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The game itself may be down for maintenance, but at least the benchmark test isn't!

I had a go at making a design for Ajisai (with Tsutsuji for comparison - I used her as a starting point for Ajisai's design, because the two are sisters)! The screenshot is perhaps a bit lackluster, and the outfit is very placeholder given that the benchmark has all of about two non-armour options, but it's a start!

#a voidsent voice 🜸 #ajisai (fell‑court) 🜸 #tsutsuji (fell‑court) 🜸 #I think I might change stuff but I can do that when I'm actually able to log into the game #for now I should probably go and have tea

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I really need to design Ajisai, actually

#she isn’t really meant to be very important/feature in the story events much whatsoever #but I seem to have gotten attached to this cute little raen girl #(I say little. she’s my age if not older. but considering she’s an au ra it can be little in terms of her height) #(tsutsuji is max height so ajisai will be shorter which conveys that she is younger bur she might still be taller than the average au ra) #a voidsent voice 🜸 #ajisai (fell‑court) 🜸

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I have some new pieces of trivia to share, courtesy of a post I saw on twitter:

Clio's favourite plants are clovers - she's always really loved the idea of them bringing good luck, to the point that she actually basically named herself after them! (I keep going back and forth about whether her full name is actually Clover and Clio is technically a nickname, or whether Clio is her full name, but the idea still stands either way I think.) She just really wants to be the type of person who can help things be better for those around her, like a little good luck charm to help things go their way. Additionally, she can always be seen wearing a clover flower in her hair, which I represent in-game using a white dahlia corsage because it sort of resembles a very large one. From what I have read, in terms of plant symbolism, white clover flowers mean "I promise", and clovers in general obviously have that strong association with luck, especially when four-leaved.

Lorenza's favourite flowers are lilies, which is perhaps ironic considering that lilies are toxic to cats and she gets mistaken for a Miqo'te. They are also a common Italian flower, which fits the fact that Lorenza is technically supposed to be Italian (since, I am in part)! I specifically associate her a lot with the concept of purple spider lilies, which.. I'm not sure are actually something that can or do exist IRL, but I threw the Makai Moon Guide's Circlet on her at one point while the dye was still there and it looked too cool not to try and spin something fun out of (plus, the idea of her being associated with a flower that doesn't technically exist is also fun). Spider lilies, especially the classic red ones, symbolise things like death, loss, separation, and abandonment - which definitely fit a good few of the themes of Lorenza's story when you think about it.

Tsutsuji is very heavily associated with azalea flowers, to the point that they have since become the alias that she is known by. Most people assume that they are her favourite flowers for this reason, and she does definitely like them, but her actual favourites are citrus blossoms. Azaleas can represent things like patience, modesty, temperance, and fragility.. none of which match Tsutsuji very well in the slightest.

Ajisai's name may mean "hydrangea", but her actual favourite flowers are thistles. This tends to baffle people, as nobody would expect such a timid and gentle girl to have a soft spot for such a prickly plant. Thistles represent nobility and endurance, but many of them are also important plants for pollinators like butterflies.

#a voidsent voice 🜸 #lorenza (fell‑court) 🜸 #clio (fell‑court) 🜸 #tsutsuji (fell‑court) 🜸 #ajisai (fell‑court) 🜸 #^-^ #the lily-of-the-valley also fits lorenza to some extent because it is poisonous but looks very pretty. just like her! =P #but it's also because it symbolises ''a return to happiness'' which.. definitely fits her reuniting with zero now doesn't it #so you could say that her favourite flowers are ''lilies of all kinds'' (which includes spider lilies and lilies-of-the-valley and so on)