Hey! I’m back with the designs for turtle!Marinette and bee!Marinette. I did them both at the same time since last week I did the fox by itself.
When it came to the turtle I wanted to lean into her Chinese heratige again, but also lean towards a memorial to Fu since I’m sure that’s something Marinette would do. So she got a top that’s like her Kitty Noire one, but also got gi pants (Martial arts pants, free moving and I like the snap they have when you kick.) I also gave her shoulder armour simply because I like the look of it, which is the same reason I changed the shield to bracers. It really was just because I didn’t want to draw the shield, but when I had given her the bracers in the sketch (which did have the shield) I was drawing some inspiration from Wonder Woman. Overall, she looks feminine, and yet everything is easy to move in and won’t inhibit her ability to fight. I also don’t know if I spelled her name right, but my other option was Lady Jade.
On the bee I simply don’t like the canon weapon. I think it doesn’t match with the other five and takes too much from Ladybug. All the weapons for the five main miraculous are ones that don’t allow you fast travel (like Ladybug’s yoyo or Chat’s staff) except the bee, which seems off to me. I get the power relies on it having some reach, but still. So in this design I made the weapon a hammer, with the stingers since, ouch, and it still allows the power to be venom (or even change the power, make it similar to a worker bee and give the hammer some properties like Felix’s hammer from Wreck it Ralph) Then with her design, I chose to use the half jacket again, but instead of a popped collar, give it some fluff since bees are fluffy and Chloe was cheated out of having some fluff in canon. I did the same to her boots to give more areas with fluff (Her gloves originally had fluff too. I decided against it though) Her pigtails were something I took from Marigold (Zoe-Oneesama’s AU) because I like it, and the fact it actually looks nice (And I don’t have to deal with giving her hair much detail at all) Her markings I thought up on a whim, but I made them sharp since the bee is an attacker.
So yes, next week I should have the butterfly/peacock done. Those two though will be suit ideas for Villain!marinette since our canon holders are villains and I like toying with a villainette. (I can still do a hero butterfly/peacock though, which gives me more content to put on here.)
