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Second character introduction! Aika is part of a modern superhero themed campaign where I let my hyperfixations reign free and made her a magical girl idol. She is s o cool.

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old Maeyr art from like, early campaign where we got to design masks to keep our characters identities hidden, I got very inspired by phant0masy’s mask designs on insta and I thought it’d be fun to have the juxtaposition of super cute character with spooky mask. She does have a tendency to stare at people without blinking. Or breathing.

Anyways, it’s a comfy mask, we ignore that her silhouette is clearly the most distinctive about her and is clearly hiding nothing, but it’s fine, she’s cute, we love her. I redesigned her with the low down hair buns not long into the campaign and in universe it was due to her hiding the fact that her hair had grown, but she let the illusion down for Nephriah’s sister, and thus got the iconic buns. She can do it herself now, but she will also let Neph do it for her, which is a sign of their friendship really evolving. Nephil grew up with mostly seeing her hair down or up in the high pigtails, but he loves the buns a lot. His favourite is probably her hair down.

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Finally I am getting into the illustrations,, the full coloured pieces,,

So Nephil is a ✨gorgeous man✨ but ohoho the amount of things going on in this piece. First off, Nephil himself! For some context, in the campaign he found Maeyr again with the party in a literal black market area, why is he there? Uhhh he does some work for the guilded shadows on the side, nothing to worry about. But while she’s staying in a place in the same city, they get to hang out a bit more than usual, they go out for a cake date on Maeyr’s birthday (and during this time she’s in a training arc, forced to be on a specific food diet that means no cakes, and she hates it, Nephil teaches her about the HR department,,,besides the point). The party ended up being kidnapped by wraiths and taken down to hell, which, for them, was a few days at most. For everyone else, it was a y e a r. Due to these magical seed things they got, the people in the place they were staying (which is called the silver flame order, by the way) knew that they weren’t necessarily dead, just no longer in this mortal plane. So Nephil dedicated himself to officially joining and rising through the ranks of the silver flame order, becoming a literal lord, all to try and find Maeyr (and the rest of the party). So his hairs got a lot longer, tied up in a ponytail now, he’s got one of Maeyr’s hair ties around his wrist,,, in the background we can see a certain plushie, and that in fact, is Maeyr’s plushie! Left behind in her room, hidden under the covers, where she expected to be able to come back to later on. Since she couldn’t, he keeps hold of it, taking care of it until she gets back. His room smells almost salty, like the sea, seashells and trinkets dotted around. When Maeyr eventually returns, he isn’t there, out on a mission, so she leaves him a note telling him she needs to talk to him, and also that she’s taking her plushie with her. She hopes he doesn’t mind.

It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to draw Nephil, and I’m still figuring him out, same as Maeyr, but I really love this piece.

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Some of Maeyr’s consistent outfits! One of the members of the party is a fashion designer and seamstress, so a transition happened where basically none of the party is allowed to buy clothes anymore, she makes all of them now.

I’m fully aware the winter one is significantly more practical than the summer one, whenever I draw the summer one I always yeet the like,,I don’t know what they’re called but the long flowy bits that sit on top. Why did I add those. Anyways Nephil has not yet seen her in that summer outfit and when he does he will inevitably go feral over how high the slit of her skirt is.

There was a long point before these outfits where Maeyr was using illusions to hide all her scars, so it’s really sweet that she’s comfortable wearing such a revealing dress, lot of character growth and love for her friends, they all slay in their lil outfits and hype each other up 🙂‍↕️

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Aika’s first fight in the campaign and her weapon design! I was struggling with the idea for her weapon, a bow felt too Godoka vibes, a sword was boring, just a generic magical beam wasn’t doing it for me,,,I took a step back and relooked over her design moodboard for the magical girl design. I realised her key was such a vital part of her design, so why not make it her weapon? I checked over with my DM, whose one of my best friends and very used to my homebrew nonsense, and while my partner dyed my hair I whipped up this key design based on a few different antique keys I saw on google. They function like scissor blades, kill la kill style (even though I’ve never seen that show, I just love the vibes), and she can dual wield them, hitting separately, she m i g h t be able to use them as one, I’m ngl I’m only three sessions in I haven’t tried yet

She’s got a good pain tolerance, but even for her ripping two blades rooted into her back isn’t the most,,,comfortable. Shes badass though, but her new friends and the people she’s staying with are deeply concerned for her self preservation. She has little to none.

Oh plus her cute disguise fit! The characters all have matching cat beanies in their disguises >:3

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I’m working on an updated version of this but first draft of Aika’s magical girl form! She unlocks different schools of magic at different levels so I thought the cage skirt type thing could maybe light up with colours of each school as she unlocks them perhaps,,,

The inspiration for the design was fun to figure out! I’m not usually a mood board person aside from like, Pinterest, but I used Milanote to make a more fancy mood board with all the thoughts I had - I referenced Sakizo, infinity Nikki (specifically my favourite outfit from that game, timeless melody), a variety of miku figure designs,, her hair is inspired from a specific Bee outfit (from Bee and Puppycat, not like an actual bee).

But a fun fact you can’t see here! She actually has a key inserted into her back that functions as her main weapon! I’ll discuss that more in a different post at some point hehe. I love magical girls so I really wanted to go heavy on theming for her character, it’s not coming across super well in this design (yet!!) but please feel free to theorise or ask me questions I would love to yap about the thoughts behind everything-

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Artfight attack I did for @mmonarchmoon !! I wanted to draw our two sweets obsessed characters yapping about their partners so I went insane doing all the food and tying to make it look appetising and it was so fun but took me like 10 hours 😭😭but definitely worth it it turned out so cute

One of Maeyr’s character traits is that whenever they go to a new place she’s so ready to learn about all the different types of sweets and desserts and try them all, there is very little food she doesn’t like but she does like things to be extra sweet. Her worst enemy is protein pancakes, they are a crime against food.

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oooo this took me 14+ hours

Geno is one of the people we met in hell and Maeyr did noooot gel with him lemme tell you, so her being remarkably chill with him while hypnotised is probably bringing him a lot of joy. Unfortunately for Maeyr, I, personally, l o v e him his whole vibe is incredible he does things because they’re funny to him and he has a scythe and he’s cool as fuck. I need him in my life. Unfortunately Maeyr in any situation where he hypothetically would flirt with her post hypnosis would very likely end up like this. So in this comic I really liked the idea of him trying to give her head pats purely to piss Nephil off except she is not that close to him yet and therefore does n o t like it. She’s not even biting him to show off to Nephil or anything that’s just straight instincts baby, she’s got chompers and she’s gonna use them. I think he’d find her reaction somehow even funnier than however Nephil could react. She’s a well of entertainment to him I’m sure.