#voidheart symphony

By Minerva McJanda

Psychic rebellion, basically persona 5 but leftist

New edition by Rowan, Rook and Decard currently crowdfunding on backerkit

"Voidheart Symphony is a tabletop roleplaying game about seeing all the ways the system is broken and fighting to make it better. The world’s hard and cruel, and it seems like it’s run by the worst people – and those people have help. They’re backed by the castle, a predatory reality latched onto our own. To fight back, you'll use a Powered by the Apocalypse framework with additional inspiration from the Resistance System (Heart, Spire) to build relationships with allies, investigate and undermine the influence of the castle and then step into a psychic otherworld to tear down the castle brick by brick."

#RPGCovers Week Eleven Voidheart Symphony (2021) Adrian Stone

I’ve mentioned Adrian Stone’s work before back in Week Two (Spire/Strata/Sin). As I talked about there, one of the things I love is how he uses color and hue to create depth. This does that again with the combination of purple & red in blocks and glowing elements that evoke a sense of stacks and distance. 

One of the other interesting things here is a shift from Stone’s other work. The earlier covers often use strongly tilted angles to create an effect– instead here the safety tape-like logo, subtitle, and author banners do that work. This image is much more rigidly up and down, echoing the look of a tarot card. Our figure in the center feels like a combination of The Tower and The World, with decorative elements like the crown referencing other cards. 

Following up from that crown we get the top of the tower– our apparent source of illumination but one which still shrouds things in darkness. The building layers behind our floating figure angle upwards like mountains, the lines again reinforcing the emphasis on what’s clearly the foe. 

Tried Autodesk Sketchbook for a hot sec for my tablet (android tablet), cuz I noticed it came with a pen, so I was like, well shit, I guess I could draw with it??  Here’s Elliott.  This actually might be my fav pic I’ve drawn of him.

Then they immediately updated the app and took out the Copic colors.... :(

With P5 Royal out I've been thinking a lot about my Voidheart Symphony character, Mercedes Luna (they/them), so I decided to make a cosplay of them in New Horizons. The look I was going for when originally designing them was conservative Christian mom who shops at Goodwill, but with a pentagram necklace instead of a cross.

By Miranda McJanda

Psychic rebellion, basically persona 5 but leftist

An alternate reference I did of the "real" Ephraim Elliott (per this long backstory post, if you didn't know), mostly for funises as a comparison of what he'd look like at present, had he survived.  Mostly meant to further contrast him from his brother who's posing as him...

doodles featuring Elliott.  the top 2 are of Egan, an old-ass OC of mine that I threw into our Voidheart game as an NPC.  the other players quickly got attached to him, which made 16-year-old me very happy.  He’s been around.