hiiii. The Painted Lady* design variations (now all featuring her silly antennae!)
okay for real though! I wanted to try some variants after making the right-most design to be more akin to the canon's design principles since I also felt like it wasn't really conveying the sort of Mourning/Wedding duality I initially wanted for her - which, it's fine if the concept changes, but then the veil probably would need to go at some point, yknow?
under the cut I'll give some notes about the 4 designs, broken up by isolated images of them
CONTEXT: The Painted Lady AU (or tplau) is a swap AU in which Gabriel used the Peacock, leaving Emilie to try to bring him back. Scouting Paris transformed has given her a sort of cryptid status, both an unnerving unknown figure at first yet oddly beautiful. Paris's own Mothman, they dubbed her The Painted Lady before she got down to business.
*I know "The Painted Lady" is kind of a mouthful, I haven't decided what to call her for short yet tbh. my instincts always have me call her "Painty" but idk if she'd appreciate that so I usually pivot to "Lady"
as for the designs! from left to right, we have her original design, a hybridized design, her original with a Few tweaks, and the "more but not quite canon compliant" design from a while back
Original Design
Her veil goes from dark purple/off black at the top to white at the bottom in reference to mourning And wedding veils. I like to think the dark part covering her eyes is symbolic of her being blinded by her tragedy, unable to reach the light just beneath her gaze... but that's maybe a stretch. In any case, her skirt mimics this color pattern for the same reason, and the cut of it all is meant to invoke weddings
The flower crown brings back some of her gold contrast (like her sash and cane) and breaks things up. Unfortunately, I go back and forth on if I like it at all, because it sometimes feels juvenile to me.
The antennae are there because she's a butterfly
... Okay, they're also there because I like them. They might be fake now, though. In any case, they help push her Cryptid silhouette.
A lesser note and subject to change, they tie her Butterfly design to the Adrien's Ladybug designs I've made where he, too, has silly curly antennae (rather Unlike a ladybug...) and I like the idea of a tie
Her wings are there for similar reasons as the antennae, but are more likely to change/be removed. Here, they're also meant to look cape-like, and flow from her capelet that's otherwise an aesthetic choice, as well as a way to break up some monotony
More Mindful of Canon Design
(This is the rightmost design on the original image, but it's going here for Context)
Her veil and wings/cape have been trimmed. Since the show is 3D, they don't tend to have a lot of loose fabric. She's pushing it, still
To that end, she has pants! You can also see her impractical heels
I wouldn't give 90% of the cast heels when transformed, but Emilie... well. It's Emilie.
The flower crown has been replaced with a silver tiara to try a different, less invasive look. It's silver because I felt a bun would fit the crown better, but that meant it couldn't be silver with her blonde hair (and I haven't gotten around to experimenting with her hair or skin)
Antennae are back! Popular demand (me + 2 cool mutuals)
The Hybrid Design
The shorter veil is here again for a Hint of canon adherence, and it does have a shape that reminds me of butterfly wings
Her crown is gold now that I've put her hair back down, in hopes of a more even color distribution
Most obviously, her "dress" is a little bit more coat like, like canon Mayura's. It opens in the front above the knees to reveal dark pants/leggings and white boots that are cut to again reference butterfly wings
The capelet follows the last design's principles as to not clutter fabric or dip into real wing territory
The Tweaked Design
The return of the longer veil, because I like the color distribution better. I also was concerned that the shorter veil took away from the duality, so I wanted to try the longer veil again
Instead of the flower crown, a gold crown ornaments the veil. Again, her hair is down again so I hope the color distribution works
Her capelet is the same as the last two, for a cleaner silhouette and is frankly one of the biggest tweaks here
Other than that, her long, floor-length skirt is here again because I don't know if the hybrid design or the pants read Wedding/Mourning Duality quite as well
If you read all this, thanks for sticking around! I'd love to fuss with her design more and see which one people are more drawn to, but I've liked these so far! Maybe one day I'll even settle on a design and get to other characters
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Hi! Colour me interested in your Heathers AU for FOP. What characters would be JD and Heathers? Do you have any deviations from the musical plot in mind?
Hello!! Im so happy to see someone interested in this au!! I loveee answering questions... X]
To be completely honest, I hadn't reallyyy thought too much about who the main 3 Heather's would be, so this ask actually got me thinking! I was playing around with multiple ideas for them since we dont really get to see much of Poofs other classmates in the original series, so I wasn't really sure what to do. I definitely knew I'd have Goldie be part of the trio, but I was sorta lost on the other two. Then, I had an idea and kind of ended up making my own characters to fit the au!! (Or should I say...fankids...?)
Here they are!! ❤️💚💛
If the text is hard to read, (my bad!!) the Heather's are:
Heather Chandler- The daughter of Jorgen x The Tooth Fairy
Heather Duke- The daughter of Cupid and Juandissimo
Heather McNamara- Goldie Goldenglow
As for JD, I have him as Irep!!
This was just a quick sketch, so he looks kinda chopped 🥹✌🏾
Anywho, sorry for rambling!! I just love to talk I fear...😓 I'll talk about my creative liberties when I can organize my ideas!!
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its difficult having a favorite character who you have absolutely no attraction to but a lot of other people do. i love him. not like that. i dont even like him i hate him actually. hes just really important to me. Not like that. he lives in my brain. No not like that. hes just there and i think about him a lot. hes disgusting and i hate him. hes very fascinating to me. i understand him. hes not sexy at all though. a lot of people say that and i disagree but to each their own. hes my favorite and i want to kill him
This. But also having (basically any) two characters and putting them together in situations only for people to ask when they are going to kiss. Like?? They are different species and the gap in power dynamics... NO, swipe that smirk of your face. Anyway, they would make each other worse - not like that! Maybe they could heal. No, why would they date after all that harm they caused each other? I love all the fanart of the characters together. No, I really don´t ship them. Oh, thank you friend for recomending me this piece of media with intricate philosophical plot and the two enemies with polar morals - I wonder if there is fandom. *90% of it being basically the two characters being gay.* Yeah, that checks out. Look at these two background characters that have barely interacted but they leave me wake up at night thinking what if they talked to each other more, maybe there is a fic on AO3... right, there are four and all of them are smut.
