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Okay I love character design and trios are Always so good for it. Because there's 3 primary colors (RYB) and 3 main shapes associated with character design (circle, triangle, square)

Moezegect already sorta have the primary colors association going on (Moe's red hair, Regect's yellow accents, and Ze's blue pants) so all I really had to do was assign them shapes!

I went for Circle Moe, Square Regect, and Triangle Ze. (I could get more into that but this post is about Moe, not the chuds)

I went into this knowing I wanted the red panda elements (as u can tell by the beginning of this post) (lol) so most of this was just figuring out what other motifs I wanted and how to really push home that circleness. Specifically, playing around with the patterns on her pants and hat.

Figured out her makeup and the basics of her design pretty quick. Just had to look at red pandas for a few minutes and I got some ideas. The flower, the clown nose, and the teardrop in her makeup are all very rounded shapes, plus, red yellow blue = moezegect joy!!

u can see here I was playing around with what I wanted on her pants. I landed on the flowers because the stars and fire (1 + 3) didn't really fit the circle shapes I wanted her to have, and I had a few other places I wanted to put the water droplets and I thought 4 would make it almost too much.

Plus, imo having a flower on her face, on her torso (pinned on the strap for the pants) and on her pants made the design flow really well!

A few more assorted design notes:

The hat is made to look almost like it's coming out of her ears because red pandas have fur that sorta comes out from inside their ears like that

The hat, shapewise, is made up of a circle (the yellow) an upside down teardrop (the green) and another circle (the bell)

There are a few teardrop shapes scattered through her design. Ofc there's the one on her face, but also the tail is teardrop shaped, the straps for her pants, kind of with her sleeves, and I mentioned the hat

I felt SO CLEVER when I had the idea to put the eye patterns on her hat. Smirks 😏😏 heh. I'm so smart and cool and good at everything 😏😏😏 /silly

The Paw patterns on her fit are also GREAT because they're literally just 5 circles lmaoo. Same with the flowers

The flower on her chest/pants strap is meant to be one of those water spraying flowers. This, combined with the water droplet motifs in her design, she's very waterful.

> I really wanted water to be another big image in her design because, 1. Splash water bottles are her weapon of choice and 2. To contrast with the whole fire thing. I thought it would be a good reflection of the whole theme of Your Past Mistakes Don't Define You and You Can Choose To Be Better

> Side note, ofc it wasn't intentional but do u think moe chooses to fight with water because she's caused so much harm with fire? :)