Rentarou's girlfriends as Paper Mario partners (#37 - Cherbana)
Whew, it sure has been a while. Now, some things to know:
Firstly, as is the character she's based on, Cherbana's color palette is subject to change.
But more importantly, this was, without a doubt, the most difficult partnerojo to make. The design is very simple, and the moveset came to me fairly easily...no, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the process of deciding the species.
As you all know, Rana's gimmick is that she doesn't want anyone to see her as a "loose girl" because she's been shamed for her unusually developed body. As you might also know, when making these partnerojos, I tend to water down some of their gimmicks to make it seem like something that would realistically be in a Paper Mario game. So obviously, I can't say "Cherbana was shamed by everyone because of her body," but when that's an important aspect of the original character, it becomes that much harder to make a partnerojo that is faithful to that character.
I cycled through countless species, trying to figure out which one could maybe, just maybe, be at least a decent base to build off of. In the end, I went with...the Cherbils from Super Paper Mario. Was this the best choice I could've gone with? Maybe not. If a future girlfriend has a farting gimmick, I might be in trouble. But this is what I landed on, and I'm not too disappointed by the result.
Well, time to wait for girlfriend #38 to be revealed in a few months! In the meantime, I'll try to dispense more content for this series every so often. But also, I have another 100 Girlfriends-related project brewing in the depths, and I hope to surface it soon. Until then...well, we'll see.