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dragynkeep · 2 years

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I read AZRE (good lord it was amazing!) And it made me think about the maternal figures in Adam's life, specially about Sienna. It is strange to that the woman that probably freed him from the SDC doesn't play a bigger role in his life or his story (in the cannon series)

I really like the idea of both having a weird mother/son relationship, where Adam admires Sienna almost too much since she saved him and took care of him, constantly craving her approval while feeling guilty about replacing his bio mom, and Sienna loves this child but can't see, at first, how her ways have pushed Adam to the edge, fueling his anger. She wants him to be happy and have a wonderful life but he is such a good soldier, so perfect to fight for their cause until everything comes crashing down.

I don't like how they killed off Sienna so let's imagine for this one she realizes they have gone too far and decides to stop Adam, not in a big fight or something like that but talking to him in private, apologizing for the path she pushed him to and telling him that she was wrong, so wrapped in her own hurt like him to see that maybe there is another way.

Adam opens up about his own demons, about his rage and hurt, about Blake's abandoment, about Cinder's threats, about his guilt and not knowing if he is the son his mother would be proud of, if Sienna would be proud of him.

Both cry and hug eachother, knowing the path of gealing would be long and thought but worthy in the end.

When they eventually cross paths with the Belladonnas, they accept their ways were not the right ones (and Adam apologizing to Blake) but they werent right either, running away and submiting to their abusers. They tell them off for all they are worth and put them on a crossroads, they either do something or shut the fuck up.

I think this last part would be a good jumping up point for Blake to do something and not be a pampered princess and actually do something for the faunus.

Thanks for your nice words about AZRE! Funnily enough, AZRE!Adam has far more issues regarding maternal figures than paternal figures, since well, he really didn’t have that in his life. His mother, Hajimu and then Kaanchana are all maternal figures in his life, but Sienna really isn’t for him. She’s more of a mentor for him later in the story when we actually get to see her.

As for your suggestion, I do wish there was more of a relationship for Adam outside of Blake, and Sienna would’ve been the best candidate. This is not only the woman who gave him a place in the world with Ghira, but constantly defended and validated him. Do I think Adam needed validation when he was starting to murk people without cause? No, but the fact that Sienna did should’ve had more of an impact on Adam and their relationship.

It’s honestly sad that we didn’t get that. Adam just treats Sienna like he treats everyone, when this could’ve been a good moment for a peek into who Adam really is that isn’t marred by his relationship to Blake.

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rwbyazre · 5 months

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What spooked Blake's mom?

Blake's snapped hair tie going Mach 5 past her head.

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rwbyazre · 1 year

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Do you have designs of Team AZRE's families?

That I do! We'll start with Adam first of course:

Since Cerise is the wilted rose to Adam's Beast, I wanted to keep a lot of Adam's own design in hers. Obviously, her pink is a softer version of Adam's true red, with the green shirt underneath being a nice complimentary colour that matches her green eyes.

I wanted to design her to have a very motherly and civilian look, so she's pretty much wrapped up with the loose "anime mom" hairstyle. Her hair is also the more pinkish-red than true red, which Adam still has, but her eyes are green rather than blue so that Adam didn't just inherit everything from her.

I also gave her cow ears, I just think they look cute! The tag on her right with the SDC is common practice in Mantle's mines, but not anywhere else in Remnant. Not every Faunus has them, and they were far more common when Cerise was a younger girl, but Faunus trapped working for the SDC are often given tags so that they can easily be tracked.

Fun fact, Alon was originally called Chairo, Japanese for Brown, before I decided to go more for a Filipino inspiration to offset how I constantly go to Japanese for characters. I also made it that the parents are mostly opposites in their colour schemes, I just think it makes them look better together while still having something in common.

Alon is the Sarangay in Phillipine mythology, so I obviously went with a water/blue design to offset with Cerise' pink theme. The blue and white together also serve the water/water foam thing while the white helps to offset parts of his limps, such as his arms and feet, from the darker blues. His bull background is shown more with the bull shaped buttons on his jacket, and with the one earring to tie him to the Sarangay specifically.

His hair texture and horns are what Adam inherited, but also the eye shape and blue eyes. Really, Adam took Cerise' colours and emblem, but he really does look a lot like his father, just lighter skinned.

For a look into how his first draft looked like, here's an edit of him from about three years ago:

Oof.

Now Ghira is still Bagheera, but I did change some of his design to better fit both his allusion and where he lives.

I never liked his canon outfit, especially with the fur, so I got rid of that and gave him more Indian-inspired clothing. He still has the same colouring, which is what Blake also uses, and you can really see that Blake takes after Ghira a lot compared to Hajimu. He uses the flower pattern on his shirt that Hajimu uses on her bolero, just so his black shirt looks a bit more interesting than just a standard shirt.

The shawl over his shoulder also helped to add more of his purple, since his colour comes from his surname; Belladonna. He has the yellow decoration as a complimentary colour for his purple, and to match his yellow eyes. I also gave him ears to go with his claws, just because of how Faunus genetics work with Blake having ears too.

Also, the arm sling is something he wears constantly after he was shot by humans while still in the White Fang. Some of the scars from that wound is visible under the wide collar.

Hajimu very much takes after Kali’s canon design, just with a few colour changes. As her name means blue-black in Japanese, the gold was swapped out for blue to match her eyes, along with the purple sash to tie her to her husband. Ghira has a blue wrist sash, but it’s on the arm that’s covered by his shawl.

Her hair was also changed from black to silverish grey to mimic a wolf’s fur, same with her giant ears being specifically wolf ears. Since she’s Raksha in the White Fang and the okami-okuri for her personal allusion, she takes a lot of wolf imagery.

Her eyes are now blue instead of gold, as well. Really, I just wanted to make sure both Ghira and Hajimu didn’t look the same, and that while Blake clearly takes after Ghira, she still has some of Hajimu’s features.

Xanthe is obviously where Argenta and Zanthus get their Greek inspiration and allusions from, so he really was designed with Zanthus in mind, barring differences of course. He’s noticeably lighter skinned and has green eyes rather than the slit pupils, but Zanthus does use his colouring more with the golds and reds. He’s also the Lion faunus like his kids, rather than the wild cat Faunus that Sable is.

His scars are from the Faunus Rights Revolution that he fought in, and he is missing his left hand, which he covers with his cape. His cape isn’t what inspired Zanthus’ though, as he uses the more typical back cape like Qrow and Ruby.

Fun fact; her original colouring was blue because I thought it was purple, and now I know.

Also, she went through a pretty different clothes design than her original outfit, which is what’s described in her debut chapter. I designed her right at the beginning of AZRE, when my designing skills weren’t that great, so I redid her while doing these full bodies for the AZRE cast.

Now her colour scheme reflects her actual name; Sigal, which means violet rather than Sable, the name forced on her. The purple is used with a very pale cream, almost white, and I went with Jordan inspired clothing because Jordan is where the Midians were thought to originate from with some research, and because she was always meant to be MENA like Zanthus and Argenta.

You can obviously see where Zanthus gets his skin tone, eyes, but also his hair is meant to mimic Sable’s hairtype; a more fluffier version to Xanthe’s. Her emblem is also now visible, and honestly I just like the colouring of this outfit far more.

For comparision, her OG outfit:

Cringe.

Similar to Sable, Argenta actually had gone through a rehaul of her design, but I did keep the colouring the same. Really, I wanted to personalise it more than the OG showed, and really feed into the heart of stone aspect that I wanted for Argenta’s design. She also has visible scars now because i like characters with scars, and I changed the bandana colour from light blue to orange for Qiu and for a pop of something contrasting.

She also one of the few Faunus with animal ears to actually style her hair to show that she doesn’t have human ears. A lot of other Faunus actually style their hair to hide away this trait.

This was her original outfit. Not something I hate, but very plain and lacking compared to what she wears now.

Qiu is the last of Zanthus’ family outside of his own kids in the sequel, but he’s the adoptive son of Argenta and so is Zanthus’ nephew, and that plotpoint is actually a part of Argenta’s story and character growth. I wanted to do a red panda Faunus as well, so he was perfect for using that in his design.

Obviously with the tail and ears, but the black stripes on his face are actually another traits of his. Since his name means Autumn, I obviously went with that theme in his look and his colour scheme, which implements some of Argenta in due to how close they are. He’s honestly one of my favourite designs despite being pretty straightforward, and it’s just so cute.

Since Hisui is the Kashima God to Ruri’s Namazu, I wanted to keep the water theme with him, hence the wave patterns on his sleeves and kimono. He’s also where Ruri gets the catfish heritage from, though Hisui differs slightly in that his ears aren’t completely fins, which helped him avoid the whole becoming deaf part that his daughter struggles with.

He has the scales still, and the gills are hidden away by his beard. I also styled his mustache to looks like the catfish whiskers. Besides that, he takes a very fuedal Japan daiymo look to his outfit since he is very rich, but still keeps the waves to tie back to his humble fisherman roots.

The Kashima family really hasn’t differed from the OG drafts I had when I first created them. Everything is really the same except the added checkered Obi, and the sakura patterns on her kimono. Since she’s themed around the pearl, I used more pinks/purples/whites in her design to reflect the typical colours of the pearl.

As she’s the Maneki-Neko, she’s a calico cat and is based around money, having a more rich style clothing to match her background. The hair decorations are very common for wealthy women in Northern Mistral, but none are as extravagent as the Empress who started the whole trend.

It’s very pretty, but a pain to draw all those little details.

Seigyoku is very much the same design as she started with, save for the addition of a few details. She has added thigh belts for her fans, her belt now has sakura patterns on them, and her emblem is now on her chest. It’s a latern to allude to the laterns that Bakenekos are attracted to in Japanese mythology.

And since her allusion is the Bakeneko, she inherited the cat traits from Shinju to follow with this choice. She obviously looks very similar to Shinju, compared to Ruri taking after Hisui, but neither of them have lilac/green hair. In universe reason? They got it from their grandmother. Out of universe reason? I designed the parents after and the blue hair clashed with their set colour palletes.

Now, Eirian has legit the biggest family out of her team, and I believe the whole cast, so her section is obviously gonna be longer.

Very much Eirian Snr. I could’ve added more of Clementine to Eirian’s design to counter just how similar she is to Icheku, but I ended up not doing that since I wanted to reflect how close Eirian and Icheku are compared to the absence Clementine has both in life and death in Eirian’s life.

But I did give Icheku a contrasting colour pallete and obviously visible Faunus traits. He uses white, browns and oranges against Eirian’s whites, blacks and blues. But he obviously wears more Zulu style clothing, and the silver bracelets that Eirian does. His necklace is also there from when he turned eighteen, but the necklaces are unique in that they reflect the colours of the wearer.

Specifically, their eye colour and the complimentary colour; which is why Icheku’s are purple and yellow while Eirian’s are red and green, they both have different eye colours. You also can’t see on this, but Icheku actually has rectangle pupils rather than the typical round.

No one make fun of how similar Clementine looks to Yang. My friends do that enough.

There wasn’t much in the notes for designing Clementine. Really all there was down were “GingerTM” and “CelticTM”, and that was what I went off on. She has Scottish and Irish influences, and her mother/sisters are more Irish, but I have her father as the Scottish one where she got her last name from. And since she has orange hair, I could use that orange as an accent and a connection to Icheku.

The rest is just different shades of blue, and white for the ivory parts in her corset. The silver bracelet is obviously Icheku’s, since marriage involves giving a part of yourself to your spouse, and vice versa. It’s why Eirian wears a yellow hair tie and Yang wears one of her bracelets. Her emblem is also the Triquetra, which is the Celtic symbol that has connections to spirituality and family.

And she has face scars because I like them.

Another fun factTM: I can’t spell Muerinn’s name properly. Her name is actually MUIREANN but my dyslexic ass misread it as Muerinn. She’s one of Clementine’s younger sisters that she left in Atlas when she went to Haven Academy.

But anyway, her allusion is Anne Bonney because I wanted a pirate character for the pirate colony south of Vacuo. With both her names connecting to the sea and dark, her colour scheme is very oceanic, with the different shades of blue, white and silver. The orange is meant to be like a complimentary colour to her blue, and to connect her to Clementine, so it’s the colour of her sash and one of the pendants she wears.

Another of my favourite designs, I should draw her without the jacket sometime.

Aisling is Muireann’s twin, so she’s Eirian’s maternal aunt. She also shares the Celtic inspiration that the rest of Clementine’s side of the family does, with the wide shaped sleeves, skirt and corset, and cape, but I added some eye imagry to tie into her allusion of Babd; who is connected to foretelling of battles and deaths.

Which is also why she has Clementine’s Triquetra as part of her emblem, and also wears orange in connection to her deceased sister, like Muireann. She’s also blind, which is why her red eyes are milky in colour compared to Muireann/Clementine/Eirian.

Last of Clementine’s shown family is Roisinn, her mother and Eirian’s maternal grandmother. She’s very much designed after the old women I see constantly in my real life, and her long skirt was great for adding the extra detail; including the roses where she got her name, her tree of life emblem, and the broken Triquetra to symbolise her broken relationship with Clementine.

She originally had black hair which the twins get, but her eyes are pink rather than red, as they all get their red eyes from their deceased father.

You can’t see under her sweater much, but she also wears a back brace, since she has a bad back from her work in the SDC mines.

Safou is the only living relative on Icheku’s side, and has actually been alluded to in the story, but she’s very much separated from her son and granddaughter.

While her last name was taken by Eirian, I designed her to have the more Zulu inspired clothing like Icheku, but she has the ewe ears compared to horns that Icheku got from his father. Her ears are actually inherited by Eirian, but they’re recessive so she doesn’t show them.

The giant scar on her right arm came from a Dust explosion, as she originally was from Vacuo but was taken to Menagerie to work in the mines set up there by Atlas. She remained in Menagerie after it’s reclaimation.

Jacob is Muireann’s lover and can be seen as Eirian’s uncle, with the two having adopted Sage, but yeah his allusion is Mary Read and they’re another pirate like Muireann. Nothing much to say about his design since I never really had a set look for him before, but I do remember really wanting him to wear the thigh high boots so there we go.

His name was originally Bluebelle before he fell in with the pirates, so that’s also why he has blue, plus it connects him to Muireann.

Finally, Sage rounds it off for the families.

He’s been repurposed from canon RWBY, since he’s now in the pirate crew ran by Muireann, so his design is slightly different. I shortened his giant white coat and added a few decorations, and I might redesign him again in the future since I’m not 100% on this look, but it’ll do for now.

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rwbyazre · 2 years

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The White Fang

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rwbyazre · 1 year

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How abot the rest of Team AZRE’s kids?

There's three kids left for the rest of the team, including one of the main teammates for Team CSYN.

Mosu Nemeós is their young son, and the final member of Team CSYN. You can't see with his headscarf, but he does have Zanthus' ears and eyes while keeping Adam's colour schmee, just using far more black.

He doesn't really take after either of his dads in personality, he's very wild and almost careless, loving the attention and living in the moment. But that does also make him very impatient, playing against his tortoise allusion.

Since Adam and Zanthus live in Menagerie, helping Hajimu lead Asíle, Mosu might play the part of having no brains, but he does have a sharp eye for things and surprisingly enjoys politics. He and Chandra get into many arguements because of it. Problem is, both also hold grudges and can't let the other have their point.

His Semblance is Energy Healing, where he can redirect energy in his body into his Aura, replacing any Aura that he's lost. If he's already at full Aura, he can push it into overdrive to start healing himself, or give Aura to other people. With how his Semblance works, he's designated as the healer of the team.

His allusion is the Black Tortoise from the Four Gods in Chinese mythology, fitting with the rest of his team.

Chrsyanthi Taurus is the eldest of the two, and one of the growing politicians in Asíle. Since Hajimu is still around and in charge by the time of the CSYN sequel, Chrsyanthi is learning more under her than under either of her dads. She still loves them, but this means she is very close to her granmother, especially compared to Mosu.

While she got Zanthus' hair colour and is more tanned compared to her brother, she did inherit Adam's bull heritage, so she has the big curved horns as well as Adam's blue eyes. Though, she uses lighter yellows and the Belladonna purple in her colour scheme, and her flowers on her sash are in the Team AZRE colours, which is very cute imo.

She doesn't have a Semblance since she didn't unlock it, her fighting prowess has always been pretty low despite Adam making sure she can at least defend herself. Her allusion though is Chrysanthis, with Hajimu as her Demetre.

Ruri and Ha-Yun only had one child:

Hyeon-Ju is their daughter and heir to the entire Kashima fortune, including leadership of Tsubaki. She's also the only one of Team AZRE's kids to not go into the Huntsmen Academy, like Mosu or Yinyue, so she lives in Tsubaki with her family.

She's an Axolotl Faunus like Ha-Yun, with the gills actually causing her deafness similar to both of her mothers. However, she had none of the issues that Ruri had growing up, and was raised in an understanding environment, so she's more well rounded and accepting of her disability.

She took much from Ha-Yun, including her mother's Faunus traits, a lighter tan, her hair colour and her style of clothing, but she did take the purple from Ruri along with Ruri's originally purple eyes. Her design is one of my favourites with how cute it looks, and purple is one of my fav colours.

Her Semblance is locked despite her skill in fighting, and while she tried a few times, she simply gave up after a while and just focused on making sure she was skilled in her other studies. Her allusion though is Haebak, the Korean god of the sun, while her fiance is Dalnim, the Korean goddess of the moon.

That's it for the rest of Team AZRE's kids!

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