Tweaks coming tomorrow. And additions.
Can YOU name everyone here?
Line 1: Adhemlenei, Zela’s family: Zela, Flaer, Flairé, Flaria, Menad, Marteth, Bayn, Gullac, and Mathaning
Line 2: Adhemlenei, others: Gyoriing, Muila, Layalin, Kylyralessa, Lyrestan, Tam, Jalril
Line 3: Zelda OCs: Rana and Raelle
Line 4: FE OCs: Ceniro, Salir, Anne
Line 5: Other: Esgalwen (in green???), Angel, Shell, Keesh, Rinako, Konane
You look very Japanese today, dear.
This is a vaguely interesting picture in that it’s the first time I’ve drawn Rinako since… well, the last time. Which was May of 2007. My style seems to have changed dramatically. The position didn’t come out exactly right, but… whatever.
Fair lassies, one plain lass, and an extra lad
This is a picture of all the people who were living in a vivacious – er, lively-ish – fashion in my head at this time. L-R Lyra, the High Elf maiden who made Mengil into a good guy, but she looks more like Esgalwen than the girl next to her, Esgalwen. You can tell who’s who because Esgalwen has a dress with lots of pleats and she has a locket around her neck. Lakia stands next to her. Sitting are Rinako, who looks especially good here, and Salir, who you might remember is Sain’s girlfriend in my story. Up on the tree branch is a girl named Cassandra, with bright red hair and raggedy clothes from living on a deserted planet. The two Hylians are again talking, Raelle and Rana, and Raelle has her nice hair again. Ceniro wanted to be included, but my first attempt looked more like my amusing double bass player friend Anthony.
Rinako to the rescue!
Rinako, in two neat outfits. Her school uniform is the upper one, I think, or maybe that’s her ‘hanging around town’ outfit. In Japan, her school outfit would probably not be a monochrome suit like the guys of Yu Yu Hakusho, it would more likely be a kawaii seifuku. Bottom is her ‘save the world’ martial arts outfit. I tried to make her look like she’s dashing off, but it didn’t turn out quite the way I wanted it it. My hands are also too small. I have since learned (and tried to do, with limited success) that hands cover the same area as the face.
Oh, yeah. Also Rinako has light brown hair and light blue eyes.
Lots of hair there
Yoko Kurama and… uh… girlfriend, Rinako. Sorry. I didn’t know about Maya when I made Rinako up. Maya is a girl from the manga Two Shots, about how Kurama and Hiei met, and she had a crush on Kurama but he was forced to delete her memory to keep her from remembering the danger she fell into when an evil demon kidnapped her. So she forgot about him, too.
So Rinako is half Japanese, one quarter Canadian, and one quarter water demon. (What? Even Yuusuke, the hero-nerd, has mysterious demon blood that suddenly manifests itself, I’m told, in season 3 or so) She comes over to finish high-school in Japan, meets the gang, helps Kurama escape from something, learns martial arts and how to use her innate powers, which for some reason includes ‘light’ as well as ‘water’, blah blah blah, and also she plays violin.
Various poses… foxes… roses… light blasts…
See, one day when I was flipping through my friend Bobby’s Nintendo Power, I found a poster advertising a pixelly Gameboy Colour game that had a cool-looking red-head with a thorny vine in it. I forgot what it was called, but I never forgot the red-head. So, one day recent to this picture when I saw a different reference to the red-head, I was interested. His name is Kurama, and his franchise is Yu Yu Hakusho. I developed an ‘original character’ to take the brunt of the flash crush I suddenly got, and her name turned out to be (after some switching back and forth and tweaking) Rinako. I didn’t understand much about YYH, so that fox is supposed to be Kurama’s ‘demon’ form. Rinako wields some kind of light magic, although she never knew about it until she met the guys in YYH.