Hi!!! I was just curious, but what were some inspirations that went into Dani's design?
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













