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No time or energy for headshots but more designs for my S6 Rewrite transformation (which btw, I'm dubbing Resonix for lore reasons.)

A little note for the transformation in general. All the girls will have a crystal somewhere on their outfit (e.g. for Stella it's near her abdomen, Tecna's is on her left glove.)

Anyway, on to the notes for their outfits!

Musa

I knew I was leaning into the chinese warrior vibes after seeing her Bloomix, it would be a disservice to not try to match those vibes. I was a bit worried that I might've gone a bit too far but I think I'm p fine with where it's landed on the scale for me.

I did want to use red initially but it wasn't going to work with the purples/pinks/magenta in her usual transformations (outside of Magic Winx) so I went with a similar colour scheme to Bloomix.

This is really hard to see because of the colours + I decided to use a thicker brush but her hair is in a high ponytail.

I did struggle with her wings for a while but eventually after staring at music notations for way too long I went "harp" and so the top and bottom wings resemble the top and bottom of a harp :)

Bloom

I really liked the small patches of "scales" on her Bloomix design so I incorporated that into her skirt. I was going for a very rugged / sharp feel for her top to kinda give the vibes of dragon claws. This is eventually how I settled with the shoulder pads for her.

Also the sashes were something that once I added / thought of, I couldn't remove. They just stuck out a lot to me and I can imagine her setting them on fire if she's angry enough (and they would be floating, which would probably look even cooler when she's holding her sw-[SPOILER] )

Slowly working my way through them so here's Bloom's Full body (well, mostly full body) for her Resonix design.

Regarding her weapon choice, I really didn't know what else to give her outside of an even bigger sword.

Initially hers was just a regular sword then remembered the context as to which she gets the sword so I changed it to look more like the Specialists' Weapons. I'll probably do a before and after of each weapon since they all change upon each girl gaining her Resonix.

Version without the fire effect on her sword:

Wings reference:

Logic said "do Physics", creative brain said "No. Work on AU stuff" so here we are with Aisha's full body outfit. I gave her original design just a few tweaks (e.g. moving her crystal to her glove and added a few more magenta streaks).

For her weapon choice, initially I was going to give her a trident but I changed hers to a staff for a few reasons:

1) I don't think she would be willing to use a trident after the shit she went through in S5 so soon

2) I wanted to play around with the capabilities of morphix in general. We've seen her make pillows, surfboards, a freaking treadmill. So by giving her a staff, she can use the morphix in different ways instead of just solely being limited to just a trident

Wings for reference

Round 2 with Musa's Resonix because I wasn't satisfied with the first full body I did of her.

Lately been spending my time (that is not spent on suffering in Maths) revamping the old designs I had for my S6 rewrite's version of Bloomix, in which I fully leaned into the warrior aspect of Bloomix (which, btw, is unnamed as of right now. I haven't thought of a good name yet.)

Progress is being made, just slow, because I'm trying to find the balance between making the outfits look like legit things they could wear in a fight while not losing the magical girl element of it.

For technically being the fifth person I drafted a design for, she's the first I've really gone "yeah, that's solid.". I wanted to bring in some inspiration from her Bloomix, specifically with the colour scheme because I really liked the blue they used for her. But I couldn't really get it to go for me so I just stuck with a more muted purple + lime green. Also she gets her older hairstyle back because yes, I ain't getting rid of it, it's too good.

Here it is, 1/6 (mostly) full bodies for the transformation that's going to be featured in my S6 Rewrite, Resonix. And with it comes the biggest feature / thing about this transformation: the weapons.

While not the exact thing that grants them their powers, their weapons in the fic will serve as alternate outlets for their magic and / or alternative ways for them to fight the Legendarium Creatures, which are more magic-resistant compared to usual magical creatures they fight. In addition, these weapons basically function similarly to the Specialists' weapons that they get in S6, but change slightly upon each girl gaining her Resonix. And no, they aren't always using their weapons in fights.

So for instance, Musa has a glaive. I was pretty much looking for a weapon (and losing many braincells in the process but I will not further elaborate) that she could slash / jab with for some more variety in her sound/vibration attacks.

Also, her wings for reference :)

Back with more redesigning for my S6 Rewrite :)

I'm not surprised Stella's was the 2nd to be completed because her first draft (below the cut) was the one I felt was the 2nd closest to completion after Tecna.

Unlike Tecna, I literally pulled out pictures of her Bloomix, Magic Winx and Enchantix (alongside the first first draft of her transformation from like 2022/23) to get the vibes I was planning to hit and I think it worked out perfectly :)

Especially proud of the little band things at her chest. I wanted to give her pigtails but couldn't really get it to nail the vibe I was going for so I just gave her a high pony tail instead.

Also in the process of doing this design, I quite badly wanted to give her some cloak / translucent cloth like on her Bloomix but struggled finding a good placement that also wouldn't restrict / hinder movement. I eventually came to the compromise of having it be a mini cape for her, which I imagine can be pretty good for diversions because it looks like her wings, especially if she's just used a blinding spell or something of that sorts.

Anyway, 1st draft of her design below the cut + some thoughts while doing that design

Finally, after an ungodly amount of time, the final two Resonix designs are complete! (if you are wondering, Aisha's took almost the same length of time as my Huntrix x Winx piece. Spanned over a week+)

Anyway, design notes for them :)

Flora

Her's was already going to be quite different from the rest since her weapon (bow) isn't going to be making her fight upfront (half because she doesn't need to get her ass whooped anymore without valid reason)

I have no explanation for the scarf aside from I think her holding the scarf when stressed would be a cute image but also you typically see archers with some sort of cape so compromise :)

The flower buds above her boots were inspired by her Bloomix, which then gave rise to the leaf-like design for the skirt.

it's quite hard to see but she also has pink highlights in her hair like in Believix

Wind-themed wings because yes. She's gonna get to use more aspects of nature outside of just plants.

Also I went back and forth between Green and Pink for quite a while before eventually settling for pink since that would give room for Aisha to use more greens / greenish-blues

Aisha

Words genuinely cannot state how many iterations of her outfit I went through. Most of the time the reason why it was scrapped was because it looked too warrior-like and not magical girl enough.

One thing I wanted to incorporate was silk / sashes but I couldn't get it to work. Somewhat compromised it with her wrapped hands.

Somehow I once again ended up with a teal colour scheme for Aisha. But this time around it's more green than teal imo.

The magenta in her outfits were a suggestion from an irl who I asked for advice regarding breaking up the greens and I love it so shout out to them <3 /p

I got inspiration for her wings (after agonising over how to make them feel watery without them being literal droplets of water) from looking up fantasy sea creatures. And I mean, with the fic, I don't know why I didn't think of that sooner