This is – mostly – just a muse indulgence. After reading @callistochan87’s first chapter of her new Celestial Souls version, my muse was mad. Mad because it was so much better, more interesting, and more realistic than my opening chapter. ‘Hey,’ it said, ‘you know what would be great? If we stole her ideas and tweeked them a little so no one realizes we stole them!’ But, ya know, it’s fairly obvious that I did?
But then again, Celestial Souls and Earthia are completely different stories, so it’s like that ‘I’ll let you copy my homework but make it different’ meme going around. ;P
But the biggest problem is that I like the differences I came up with while thinking about a new version, so…. Not to mention, I like the designs. *sigh* I guess 2021 is going to be another Earthia rewrite year. ;P
In any case, the idea of redoing the designs smacked me hard enough to actually do them, although, for the most part, I didn’t change much other than outfits and maybe tweeked colors.
Obviously, Kai gets the actual change. I like her with short hair, don’t get me wrong – I just wanted to go back to the long hair, and given the fact that she’s a hybrid, naturally her hair behaves and she never struggles with it. ;P That’s how you can tell when my characters Aren’t Human – their hair behaves. I also wanted to give her more brown-ish hair, so she won’t stand out too much. I like how she turned out. And the long wavy hair has nothing to do with Chris having longer wavy hair. ;P
Gabby gets a pretty dress, because I liked the design, and somehow it really works on her. Really works. I like it a lot. The thing that changes about Gabby, though, is that her aunt doesn’t really change her name, so she’s still Issadora Acadia on Earth, but she does by her middle name because she thinks Issadora is a weird name.
Mickel…yeah. Just an outfit change. *shrug*
Dylan looks slightly darker, but that’s because I matched his hair to his skin tone better, and I like it a lot more. Her and Kai are the main reasons I wanted to do this, because I got the idea of Dylan wearing something more ‘Helian’ in nature, like the fashions sort of mix between cultures sort of thing. He looks pretty damn good in it, actually, and I like a lot. He doesn’t have his poofy pants anymore, but I think these look better and make more sense.
Aerona…well, Aerona, I actually changed her hair, because I was like ‘why would she have blond hair’? Sure, her species have such a wide variety of colors that it would make sense one of them would have blond, but I wanted to give her something different. I had her having violet hair at one point, and it looks good, but thankfully it looks odd enough that I decided to go with a light yellow instead. Close enough to blond to make it work, but just off enough to make her look more alien. (Like she needs something to make her look more alien.) I also like her outfit. ^^;
Dev is just, you know, Dev. Gave him freckles like his sister, and that’s really about it.
Talia’s outfit is sort of the same concept as Dylan’s, where there is some Helian influence. But it’s still got that Greek/Roman influence to it. But the change she gets is that I’m thinking about taking wings away from the Aeolians, and make them just, like, not really special? Like, they’re special on Aethos because they’re just normal people. Sure, that doesn’t make Kai and Dev all that special, except for the fact that they are hybrids. Oh, and I made her slightly darker as well.
The next set of designs is random, I know. The first design is a dress I had designed for Kai for the 3rd book, before I had decided to take them all in a different direction. But I liked it, and I decided to go ahead and ink it and give it to the new Kai for the time being. Just a random, pretty, Aeolian dress.
The other design is more important. One of the reasons I do want to do the rewrite again is because Aerona has a more predominant role in the beginning. Instead of them just meeting her, she’s been coming to Earth the entire time Dr. Llewellyn’s been there, spending two months each summer hanging out with the group. So this is her current human appearance, which, of course, is odd because she’s white, but has the slanted Asian eyes, which are entirely too large. But the group is used to it, so they think nothing of it.
I know the biggest things I’m taking from @callistochan87 right now is having the story take place right after they graduated high school but right before they leave for college, because it annoyed me having them miss so much school and then never graduate high school. This works, because not going to college isn’t as important. So they’re basically aged up, although Kai and Dev, being the oldest of the humans, aren’t quite eighteen at the very beginning.
Kinda nervous about posting these, because I have a feeling @callistochan87 will plot to murder me after I do. ;P
