Aomine: The idea is that he dyed his hair a brighter blue in the good Teiko days but as he gradually grew apathetic towards basketball he never bothered to keep dying it. So the bright blue color kept fading to reveal its bleached parts. There’s a metaphor for depression in this bitch somewhere. You can’t see it here but the idea is to make him the dragon to Kagami’s tiger. Cause mythic rivals and such. He gets a dragon tattoo on his leg and Kagami has a tiger on his back. The character sheets (one day lol) will help.
Momoi: Gets glasses cause they’re cute. Plus smart glasses wearing anime girl trope. Momoi is critically underused in the series and underrated in this fandom. She literally has a supercomputer for a brain and instead of taking over the world, she’s wrecking everyone’s bball kits and she’s so powerful for that. She should’ve been a bigger obstacle in the anime.
Akashi: After both of his sides merge or after the Winter Cup — one of em, he gets central heterochromia. I never liked how he lost all of the yellow. It was too iconic.
Kagami: Undercut cause we steal Itadori’s whole flow. Shaved sides for extra tiger stripes. And a scar to show where Akashi sliced him during their very dramatic scissor confrontation (moved it from his cheek though). He used to have a mullet to match Himuro but cut it off after their fall out. I love little design changes that follow as a character changes. I’d love to make a comic exploring Taiga and Himuro’s relationship. I’d make it full of heart ache and would dub it “Stripes.”
Anywho! I hope this helps satiate you all for now. I tried to plan this in a way where no matter who’s your fav team, you got a little something. I’m gonna be busy for a WHILE, so we’ll see when I’m able to get back into it.
Also, I wanna post stuff for my other fandoms so yuppers!
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