RAREPAIR ARCHIVE??? (Artblog )

Gilthunder + an Origin HowGil sketch 🤍

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Full uncropped version on my Bluesky ♡♡♡

I read the new chapter and I am ready to see team B back in action. I only wish that Laxus and Cana were there too.

Nakaba... what did you do to my girl? What did you do to my girl, Nakaba!?

Since the original author doesn't know how to treat my girl right, I guess I'll have to do it myself. So here's Jericho's redesign.

Holy Knight Apprentices would probably have uniforms of some sort before they become proper Holy Knights and have more say in what they wear, so I went for a relatively generic design for Jericho's outfit. Of course, she's obviously taken a bit of her own spin on it since she craves individuality and to stand out in an effort to compete with her brother's success. But, of course, with that in mind, she's got some of Gustav's blues on the edges, while the rest is more of the purples commonly associated with a lot of her designs. I also thought that Jericho's bangs when her hair is up were always sort of... lacking something. So, I added a bit more and, of course, gave her her bow which I always thought was cute for her. And it shows that, while not a child, she's still way younger than most Holy Knights and Holy Knight Apprentices typically are.

It's no secret that Jericho always had the potential to be an amazing character, but it just wasn't fully expanded on. Her relationship and jealousy over her brother felt very shallowly developed and therefore made her grief over him at the end of Season 2 fall flat, so we'll definitely be expanding on that more. That'll also lead into her and Ban's relationship, where Ban ends up becoming something of an older brother to her after a while - she'll still have her little crush on him, of course, but that ain't gonna develop into... whatever weird shit Nakaba had going on.

Her and Guila's friendship will also be more central to her character, allowing her to let go of the internal misogyny she had going on; this will probably also be aided by witnessing characters like Diane and Merlin in action.