#threat display

Their original designs ^

Helvias new official design ^

I kept a lot of elements from the new design but wanted to lean into my own tastes in humanoid robots! She takes inspiration from gynoids to try and push the themes of her being objectified and sexualized. Her skin is now a clear shell, both because I think it looks sick and to make her wires visible. I stylized the wires in her stomach to look like guts but I think in the future I'd want to make them more clearly wires. I gave her goggles to parallel Aegis. I felt like the lines on her mouth already paralleled Vanessas mask well so I wanted them to all tie in, tho her makeup was doing this before. Idk I think the goggles are neat

Like here with Aegis (red) having a chain motif and a leash to show that he's kind of given in to the control his "record label" has over him. In contrast to that I thought the spikes on Vanessa (blue) would show her more violent rebellion. The belt around her neck on the tightest setting to show how suffocating keeping up this charade is. The spikes are also inspired by the peacock butterfly's caterpillar! Spheciform told me they might go in that direction for her and I really liked that and wanted to lean in hard