#thornblade

Briar, Thornblade ⚔🌿

Briar is a disciplined swordswoman whose blade is entwined with a living thornvine. Bound to her will, the vine lashes out at anyone who dares close the distance, turning every duel into a trap. Few opponents realize too late that they were never fighting her steel alone.

Second Antitrix transformation in line is Thornblade!

As you may have guessed just by looking at him, Thornblade is a combination of Wildvine and Chromastone. This is not just because they're both cycloptic scrawny aliens, though. Chromastone's crystals become the thorns this transformation is named after. These thorns are still capable of absorbing energy, but only solar energy, as a result of acclimating to Wildvine's plant biology. Thornblade can then release the collected energy as beams from any of the crystals on his body, but most often from ones on his head, shoulders, or forearms. Alternatively, he can also launch the solar energy as a big blast from the flower on his neck. The other half of his name is paid off as well, since he can shift his vine arms to form blades made of rock and crystal thorns. He also has two big vines that he can summon from his back to help himself move around faster and upon vertical surfaces.

If Thornblade beats Wildvine in sheer offensive capabilities, then Ben's form beats Kevin's in agility, stealth, and shape-shifting. Having two legs instead of four tendrils limits how flexible he can be. Thornblade may be able to shoot solar beams, but Wildvine can just easily dodge them. Being partially composed out of minerals also limits how much of his body he can shift and prevents him from merging with plants entirely.

Now, as for his design, I should note that his fully rocky legs are supposed to evoke a plant in the soil kind of look. That was another reason why I chose Chromastone for Thornblade. I kept his color scheme largely the same as the original reboot design, as it's, honestly, really nice!!

I want to point out the Antitrix badge design in this post, as you can basically see its whole design here. To push the cobbled together from spare parts look that the watch kinda had already, I made the dial be made of two halves that are slightly different shades of dark gray. I also changed the symbol itself from one resembling a "K" for Kevin to one that looks like an "11". I never liked that it was a K in the first place.

Thornblade - Innocent Evil! Bloodmoon IE is one of my AU, the first serious tsams AU actually. This is the current design of the Bloodmoon (dunno if i will keep them like this but yea). They haunted me for few days bc i cant help myself from thinking the arc 3/season 3 of IE. Even if im unable to show anything from this AU just yet-