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emsartwork · 2 months

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ALL OF DAPHNE'S TRANSFORMATIONS. INCLUDING UPDATED NYMPHIX.

Previously Fairy of the Dragon Flame now Fairy of Embers. She doesn't have any transformations others than these because she was fast tracked into the nymphix path, and unlike the winx the majority of fairies don't pursue additional transformations past enchantix. (i think Daphne would be interested in Dreamix tho, so maybe I'll draw that eventually.

Her major color shifted after dying and being revived, which is shown in her winx and enchantix.

other lore and design notes below!

I changed her major color from orange/yellow to more of a teal/green because. she just doesn't look good in yellow I'm sorry I really tried but it wasn't working. Also little updates to her hair color, nothing huge tho. Daphne's primary motifs are a branching "Y" shape and a double oval/tear drop. She's a pants when possible girlie and a one set winger(yes her nymphix looks like it have multiple wings but they all merge into one stem on each side) . Her scars from her Sirenix being ripped out of her caused her winx/enchantix to change a little to cover them(mostly seen in the arms) due to insecurity. Her Dryadix/nymphix flower is a daffodil! because pun Daph-Daff, and Daffodils symbolize rebirth and new beginnings (also creativity, energy, resilience, forgiveness and vitality). Her Harpix wings aren't super specificly patterned, but she has darting wings common in small song and seed birds (robins, finches, brown birds etc.) the coloring is referential of a Shrike (also called a Butcher Bird), because Daphne was. incredibly dangerous and if she had sided with the ancestral probably would have been given a moniker similar to Butcher of Domino or Daphne the Slaughterer. (some people do call her these but its mostly among people who dislike Domino/The Royal Family.)

Lore! Daphne doesn't have a great sense of self, she was planned as a necessary successor to Marion/the dragon flame in a period as the ancestral witches were escalating their attacks and search for the dragon flame. Bloom was a back up baby in case both Daphne and Marion got dead and basically worked as intended haha. Daphne was also much more publicly involved in the kingdom than many of the other royals in winx (Stella, Aisha, Krystal and even Galatea to an extent all had rather sheltered upbringings) in a way Daphne is much more like Sky and Thoren in the since that none of them really had the space to develop their own personality outside of their familial duty.

Daphne's 1st winx and enchantixes are as direct a copy of her mom's Enchantix as you can get with transformations, right down to the more greenish tint of her major color. Growing up Marion used her fairy form liberally, so that, combined with being the next Dragon Flame holder left a deep impact on Daphne's subconscious. Daphne was also heavily influenced by Faragonda during her Alfea and Nymphix Quest years, but since she was older this isn't as deep an influence. After being revived, Daphne's years of defining herself as her connection to Bloom causes her major color to shift more blue in response to her trauma. Daphne is slowly starting to develop a sense of self outside of her titles/connections but it's unlikely her major color will shift again unless she has another major trauma.

(for the record the Winx do have trauma over the timeline I have laid out that would potentially cause their major colors to shift but I didn't do that for a couple reasons 1, their colors are iconic and make them easily recognizable as characters; 2, I'm a tired bitch. )

#winx #winxems #winx club #winx daphne #enchantix #harmonix #sirenix #dryadix #harpix #coatlnix #nymphix #DONT look at these too closely the line art and some coloring is a mess i got sick of them half way through #Fairy of embers title subject to change but i like it for now #something about Daphne is so wrong I want to put her in a jar and study her <3

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snarky-art · 1 month

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Fire help me to forget

More Daphne angst quickies

#winx club #winx #winx club daphne #daphne winx club #winx daphne #daphne winx #the fall of domino #tw dead body #tw fire #tw blood #tw body horror #i guess??#just in case at least #winx club redesign #winx redesign #snarky winx #illustration #digital art #artists on tumblr

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winxdoodles · 4 months

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solisvia · 1 month

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✨ Nymph extraordinaire ✨

Some ramblings below

This is how Daphne appears before and during the Fall of Domino. I like to think that transformations change along with the person, so the way she looks after her resurrection will be a fair bit different.

Her original design is already really pretty, so I didn't want to stray from it too much - so basic elements like her silhouette remain mostly the same. I kept yellow/gold as her main color, only adding a little bit of cyan and purple to diversify it.

The Dragon Flame is one the defining aspects of her identity. It's simultaneously a great honor and a massive burden, and I tried to imply that in the design. She proudly displays iconography depicting the Great Dragon but its most notable appearence is curled tightly around her waist. Most of the lines of the design meet there, and it's meant to look tight and constricting - the choker around her neck plays into this too.

I also incorporated a few aspects of Marion's canon design, and I've taken them to be the attire of Dominian high society. Her crown takes a lot of inspiration from the one we see on Marion in Magical Adventure, her hair is in a half up half down style, and there's armor around her shoulders, the same as her parents.

I really wanted to add a dragonlike mask but I couldn't make it look good, so she gets some WOOSH around her eyes instead.

#winx club #winx redesign #winx daphne #winx fanart #winx #my art #the lines are super messy ignore them #she only has one leg ignore that too #as per usual tumblr murdered the quality

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doodlegraveyard · 4 months

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Do you have any more character design passes for the other royal families of Winx? I love what you did with the Eraklyon royal family and I can't lie, hearing your design process is always fun

Hi!! I’m doing some updates on my domino designs now actually, should show up here sometime in the next weeks. I’m glad it’s interesting, I’m gonna definitely do more of my rambly process posts here.

In the meantime have some devastating Daphne and baby Bloom sister content @napalmtears

#winx club #winx club reboot #winx bloom #winx Daphne #winx domino

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dragonfly0808 · 3 months

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How Daphne Haunts the Narrative

I love the concept of a character haunting the narrative. Just… ugh I can’t even explain it.

My favorite examples of this are Sejannus and Lucy Gray in the Hunger Games.

I always found the concept of Daphne to be a very interesting one in the OG, this girl who was a Nymph and an amazing fairy sacrificing it all for her sister and winding up a ghost in a lake.

But I felt like that concept was never used to it’s full potential.

So… I tried to do just that.

In my rewrite, Daphne is almost this larger-than-life entity. She wasn’t just Bloom’s sister.

She was an amazing fairy in her own right, she was a Nymph and the best Guardian of the Dragon Flame that’d been seen in centuries. On top of all of that, she was a dedicated Princess.

That’s part of what makes her tragic, she was the best, and she was still taken down.

Now, Daphne’s situation isn’t what I would call a proper haunting of the narrative, but she’s definetly very present in the way that, in some way or another, almost everything leads back to her.

Bloom is haunted by the idea of having to live up to Daphne, the more she learns about her sister the more she feels like she won’t be able to do just that.

Bloom’s haunted by the memory everyone has of her sister, everyone who remembers Daphne has an insane level of respect for her and misses her dearly. That’s something that can intimidate Bloom from time to time and even make her jealous.

Then, there’s the fact that, if Domino hadn’t fallen and Daphne hadn’t been cursed, then Bloom wouldn’t even be a fairy in the first place.

Daphne gave up, not just the Flame but also a big part of her own power in order to keep Bloom safe and give her the power she would need to be the Guardian of the Flame.

Due to this, Bloom is haunted by guilt and resentment. Guilt due to the fact that pretty much everything she has could technically be seen as something that was ‘taken’ from Daphne. There comes the guilt, which then meets… resentment. Guilty resentment towards Daphne for giving her the Flame and being the action that drops the dominoes towards arguably every bad thing in Bloom’s life.

So, Bloom’s view and relationship of/with Daphne, is complicated to say the least.

This is something I love, since it allows for Bloom’s complex feelings to turn into something that I feel a lot of little sisters can relate to, just the confusion of loving and adoring your sister but also feeling jealousy and resentment and just, not being sure whether you should be like them and trying to be your own person when you have the same teachers… I think it’s kinda relatable in a way. If you take away all the magical shenanigans of course.

This is how Daphne haunts Bloom specifically, but this is named after the narrative, so how does Daphne haunt the very narrative of Veiled Wings?

That, is a very interesting question that has a bit of a complicated answer.

There are two ways in which Daphne haunts the narrative.

The first is ala Star Wars; the story ‘rhyming’. I don’t know if you’ve watched this very old interview with George Lucas but he said something along the lines of “the story rhymes”, what this means is that the same beats occur in the story, in opposite or contrasting ways. They ‘rhyme’.

This is what happens with Daphne and Bloom, in a sense, their stories rhyme.

Both grow up a bit lonely, both find their heart and soul in Alfea. Both make life-long friends there. Bloom finds her connections with fellow fairies while Daphne preffered witches and warlocks and Palladins.

They meet Tabitha and Stella, both with similar personalities but opposite powers. Avalon and Timmy, with the same habit of diving head first into research about anything they’re passionate about and being just a little (unapologetically) weird.

Then there’s their romances. Both Daphne and Bloom have tragedies as romances. Daphne and Valtor started off great, it was their ending that was oh so tragic. While, for Bloom and Sky, it’s Valtor that turns them into a tragedy in the middle of their relationship.

Politea and Selina, both dear friends lost to inner darkness.

Bloom’s story parallels a lot of Daphne’s. (Even if a lot of it is stuff that I just made up that hasn’t really been mentioned or explained).

The second way in which Daphne haunts the narrative, is that, like I mentioned before, almost everything leads back to Daphne in some way or another.

A lot of the villains or people we encounter have ties to her or are situations that she began/participated in in some kind of way.

Darkar was created in part due to Daphne. Darkar attacks Daphne, in turn, Valtor curses him and he becomes the red skeleton we know and love. Daphne is his origin story.

Before Bloom fought Icy, Daphne fought Icy’s cousin and her coven, who was the first to awaken the Ancestral Witches spirit. That is one parallel that I really like just, adding to the fight even if neither Icy nor Bloom are fully aware of the history of previous family also fighting.

Teachers we know (Griselda, Tabitha and Avalon most of all though Codatorta and Palladium also fall here) were once friends with Daphne.

Valtor’s entire reason for fighting is avenging and trying to bring back Daphne. And of course, the Ancestral Witches are locked away in time back in Domino as Daphne’s final act as a warrior.

The end of Daphne’s story sets up the world the Winx start off in.

In a sense, all roads lead back to her.

The narrative can’t escape Daphne’s past actions, her choices, her story rhymes with Bloom’s and a lot of what happens in the story happens due to Daphne’s past and things that she once did.

I always felt like she was never fully utilized in the OG show and I really wanted to have her be a nearly constant presence, I wanted her to be perhaps even more than a ghost.

And thus, the idea of her haunting the narrative and Bloom.

#Veiled wings anniversary #veiled wings and shattered panoramas #winx club #winx rewrite #winx #winx headcannon #winx fanfic #winx headcanons #winx club rewrite #winx daphne #winx bloom #winx valtor

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darkpoisonouslove · 9 days

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I am not taking criticisms.

#winx club #winx oritel #winx hagen #winx valtor #winx griffin #winx marion #winx daphne #winx erendor #winx samara #ancestral witches #winx saladin #winx faragonda #why they'd commit a murder #meme #chart #visuals

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winxbutbetterimo-ovo · 2 months

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Daphne’s Enchantix

This is my design for daphne’s enchantix as the fairy of the hearth.

I gave her Stella’s enchantix concept hair coz i think it suits her maturity. And the wing shape is from Iridescenttides on instagram. I liked that it looked dragon-y

#magic winx #winx #winx rewrite #winx headcanons #winx club redesign #winx club #winx redesign #winx au #winx daphne #winx club daphne #winx club rewrite #winx club fanart #winx fanart

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ilikemuffins · 9 months

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Winx theory ✨

In season 1, episode 8, the dancing girl that reminds Bloom of Daphne is actually Layla. Maybe, sneaking out of Andros to be herself and dance.

Source: my 8 year old brain.

Idk. My favourite trope is the found-family friends subtly crossing paths before they first meet. This fuels that - so I don’t accept constructive criticism.

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arckamsims · 7 days

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WINX CLUB UPDATE CC (All Outfits for sims4 + Charmix) & Pixies

Greetings guys, I bring you this cc based on the Winx Club series, I have been working for a long time to bring you this cc, I know you have waited a long time and I hope it is worth it for you, always grateful for the support, I love you guys

What you should know:

1- this cc is designed to be used with the mod: cas up boots/high heels slider 2- The Pixies are just accessories, they do not have any interaction or animation. 3- If you want to recolor and publish, don't include the mesh, leave the link to this post 4- You can convert my content or use part of them as a base, if you do, tag me and don't forget the credit.

Credits:Katinka Dress by Sifix

CC LIST:

Body Preset

All Outfits

Magic Winx & Charmix

#the sims 4 #thesims4 #the sims cc #sims4 #winx club #winx bloom #winx stella #winx flora #winx musa #winx tecna #winx aisha #winx daphne

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ghostsprobably · 1 year

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helloooo 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝔁 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶🧚‍♀️

realized i never put all of the main girlies together in one post, so here they all are!

if you like my redesigns, pls feel free to check out the videos that go alongside them! i’ve been doing a rewrite project where I reimagine the whole series into a three season format, trying to remix the original show into a more solid form. there’s new backstories, lore, and worldbuilding, and i am always looking for feedback and suggestions!

here’s the first video in the series: https://youtu.be/3JraTom_j4Y

and a bonus Daphne!

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snarky-art · 1 month

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Oh wow they really are sisters, huh?

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solar-tl-27 · 9 months

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DAPHNE IS DONE

Daphne is finished which means BOOM I’M DONE WITH THE ENCHANTIX REDESIGNS!!

next I’ll probably work on charmix!

But for now our one our only DAPHNEEEEE

In my redesign I mostly based her of her dad!

I also wanted her design to be more dragon than flame compared to bloom get a little contrast there💅💅💅 i love the way she turned out she is baby

Also daphne is already sirenix level when she’s introduced so this is more a flashback design where she is around the same age as bloom is when she gets her enchantix!

#winx #winx club #winx redesign #winx fanart #enchantix #winx daphne #winx reignited

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solisvia · 1 month

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Post-revival Nymph girl!

She doesn't look like this right away, but a few years down the line, after she's had a chance to heal.

Companion piece to this

I knew going in that I wanted the green and the absurdly long ponytail. The most important thing was to make it easy to move in - so the train is open and flowy, and the restrictive metal from the earlier design is removed. Her crown is largely unchanged, but the purple chains have been replaced with black pearls. There is no mask (or even the hint of one. Pretend there's a mask in the other design 😭) because she doesn't feel the need to hide her emotions or discard her own needs anymore.

The looser design shows how much freer and happier Daphne is. She's found a way to come to terms with what happened to her and she bears the scars proudly. I like double meanings, so the lack of a tight skirt means this is better suited for combat as well. I'd imagine Daphne to be very aware of the reality that there's nothing stopping further horrors from finding her and hers.

Originally I tried to make the whole thing a loose gown, but bearing in mind her character development, I thought pants would suit her better. It had the effect of making this look more like her Sirenix, which wasn't intentional, but I can call it a happy accident. It is still very much Nymphix though.

Since she's no longer burdened by the Dragon Flame, she instead wears her personal symbol of a teardrop. I think it suits her, not only because she has a water association, but also because she's gone through a massive tragedy. With the loss of the Flame, she instead uses the unique dream magic that earned her her Nymph status!

#winx club #winx daphne #winx redesign #winx fanart #winx #my art #the muse is musing so i'm on a roll

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doodlegraveyard · 3 months

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Hello I wanted to know if you defined your version of the nymphs from winx yet

Hey what’s up! JSYK I got your other asks too I’m just saving them until I have something interesting to say/real life is kicking my ass.

As for the nymphs I was interested in the early lore we got about the nymphs of magix and I am treating the Nymphs as an order of powerful fairies dedicated to protecting the great dragons flame and the balance of magic, also kind of taking the spirit of the concept of guardian fairies a little bit?

The original nine would probably be like, legendary figures who aren’t around anymore but the Order of nymphs would have been styled after them. I like the idea that they’re associated with the great dragon and the likenesses are used in temples and state buildings and stuff.

I was working on concepts for the vestments, kind of inspired by how Daphne originally looked but I’m sheepish to do the full bird head thing idk tho.

I think the vast majority of the nymphs were killed during the fall of domino and the order is slightly defunct now, tho I do think it’s a nice if predictable move to make the number of the original legendary nymphs (9) into 6 with the implication being that the Winx girls can kind of be a revival of the concept (or 7 if I include Roxy in that)

#winx #Winx club #winx daphne #asks #Seth-the-whalelord #winx club reboot #I’m not that attached to any of these yet #so let me know what you think

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dragonfly0808 · 3 months

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How did Daphne/Valtor Happen? (How did I come up with that?)

One of the things that changed s3 so very much is the relationship between Daphne and Valtor.

The way that this happened is that I really wanted Valtor to be a very personal villain, I already knew that I wanted him to be originally from Domino, and then, while seeing a post about Bloom/Valtor I was struck with the idea of having Valtor have a relationship with Daphne as a way of connecting him even more with Bloom

I also thought it gave Daphne more like… realism? Like, we’ve briefly met people who were at some point or another friends of Daphne’s (Tabitha, Avalon, etc.) but it felt like having Valtor be her fiance made her and the loss of her be more tangible and feel more real in a way, like we meet people who grief her so much

It was a way to give more characterization to both Daphne and Valtor respectively through having them almost die for each other, doing eveything in their power to protect the other but in a way still failing.

I thought it’d be great to just have them be a tragedy. Just for funsies

#Veiled wings anniversary #veiled wings and shattered panoramas #winx club #winx rewrite #winx #winx headcannon #winx fanfic #winx headcanons #winx bloom #winx valtor #winx daphne #valtor x daphne #daphne x valtor

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