Some designs for diluc while he was abroad. Drew these a while ago but cleaned them up recently
I’ve always been partial to the idea that diluc went straight to snezhnaya instead of traveling the world, but that’s just me
Anyway I’ll leave some more of my thoughts here 😼
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I think 18 year old Diluc should look frumpy! Like he just threw on what he thought would be “good enough” in his angry haste. The clothing being too big was a big point. He’s getting into something waaayy over his head.
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I think diluc should struggle! He should lose and get his ass beat! He’s only 18 going up against like all of the fatui lmao. But I also think that he’s vengeful and angry enough at that point for this to not be his tipping point. As long as his heart is still beating he’s gonna get his revenge I guess. Anyway I tried not to just give him a hospital gown and call it a day. I modeled what he wears after a nurses outfit.
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I like to think that there’s a huge difference between pre snezhnaya diluc and post snezhnaya diluc besides personality or fighting style. I think it’d be super interesting if the way he moves was completely different as well. He goes from an inept, rambunctious teenager who doesn’t really make an effort to make himself smaller to someone who won’t be seen if he doesn’t want to be. (Something something Tibetan monks). He gets strangely agile and good at parkour after snezhnaya is what I think, so him being batman is a pretty big shock to Kaeya.
All that to say this is basically the first rendition of what he would wear later as the darknight hero
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This was the first design I ever cooked up snezhnaya wise. I’ve always thought calling him the ghost of snezhnaya was sooooo cool so an all white look was my go-to. The hat was more so modeled after a nuns, than an ushanka.
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I initially called diluc “The ghost of Snezhnaya” because I was totally ripping off ghost of Tsushima (it’s such a cool moniker, okay?), but over time I kinda wanted to start taking the ghost idea in its own direction.. something about the difference between the different ways spirits/ghosts are said to operate. It’s something I intend to include in my worldbuilding.
It’s also an excuse for me to give Diluc unlimited aura and hype❤️🩹
Random thought overrr..
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Kaeya: wow my adoptive father is dead and the knights tried to obscure the details of his passing, also I can’t believe my brother tried to kill me
Diluc subplot:
I’ll also leave this ..thing I wrote a while ago here..I don’t consider myself much of a writer but I liked it enough to use it in my design philosophy
White is a color that represents anger for diluc. It is the color dusting the knuckles of a balled up fist, the sheen of bared teeth emerging from the lips of an enraged man, the color at which fire burns its hottest, and the color of snow before it is stained with blood.
Black is a color that represents peace for Diluc. It is the night sky speckled with stars, the quiet embrace with your father when you were too young to put your head over his shoulder, and the burning embers of charcoal, warm to the touch but not enough to cause you to recoil.
