u/DuOnirique

He is soo fascinating.

Cultural inspiration breakdown:

Kabuki makeup, also known as kumadori, only one side of his face to signify his "two-sided" persona. The dots are also reminiscent of Ainu tattoing. His entire face is painted white, yes, he has blood circulation under that, you can see it in his neck. The red-and-white contrast with circular shapes is like a koi fish, which fits with his story. No spoilers, though.

The crysytanium or whatever the fuck I refuse to know how to spell this word correctly on his shirt/bandage/thing? is the 16-petaled "mon" of the Japanese emperor. Since he is not the actual emperor and only the emperor in the Meiji period is allowed to wear it. I need to find a slight modification for it but I can't decide so far.

The headband has the fictional faction's version of the rising sun flag, which is just the rising sun flag with a snowflake on account of the nuclear winter. Wow, they're so creative. This is heavily inspired by the headband Yukio Mishima wore during his coup, with the same text. Akihiko is a Mishima fanboy. The text says: 七生報国, meaning "Seven Lives to Serve the Nation", the dying words of a samurai who wished to be reborn to defend his country. This was used a lot during ww2 Japan by soldiers and pilots.

The ponytail is just a generic samurai ponytail. I don't think actual samurai even wore ponytails, I think they went with buns, but whatever, Akihiko is unique.

I think Xiaomei likes pretending to be Laozi.

Lord take me I am ready.

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out how I wanted to have her look. I wanted her to come off as visibly Mongolian, but also demonstrate her "princess" identity, with buddhist motifs, and a moon theme.

First slide - I really do like this design, but it just looks very Chinese, and a viewer would read her as such from it. She also doesn't look her age at all.

Second slide - You can see from the scribbles that I really didn't like this one. I was trying to decide on a proper headpiece. I am also incapable of drawing braids. But this gave me the general idea to give her an elaborate headgear and smaller braids down the line.

Third slide - I REALLY liked how I drew her face in these illustrations, but her other features weren't exactly the vibe I was going for, and the outfit was a mess. On the bottom left drawing, you can see I finally designed her hat! Though later I change her antlers.

Fourth slide - this is where you can see I really locked in on a specific vibe. This was EXACTLY what i was going for and I was really happy about it, though i struggled at drawing her lower half of the body... The girl with wavy hair is another character.

Fifth slide - Just more doodles on my philosophy notes. I began to gave her the signature "bunny nose" which I'm obsessed with, it's SO cute, and tried to come up with general design rules.

Sixth slide - Finally moved on to the character sheet! This was my first sketch. Now it came to the colors, which was the hard part...

Seventh slide - The final character design. I am obsessed with the colors I chose. I was originally hesitant about going out my general monochrome preference, but it turned out so nice. I used blue as the primary color for her "moon princess" theme. Blue is the most important color in tengrism, the native religion of Mongolia, representing the "Eternal blue sky". Then, I used the four other important colors in Mongolian culture, green that represents the nature and mountains, red (colorpicked from the modern Mongolian flag) which represents victory (the second major color in her design, as she's a fighter), yellow, signifying wisdom, and finally white signifying purity. Her fur is a dark brown, the color of the earth.

Eighth slide - just added a side profile

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out how I wanted to have her look. I wanted her to come off as visibly Mongolian, but also demonstrate her "princess" identity, with buddhist motifs, and a moon theme.

First slide - I really do like this design, but it just looks very Chinese, and a viewer would read her as such from it. She also doesn't look her age at all.

Second slide - You can see from the scribbles that I really didn't like this one. I was trying to decide on a proper headpiece. I am also incapable of drawing braids. But this gave me the general idea to give her an elaborate headgear and smaller braids down the line.

Third slide - I REALLY liked how I drew her face in these illustrations, but her other features weren't exactly the vibe I was going for, and the outfit was a mess. On the bottom left drawing, you can see I finally designed her hat! Though later I change her antlers.

Fourth slide - this is where you can see I really locked in on a specific vibe. This was EXACTLY what i was going for and I was really happy about it, though i struggled at drawing her lower half of the body... The girl with wavy hair is another character.

Fifth slide - Just more doodles on my philosophy notes. I began to gave her the signature "bunny nose" which I'm obsessed with, it's SO cute, and tried to come up with general design rules.

Sixth slide - Finally moved on to the character sheet! This was my first sketch. Now it came to the colors, which was the hard part...

Seventh slide - The final character design. I am obsessed with the colors I chose. I was originally hesitant about going out my general monochrome preference, but it turned out so nice. I used blue as the primary color for her "moon princess" theme. Blue is the most important color in tengrism, the native religion of Mongolia, representing the "Eternal blue sky". Then, I used the four other important colors in Mongolian culture, green that represents the nature and mountains, red (colorpicked from the modern Mongolian flag) which represents victory (the second major color in her design, as she's a fighter), yellow, signifying wisdom, and finally white signifying purity. Her fur is a dark brown, the color of the earth. I love her so much <3

ignore the fact that she doesn't have hands lol

idk anything about the meta but i don't want to bench cyno. i like him. you know who i also like? columbina.

i will get ineffa if i have enough primos but like... is this usable? at all? and how does it compare to a typical budget hypercarry?

My current main is Wanderer, I have him c2r1 and he deals a really good amount of damage in comparasion to my other ... less invested teams. I quit around the end of fontaine and only came back to get Durin, and now I'm returning again to get Nicole to complete the team, but what else should I do, because one wheelchaired team can't carry me throughout the entire endgame lmao. Should I invest in lunar teams or just wait for the new sneznaya meta? It's rumored that it might involve dendro, and as you can see I have a LOT of dendro on my roster, but at the same time Lauma is supposed to be the best for reviving dendro so idk if I should go for her instead...

i know the art's not that good, i'm a beginner :`)