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uhhh a lot of different anime!

i did think of "princess tutu" and nanao from "robot alchemic drive" first as i did want to do a red-haired character with freckles and someone generally warmhearted, but most of my direct inspiration design and personality-wise were mayumi kino and tetsu hayami from "blue submarine no. 6" (please please please watch it IT'S ONLY 4 EPISODES PLEASEEEE) lol

for context, "blue submarine no. 6" is a mech-adjacent anime where the 2 main characters co-pilot a giant mecha submarine named "no. 6" to fight off these man-made sea creatures in a world where everything is flooded by water by the same guy who made those sea creatures.

i will be completely honest, the similarities between "blue submarine no. 6" and our current lancer "no room for a wallflower" campaign were completely accidental. i didn't really expect her to really be in a similar situation/story when we got into wallflower, nor did i really expect her to be in a complicated relationship with psalm, who just apparently looks like tetsu hayami. oops

dani being an ex-smoker, a person with a missing tooth, and a mechanic were directly based off of those two

Artfight Attack on gregcee

[bonus non-canon comic]

usually the pressure of recording while i draw tends to make me underperform, something something about disliking being perceived while i work on top of stressing my computer's limited memory and storage space

however, i very occasionally stream and i do post my wips if i'm happy with them on social media!

here's some streams with me painting/animating:

NO!!!!!!! it's never okay!!!!!!

just kidding :]

i use rebelle 7 pro for paintings and krita for sketches + animatics!

rebelle is a one-time paid art program that prides itself on being a traditional paint simulator! there's gravity settings, watercolor spreading, and paint impasto that can happen on the application, which is extremely fun for making textured illustrations

in progress artfight revenge :]

unfortunately, it's probably too late in this particular campaign to retroactively add siblings or any significant alive family members, but we can probably have a cajun uncle who she's convinced probably ate people before

various lancer doodles lol

i also like to think huc rangers emulate egregorian carapaces + wings through hoods, cloaks, and armor, but this is just a non-canon headcanon of mine

i didn't really put a lot of thought into dani's backstory, but i like to think that she's probably creole/cajun french, rather than mainland french. like most dying languages, she learned from the elderly and hasn't used the language in-game due to it being. relatively unused