#natlan characters

Me during the summer event

Bonus judgemental venti (Idk why he looks like this)

"Humanity excels at living in the present, but too often, we forget the past and neglect the future." .ೃ࿔*:･

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all fanfics are gender neutral unless labelled otherwise! enjoy ✩

natlan 𖤓 -

99% not love! (kinich)

almighty dragonlord k'uhul ajaw and two clueless morons (kinich)

pocky for the malipo! (kinich)

call me maybe! (kinich)

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(upcoming)

hunter x hunted (kinich)

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[ this train has yet to depart. next stop: ■■ ]

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A happy fourth of july everyone and to celebrate, I present my very first Natlan redesign and it's Chasca 💜❤️🌌! This redesign was one I approached with caution and planning, especially because I don't do latin inspired character designs very often😅. But in the end, it came out so beautiful and honestly is one of my favorites that I have done so far😍.

Redesign notes 📝 🎨:

While there is more of Natlan coming up and after some thinking on who would be first, Chasca was an obvious choice. It was mainly because her design was all over place to me and she had a lot of dark colors😵‍💫. That surprised me, especially because I feel the latin culture is very colorful so I knew I wanted to put more color on her🤔. Also, similar to Sumeru, I felt I did not see much peruvian nor salavdor in her design.

An advantage with Chasca is when I looked at her model, I noticed how the scarf component looked like cowboy pants so I immediately had an idea where to go with the look. The plan was the bottom would have warm colors ♥️while the top had cooler colors like purple💜. Also, I felt that the color balance made sense as a reference to Chas'ka, the incan goddess of dusk and dawn 🌌which the character is based on.

While I figured out the bottom, I needed to figure out what the top would be so I did concept art, playing around with ponchos, capes and more.

After that, Chasca got a quechmatl, which is a garment from Mexican culture (by the way, I found that out AFTER drawing the outfit. Would not be the first time I got a culture mixed up cough cough Tighnari 😅). With the top figured out, I also added peruvian symbols to the top. The diamond one, Estrella, means "star" while the other symbol, pajaro, means "bird" or "parrot" as a reference to Chasca's clan with the name "flower feather" and being raised by bird saurians.

Speaking of the quacasuars, I noticed feather details on her design like the bracelet and cape and I thought maybe they are connected to her feathered family. So, I put feathers on her gloves and quacasuar feathers on her hat too. I even gave her pink facepaint resembling the markings and beak of the quacasuars.

However, the colors were the main concern since I wanted it to be balanced and I had to move some things around. For example, I moved her bracelet and made it to a necklace instead and the feathers on the cape were changed to pink to stand out from the purple. I also noticed some redesigns had white on her and I really liked that so I made I added white to her hat, boots and gave her a white blouse.

Also, she has a natlan flower on her hat which is also a reference to Chas'ka, hence her being goddess of flowers 💐.

While this redesign was tricky and definitely was not easy with the colors, it came out so beautiful in the end. And to add more color, I used paint markers to make them pop out more. Can't wait to do another natlan redesign in the future. Any suggestions I am open for it.

First off, this is the first time there's been NO human vs human conflict in a archon quest AT ALL. Liyue had the us on the lam, Inazuma had its civil war, Sumeru's got the akademiya sage scheme, Fontaine's quest was half a legal battle, and even Mondstadt's simple "beat the dragon" quest involved us stealing the lyre. Additionally, The Fatui have been a constant battle since the beginning, and even when we were working together, there were still plots and at least a little nefariousness going on where we couldn't see. The Fatui have always been a big part of the worry throughout the story. However, in Natlan, at literally no point was the Captain any kind of threat. The mystery stuff at the beginning excluded, Capitano was just giving us a thumbs up the whole time.

Two, for a plot about collecting a group of people to save the world, this story was not at all about the people in Natlan. This story was focused 100% on the Abyss the entire time. I like Natlan's characters because they're fun to play, but none of them have any meaningful internal conflict brought about through the stories in Natlan. The only thing that happened for them was "hey traveler, You can do it, I promise. The abyss is here and bad." Kinich had no conflict, just annoyed by ajaw. Mualani was literally just confident the whole time. Xilonen was offscreen 90% of the time. The list goes on. I have no reason to care about what's going on for them. They're cute and all but they seem shallow and flat, like they have one character trait and that's it. Additionally, none of their personal stories or traits contributed to the archon quest. The side quests were just "hey forget about the abyss for a hot sec, I have this completely unrelated thing going on." Same for the world quests. Il Capitano's fight with Death was boring bc there was NO build up for it. "Oh, he hates death, oh he beat her with a loophole right now he didn't introduce until a second ago. Cool i guess"