Some recent design ideas for redux characters!! Stuff I really like.
I think, rather than slipping and easily shattering every time, Bottle will end up with cracks. She'll shatter and be recovered sometimes, being brought back to a healed state. Cracks can help create some really interesting patterns!!
Pencil's eraser reflecting her mental health. I did that in her FreeSmart drawing from June and really liked it. It's full in BFDIA and by TPOT 19, it is worn and used.
Needle using a thread as a ponytail. I see fanartists do this or a bow and it's REALLY FUCKING AWESOME. Rather than a piece of paper in BFDIA, she can use thread colors to express which team she's on, eventually going for the dark red I drew her with in her IDFB art as a means of showing that she's now playing for herself. Independant.
Pin keeps her mech suit. No new limbs. She has her pigment removed to explore and have control over her own identity, reverts to red in BFB, and then goes all out in TPOT with all sorts of colors and patterns. Probably changing every couple of episodes, especially when she has to be recovered as her default state is red pushpin with a mech suit.
Leafy having singes on her side after post-split due to spending so much time close to Firey on the boat and the new island.
I want to use Match's hair dye more. It's a similar case to Pin, wanting to explore her identity and findinf what works for herself. She spent so long AVOIDING trying to understand herself, who she is and what she wants, that now that she isn't.? She's happy to step out of her own boundaries.
Grassy getting his blades taller as he ages and sprouting little. Seed bits adult/uncut grass has. I forgot what it's called. Also being dryer in fall/winter and being more inclined to seek out water.
Firey interacting with different substances to change colors? Or changing colors to be a stronger flame when he's experiencing extreme emotion.