Flairina
Least Omnipotent Goddess
- Location
- The next infinity over
Decided to do some fanart of this cuz I enjoy the story alot.
I thought it'd be interesting to try and reinterpret the concept art for everyone's favorite witch a bit.
Hope ya'll enjoy!
(Did I never actually- man, I thought for sure I commented on this; shame on me.) This is awesome! I love the way you drew/made this — the sort of "cut out" look her body has fits perfectly with canon witch "style", and looks great. Tome and Novella are messy-looking in just the right way, and the crosshatching on the ribbons that fades out with distance works really well. Even the frame is amazing; I really appreciate that you took the time for that extra touch. It's very late of me to say, but fantastic job! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
(I actually like your original interpretation of Ashtaroth's vortex hair/lines more than the revised version, by the way!)
A topic for another time. :3
Other familiars with similar impairments make do somehow — I don't think it maps exactly to what humans would consider "eating" anyways, much the same way Ashtaroth's subsumption ability doesn't.
I'm doubtful that would work out as well as you might think, and not just for the more obvious reasons.
On the one hand, oh yes! Finally, a follow up to Rebellion! Yayyyyyy!!!
On the other hand, oh no! The possibility of magic mechanics I've spent way too long thinking over being canonically debunked now exists again! Ahhhhhh!!! D:
That was something of a "throw it in" idea I decided on when Dex first sketched Shemesh — I asked him to give Shemesh an "eye" in all his forms, constructed from whatever landscape/planetary features were present in each one. It doesn't physically function as an eye however, so hitting Shemesh there wouldn't do anything it wouldn't to any other part of his body. I'm uncertain whether or not to make that "canon", given that Ashtaroth has never mentioned it (as I hadn't thought of it then), but I do like how it helps to distinguish him from being just a shape-changing planetoid... perhaps I'll leave that choice up to personal interpretation.
Late in replying to this too; I am so behind on so many things. x_x Threadmarked! You already know my thoughts on this one, but regardless, thank you for another wonderful omake Farseer.
Can't help but wonder where Rochelle's barrier is right now though, or if she brought anyone along with her...Heh, that's pretty much what I said too! Honestly, I don't think Ashtaroth is in danger of running out of things to do with her illusions any time soon — well, unless she's just feeling that uncreative. Perhaps she's in something of a slump, like the one I seem to be in right now. ^^;
I shall do my best to restrain my surprise.
Why thank you! It is my hope that there will, eventually, be more of it to read, as there was technically supposed to be months ago. ^u^;
I won't confirm that exact scenario would function as such, but I can certainly imagine circumstances that could lead to Ashtaroth ending up looking like this.
Ashtaroth finds the tables turned on her as Sayaka and Tira proceed to pilot her around like a human Gundam, fighting for control at times and repeatedly causing Ash to fall on her newly-regained face. Ah, irony.
Heh — the invistext was referencing that I was expecting immediate comparisons to Homura and/or comments about Ashtaroth stealing her color scheme/look, and had several half-formed jokes floating around the back of my mind for that occasion. Guess the resemblance isn't as obvious as I thought though, which I suppose is largely a good thing anyways.
Yes!
A longer skirt probably would fit a humanized Ash better (translating from Tome's relative size), but I do still like this look quite a bit regardless. It certainly integrates Ashtaroth's design into an outfit a lot better than I think I would have managed.
Fair enough! I suppose that wasn't all that fair a question of me to ask, so I appreciate the effort put in to collect all those quotes and think it over regardless. More on that later, I think.
Excellent observation! I haven't actually had much chance to show this in-story yet, but you're certainly not wrong that Ashtaroth is likely more prone to losing track of time than she used to be — though one has to wonder how much of that is the lack of biological imperatives signalling time's passage, and how much is simply the lack of any imposed schedule/structure in her day, now that she doesn't "have" to be anywhere at a specific time or date anymore.
I... kind of love this comparison.
(Somehow, I have managed to go my entire life only hearing references to this song, while never actually hearing the song itself. Yet from I have picked up about it... yeah, this fits perhaps a little too well.)
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