#virenina

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who cares how slow you are at art. when it looks this sick before its even finished

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this is so fucking satisfying to look at and it isn’t even the whole thing LMAO. the main set of drawings is done though which means most of the really hard work is over! babygirl you were soooo overdue for a comprehensive ref sheet

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[ID: a series of digital drawings of a showing how a character’s outfit is put on piece by piece. The character is a tall, muscular woman with dark turquoise hair, tan skin, and grey eyes with bright white pupils. She has glowing blue-green freckles scattered across her nose and cheekbones, her collarbones, her shoulders and upper arms, and the backs of her hands. Her face has sharp features and shows a grin with triangular fangs and dark turquoise lipstick. Her right eye is strongly outlined in black and yellow, while her missing left eye is covered by a black eye patch with a yellow cross. She is posed for a reference image, so she stands straight up with her arms slightly apart from her body. 

There are six images showing how her outfit is put on:

In the first drawing, she wears form-fitting grey pants that come up to her waist.

In the second drawing, she now wears a pair of boots over the pants. These boots are extremely high, covering her leg almost to the hip. They are made from a shiny, blue-black material and have faintly glowing, bright turquoise soles.

In the third drawing, she now wears a sleeveless, dress-like top in addition to the boots and pants. The top is high-necked and form-fitting; it zips up the front and fastens at her neck. The top is mainly black, accented with lines of bright turquoise. Two lines run down the front of the top, starting at the neck and stopping just above the waist; both lines end in downward-pointing half-arrows (barbed sides facing outward). Instead of a full skirt, the top is cut to the waist at its sides and skirt panels at the front and back, both of which end in points and stop just above her knees. The top is trimmed at its bottom hem with a continuous line of dark turquoise. Inside the trim, a section of each skirt panel fades smoothly from black at the waist to bright turquoise at the bottom. A symmetrical design of sharply angled lines in black decorates the bottom of each skirt panel, just above the trim. The ends of the lines extend past the trim and reach the edges of the skirt panels.

In the fourth drawing, she now wears a black upper body harness over the previously described clothes. Though it can’t be seen from this angle, this harness is attached to the armor that covers her back. The harness covers her neck and collarbones and has two straps, one at her waist and one across her chest. Both straps have silver metal closures. Attached to the back of the harness and extending over her shoulders are two additional, heavier straps, which both have metal locking mechanisms attached to their ends.

In the fifth drawing, she now wears chest armor over the previously described clothes. It is the same blue-black color as her boots, and its top edge is decorated with an inverted version of the symbol from her skirt panels, this time in a faintly glowing bright turquoise. The armor fully covers the front of her torso and connects with her back armor in a way that cannot be properly seen at the angle from which the character is drawn. The shoulder straps from the harness extend over the front of the armor and are now fastened to the armor.

In the sixth drawing, she now wears the final part of her outfit, a pair of gloves, in addition to everything described so far. The gloves reach her upper biceps and are the same blue-black color as her boots and armor. The top of each glove is accented with a line of turquoise. Each glove has a grey panel on the back of the hand, the same color as her pants. The gloves are fingerless and have cutaway palms (to allow her a better grip on her spear, unfortunately not shown here).

There are four images in this set. The first image shows all six drawings one after another. The next three images are cropped versions of the first. Each of them shows two of the six drawings. / ED]

[belafujoshisdead]

forget the willpower the huge spear and the angry ravenous god she’s bonded to the most powerful thing about virenina is her fucking thighs (image descriptions under the cut)

Image 1: a digital sketch of an unclothed figure in dark blue ink on a beige background. The figure is of a muscular woman sitting on an undefined surface. Her pose and the smile on her face are both slightly arrogant. She wears an eyepatch over her missing left eye. Her hair is short, choppy, and swept mostly to one side.

Image 2: an uncolored pencil doodle on lined paper of the same character, now in her usual outfit (upper body armor worn over a sleeveless dress, pants, and boots that cover almost the whole leg, along with long gloves). She is grinning and jumping into the air with both feet off the ground. Her left hand is waving in the air. Her right hand holds a spear about as long as she is tall. The spear has a heavy blade on one end, over a semicircular crossguard decorated with six metal rings. The other end of the spear is shod in metal and has a plain horizontal crossguard.

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babygirl i am getting soooo close to finishing this ref sheet for you 💕

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[ID: a digital drawing of a tall, muscular woman with tan skin, dark turquoise hair, and glowing turquoise freckles scattered over her face, upper arms, and the backs of her hands. she has sharp facial features and is drawn grinning. her left eye is covered with a black and yellow eyepatch. she wears grey pants; shiny blue-black boots that cover the whole leg, with turquoise soles; a sleeveless, dresslike black top accented with lines of bright turquoise, form-fitting and slit to the waist, with a skirt panel that stops just above her knees; and a black chest/upper body harness with silver metal closures. because the drawing is tall and narrow, it has been posted twice so as not to take up too much of people’s dashes. /ED]

[belafujoshisdead]

i just redesigned my main character and she looks SO good everybody say hi virenina. she’s 7′5 💖☢

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colors colors colors c

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god i love drawing her

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kengan ashura oc? no. kengan au for my main oc? absolutely. thoughts etc under the cut

a lot of idk…translations need to be made since virenina is from a whole different world than ours. in her home world of tei ura, she’s 7’5 and 350 pounds – spectacularly tall in a social class where the average woman is around 6’10-6’8. scaling her down to a human au, nina is 6’4 and 215 pounds.

on tei ura, her fighting style is based on kicks, knees and elbows, and spear-hand strikes. her style is designed to take advantage of several things about her body, chiefly her incredibly long + strong legs, her unnaturally sharp and durable nails, and her natural agility and raw strength.

for her kengan au, rather than an existing martial arts style, i like the idea of nina having traveled the world to learn arts and techniques that she then refines and synthesizes into her own martial art that she considers perfectly tailored to her body. she would probably call it nameless, almost like an unintentional (on her part. not mine) counterpart to agito’s formless. i do think there are parallels that could be drawn between the two but papa’s tired. something something agito adapts himself to his opponents while nina adapts herself to herself

nina can outright fly in her canon verse, so it’d be fun if that translated to her kengan counterpart being able to pull off insane jumps (if you’ve ever seen a kalaripayattu practitioner straight up jump over their opponent’s attack you know what i mean)

her deadliest weapon is her kicks, but her spear hand strikes are…honestly a lot like kuroki’s devil lance. tbh. one of her favorite ways to toy with an opponent is to bait them into watching out for one of those only to fucking Get them with the other

with her kicks, any kick she throws has three potential levels: rimfire, rifle, or full cannon. rimfire is the fastest, sacrificing the full power of nina’s hips and thighs for greater speed, almost more of a distancing move than a true strike; i imagine she can throw these out like other fighters throw out jabs. rifle is right in the middle, some speed sacrificed for more power and vice versa. full cannon is, of course, the strongest, with the drawback that it’s also the most telegraphed and needs the most windup. but if nina gets you into a spot where she can unleash one of those on you…Pray.

also she named each of those levels after how it feels to get hit by one 🥴

her biggest weakness as a fighter is her lack of ground game. she’s a striker through and through, and though she knows a few basic throws and holds, a big and skilled enough grappler managing to get her to the ground would put her in serious trouble.

she LOVES fighting. one of those people who does it for sheer love of the game. doesn’t mind losing (as long as it happens honestly + there isn’t anything too momentous at stake) and actually kind of gets excited when it happens, because it means there’s a new limit for her to fight to surpass, and virenina loves challenges like a pit bull loves a new chew toy. if she lost to, say, agito or kaolan, her immediate response would be ‘FIGHT ME AGAIN,’ on top of already being massively excited just to fight them in the first place.

we all see the sexism in kengan i’m not gonna pretend it isn’t there. in this verse, nina’s love of shredding people’s gendered expectations to ribbons would be a huge fuel source for the fire that fuels her. virenina’s extreme confidence and showboating attitude is a defense mechanism for very different things in her canon verse, but it translates nicely to a defense mechanism against a setting that often isn’t good to women for the kengan au.

characters nina would like/get along with: sekibayashi, saw paing, agito, karla, adam, cosmo, sayaka, togawa yoshiko

characters nina would dislike or outright hate: AKOYA, raian, lihito, hatsumi sen

knowing how the source material is, nina would probably get comments about being flat-chested multiple times. her response to comments like these is generally to laugh in that person’s face before saying something about either A) being glad that her boobs don’t get in the way when she fights or B) ‘WHO NEEDS TITS WITH LEGS LIKE THESE?!’

i’m sure i’ll have more thoughts on this later but that’s all for now TEEHEE