character art

[Fensfield]

Oh well this is a lovely idea o.o Here I'll show you Rorin':



Rorina Rokiku. As for how she was created, a friend and I decided to have a go at making Lalafell twins. Their backstory being Rorina kind of realising that a man they'd long considered an uncle and a family friend.. really wasn't a nice person at all, and electing to sneak herself and her sister out of Gridania (she manufactured an excuse about woodsin and being exiled, which her sister fell for >.>).

The process of designing them visually, though? That's.. not quite so easy. We decided we wanted to go for something a little exotic however, thus the darker skintone and the hair colour. After that there was a lot of debate over how to make them look individual and yet compliment one-another, which lead to subtle variations in hair highlights and going for a similar yet not exactly the same choice of facial structure. Eyes were another place we went for individuality (aiming to suggest Rorna's slightly more serious personality, and her sister's somewhat brighter, although the v2.0 rebuild undermined that a bit), as well as - obviously - hairstyle. Since they're both supposed to be fairly young we didn't go too high in terms of character height..

Sadly we messed up a little in choosing Gridania as our starting city. That was a fine choice back in v1.x but v2.0 presented a nice chance to play off the background and choose Limsa Lominsa, which we sadly only realised after character re-creation which we couldn't do-over lest we lose our legacy elements (not that we had a lot to lose, but there were a couple of nice event items and the Mark of the Twelve is neat).

.. Hang on I'll find a picture of her sister to stick on the bottom..


- Roruna, as changed in the v2.0 character creation. And..


- That's Roru' back during v1.x.


.. Ah heck with it, a couple more >.>

- The two together back during v1.x...


- and a drawing by Roruna's player

Gosh those are kinda big. Sorry about that! x.x