so sorry for the long post! i considered doing 2 pages at a time for the format, but ultimately i liked the look of the pages on their own. ⭐⭐
i considered framing hydrangea and frostfleur as rival guilds for this AU, but after taking the personalities and motivations for these characters into consideration, i felt like it would make more sense for the hydrangea guild to admire frostfleur from afar. 🙂↕️
i like the contrast between the two guilds. hydrangea is full of novice adventurers who are optimistic and easily impressed by others.🪻frostfleur is a more seasoned guild, and they've built a reputation for being dependable. ❄️
meet the frostfleur guild, a new counterpart to the hydrangea guild in my etrian odyssey AU! 🩵✨
the template was made by @/blueberryblanket 🪻💜
i wanted to keep the basic lore for these characters intact (tsukki's missing mother, shigumi's role as a bodyguard, tollan having a connection to fire and also joining tsukki/shigumi a bit later). i think i managed it okay without compromising on the important things! 🤗🤗
i briefly toyed with the idea of having them join the hydrangea guild alongside suki, but i wanted to keep the party size small for each group, and i wanted both suki and tsukki to have main character status. i also don't like mixing the groups too much - it's okay since this is an AU, but i haven't really considered the overall group dynamics of, say, tollan and satoshi (as an example). i think it would be fun to eventually have the two guilds interact in some way though! 🌟🌟
tollan looks the most like the EO class portrait i used. shigumi ended up being a mix of different landsknect designs. for tsukki, it was more of a palette swap than a design overhaul. still, i think these OCs are just too different from the portraits that are in EO...but hopefully they're still somewhat recognizable as EO classes! 🙂↕️🙂↕️
