Forgor to announce MUCH sooner, but - design updates for the Virtuosity gang!
Listing off the more specific tweaks:
Tweaks to the outfits - mostly in how they're drawn, but also have actual changes to some of them.
The "curse" marks got changed to match their bearer's talents (minus Virtuosity!Cream - her musical note was tweaked to a simpler shape) - Virtuosity!Sonic has a pencil quill, Virtuosity!Tails has a sculpture hammer, Virtuosity!Knuckles has a comedy theater mask.
Advance trilogy visual inspiration became more apparent - mainly in Knuckles' tweaked color palette and Cream's eye shape.
I'm probably gonna reserve it for future posts and/or reblogs, but might make individual bios for each of them + extra details.
Yep! Gemerl has a counterpart in the Virtuosity universe!
(respectively, the first image I drew yesterday, and the second one is a silly Incorrect-Quotes-Generator-based doodle drawn a couple of days ago and, sincerely, it was the first time I ever drew not only Virtuosity!Gemerl, but any Gemerl)
Still modeled after the Gizoids. He was built by Mr. Eggman - back in the days before the Main 5 were cursed - to be an assistant ringmaster, but was convinced by Cream that choosing which type of art he wanted to do was much better than the role imposed on him. It took a longer-ish while, but he still became Cream's surrogate big brother.
Personality-wise, very much the quiet, tough-guy type. But, still capable of acting on emotion, having fun, and even showing from time to time a dramatic flair. (The dramatic flair is part of his programming as an assistant ringmaster, although nowadays he channels that flair in unrelated ways)
He very much blames himself for letting Cream and her friends be cursed. He's dead sure that if he insisted on coming along, things could've been different. Anyhow, he makes up for it by protecting Cream whenever he goes out with her.