#susannah manatt

this is mainly a result of me reading the manga but i've really come to like how purple looks on susannah. i still stand by the older design i made but the green and the purple can coexist. they can be friends

my one palette-related problem (my other gripes were adressed in the last post) with her battlesuit is the white, also known as the elysiafication. i normall dont have a problem with white taking center stage on a design (i think HoHe is BEAUTIFUL), but it gets boring when every single battlesuit is the same. so i removed the white from her palette entirely, and replaced it with black and dark purple like her phosdjinn outfit in the manga.

i've also drawn her stature differently as i've explored susannah more as a character. she's sweet and a little shy, but not timid like seele used to be, so her design has a lot of straight lines with gentle curves, reflected in her face, hair, and clothes. susannah is also seen using bear claws to fight in the manga which is SO CUTE HELLO? HOYOVERSE WHY DIDNT YOU USE THIS. so i'm choosing to think of susannah as a meelee fighter who uses her upper body a lot, hence the broader shoulders. mourning the loss of a set of cutsey bear-themed gauntlets every day.

i did like the introduction of hot pink to her design in the game though, so i kept that. i think it adds a lot to her palette