I like the fashion in the first pic... and pretty much everything about it except Alicia's face. Not sure if it's the eyes, or if I see her with more pronounced cheek bones that would make those glasses in totally the wrong place. But it captures the off-work clothing well: Athena's attire is more masculine, Athena's is more feminine, and Akira is more high fashion. Anyway, this is my current desktop picture:
![[Image: __alicia_florence_aria_drawn_by_sugi87__...437dbf.jpg]](https://hijiribe.donmai.us/data/__alicia_florence_aria_drawn_by_sugi87__6bc4f8f3ea7e7bd9a5683ebefb437dbf.jpg)
The background of that is the Rialto Bridge, which is famous enough to be on the city logo for Rialto, California (which is in the desert, of course, because people here love irony).
And well, maybe I found my reason for making my residents not want to defect to the real Venice: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venic...index.html
Sorry about not making all of those pages right away, but I try to make the wiki pages part of my writing routine. When I write one, it means I have a good enough handle on how I want to protray the character and their story arc. This has been slower for some, because undines don't seem to generate much conflict. Four of the azumangakko will generate conflict just out of boredom, bless their hearts. And the Cardcaptor crew, well, they all have huge goals in addition to growing up, so that's easy.
I've watched the first series of Ai Yori Aoshi which means I've seen as much as Tomo has -- she knows anime very well, but only up to Spring 2003. My thoughts can be summed up with: yeah, I can work with that. Plenty of characterization available. At first I was worried about having damaged people around more joyful people, but it'll be fine, as everyone will be able to pitch in on the group therapy. Aoi will probably be the hardest, but she's lucky -- imagine if she had grown up with an arranged marriage to Akio Ohtori instead. Kaoru's been getting better just by having family, Taeko just needs to hang out with Athena a bit, and Miyu was probably caught before it got too bad. Tina won't look like a gaijin in L.A., although she runs the risk of being a #MeToo subject.
I don't really have any plots yet, but had a few ideas:
The background of that is the Rialto Bridge, which is famous enough to be on the city logo for Rialto, California (which is in the desert, of course, because people here love irony).
And well, maybe I found my reason for making my residents not want to defect to the real Venice: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venic...index.html
Sorry about not making all of those pages right away, but I try to make the wiki pages part of my writing routine. When I write one, it means I have a good enough handle on how I want to protray the character and their story arc. This has been slower for some, because undines don't seem to generate much conflict. Four of the azumangakko will generate conflict just out of boredom, bless their hearts. And the Cardcaptor crew, well, they all have huge goals in addition to growing up, so that's easy.
I've watched the first series of Ai Yori Aoshi which means I've seen as much as Tomo has -- she knows anime very well, but only up to Spring 2003. My thoughts can be summed up with: yeah, I can work with that. Plenty of characterization available. At first I was worried about having damaged people around more joyful people, but it'll be fine, as everyone will be able to pitch in on the group therapy. Aoi will probably be the hardest, but she's lucky -- imagine if she had grown up with an arranged marriage to Akio Ohtori instead. Kaoru's been getting better just by having family, Taeko just needs to hang out with Athena a bit, and Miyu was probably caught before it got too bad. Tina won't look like a gaijin in L.A., although she runs the risk of being a #MeToo subject.
I don't really have any plots yet, but had a few ideas:
- Athena and Taeko fall down the stairs together and switch personalities (don't worry, Sakura has Change)
- Nadeshiko actually did fall in love with a commoner -- and Sonomi let her parents decide. Sonomi will be very sympathetic to Kaoru and Aoi.
- Chika becomes a Pair -- e-hee!
- Miyabi + Sonomi + Alicia need to run some sort of company together, for serious
- Maybe Tina would be interested in vet med along with Sakaki?
- Taeko: Tomoyo finds another victim to dress up (the good news about Tomoyo is that you won't be a fashion victim, just a victim of fashion)
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto