#highguardianspice

[chiemig]

Hi everyone! I'm finally back! My last post was on May 1st, so it's been quite a while! 😅 I had to take a long break due to work and family health issues, but I'm so happy to be back with my digital brush in hand and a project I've poured my heart into.

[theultimatemastermind1]

if I ever did a high guardian spice rewrite then…this could be a polential mlm ship, Cal crushing on snapdragon’s older brother!

[z-saint-box]

ENG Parsley is from High Guardian Spice

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[waksworldrebooted]

Tried my own hand at High Guardian Spice redesigns (High Guardian Heroes)

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS IN THE CASE OF VISUAL ISSUES

ROSEMARY

- 14

- Carefree, reckless and absent-minded, but good at heart.

- Daughter of the late warrior, Lavender Thalya

- Raised by her father growing up after her mom seemingly died in battle during her infancy mere months after her birth

- Idolizes her mother and dreams to become a hero like her (problem is, Rose is bad at it)

- Grew up in Lyngarth City's outer urban town of Scarborough Grove,

never visiting the inner city before attending it's local high school

- Freshman at High Guardian Academy alongside childhood friend Sage.

- After hearing rumors of a criminal syndicate called "The Triumvirate"

Rose is motivated to train at school and become a guardian to defend the city.

- Armed with whatever rusted remains was left of Lavender after what

was found of her body, including her mother's sword: The Rosemary Bloom (AKA her namesake)

- Tries to see the good in everyone as she wants to follow what was

told of Lavender's values.

- Trains with Parsley to learn from her and vice-versa

SAGE:

- 14

- Very calm and down-to-earth yet shy. Interested in the concepts of nature, space, stars, and time.

- Daughter of The Melanox family, two local magic-wielding healers

- Has an older cousin who is currently married to an elf, living in Lyngarth

- Wears hand-me-downs (hence the baggy sweater and skirt)

- Carved her staff with her father at ten years old as a test,

- Met Rosemary in preschool and grew up with her.

- Encouraged by her parents to become a guardian after hearing concerns

about a "rot" seeping from parts of the outer city into Scarborough Grove

- Trying to be more than a healer by using magic for defense

- Proving a point to her parents that "new magic" (magic based on technology powered from mined resources) can work together with "old magic" (magic drawn from individual's natural energy)

- The Parents send Sage to the academy not knowing they restricted their magic system to ONLY "new magic" in their current term (when initially both co-existed)

- Places a Terasphere (new magic device) into a childhood nightlight

in an attempt to combine the two magic systems

- Comforts Thyme with her personal issues around her home, as the witch

understands what the beauty of nature is ( using her knowledge as a magic-born to console the woodland nymph

PARSLEY

- 15

- Smug, smart, and kind at heart

- Born and raised with 12 brothers as the eldest child.

- Lives in a weapon and auto repair store managed by her family for generations

- Stressed under the pressure of taking care of not just her siblings, but

also helping with her mother's bakery and her father's repair shop

- Meets the Rose and Sage at HGA after Rose accidentally breaks The Rosemary Bloom's blade clean off the hilt. Takes the two to her family's shop for welding.

- Shocked when realizing Rose is a daughter of a late Champion Guardian

- Teaches the two newbies at combat despite her size.

- Very skilled at sledgehammer combat using a weapon crafted from spares laying around the shop

- Has a rivalry against the more stern Thyme due to the woodlander's

arrogance at first, before warming up to her.

- Learned to be resourceful based on old articles on Lavender on her

saying how guardians take what they need from their environment

(hence the hammer)

THYME

- 16

- Harsh, noble, stoic, serious, loyal, and sarcastic

- A woodland elf nymph born into the Evergreen Clan of the outer forests of Sidhe Woodlands, a scared land home to magic plant and mineral resources

- Raised to protect the place from invaders alongside other nymphs of her age with a crossbow. being cocky in being the best.

- Lost her parents at 12 due to an attack by a group called " The Triumvurate" In which they used their magic to spread a rot throughout the forest.

- With most of her fellow archers having too fallen, the was exiled and lived in isolation on her own

- Lived solo after travelling before finding Lyngarth City, trying to live in the grimey slums adopted by a light elf and her punk wife.

- Found the other three after their first week at HGA when they tried to explore the city's more undesirable areas to find monsters or crooks to fight.

- Ends up befriending the three she find and sees them as amateurs' at first, but sees

them as an opportunity to grow to not repeat history.

- Secretive about her past and her injuries to hopefully keep their trust

AMARYLLIS

- 15

- A Hydrotiera from the seaside city of Alchemist Bay

- Rich and spoiled witch born to the divorced CEO of a ship/trade empire

- Entitled and snarky (but looks out for her best friend)

- Has a bone to pick with Rose and Sage due to her status

- Born without an right arm, provided a prosthetic that doubles as a spell caster

- Uses her arm (New Magic Tech) to power an "Anchor Axe" from her natural 'Old Magic" energy

- Acts self absorbed to cover up on how little attention her father gave Amarylis in her teens

- Sees Snapdragon as her closest friend for they both share family issues

- Respects the main 4 over time on the grounds of her dad being a potential target of The Triumvirate.

SNAPDRAGON

- 15

- Effeminate Male Drakonican, rough with a soft interior

- Stern and agile, but also elegant and delicate

- Born into a family of brutish warriors pressuring them to be rough

- Believes in freedom of expression. Anyone can be strong and brave without being rough and brash in the name of "heroism", while also staying elegant and clean.

- Trains to be a swordsman in High Guardian Academy to prove their parents that idea

- Sees Amaryllis as their best friend for having parental issues.

- Follows Amaryllis' lead in treating Rose and Sage. Would later form a friendship with both, with the latter seeing Snap's skills as inspiration for keeping calm

- Trains Rose on occasion after their rivalry became null and void.

- Find's Sage's simple and strict parents similar to their own

PARNELL

- 10

- Scholarly, curious, overambitious, and naïve

- Descendant of a family of famous historians in Lyngarth City

- Advanced through grades fast due to his intellect

- Befriends Rose and Amaryllis due to their families history

- Often bullied by Aster

- Top and youngest student in High Guardian Academy

- Hates people who underestimate him due to his age

SLIME BOY:

- 14

- Oozalian orphan. Soft-speaking, nervous, shy.

- Abandoned by his creator years ago, adopted by a local bard running a potions shop

- Uses random instrument parts to make up his humanoid body, including a

"New Magic" infused radio under his scarf (albeit with garbled speech)

- Named "Slime Boy" by the adoptive father ( he wasn't sure on what to call the creature but the monster child ran with it, for it sounded right enough lmao)

- Learns music to become like his adoptive father, and to defend himself

- Attends HGA for finding not just knowledge on bard magic, but also what he is exactly and where he came from.

- Thyme and Parsley find SB to be dumb at first, but learn from his easygoing approach to things.

- The fist and ONLY one of his kind to attend HGA

YOU THOUGHT IT WAS HAZBIN HOTEL REDESIGNS PART 2, BUT IT WAS I, HIGH GUARDIAN SPICE.

Honestly what is left to say of this pile of stinky doo doo garbage.

TBH, I did these on a whim because I was looking at YouTube in December about this show and tried re-watching a few reviews of this out of boredom.

But after remembering my old redesigns that I made back in 2022 (which I think I posted to the HGS subreddit) and me getting a new book about professional character design, I figured I should take a stab at doing these designs again.

Other than the mediocre character design, lackluster animation, and subpar writing I think the biggest issue about HGS is that it lacks any charm of it's own. I felt it was so focused on trying to be like other cartoons of its era that it failed to forge it's own identity out the gate.

When it came to HOW I should redesign these things, even three years ago, I wanted to make the show set within a modern and urban fantasy setting (think some mix of Onward, Nimona, Arcane, and The Legend of Korra). Case in point, the show's aesthetics ranged from being too archaic or too modern in terms of outfits, so mixing the two would not only make it stand out from other shows in the genre.

So instead of High Guardian Academy being another bootleg Hogwarts, I thought of the AU version being this art deco-inspired classy junior-senior public high school....with the chaos of IRL high school. Modern stuff like vehicles and tech do exist though I imagine they're either intricately detailed to fit the vibe, or magic powered.

There's some elaboration on how I re-did the magic system a bit (Old Magic being archaic and harnessed from humanoid users, and New Magic coming from mined resources powering technology to give regular people powers) but I'm tired.

[allyscara]

[mousehusband]

AHHH LUV!!! old fanart of these guys but i just decided to upload it cuz it's EFFING ADORKABLE!!! just a bit of info abt the rewrite i did:

- Stars slime boy (name: Florian Bluesong) Amaryllis (name: Amaryllis Elywn) and snapdragon (name: Snapdragon Cyprian)

- they have real classses. so like ryll is a wizard, slimeboy is a bard and snap is an artificer

- The spark spell thing actually ends up freezing everyone so ryll slime and snap have to go to witch country to find the cat girl thing

- it's really fun gothy and magical and i love it

- oh yeah the magic system got fixed up + high guardian academy actually made new magic (they're evil and our main 3 have to prove it!!!)

- also a character change.. snapdragon is a feminine presenting male as opposed to a trans woman as the story kinda..erases a whole arc and undermines their character when they are revealed to be trans (i.e. the sage sexism arc).. plus gnc representation!! huzzahhh!!

- I accidentally got fixated on ryll and snap. they r just adorable goth girl + femboy = magic (slimeboy i love you)

[apolloillustrates]

Just finished a full fledged animation for the first time ever!! .. unfortunately it’s about a dogshit Western ‘Anime’ called “High Guardian Spice” that I HEAVILY enjoy for some reason. Send help. /hj

[kibate]

High Guardian Spice - Shonen Anime style

Another High Guardian Spice fanart. This time a redesign to make it look like a Shonen anime. At least, that's what I tried to do ;)