I was flipping through my old drawings again and noticed two designs that were pretty neat, but I've completely forgotten. What better way to welcome them back than redesign them for the LN universe?
First one is
Faeyaliere. Old version (circa 2006) is
here. A complete redesign, mostly.
She's a Stray who looks like a mechanical doll/ crash test dummy. Her form conversion element is
Moonlight. It's a mysterious power that changes effects depending on whether its night or day. During the day, or when the sun is shining, Faeyaliere's powers is a soothing aura that heals wounds and clears the mind of fears and doubt, strengthening one's fighting resolve. However when night falls, or when the sun becomes obscured, Moonlight becomes a deadly force that brutally lacerates her targets and inflicts them with nightmarish visions hallucinations.
She may appear demure, but appearances can be deceiving! Faeyaliere is a whimsical prankster who loves to poke (mostly harmless) fun at others. She enjoys talking like a robot and does it all the time just to string others along, even though she really isn't one. She also loves to make robotic puns that only she finds funny. In fact, it tends to grind people's gears, but in her opinion, they've got to learn to be less mechanical and just enjoy the joke. Underneath her fun-loving pneumatics however, is a hidden side that shows only when she uses her powers at night. In a nutshell, it's a pretty scary berserker mode that relishes in bloodshed and making victims scream. Not very subtle, is it?
Well, neither is the moon when full.
Second is
Baska. He doesn't have an old picture because it was drawn on paper, and my scanner is busted.
Baska is a mako shark Panzer. He is Faeyaliere's partner, though only in terms of being a team; Panzers and Strays can't bond. The first thing you'll notice is that he's TOUGH. Everything about this guy is TOUGH as nails. He grew up in a bad neighborhood as the only aquatic half-beast, so he got picked on a lot as kids just love to single out people who are different in the slightest ways and beat them into the dirt for it. By the time Baska moved out, the ones growing fat on dirt meals were those guys. He's a guy who'll bring a knife to a gun fight, use the knife to check his hair, then pummel you to death with his fists.
While everything about Baska just about scares the pants off the average person, he isn't a bad guy; he just has an attitude problem. Baska is actually quite shy, and only acts tough and mean because that's the only thing he's learned how to be. He's trying very hard to soften up a bit so he can appear a little less scary. He even incorporated fruits and veggies into his diet. But when the moments of truth come, he always seems to blow it and end up causing an outburst that soils many-a-pants. It doesn't help that he seems to take offense easily, either, often being quick to anger as soon as he suspects someone is apprehensive of him because of his looks.
Another easily noticeable trait is that he isn't very good at maintaining his human form at all. He can do a full shark form just fine, but the picture is the most comfortably human as he'll get. He has to focus
really hard to pull of a decently disguised human form. At least one that'll let him buy beef jerky from the convenience store without someone calling the police. It's also hard to buy shirts that fit his oblong shape... but that's fine. All the better to show off his harpoon wound scar.
Probably not canon or anything. Just for fun.