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Another day another prince~

Day 5 of drawing OCs in princess dresses (tho it is… once again… a suit…. I really gotta rename this…)

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Day 4 of OCs in princess dresses (tho it’s a boy in prince fashion again)

I forgot his moles last time BUT NOT TODAY

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Ciel and [REDACTED] as adults bc THEY’RE FINE AND THEY’LL GROW UP AND CIEL WILL BE THE EARL AND HIS BROTHER WILL OWN A TOY COMPANY I SWEAR *gets dragged back into the padded room*

O!Ciel will most likely die by the end of black butler, but I am in fierce denial

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I was looking at Dhalias drip marketing that came out today, and his outfit looked so familiar, but I couldn’t pinpoint why.

Y’all, I finally figured it out…

This show haunts me (affectionate)

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A mid-flight encounter~

My submission from the week 1 Branonline fanart gallery that I forgot to post here lol

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Day 3 of drawing ocs princess dresses, *~boy edition~*

…that is to say drawing prince suits, not boys in dresses (tho that doesn’t sound like a bad idea either)

I love ouji fashion but my god is it convoluted to draw ( ´Д`)y━･~~

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You know how in Christianity Jesus is often depicted as white despite being middle-eastern because…. Racism?? I assume?? Maybe they know he’s supposed to have less clothing but reject that reality for some reason. Maybe there is a cultural reason they slutshame him.

While I'm at it, have a compilation of depictions of Barbatos. We know Mondstadt's are inaccurate:

but it really takes the piss.

For reference, here's his canon stripper archon outfit as seen in the webtoon and a TCG card:

I'll assume the missing ring things in the last image are an error. And that the TCG looks different for actual Teyvat residents; it would leak sensitive information about gods otherwise. The only difference I can see in the TCG depiction is the wings look more like... actual wings, but gold-rimmed fabric is still either fused with or draped over them.

With that in mind:

Statues of the Seven

Robes cover everything but his arms and face

No adornments on his wings or chest

No fusion of wings and fabric; instead they float a small distance from his back, attached to nothing

No cecilia

'Gateway to Celestia' statue

Outfit shows his figure more, especially his legs

Drapey sash thing over one arm and spiraling around him

Chest adornment but no wing adornments

Wings attached to back; unclear if they're meant to be attached to the fabric there or go through it

No cecilia

Wind, Courage and Wings depiction 1

(aka the fairytale Amber gives us in the prologue)

Outfit halfway between the above statue's and the stripper one

Chest adornment (simplified), no wing adornments

Gold-trimmed fabric over his shoulders extends into points instead of fusing into his wings

Simplified version of right leg sock thing

Left leg bare, no teal marking

May also have the booty shorts

Right arm bare, left maybe sleeved all the way to torso

Body wrapped in sash, maybe more loosely than the main statue

Lower part of sash maybe draped around both wrists

Something (maybe the sash) trails off, green/teal and semi-transparent

Wings have teal tint

Cecilia with green leaves

Wind, Courage and Wings depiction 2

You know. The same book.

Sash gone

Almost his stripper outfit except:

Wings still teal and unadorned, now also transparent

Other inaccuracies from depiction 1 present (no gold trims or teal lights on most of the outfit, though the crop top thing has one now)

No 'tail'

Cecilia leaves still green

Dvalin's story

This is a visual accompanying an account from Venti himself; unsurprisingly it's much more accurate. Some of the discrepancies could be intentional simplifications for the cutscene, but maybe the fact the finer details still don't match has implications about the story's accuracy.

Still lacks many gold trims and teal lights

Teal markings not present

Wings look like inorganic extensions of his outfit's fabric again, albeit with a subtle teal gradient and strange zigzags

Wing adornments finally there but lack spikes for some reason

Bonus: 2021 birthday art

From the official twitter. Faithful to the webtoon design except:

Thin gold trims along borders that previously lacked them

Pattern inside hood

New notches in crop top thing

I'm unsure if this is an overly detailed version of him for fun or if we should consider this his true canon design. The TCG card doesn't really clarify except the neck might have a gold trim:

So maybe?

In conclusion, Mondstadt doesn't know what Barbatos looks like and we might not either. At best some sort of transition from dressing more like his previous form, which happens to have detached 'wings' like his Statues of the Seven:

to the way he dresses now could explain some but not all of the discrepancies. But it's very possible (and maybe aligns better with his character story) that he's been using his current outfit for god business the entire time and all of his depictions are wrong.

Maybe the real archon outfit was the friends we made along the way.

The one constant is they always look like Nameless Bard.

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Congratulations to Furina for being the only (ex) Archon who actually makes bank (although it is not her actively looking for jobs, but almost entirely people throwing money at her, begging her to let them hire her)

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Day 2 of drawing princess dresses~

The reference oc today’s dress was from that one black butler 1st person dating sim OVA, does anyone remember that?

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Day 1 of teaching myself how to design princess dresses using my ocs (*´∀`)♪

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Of course when you have to finish a Uni assignment is when you suddenly find the motivation to draw

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Sometimes u just gotta draw a lesbian princess and knight (*´ω`*)

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Uncanny how this art appeared on my feed mere hours after I saw this post on Pinterest

you can take your mora