June 22nd, 2023

Most of today was spent working on a D&D character. It was an idea that I had bouncing around in my head for a while: a barbarian flavored as a magical girl, with rage serving as her transformation. It was honestly just a joke idea I had, but seeing some art from caffstrink of their Cupid OC (not posting here for blood and gore but I found it on tumblr) made me wanna do it, and some ideas from a partner made me really wanna commit to it. The general idea is that she was in an adventuring party in the past, but the whole party got wiped except for her, and it caused something in her to snap, making her overly protective of others. And it made her rage go from a no-nonsense, stoic upholder of duty, to a more standard barbarian rage, but still maintaining a magical girl transformation. Mechanically she's all ready to go, but I still need to work on fleshing out her backstory. She doesn't even have a name yet xwx.

I actually made some pretty simple sketches for her rage/magical girl form. You can find them here and here. For the second one, even though it's half the coat, the design is symmetrical, so really it should be copied and mirrored I guess. I'll also be upfront with saying that I used Mostima's skin as an inspiration, but that's really all it as.

I got some more games today too even though I probably shouldn't have: Chained Echoes and Bloodstained: RotN. Also got the demos for Trepang2 and Scarlet Nexus. Probably gonna try those out soon. Honestly prefer single player to multiplayer, or at least, competitive multiplayer. Idk how to explain why (and I certainly don't hate PVP), I just prefer it generally.