#ruby weapon

Stupid bonus photo of my 30 minutes missions kitbash contest entry.

I play in Japanese, and checking the English, a lot of the lines were screwed up for Ruby Weapon as usual with how bad the loc is. And I love Nael so it’s personal this time, so I’m retranslating them here.

My main issue is in addition to not mentioning her brother first thing (the one line where she does in EN is missable…) they make it sound like tempered Nael, when this is all about her own feelings not Bahamut’s, so it muddles the message. Her appearance is that of when she was “Nael deus Darnus” but she introduces herself as “Nael van Darnus”, uses her usual first person pronoun 余 (she switches to 我 as deus Darnus), and furthermore, she’s talking about how meteor is to bring glory to her brother’s name, not because of Bahamut. Untempered Nael would not be calling herself a servant and in JP she doesn’t. (Also JP lines more clearly indicate which attack she's using)

(Screenshots are the OG Japanese text+official EN loc, text underneath is my retranslation. Translations under the cut.)

Ruby Weapon

ENG: Are they really giving out Dazers dupes there?

RU: Вообще было весело его рисовать, мне понравилось.

Плюс в этот раз я использовал техники, которые мне либо не поддавались, либо по-людски не хотелось их применять, вроде того же вида снизу, а в этом случае от лица моего любимого главного героя – Клауда Дефо (он же Уиллем Страйк).

ENG: Overall it was fun to draw him, I liked it.

Plus this time I used techniques that I either couldn't do or didn't want to use as a human being, like the same bottom view, and in this case from the perspective of my favorite main character - Cloud Dafoe (aka Willem Strike).

RU: Обычно я рисую в «грязном» стиле, но так сложилось, что лайн у меня обязательно должен быть ровным и с большими яйцами, и по этой причине мой выбор пал на... Нет, не на дизайн из Final Fantasy VII, а на оргию грейпфрутов в лице The Ruby Weapon из Final Fantasy XIV (фото 1). Дизайн, которому незнакомы понятия параболы и чистого лайна был выбран и тут же отброшен, так как проблемы начались уже тогда, когда я попытался сделать набросок головы, но эти зарисовки я не покажу, иначе вы умрёте от кринжа.

Про голову вообще хотелось бы поговорить отдельно, так как с ней возникло больше всего проблем как в реальной жизни, так и во время рисования. Про тело можно сказать только то, что сначала оно было в стиле PS1, но я бросил вызов своему перфекционизму во второй раз и конечный результат, в большей степени, ориентирован на концепт-арт (фото 2).

Фото 3 – второй набросок головы Ruby Weapon, когда весь арт ещё должен был быть в стиле модели из игры, и этот самый набросок и стал причиной, по которой я отказался от стиля моделей тараканов из Half-Life 1, так как любая попытка нарисовать этот хряк оканчивалась тем, что у меня получалась какая-то базовая тварь из 80-й части Monster Hunter, но точно не Ruby Weapon.

Фото 4 – финальный набросок перед завершением работы.

ENG: I usually draw in a «dirty» style, but it so happened that my line must be smooth and with big balls, and for this reason my choice fell on... No, not on the design from Final Fantasy VII, but on the orgy of grapefruits in the face of The Ruby Weapon from Final Fantasy XIV (photo 1). The design, which is unfamiliar with the concepts of parabola and clean line, was chosen and immediately discarded, since the problems began when I tried to make a sketch of the head, but I will not show these sketches, otherwise you will die from cringe.

I would like to talk about the head separately, as it was the one that caused the most problems both in real life and while drawing. About the body, I can only say that at first it was in the PS1 style, but I challenged my perfectionism the second time and the end result is more focused on concept art (photo 2).

Photo 3 – the second sketch of Ruby Weapon’s head, when the whole art was still supposed to be in the style of the model from the game, and this very sketch became the reason why I abandoned the style of the cockroach models from Half-Life 1, since any attempt to draw this boar ended with me getting some basic creature from the 80th part of Monster Hunter, but definitely not Ruby Weapon.

Photo 4 – final sketch before finishing the work.

I once had a dream, and then thought a little, about making goofy little charms of my favourite FFXIV robots. And then I did it. And you know what? It feels good. Don't let your dreams be dreams. If you want to own some robots (but they're small), you can get 'em all here.

Here's my very early concepts, which are cute and funny to look at:

“I’m turning on the KLEOS now, Cid.” “Roger that, Mihri. Reading the KLEOS as active.” She closed her eyes and breathed deeply and evenly. All around her, the cockpit of the warmachina was lit up with holographic screens reporting on every aspect of her surroundings, but none of that mattered right now. The hairpin-like device on her forehead was warm, and she could feel it guiding her toward the familiar mental state of the Echo. Hear… Feel… That wasn’t it. She needed to go deeper. The machine was thrumming above her, below her, around her, like a living being. Focus on its heart, Cid had said, and your own will follow. She let herself sink into it. The thrumming was inside her, now, and she opened her eyes, raised her hand, and saw the metal fingers flex as she moved them. She turned her head to the side and looked towards the catwalk at eye level. Cid and the other Ironworks technicians were so small compared to her now. “I’ve got it,” she said. A complete rewrite of the Sorrows of Werlyt questline, focusing on Milisandia and the other pilots.

Chapter 1: Crossing the Rubicon

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences (subject to change)

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV

Relationships: Cid Garlond & Warrior of Light, Milisandia & Warrior of Light, Avilina/Milisandia

Characters: Warrior of Light, Cid Garlond, Milisandia, Avilina

Tags: The Sorrows of Werlyt Questline, Canon Rewrite, Mecha