In DA I debuted Mary Ann. The idea is that at some point Carlo does a service for a high-ranker in Ferox and he gives our boy this little Half-Beast rabbit girl as a reward. This is around the time Carlo’s starting up his little family, so he employs her as a maid to help out around the house. She’s a bit of an Amelia Bedelia type, so precise instructions and strict supervision are necessary, but she’s a good kid. Once I’d decided on this setting, I then had to render her in NL in a maid costume. Its system has a funny idea of what qualifies as a mid-thigh-length skirt, but I don’t think too many people will be complaining.

I also got it in my head to make Kazuya and Tatsuo from Shizuka’s story in KyaraPu as part of a plan to expand full story around her. For a moment, I thought she was the same age as Carlo, so I was going to look into the possibility of Carlo having briefly been one of the trio’s classmates around the end of high school, but I needed to see if that would’ve lined up with Vito’s retirement from the service. Before I could check that, I saw that I had Shizuka down as being 25. I could still change this, perhaps, but I haven’t committed to the idea. Having the trio come from New Queensland would make sense as the Japanese-occupied Izumo Province in Valeria would be close to there and the migration pattern would be reasonable. I was thinking about the KP story being set in a small town, and Shizuka’s family being involved in farming, so I was putting the pieces together. We could say that the reason Shizuka and Tatsuo moved down south was because there was a big contract there. (Tatsuo works in construction.) As to why Kazuya’s there, well, let’s just say I’m thinking about leaning more into the love triangle idea. Kazuya can’t quite give up on Shizuka even though he never had the courage to make a move when he had the chance. Maybe it’ll become a problem later. Anyway, there are some details I need to work out in my head a bit more, so I’ll keep you posted.

Besides the aforementioned costume for May Ann in NL, I also did two of Batista’s costume changes from CeleKing1, the jinbei from Madam Eng’s brothel, and the ao ba ba he takes from the one farmer after rescuing Masako. I also rendered Masako in an ao ba ba to match. That at least covers the first leg of their journey in canon. I’ll have to think about how it’ll be done differently in the Alkoresh version. I made an early version of Jung-hwa as well, based more on her canonical appearance, so none of the burn scars and such yet.

I need to prep the TWH charas for debut, but that may not get done right away. We’ll see. Stay tuned.

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