my design for humanised Lovely Assistaff and @jankingit 's design for humanised Mankira!
WE LOVE YURI!!!! go check out their post for more StaffKira yuri...
in my version of Assistaff, she's gentler and less stern, looks really put together but isn't totally. she's also a lot more accepting of her freak than Zanka and likes to turn the tables around on Mankira when she flirts with her! Mankira's flustered expression is really cute...
Based on what I’ve seen here on tumblr, not many people were designing all of their forms so I wanted to give my own take on human Vital Instruments and all their forms. Even though I haven’t drawn in weeks rip. (This took me too long, 25hrs total spent).
Long design rants(?):
For Lovely, her design mostly reflects a Cleaners outfit, but with more blue due to Zanka caring about the Cleaners (especially the Akuta team) a lot. I was originally going to have the rope be around her neck, but decided to have it be over her eyes as a “Zanka’s not at full potential yet” thingy and it looked cooler lol. I don’t know if it’s because I’m sticking to OG Lovely too much or something, but I am surprised there aren’t a lot of designs with more bandages all over her body. While the spikes are on her waist and neck, Lovely still can do her spike attack; only with them coming out of her hands. Im terrible at drawing feet (+ people be weird), but Lovely has Tabi(? The samurai ones) socks on and tends to walk on her tip-toes. I’m not 100% set on her hair design (debating whether it should be tied up in the back to show off the black hair underneath and the tassels or something); I am happy with turning her flame-like spikes(?) into a bow. In homage to Zanka catching Mankira with his teeth, Lovely’s are more pointed loll. If she somehow reminds you a bit of Hyo, it was a total accident promise.
For Mankira, her design isn’t as connected to the Raiders as Lovely’s is to the cleaners because Jabber, at the moment based on previous comments, isn’t interested in the Raiders so much as the idea of fighting strong people. I did keep his tail thingy though, mostly because it’s cute lol. For her base form, I wanted to make her seem a bit harmless(for a lack of a better term) because people usually wouldn’t expect rings to turn into poison death claws loll. I was debating keeping the bracelets on all the forms, but didn’t like how they looked. Idk if it’s obvious, but the rest of her forms are based on japanese professional wrestlers to help hammer in Jabber’s desire to fight (and some of their moves reminded me of how Jabber fights in general). Mankira does have the same shoes as Jabber, I just can’t draw them accurately lol. Like Lovely, Mankira’s hair is similar to Jabber’s; mostly shorter and done up. Something else Ive noticed is that many designs ignore that Mankira’s colors split in both activated forms (its on the blades for the smaller ver),but I’ve might have gone a bit overboard idk. Also, I didn’t fully realize that only one side of the wires was purple which threw me off since there wasn’t any purple elsewhere in Mankira’s design. I’m sorry if the patters are off, it’s very difficult to get clear reference photos of the big claws rip.
Last thing, Mankira is short, 5’5”-ish, and Lovely is at 6’1”-ish when standing feet flat.
