#slayer master

1) Made her look more Asian/Polynesian since her name is literally Hawaiian and she’s supposed to be from the Eastern Lands which are, and I cannot put enough quotes around it, “””””””””Asian”””””””””.  I based her face on Jarah Mariano, a Korean/Hawaiian model 

2) Deadly Pacific Flora and Fauna - I tried to mimic the Bluebottle (Aka Man o’ War) with a lot of her shapes, such as using the pneumatophore for her underskirt and basing the ribbons and her hair on the shape of its tentacles. The Man O’ War is actually not a jellyfish but a colony of  specialized polyps, which echos to her cluster tasks. Additionally, I wanted to use a cone snail in her design somewhere since I am both terrified and in awe of them, so I used their shape as the basis for her arm/leg bracers, and replaced her potion bottle with a cone snail shell that has been modified to be a potion container. The fabric pattern design on her corset replacement, hair tie, and doll is meant to harken to the blue-ringed octopus, another notoriously deadly pacific bastard. Finally, the flowers incorporated into her design are the Brugmansia cultivar  Hawaiian Double White,  which is extremely toxic to both humans and animals. 

3) Tetraphobia - This is fairly simple, as tetraphobia is relatively common in east-asian cultures due to its relation with death. Seems fitting for a slayer master, though I deviated from it in a few spots for simplicity’s sake. The green jade bracelets/anklets are intended to suggest the lei bracelets/anklets sometimes worn by hula dancers. I was originally going to give her a halter top since that seems to be a fairy popular style in Hawaii, but then she seemed a lil too nakey since my white ass subconsciously thinks combat =  Full Armor so she ended up with sleeves. 

4) Tokens and Accessories - Since she’s supposed to have spent time with Morvran and Kuradal, I wanted to include some sort of token from both of them, though I honestly really blanked on Kuradal so she ended up with a necklace of teeth from her dungeon. For Morvran, I yoinked one of the design elements from his concept art (see below) and made it green. I kept most of the spear design the same other than modifying the tip so it reflected the token from Morvran, and I also gave her somewhere to slot in her poison vials along with a holster on her thigh to store them. 

5) The fucking Voodoo Doll - I’m not even gonna go into the rant but suffice to say, It’s a poppet now since they’re very similar and a poppet is both non-appropriative and also British. Reference below, but I swapped the hard body for a soft one for easier stabbin’.