#glissandix

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super loved @drops-of-moonlights glissandix so i wanted to take a stab at it with my winx-sona! two color variations becuase i couldn’t decide heehee

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The higher forms for some of the secondary characters re-redesigned! Mirta in Onyrix, Galatea in Glissandix, Krystal in Anthesix. The first one is obtained offscreen and shown in AUS6, while the other 2 are rom S6.5.It was fun to basically translate Mirta and Krystal's forms into the new bases, as they haven't really changed all that much, while Galatea had to be redone from the ground up lol.

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Back with the misc form designs, Glissandix! The sound form. Info on it below!

Glissandix is the forme of Sound and to get it you have to essentially recite any spell for a reason not related to study or practice in a perfect intonation, as if you’re turning it into a song. It’s a hard form to get because it requires a lot of vocal training and control, not to mention finding oneself in the situation where they would get it, but it offers a boost on all voiced spells and sound-based magic in general. This affects the Winx in different ways if they were to get it - Stella and Aisha have proper formal voice training in their role as princesses, so they have a greater vocal control than most others. Bloom lacks this, but because she can sing decently well she wouldn’t have as hard of a time as Flora and Tecna would, as neither of them are really used to speaking a certain way that isn’t their natural tone and have their own issues with speaking out in general (neither are particularly shy, but Flora’s someone that lets her actions do the talking and Tecna doesn’t see a point to it). Obviously Musa’s the one best suited for the form, as the literal Fairy of Music, and as such gets the eye aura effect.

Outside of that, design talk! We DO have a canonical music-related transformation - Magic Rock from the S8 comics, but. well. look at it.

you understand lmao. IT DID TAKE STELLA’S BOOTS but that’s about it really. Also they used this form to fight ghosts sabotaging a concert? that they later decided to crash and play in it? it was weird.

ANYWAYS, what I actually used as a design guideline was their NUMEROUS concert outfits across the series, primarily their S5, S8 and Winx In Concert looks. You can tell from which I stole their hairstyles from!

An unifying aspect across all of them were cropped jackets or vests, belts and boots, which are very present in the final design. I added assymetry details, mesh clothing, and a VOCALOID2-style bell sleeve, because we stan Vocaloid in this household still even if I haven’t kept up with it in almost 9 years. The wings are styled after both feathers and piano keys.

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Elemental forms for the Winx! The forms most of them get on their own times outside of the ones that everyone else got like. well the last four in the post.

Tecna has Nimbuix, the transformation of storms (covering the Wind and Electricity Sources), Bloom has Ignitix, the power of the Fire Source, Flora has Arborix, the Flora Source form (essentially a fusion of the other half of Sophix and Greenix from the comics), and Musa has Glissandix, the Sound Source transformation (which hilariously is now essentially the AU equivalent of the comic-exclusive form Magic Rock that came out earlier in the year). The rest y’all have already seen - Cosmix, Sirenix, Lustrix and Silvestrix. A more detailed post on transformations will come at some point (one I draw more people in the other forms), so for now take this!

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and cuz I know people will wonder, here’s a full look at Musa’s Glissandix, a transformation I covered last post. As for the name, it comes from Glissando, a musical term used to describe the glide or seamless transition from one sound to the other. You know those classic harp scales in media? they would count as glissandos.