#rf4tdwh

(Ventuswill is an elf-like creature in this AU, so if you aren't sure who the elf lass with the feathers is, it's her)

Finally finished this. Started this months and months ago.

The Divine Wind Hotel AU features a good portion of the RF4 cast working at a hotel. The remainder of the RF4 cast show up to the hotel as guests. I'll be making another comic (sometime) that actually explains the roles each characters have and shares one extra titbit about the lore of the AU.

I actually have a lot more I'd planned for this post too but I'm already losing steam and I think I can get away with posting the rest later.

MOM FRIEND! MOM FRIEND!

More stuff for my AU. A complete redesign of Ventuswill’s human form. I don’t particularly like her canon human form either as a design on its own or especially not for Venti. I always saw her as being tall, a big scary, but a total softie. Also a redhead. But personal preferences on her design aside, her canon human design just would NOT fit the role I had in mind for her in my story, so I had to (gladly) make my own. This is exactly how my brain always pictured her.

‘ The owner of the Divine Wind Hotel. She’s a little scary but not too bad once you get to know her. If she lets you, that is. ‘

Not much info to share on her right now. Saving it for later. I combined her 3D models colours and design and her 2D sprite, since they’re both quite different but both - in my eyes - represent her really well. So I felt I needed to use both for this design.

I love my RF4 AU about the hotel, but I'm wondering if it's drifting far enough from canon that it'd benefit the story to make it original (with new characters instead)

I could do a lot more with it pushing it away from RF4, but I still love how it compliments the characters from RF4 who are a part of it.

Should I stick with it as an AU, or should I 'recast' the roles with new characters that I have more freedom over?

I'm not sure if doing both would even work honestly, since I figured it would just muddy the canon of both of them. But I'm not sure how to proceed and it has me at a stand still working on it.

I want to do more with it, but the more I do with it as an AU the harder it would be to adapt it to something original.

But something original would probably get much less interest... I just don't know.