Half-burned. Half-blind. Half scar. The lone survivor of apocalyptic inferno stews in scorn, honing her blades until star and god alike are flayed ribbons of glistening gore. A silent war in peace. A perfect hatred born from love. A tired life defined by death.

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This was a commission done for me by @uezima_haya on Skeb!: https://skeb.jp/@uezima_haya

I'd been meaning to get Valencia redesigned for a while. Like the original draft of Beatrice, I rushed in gathering references and stuff, and I felt that the resulting design did not match her appearance. Those who read the more recent stories she has appeared in would note that she wears a mask to cover the scars - but even aside from that, her design felt a bit too cutesy for the tone of her story.

However, I struggled finding an artist that I thought could capture the right balance between the elegant factor and the cool factor. Until I found this artist, and I just knew I had to get this from them! There is definitely a certain intensity to her now; be it from her more noticeably muscular build, to her more narrow face, that half-lidded, side-eye glare. She has a more unique outfit as well - it gives her something of an aristocratic vibe, but then, she is friends with Beatrice, so perhaps she's rubbing off on Val. (From the Doylist perspective, it is because I used Uncle Lovecraft as a reference, because he tends to be drawn with the full-body sort of clothing I was thinking of.)

I made sure to keep the fox hairtie, though. It was, I think, the most inspired part of her first design.

Considering their propensity for drawing the absolutely prettiest of men, I'm likely to hire them again, should I get some of the more manly guys in the setting drawn. Or just when I want to get a character being cool, really~

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