pair of images are drawings of me working out Gabby and Erwin’s outfits at work one day. (also bonus Erwin with his hair down I guess haha)

Everyone’s designs were drawn shortly after. Which is an image I’ve posted before. You can see that here! At this point things were really stabilizing; Blake’s armour has the wrong colours and there’s still some stylistic changes to come, but that’s that in terms of overall design.

After that is the first time I tried sketching out the busts. I wasn’t very satisfied with the style there so quickly abandoned that to fiddle some more doing sketches (a lot of which are in this post) to get a feel for the characters better while I was working on the writing.

Things fell in place when I sketched and finished the first CG image.

The rest of this is just some rough sketches of artwork that appeared in the game. The title screen and the sketches for the busts. :)

[december-snow]

I saw this flower color fill effect here (the artist for the video has a tumblr by the way) and wanted to try it out. It seemed too empty with just that so I added a simple blink animation. This is just me getting too invested in a doodle. 

[makiokuta]

I’m aaaaaalmost done this. Wow Gabby’s dress looks strange before the gradients are on it.

[d4zed-dre4mer]

Yes. Foxy at one point bit Erwin. This must be canon. Maybe it was when April was alive. Maybe it was with May. Maybe it happens in the future. But Foxy totally bit Erwin. (Also, Gunn healing Foxy was not a thing I knew that I wanted until now.)

Yesssssssss

I just really wanna see a comic where that happens now? Erwin just totally taking a chunk out of Erwin’s hand and Gunn laughing the whole time he’s healing it up. 

and I’m sure at one point or another Foxxy has totally gotten hurt and Kent has totally been really panicked over it until Gunn fixes her, no problem. it’s another one of my favorite headcannons now owo

Anon(s) I dunno who you are but I love the way you think!