#smileeeeeeeeeee

(I am pulling my knowledge from the original Ena animations and not from the game, so this will refer to that Ena specifically)

The happy side of Ena is represented in yellow. Bubbly, stylistically much more flat, but round and friendly. The sad side, however, has much more form and depth, but is angular and ridged. The body itself is also angular, not a perfect split down the middle.

When they become completely hopeless, their body switches to an extreme of their current state - the happy, bubbly side is now replaced with the same blocky appearance as the sad side. But when the happy side takes over, it only blots out the sad side's face, or corrupts the appearance entirely. It's not an even 50/50, but a coagulation of some sort of mix between the two, uneven as it is

You will never be 50% happy, 50% sad - you will never be an even split of anything, you will be a grey, uneven, confusing middle ground. And Ena specifically seems to have something almost like oil and water to that, where their sides are at odds

I think it would just be fun to have designs like.... let's say.... Watercolour on one side, and sketchy pens and pencils on the other. The watercolour keeps bleeding out the lineart on the one side, but the lineart keeps trying to contain the colour.

Or one side is animated in 60 fps, with higher resolution, while the other is animated on 12, with much lower pixel count. The lower resolution side lags behind the higher resolution side, but is much more consistent in its own framerate, while the 60 fps side may sometimes stutter.

(feel free to take these ideas, and tag me if you do! I'd love to see them :) )

I just think there's a lot to explore with the concept of unity within imbalance! I think it's fun to think about