Blades MC Redesign Challenge

Nyx Selenastra

Killian's actual character design (naturally tumblr ate the quality, thanks a lot tumblr)

I HC that she likes to do some hobbyist tattooing on herself, but with Light magic. she chose green because it'd help her blend in well with her surroundings and bewitched the tattooed twines to always keep moving here and there. sometimes they're on the side of her neck, sometimes they've extended till her hands. sometimes they're on the side of her forehead. it's a nice pub trick when she comes back home to Riverbend.

ofc Killian won't be complete without her bootleg quiver with her handmade arrows. she's more comfortable with them as opposed to any weapon of Light and she has the arrowheads sharpened with careful sandpapering that it can really cut through anything.

she also has a necklace - a bunch of metallic wires bent around to look like one. it was something she made herself - a token, a mark of herself. when she is lost, she throws the necklace somewhere to let her friends/crew know she's nearby, but in danger/held captive/without weaponry, etc. a cry for help, basically.

and ofc some homemade clothes. pretty much the only things that fit her because she's just tall and muscular and for a long time, had to stitch her own clothes (although she wasn't very good at it, but learned how to, anyway). it's a tunic top made out of light linen, a waistcoat that's made of cotton or wool, depending on the weather and a sleeveless travel jacket out of snakeskin.

Hello everyone!

I @sophie-summer posted a few weeks ago that it'll be really nice if we make a MC redesign as the challenge of this book, and once I get an idea about Blades it won't leave my mind until it sees the light, and since we all have been waiting for the new signature outfit for Blades book 2 (or a makeover!) I am really excited to announce we will have our Blades MC Redesign Challenge!

It's my first time hosting an event so I'll keep it simple.

But if you haven't submitted your MC yet, there's still time to do it!

Remember, you can submit any type of visual art you can come up with, a sketch, a moodboard, anything!

i got too excited by the gorgeous Blades MC redesigns going around, so I wanted to slap my own edit together before the event was over lol.

Meet Dorian! He's charming, he's cocky (...he's kind of an asshole tbh) -- and yes, that is Aerin's ring on the chain around his neck, so we can round out the C-descriptors with ✨ clown ✨

cr. to @korgbelmont and @farizrz for the assets! 🖤

“Introducing Newlyweds Sir Raine Nightbloom, Hero of Morella and twice saviour of the Realm, and Aerin Valleros, Hero of Morella”

Please pretend Raine’s hair has the blue gradient, I wasn’t able to do that without it looking like crap.

Raine and Aerin, with their twin daughters Kendra and Keira, the owlbear cub I have yet to name in this au, and a flying squirrel creature they have yet to notice but Raine is going to adopt.

So I wanted to give Raine some fancy clothes that were nicer than the masquerade outfit, and rather than make it easy on myself by making it a ball or other such function, I decided to make it a wedding, which obviously meant Aerin had to be there 😆

And then I figured, why stop there? Why not make the kids as well? And so, here they are. I’m actually quite proud of how they turned out 😁

Keira is named after Aerin’s late mother, and Kendra after the queen from Raine’s favourite story. (It was going to be Kenna, but I can’t decide if they’re Nightbloom’s or Valleros’s, and Kenna Nightbloom has too many N’s)

I’ll update this later with a list of assets and credits, but I really wanted to get this out asap.

You don't know how excited I'm to finally post my redesign. It was a challenging process, and frustrating at some points, but despite that, I enjoyed the process a lot, and I'm really happy with the result. So here is my Rhoe for the Challenge.

I had some ideas very clear since the beginning. Rhoe needed a new haircut, a sleeveless outfit, and some pants.

For Rhoe's hair, I wanted to keep it simple, even though she is an elf and they go with all those fancy hairstyle, she grew up in a small village where that isn't the style. So I went for something simple.

Rhoe is more a long-distance fighter. Therefore, bows are just perfect for her. She's been a great archer since a young age, and her keen elven senses make nothing more to accentuate this. As the book went, even though she is could use sword, and even her own hand to defend herself, it's not her style, so when she found that chain in the Shadow Realm she just knew is was the think she needed, it allows her to get closer in a fight, but still keeping some distance.

After a whole journey saving the world, Rhoe realized how inconvenient her hairstyle was, always getting on the way. At first, she just tried to tie it, but that was not her thing, so she decided to cut it instead. Besides, she felt doing so, she let her young careless years behind.

Obviously, she needed to switch to pants. Fighting in a dress WAS NOT longer acceptable. As she returned to the Light realm in summer, she also needed a cooler outfit, so goodbye sleeves.

Even though she is involved in fighting A LOT, she won't use any armor parts, mainly because she is not use to them, and thinks they're always getting in the way

She has some scars, but they are mainly covered by her clothes. She has some ugly one in her left wrist, but they cover by her arm protector.

For this Challenge, I wanted not only to show Rhoe's new outfit, but to show some of her internal change. Because she is not the same happy and worries free elf she was at the beginning.

Even though I can't have a nonbinary MC in the game... I have a nonbinary MC lmao

they're taking the hobbits to isengard!

Hobbit AU!Killian just because @bladesrc

being a huge tolkien fan, i love the questing elements in blades and i hated that there weren't enough scrappy-looking homemade clothes and that, everything has to be glittery or magical to say the least. give me some skinned leather! give me weird belt placements! give me monochrome clothing!

for @bladesrc

Here is my edit of a redesigned Blades of Light and Shadow MC for @bladesrc. Introducing; Aragorn.

The Heroes of Morella for @bladesrc's mc redesign challenge <3

Kali'ndra "Kali" O'kavvar (she/her) She is very active and enthusiastic about adventures, so a dress wouldn't be the most ideal. She's most comfortable in loose fitted trousers and big believer in no sleeves. Gained quite a bit of scars throughout book 1, and loves to show them off. May exaggerate the stories here and there. Even if her main fighting style is with her fists, has a talent for alchemy and loves to experiment. Also the flowers was Nia's doing, but Kali ain't complaining. Lastly i know f!orc mcs already had muscle but i wanted her to be more beefy!! big arms to crush her enemies and to scoop her girlfriend(s) up at any chance she can get.

okay so turns out i wasn't done yet..

decided to give them alternative masquerade ball outfits 'cause those original ones were kinda ugly lmao

For @bladesrc, I gave my MC Ray Nightbloom her official book 2 depression makeover. It's a little fancier than the way she used to dress because she can afford nicer stuff now and because there is more attention on her as the hero. She's learned that elves and human nobles in particular can be quite judgemental. Plus, looking good gives her some sense of control when the rest of her life feels like it's falling apart.