Romantic golden forest setting
This is based on the Eliwood/Lyn ending shot from Blazing Sword, and it’s a great picture, except Eliwood and Ninian is slightly more palatable to me, so I replaced Lyn with Ninian. (Lyn goes with Hector) It didn’t turn out so well. Well, Eliwood looks good from the waist up, I suppose.
The young lord of Pherae
Eliwood is sad! Oh, no!
I tried to draw this from his sad sprite in the scenes after his father dies, but he’s not leaning forward enough.
Water/fox demon boy with light and plant magic!
Uhh… This is the son of Kurama and Rinako. Here he’s about ten years old. Left is his human, red-haired, school-uniformed, blue-eyed body, and on the right is his long-red-haired, golden-eyed, fox-tailed, fin-eared demon form, which can use both plant magic like his father and elementary light magic like his mother. (shrug) He also sings like an angel and is terribly innocent.
Some sort of adventure story could be told about him… Kurama is trapped in the demon world, and Kuuichi must go to “Uncle Yuusuke” and “Aunt Keiko”, with their three kids, to learn how to master his powers. Rinako is not a disciplined teacher, except in music. So he goes off and defeats massively powerful enemies in his quest to free his father.
Also, Prince Koenma is really handsome, and Botan looks good with him, but I never drew a picture of them. Darn.
Fair lassies, one plain lass, and an extra lad
This is a picture of all the people who were living in a vivacious – er, lively-ish – fashion in my head at this time. L-R Lyra, the High Elf maiden who made Mengil into a good guy, but she looks more like Esgalwen than the girl next to her, Esgalwen. You can tell who’s who because Esgalwen has a dress with lots of pleats and she has a locket around her neck. Lakia stands next to her. Sitting are Rinako, who looks especially good here, and Salir, who you might remember is Sain’s girlfriend in my story. Up on the tree branch is a girl named Cassandra, with bright red hair and raggedy clothes from living on a deserted planet. The two Hylians are again talking, Raelle and Rana, and Raelle has her nice hair again. Ceniro wanted to be included, but my first attempt looked more like my amusing double bass player friend Anthony.
Rahr!
Kurama attacks some… thing with his rose whip, Hiei is a little freaked out at his quiet, calm friend’s ferocity, and Youko Kurama, holding a rose with his hand in a completely impossible position.
Look, Eliwood! It’s the next country!
Ceniro!!! My beloved tactician, pointing towards their next destination. Oh, I want to hug him. This is the best picture I drew of him, ever. It even has a background!
Rinako to the rescue!
Rinako, in two neat outfits. Her school uniform is the upper one, I think, or maybe that’s her ‘hanging around town’ outfit. In Japan, her school outfit would probably not be a monochrome suit like the guys of Yu Yu Hakusho, it would more likely be a kawaii seifuku. Bottom is her ‘save the world’ martial arts outfit. I tried to make her look like she’s dashing off, but it didn’t turn out quite the way I wanted it it. My hands are also too small. I have since learned (and tried to do, with limited success) that hands cover the same area as the face.
Oh, yeah. Also Rinako has light brown hair and light blue eyes.
Another large gathering of cool characters
Another version of Heroes All! With Lyn, too, because she’s so cool. The strange people here are (L-R) Mengil, who was an evil Warhammer Dark Elf who was rather handsome in the White Dwarf article about him. So now he’s a good guy because I say so. Then there’s Legolas, then Kusko, the skinny dude, and Kurama sitting on the ground, explaining botany to Jim from Treasure Planet and his rocket-powered skateboard, and then Sain is sitting on a stump, chatting with the two Hylians: Raven and Link III, and Sain’s taken off his hip-plates. And Lyn is posing because she’s good with a sword.
OH, YEAH
This picture is of Emperor Kusko of The Emperor’s New Groove. Also an original character named Lakia. Curvy, cute, full of corny jokes just like everyone else in the movie, and Kronk’s cousin. Kronk’s adorable, isn’t he? Anyhow, I’ve never seen Kronk’s New Groove so I don’t know if I’ve been too presumtuous or not. I also invented Lakia before KNG came out. She doesn’t look so good in this picture.
Lots of hair there
Yoko Kurama and… uh… girlfriend, Rinako. Sorry. I didn’t know about Maya when I made Rinako up. Maya is a girl from the manga Two Shots, about how Kurama and Hiei met, and she had a crush on Kurama but he was forced to delete her memory to keep her from remembering the danger she fell into when an evil demon kidnapped her. So she forgot about him, too.
So Rinako is half Japanese, one quarter Canadian, and one quarter water demon. (What? Even Yuusuke, the hero-nerd, has mysterious demon blood that suddenly manifests itself, I’m told, in season 3 or so) She comes over to finish high-school in Japan, meets the gang, helps Kurama escape from something, learns martial arts and how to use her innate powers, which for some reason includes ‘light’ as well as ‘water’, blah blah blah, and also she plays violin.