meet the frostfleur guild, a new counterpart to the hydrangea guild in my etrian odyssey AU! 🩵✨
the template was made by @/blueberryblanket 🪻💜
i wanted to keep the basic lore for these characters intact (tsukki's missing mother, shigumi's role as a bodyguard, tollan having a connection to fire and also joining tsukki/shigumi a bit later). i think i managed it okay without compromising on the important things! 🤗🤗
i briefly toyed with the idea of having them join the hydrangea guild alongside suki, but i wanted to keep the party size small for each group, and i wanted both suki and tsukki to have main character status. i also don't like mixing the groups too much - it's okay since this is an AU, but i haven't really considered the overall group dynamics of, say, tollan and satoshi (as an example). i think it would be fun to eventually have the two guilds interact in some way though! 🌟🌟
tollan looks the most like the EO class portrait i used. shigumi ended up being a mix of different landsknect designs. for tsukki, it was more of a palette swap than a design overhaul. still, i think these OCs are just too different from the portraits that are in EO...but hopefully they're still somewhat recognizable as EO classes! 🙂↕️🙂↕️
if i was making a manga, this would be a chapter (splash) page somewhere in the satoshi/shiro rivalry arc. 🤭🤭 when i was sketching this, my plan was to include shika and ichiro and have a seasonal theme...but eventually i settled on just drawing these three. 💖
i think i made satoshi's hair a bit too dark here... it's supposed to be more of a (very) dark brown, but it looks kinda black...oh well. 😪 i had the most fun with suki's expression!! 🩷🩷
