#ryuko redesign

I'm not satisfied with any of these.

I love Ryuko’s color pallet and love how it contrasts with Wyvern’s primarily red costume.

When you think about it, make sense that their costumes would look so radically different. Lucy obviously would have grown up with stories of dragons being associated with fire, and red is pretty much the go to color for dragons in fantasy media, and they are traditionally villainous in nature in European folklore and mythology. Her preconceived notions of what a dragon is supposed reflected in her costume.

And you’re right about there being yellow dragons in Chinese mythology and folklore. The Yellow Dragon is often seen as an incarnation of the Yellow Emperor.

The Yellow Dragon is also often used as the fifth and final member of a group of mythical animals called the Four Symbols. But that spot can be filled by the Qilin.

Each member of the Four Symbols is associated with an element of the Wuxing, a season, a direction, and an aspect of Yin and Yang.

The Black Tortoise of the North, Xuanwu, represents water, winter, and old yin.

The Azure Dragon of the East, Qinglong, represents wood, spring, and young yang

The Vermilion Bird of the South, Zhuque, represents fire, summer, and old yang.

The White Tiger of the West, Baihu, represents metal, autumn, and young yin.

And finally there is the Yellow Dragon or Qilin of the Center, representing earth, midsummer or the cycle of the seasons, and a balance between yin and yang. The Yellow Dragon and Qilin appear to be used pretty interchangeably in the context of the Four Symbols.

Why thank you!

The main reason for the change was because of my uncanny ability to find loopholes.

Besides the "black cat", no other Miraculous has a colour NAME. It's not "the red dragon" or "the blue snake", and the show did confirm that the heroes appearance is influenced by their personal tastes, so I found it fair game to mess with the colours. I already made Mister Bug yellow, who's gonna stop me now? And canon has given us blue (camo????) Rena Furtive so it's all fair game to me.

And yeah yeah yeah Lucy's European upbringing (and being a giant closet NERD) would give her a very different preconceived idea of what a dragon would look like from Kagami.

Why have one iconic dragon queen when you can have two? Exactly.

And oooh lots of interesting stuff I don't know! Leaving this up so y'all can educate yourselves!

This time I have Ryuko and Ladybug.

His upper suit became more bulky, more like his fencing suit making it more comfortable to wield his sword. The 'vines' design only stays in his arms. Also, it is possible to add shoulder pads and some light armor if necessary.