XanLena (Xanxus/Selena) Chibi Icon Commission by Hika (@/onigiwi2namayo)
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Intro
I commissioned Hika to draw my beloved XanLena ❤️💜🔥🪷
Selena is my beloved KHR OC and wife 💜🪷
Her name is Nguyễn Selena, and her Vietnamese name is Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên. Her Viet name, Liên, means "lotus" in Sino-Viet 🪷
She is a Viet NB assassin with a calm and aloof personality, who's reserved and mainly keeps to herself, but cheerful around people she's close to. Her design is NB flag colours 💜🖤🤍💛
She has an interest in gardening (collecting flowers, plants, learning about different types of poisons), and fashion (collecting clothes, including traditional clothes) 💐👗
Xanxus/Selena matching cheebs ❤️💜 The little Xanxus and Selena... I'm SOOOO happy!!!
My friend Snow and I used Hika's XanLena chibi icons as matching PFPs on Discord for a bit 🥰 They're just that cute 💘
Rambles
WAHHHH THE XANLENA CHIBI ICONS ❤️💜🫶 OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO CUTEEE MY BABIES!!! 🥺💗
THEY'RE SO CUTE IN HIKA'S STYLE… REALLY ADORABLE OMG I LOVE THEIR EXPRESSIONS 🥰💞💘🫶
Selena's smiley :D and Xanxus' grumpy pouty >:|
The round lines and shapes... OMGGG ✨ I love the colours too!
I love how Hika drew Selena's eyelashes and underlashes with the dots...
I asked Hika to draw TYL Xanxus' design since I felt like his TYL (Ten Years Later) design would be easier to draw.
Hika originally chose a dark blue BG colour for the both of them, but changed it to yellow and red respectively to make them stand out more!
The blue ones were nice, but omg the final versions Hika went with, do reflect their actual colours better. These fit them better! Matching eye colors (plus it makes their hair stand out from the BG more)
Since Selena and Xanxus are toned with blue/purple in Hika's colours, the new BGs have more visual contrast!
Hika was very accommodating with minor colour edits and revisions as well! 🙏
I wanna commission Hika to draw JuAli and IdaTatsu with my headcanon designs of them in the future 🥰💘✨
My Message
This was the message I left for Hika!
The finished commission arts are wonderful! Selena and Xanxus look so cute in your art style ❤️💜🥺 Really adorable~ I'm very happy with how it turned out!
I love their expressions 🥰🫶 The thick round lines and shapes in your chibi style are great. I love how you draw dot eyelashes in your chibi style!
The colours are amazing! The orange~ish red and blue tones you chose for Xanxus has such nice visual contrast!
I love how the background colours you chose match their eye colours too~ It really brings out their designs' overall colour schemes and hair ❤️💛
Thank you for being very quick and accommodating with colour revisions as well! I look forward to commissioning you again sometime in the future! 🙏 👍
Read more under the cut if you're curious!
Misc Rambles
XanLena doodles by Sen (@/stepswordsen)
I feel like the KHR ani style goes for a much more generic art style, compared to Amano's unique art style.
For Xanxus' late manga design (Rainbow arc Xanxus), Amano improves the shape of his hair and makes it more wavy and easier to draw.
Amano has an amazing art style, and really detailed lineart and inking. She's one of the biggest inspirations for me. Her style was honestly very inspirational for me...
I started drawing everyday as a kid (at 11) BECAUSE of KHR, so KHR is very important and personal to me. I first watched KHR and read the manga at 11.
Amano's style is honestly defining to my style - It shows in the way I draw faces and eyes.
I'm not big on the KHR ani's art style, but I do appreciate what it gave us with the chibi interviews, character songs, etc. It's also cuz of the KHR ani that we (somehow) get endless KHR merch.
I prefer the manga designs, but I prefer the ani's colours for the charas because the KHR ani generally gave the KHR cast more skintone variety (when everyone was pasty in the original manga)
The KHR ani did such a great job by giving the KHR charas more skintone variety... Even pale charas in the KHR ani have different skin tones from each other.
Original vs. My Edit
I headcanon Xanxus to have tanner/warmer skin.
Xanxus with darker skin (olive skin in the KHR ani, and either olive or tan skin in certain KHR ani merch arts), literally just looks better from a character design perspective, imo. That's just facts 📠
His design has much better colour contrast with the ani colours. Like the black and red colours in his design contrast better with darker skin. Also against his blood/wine red eyes. It has more colour harmony and cohesiveness in terms of the colours
Xanxus with pale skin has less cohesiveness in terms of the colours
Xanxus, Yamamoto, and Ryouhei's designs just look so much more boring, pale, imo.
For KHR, I go manga design + ani colours + my own take on the ani colours.
Since I have a tendency to saturate colours with my own arts.
As a personal HC, I think Xanxus has a very mixed ethnicity.
My Italian American friend Feuri said Southern Italy and namely Sicily has a more mixed population.
The ani colours provide a good base for me to work off of for me to improve the colours :3
I do colour edits for fun. I like playing around with colours (editing official arts to see how the colours work together) to help guide my arts. I either do colour edits first or just immediately start picking colours for my arts
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I usually hand artists a Drive folder filled with XanLena's art refs (including my own doodles) and write some notes on their design details since this makes things easier for the artists I'm commissioning.
Selena is Vietnamese/SEAsian with light tanned skin. She has black hair with a long ponytail that goes down to around the same length as her long front hair strands, and wears a white blouse with frills and a black seam with white buttons. She wears a black pleated skirt with a white line near the ends, and black thigh highs with horizontal white diamonds, and black doll-like shoes.
Since Xanxus wears a brown fluffy accessory, red feathers (that may be dyed red -> orange -> yellow), green strings with red beads, I don't mind if the artists I comm simplify these details.
So, whenever I commission artists, I ask for them to draw my HC versions! I'm very glad that all the artists I've commissioned have been very accommodating! 🙏💖
The XanLena chibis Hika made are being used for Hika's Chibi Icon samples 🥺 Wahhhh
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The modern remakes of old 90s - 2000s animes have such boring and bland dull colours to me.
I seriously fear that if they ever do a KHR remake or reboot, that they're gonna take away the OG KHR ani's better colours and make everyone look pasty pale (just like in the manga) just for "manga authenticity" and "loyalty to the source material" even though everyone looks so much more boring pasty pale!!! 🧍
【KHR AU】 XanLena Nekomimi Chibi Commission by Hika ❤️💜🔥🪷
XanLena (Xanxus/Selena) Nekomimi YCH Commission by Hika (@/onigiwi2namayo)
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Intro
I commissioned Hika to draw my beloved XanLena with cat ears and paws! ❤️💜🐈⬛
My beloved XanLena with cats ears~ ₍^. .^₎⟆
Their expressions are so cute!!!
(˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) and ✧(•̀-•́)✧
Selena's :3 is so precious and Xanxus looks so cute too 💖💫
I also put my XanLena cat HCs under the cut!
Rambles
MY NEKOMIMI (CAT EARS) XANLENA COMMISSION FROM HIKA ❤️💜🐈⬛
THEY LOOK SO ADORABLE WAHHHHH 🥺🫶✨
GOD THEY LOOK SO PRECIOUS AAAAA 💗💖💞
THE WIDDLE CAT EARS AND CAT PAWS… SNIFFS SNIFFS
Hika has an amazing chibi style and is really diverse with the charas they can draw too.
I eventually want to commission my other OTPs too 💗💘
My Message
Very happy with how the YCH Mimi commissions turned out! I love your art style! They look so adorable and precious! Thank you for taking my cat ears and paws colours into consideration. I love the round lines in your chibi style and the soft colours you chose. Your way of drawing chibi expressions is very expressive 🥰💖
Thank you for the wonderful commission again! The commission turned out amazing as always, and I love your chibi style! Your art style is so visually pleasing. I love the soft colours you use! Their expressions are adorable. I will definitely be back in the future~ Have a nice day! 💖💫
XanLena Cat Headcanons
You can read under the cut for my Cat Coat HCs~
This is how I HC'ed their coats to look
Selena
Selena: Black and white tux cat with white mittens and socks, and gold eyes
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Xanxus
Rusted black cat with reddish-brown fur (multi-coloured coat pattern), and red eyes
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Though I imagine Selena would have a fluffier tail
Selena would look SOOO cute as a cat... Selena is black cat themed to me 🐈⬛
And as suggested by my friend Cinna, Selena would be a black tux cat with a lil' white chest marking and white socks 🥺
Xanxus would be a rusted black cat with a fur coat that turns reddish brown in the sun
Though Selena would probably have a fluffier tail
Cat with red eyes cuz we can take creative liberties in art.
The idea of Xanxus as a rusted black cat in KHR Cat Cot AU seems so cute. The reddish brown black fur pattern really fits him.
Grumpy cat Xanxus would be very cute and big and fluffy~
Cat Selena would be so small and teeny compared to Cat Xanxus LOL
I think a rusted black cat captures Xanxus' vibes perfectly. Feels very Xanxus ❤️🥰
Figured it's been a long time since I posted about my wife, Selena~
Nguyễn Selena is my KHR OC who is a Vietnamese non-binary assassin. Her Vietnamese name is Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên.
Her name, Selena, means "moon" 🌙
Her Vietnamese name, Liên, means "lotus flower" in Sino Viet 🪷
In my KHR AU, she joins the Varia as one of their members and lives at their headquarters with the rest of the core Varia members. My wife has NB flag colours~
My wife and her NB swag~ 💜🖤🤍💛
I mainly ship Selena with Xanxus.
In KHR, Xanxus is the leader of the Varia, an independent assassination squad under the Vongola mafia family. He was initially one of KHR's major antagonists.
Selena 💜🖤🤍💛🌙☁️🪷
English name: Nguyễn Selena (グエン・セリナ)
Vietnamese name: Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên (阮月雲蓮)
Japanese alias name: Gen Suzuha (阮月雲蓮)
I resketched Selena's hair recently 💜
I resketched these quickly so it's not as refined but I'm still experimenting/trying to decide how I want Selena's hair to be drawn, whether I want to keep the curls in the back or not.
I feel like her ponytail is pretty iconic to her design. So if Selena got a TYL (10 Years Later) design, then I'd just add a bun on top of the ponytail.
Didn't redraw everything yet but just updated this for now
I redrew the bow and it has better lines but I prefer how pointy the shape of the OG bow was so I'll just combine the two eventually. I just wanted to get the new Selena down
Though both are nice! I just like how the shapes/silhouette of the hair are clearer now.
The XanLena chibis are pretty old doodles, so I'd like to redraw it sometime, but I still think it's cute ^^
My friend Feuri told me he likes how the softer upturned eyes of the OG Selena has a softer expression, so I'll keep both expressions ^^
I love both eyes in the Selena doodles hehe
Art Rambles
XanLena Doodle WIPs ❤️💜
Some recent + old doodles I drew before. I'm planning to refine them eventually!
Xanxus is wearing áo dài ("Long dress"), a type of Vietnamese traditional clothing
Selena is in her usual outfit I designed for her ^^
I think my art style is improving nicely! The way I draw faces is getting more refined
I'll redraw the hair later. I just sketched this quickly for now. Cuz I was just thinking about how I wanted to draw XanLena together more
I have a XanLena art idea in my head... Just need to get started with actually drawing it
Did a quick colour test today. I'll draw the rest later.
I wanna do a big XanLena piece eventually... And also XanLena in traditional Vietnamese clothing~ Matching couple clothing! 🥰💞
I rambled more about XanLena and Selena below.
You can read more under the cut!
Context
I added context for my mutuals who don’t know much about KHR, but would still like to tune into my KHR AUs and KHR OC stuff. Feel free to read only if you want!
Vongola Family = The KHR protagonist, Tsuna, is currently training to become the 10th generation boss of the Vongola family. Tsuna and co. are the Vongola family’s 10th generation guardians.
Varia = The Vongola family’s elite independent assassination squad. Their leader is Xanxus.
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Nguyễn Selena: Relationship Chart 💜
Selena's Name Interpretation 🌙☁️🪷
Notes
Misc Rambles
Sorry but I don't want to retype all this again so I'm just copy pasting from my Notion doc and side blog. I also included my rambles with friends!
Selena's info sheet and character relationship chart was inspired by FGO Materials' character profile formats where it lists a chara's general info, usage of pronouns, quotes, relationships with other charas, etc.
I still need to revamp the quotes with Selena's relationships with the other Varia members so I just posted Xanxus' part for now
Selena is the type who's calm and gentle but likes to keep to herself regarding matters that don't concern her. She's more aloof when she doesn't know the person well, but eventually opens up to the other Varia members.
I imagine Selena speaks in a really polite and formal way to Xanxus out of respect for him.
Xanxus and Hibari are my no. 1 fave KHR characters (tied) 🥰
Also used Glaze on my art as protections against A/I fart.
Also I'm just thinking of the recent FGO: Summer 7 event with Douman growing cursed morning glories (vampiric shikigami), flowers that suck blood.
I NEED THIS FOR SELENA...
DOUMAN BASED!!!
Selena's man eating plants 🥰💞
Selena is very soft and gentle, but she can be a little unhinged, as a treat!
Selena is a gardener and florist (flower enjoyer and enthusiast)
