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Hey! Thank you for reading! As a gift, I wanted to post some of the redesigns I've done. These can be read in and out of this fanfic's canon, however do know I picture these designs when writing (lol).
Design notes:
- I made Aether's hair be a gradient because I have a hard time deciding what shade to make his hair... so all of them.
- I made him look a little bit more alien and spacy than he did due to his past as a traveling deity(?)
- Aether is based of the sun! For Lumine, I picture her (once I draw her redesign) to be based off the moon and having a oppositely colored outfit.
- Aether has star freckles because I say so.
- I tried to mix a lot of styles together for his clothing. I picture when Aether travels, he tries to fit in and match the cultural norms and clothing of where he is, yet because he's traveled so much everything is jumbled together.
- I sadly had to get rid of Aether's crop top cause there's no WAY he's going out into battle with all his organs exposed. I do think he has a thing for half shirts though.
Design notes:
- On his legs, I copied Zhongli's god's form patterns to bring a connection between them.
- Xiao has a locket of Aether's hair (via his necklace). It was a common practice in ancient times before photographs to remember people by!
- I made his color scheme actually make sense.
- Xiao is based off a ancient peng bird, so I tried to copy the "four wings" as his flowing robe things for symbolism.
- Xiao now has visual corruption! It slowly fades the longer he spends with Aether, but gets worse when his kharmic debt is severe.
- I made him SLIGHTLY more buff.
- Xiao also still has his mask, I just forgot to render it. It's pretty much the same as before.
<3
God I love them so much.
See you next chapter!