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A little experimental thingie! I'm trying to give Team Galactic an ORAS-esque makeover, and since their personalities were already perfect I'm just gonna double down on the visual side of things. I don't want to change their costumes or hairstyles quite so drastically, but I do think that the team really suffered from everyone having the same age, height and body build.
Time to insert a bit of the Tabitha factor! (Can anyone even remember his old version? Seriously? He was just a grunt with a cape, I think...?)
Having a distinct silhouette that contrasts with everyone else = a great way to make a character scream personality before they even open their mouth! And every form of group scene will work better if the faces are on different levels, and everyone's doing different mannerisms. It's easy to fall into the trap of making everyone ACT the same if they look the same. (This is more of a problem in the anime than the games) It's also just a quick character development exercise to take some sort of typical group relationship that would apparantly "require" a certain kind of height difference to look "right", and figure out how to deliver the exact same feeling with the opposite. How do you make a short person look like a superior officer intimidating the troops? Everyone having the same height is a story device that tends to happen as a reason to avoid these questions and just rely on time-tested cliches instead.

Anyway, enough rambling! :XD:
Here's what I've got so far- our frontline fighter duo, the eternal rivals, Jupiter and Mars! I figured I may as well give them a little 'n large contrast, y'know? I definately got an "ugh, bratty little sister" experience versus enthusiasm vibe from their interactions, so I felt that maybe Mars is closer to teenage and Jupiter is the oldest member aside from the actual old guy.
And I kinda did do a bit with their personalities, I guess. Just personal appeal, I've muted the fanservice factor for everybody, sorry! Whereas the main commander trio always seemed to be like "we are all attractive and flirty" as a primary trait and their differences were secondary, I've flipped the priorities around to make them stand out a bit more from each other.
So Mars is more cutesy/playful/bloodthirsty than flirty, Jupiter is more stern/elegant/arrogant than flirty, and I tried to give them body types that'd match these personalities, kinda.
Oh, and a minor change to Mars's hairstyle so it's more of a pompadour/mohawk than an actual hair spike. It always bugged me that she looks so uncannily like a Toxicroak yet she doesn't have one, and instead Saturn does. And everyone else on the team has some sort of cat/bat eared pokemon except Saturn. And then of course there's Jupiter the Medicham-head, and there's no Medichams anywhere. *throws arms up in the air and gives up on life*
I think everyone's pokemon might have been switched around late in development, or something? Either that or it's the world's most ridiculous coincidence that everybody has pokemon shaped hair yet not the pokemon.

So... yeah! There we go! I may update as I doodle the rest of the team too! :D

Additional rambling ideas of upcoming additions:
Saturn picked up all that spilled flirtyness from the other trio members, and became a bit of a vain prince character XD (Well, that's stapled on the top of his normal characterization, I mean. He's not become completely fanservice...) I'm still working on a ~unique silhouette~ for him, or he might just be the one who stays as he is. *shrug*
And then I'm not very sure how to make Cyrus look distinct from Saturn. Reminds me of how nowadays Disney is all "oh gosh how can we possibly make women look different?" except I have the opposite problem for some reason...?
I like the headcanon that his rather odd appearance (he's only 27) isn't just a rare failure of Sugimori's art, the weird lines on his face are supposed to be sunken cheekbones rather than wrinkles. So like... the dude is very unhealthy because he's so obsessed with his plans to 'make a perfect world'. So maybe a sort of look where he's trying to seem physically imposing and muscular but he actually just wears baggy clothes to hide that he's a stick-thin and sleep deprived bony mess?
...And then we don't really need to redesign Charon cos he was already the only guy on the team with any kind of age/height diversity anyway XD Just give him his anime colourscheme and shove him in a new outfit. *shrug*
Oh, or maybe Mars is actually shorter than him, now...? Throw the guy a bone, I guess!
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Danman22ful's avatar
I hope you continue with this. :)