#Black Girl Magic Hair

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Now things are getting real and I hope folx are chill with changing a characters race (I’m thinking tentative yes after all the HP/Black!Hermione discourse?)

Anyway, this is my rendition of Veronica. I love Felicia Day and I love Veronica’s character. My reasoning for changing her race was 1) I didn’t feel it detracted from her story, 2) I’m ultimately hoping to create a comic for you tumblr and so 3) I wanted a more diverse set of characters.

I will have lots of People of Color and non-binary Folks as original characters, but I felt like Fallout could do more. I think she should still have the same voice tho 😙 it’s just so iconic. I also think some character history with her magic Black Girl hair would be really fun; a variety of hairstyles could be something that her BOS family passed into her. The only thing I really like about BOS is that they don’t discriminate based on race (just ghouls and super mutants and enclave remnants and -)

Body references for these images comes from Google searches of Sonequa Martin-Green, in character as Michael Burnham (Star Trek: Disco) and as her charming self. I adore Martin-Green as Burnham, but I’d love to see her be a more bubbly personality like Veronica.

What do you think?

PS fuck drawing power fists Good Lord

Edit, Sources

1 - full body shot

2 - close-up

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I had to draw these two sweeties from @kianamaiart ‘s magical girl concept!! This is just an idea I had: I like to imagine them doing each others hair and Aika wants to be good at hair like Zira is, but never has the attention span to do anything complicated. When Aika asks to try helping with Zira’s hair, how could Zira say no to a hangout opportunity that would take hours and hours! Aika thinks Zira’s hair is simply immaculate and she wants to show her appreciation with this act of service. Zira thinks Aika’s hair is so cute and she’d love to have a more adventurous hairstyle like that but she doesn’t wanna draw attention to herself. Maybe they’re binging the Pokémon movies lol

Bonus sketch:

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Happy Black History 🤎

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More of Veronica! (Pose Sources below)

Sorry if you already saw this, I’m (still) figuring out the reblog system and perma confused

My headcanon of Veronica is that she loves bright colors, but obvs. in Mojave you can’t be brightly colored unless you’re Bright Blue… the patches on her scribe robes indicate where she flex’s this love of color. In New Vegas she goes all out and wears extravagant dresses. She uses her engineering skills to melt metals and solder, creating her own earrings to match her elaborate old-world dresses.

I can tell I will need to continue practicing Black skin, without muddying up everything. Most successful (& my fave by far) is the closeup from previous post.

Also - power armor, it’s a No from Me, thanks. I’m unhappy with how that one came out but ya live ya learn, that’s what practice is for, etc and so on ~

Sources:

1 - dress

2 - closeup

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