I'd Rather Be Drawing

Krystal gets introduced in S5 as a competitor to Flora, but I chose to make her a bit younger and an old friend to Helia instead, so I wanted her fashion to lean into cutesy and youthful to reflect the child-like angle.

As much as I love the bright colours of the show, I personally give the characters more natural base haircolours (magic trnasformation hairdy aside) - but Krystal's purple hair was just so iconic. But you know what could be colourful irl? headscarfs! In my rewrite, I made Lynphea/ lynpheans based on Southeast Asia - with Flora being Filippina specifically. Her and Krystal look similar-ish, but I wanted Krystal to hail from a different part of Lynphea. So given all that, I chose to loosely base her cultural ties on Indonesia (Java).

That being said her first outfit is a nod to @teawinx's lillypad magic winx design (the pink colour and the obvious lillypad buckle).

The second is formalwear featuring a green sarong and matching lace shirt. I picked green as Lynphea's representative colour for obvious plant reason's but it also works well here since it's the colour of Islam. Her belt is an upside down crown, based on a real artefact found on Jawa from ca 4.century BC (iirc). Since I left the sarong plain, I couldn't resist adding in some batik on her logic-defying sash (how does it wrap around her? don't worry about it, it's the magic of 2D designs 😅).

The third casual outfit is inspired by what was hip at the time with the youth as I was drawing it. Remember the summer of those blocky wavy checkered or melted design? Giant bouba desing with popping colours? Also daisies everywhere. That. Her bag is an actual bag from an indie brand, carmiico (?) on twitter. Afaik they didn't make it in this exact colour but the tulip bag concept slaps so fucking hard.

Magic forms. Her BM top is based on a real one - or the sleeves are at least that gave me the inspo for the flower concept for her top and hijab. Yes it is meant to be a rose ok. Since it's a magic form, rules of physics can be ignored, so that apron goes straigth through the fabric of the skirt lol. The real reason her charmix brooch isn't a brooch is that I forgot about it while designing and decided to make any kind of jewellery fair game in future...

Enchantix is the same outfit formula as her formalwear, but with a longer shirt. Since I am not doing naked skin with her, I went for flowy, slightly sheer fabrics for her sleeves and sarong, but kept the barefoot sandal thing. On her top there are some medicine associated symbols, like the snake on the belt and the green clover/cross on her chestplate/giant necklace. her little lace gloves are also meant to mimic rubber gloves. Keeping up with the theme, her wings are basically macrophages (white bloodcells) with the inner pink bits being cells undergoing endothelial to mesenchymal transformation. Fun fact, I drew that during a physics conference my supervisor took me to. I am not a physicist. Anyway, let me toot my horn tho bc I think this hijab design witht he little buns is the cutest I've ever made her look.

Onyrix, my beloved neon pipes look. Her flowers are camomille flowers, chosen for their medical properties, calming and anti-inflammatory. Drink camomille kids, according to my mother it cures everything 😂

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