the crow in a crown

design notes

want to keep the original colours but make it fit eachother's reversed roles

robert's name is "blue flames" bcs i want to keep the flam-bae theming

robert's based on marvel rival's phoenix design bcs i'm thinking that his combat kit is similar to her -- the flared off blue sash shows the astral pulse' stability. the lil black attachments are stabilisers for the pulse.

chad will still have his iconic chest window (so help me god) because that's integral to who he is 🫵 the red gem gets to sit between his beautiful boobs as a treat robert may or may not be jealous of the semi-sentient superpowered gemstone

chad's colour-palette gets to have white to make his palette less villain and closer to "generic hero"; think mandy's blonde blazer

robert gets to have the brown jacket bcs (1) cunty (2) his suit came from the pulse directly -- a la magical girls -- so without the jacket he's basically one layer away from. flashing the world. which i think he'd hate. so he gets the fuckass brown jacket

(3) also, design wise, the jacket helps to tie in his hair colour to the colour-palette

robert still has a secret identity, hence the mask. chad does too but he has the clark kent effect + instant bleach so he doesn't need the mask.

flambae has a very mean girl archetype ingame (duo-ing with prism) so i want to carry that to this blond blazer version; he's the poster boy but still showboaty and bratty, though pulled back a lot to keep everything PG

funfact: incase you weren't here for the original wip post -- robert got his powers because he was severely injured with a gaping chest wound, and shoved the astral pulse inside as a last desperate resort to keep it from being stolen. it ended up melding into him.