#(designing absent and usually dead moms from games is a thing I've done...several times now though so uh...yeah!)

[loregoddess]

well, despite the wiki's utter lack of useful info, my love of wildly underdeveloped dead moms with little to no info won out, and I now have an updated design for Ikona

for whatever it's worth, I spent several hours comparing key facial features of the Hoshido siblings and Sumeragi to try and reverse-design what Ikona might have looked like, and came up with the shittiest Punnett squares to figure out eye/hair color (eye/hair color aren't Mendelian traits, Punnett squares for calculating eye/hair color are actually BS). I don't...actually think Kozaki spent the time to try and draw familial similarities, not the way Nuri does at least, but damn if I didn't try to find similarities/differences to work out my design for Ikona

#based on what I remember from when I did do some general research into hair and eye color genetics #the Hoshido siblings all having Very Different Hair Colors is actually plausible #(pretending pink and tomato-red are like...natural hair colors and there's just some fantasy biology going on to allow that) #same goes for their eye colors (I could have sworn Sakura shared her eye color w/ Hinoka and Takumi but she doesn't?) #(fun fact Hinoka and Takumi are the only ones to share an eye color) #(also fun fact every sibling has a bit of Sumeragi's wild fluffy hair--Ryouma and Hinoka moreso than the other two but still) #(everyone has some floof--although Takumi and Sakura's less floofy hair makes me think Ikona didn't have floof) #no but I do now have a comparison chart that is the digital equivalent to the crazy theory corkboard with strings all over it #all this so I can draw a dead mom... #(designing absent and usually dead moms from games is a thing I've done...several times now though so uh...yeah!) #(yes I have headcanons for what dead moms might have looked like based on their children this is not a one-off occurrence) #(it will happen again) #(this is a promise and a warning) #oracle of lore