🌺🌸This too is Aikatsu🌸🌺

that last Alex in dec was from this back ref i finally colored...tail pushes the pant down. also. important tongue ref:

crystal warrior pride cheebs redux part1 💖🧡💛💚💙💜

It's been a LONG time since i made the original set and i wanted to revamp with updated artworks and designs. and give sophie the new lesbian flag since the old version used the pink version.

also was liam based on byakuya togami?

for the second one, kinda but not actively lmao. It became a big joke at one point that i did it totally on accident in fact, 😭 since I liked Togami a lot, but it's mostly his appearance, since his personality is definitely wayyyy more in line with Reiichi Himuro from Tokimeki Memorial and especially Naoki Irie from Itazura na Kiss

and as for Ames's hair color hmm not sure i remember exactly why, but Amber originally was gonna have orange hair!

back when she was a fox fairy instead of a puppy she had orange hair for both forms for a while, I might have done it because I didn't want the crystal warriors to have the same hair and eye color (Liam is the only one who matches, but his hair is blond in civilian!) the green ribbons are a leftover from when she was a redhead lol!

on the other hand her old fox fairy design also had brown in it, so i can see the thought process to give her brown might have been partly because brown was already in her design. (reason the fox look was dropped was because she looked too cat-like and similar to diana btw xD)

as for the blond I don't remember, I might have just thought it broke up the colors nicely, and I remember liking the peachy shading I used for her. Her bangs are orange, but her body fur is pretty close to her crystal warrior hair color, so its not like she's entirely off, but that does make her the only real fairy who's hair doesn't match the hair-like tufts on her head, because

And I know that many focus on making things exist before they're perfect but when did you think was a good time to just make it?

i started itttt like, as a nanoreno project on a whim back in 2013 😭

https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19596

thread is still there, like to Me it became a Serious Thing in 2018 when i decided to go for voice acting, but the characters were all finalized for the most part innnn 2015? 2015 is when i locked in and when the characters all became themselves.

alex's was the last character to get ANY kind of crystal warrior artwork and his garnet heart design didn't get made in any form until 2015, AFTER Amber and Zacharie were added to the roster, even though alex has been a character from the beginning.

its also the calendar the game is using, 2014-2015 and when the story takes place lmfao

So i don't really consider the story as being officially started on before 2015, because they weren't really themselves even tho i made the thread, and i initially intended it being way shorter anyways LMFAO

(that being said there are older scripts from 2013/14, im just too embarrassed by them to show them off 😭)

thats also when the first demo was released!! in april 9th 2015 (which is val's 17th birthday >:3) this is probably the first ever playthrough of it, or at least the earliest thats still up, from the same month the first demo came out.