#Mae Chouko

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2010s called. #yolo

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"Don't Get Lost" - an Artfight 2023 interaction between @jennablackmorebooks character Mae Chouko from Rainbow, and Phecda Shioto from my book series the Myrios Series. I wonder if this drawing is also a reference to something else...

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I've been drawing characters from Rainbow again lately.

(From the beginning: Mae Chouko, Keiko Arlot, Kaio Asgell, Miya Solstice, Shay Turner, Rega Asgell, and Aichi Arlot).

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Outfits that Adrienne and Mae wear in their books.

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More character keychains with my art.

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@kvroii's character Shicho Deidamia and my character Mae Chouko in a drawing I just finished. 🦋

This art piece is based on Yunomi-P's illustration for the minato song "magnet".

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butterfly

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Another drawing of Mae Chouko, protagonist of Rainbow.

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I finished the drawing of Mae I was working on. I plan to get this one on a keychain, too. It has a bit stronger lighting than I've been working with lately. I really like it.

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Mae Chouko of Rainbow went through many early designs quite quickly in mid-2013, with her hairstyle and outfit initially changing at least a little bit almost every time I drew her. In her very first design, her hair was shorter, with fewer lighter pieces. By page 12 of the first draft of her story, the drawing in the margin brought her hair to its current length, and mostly its current style. Still, it would change throughout margin drawings to become straighter or parted to one side sometimes, depending on what I wanted it to look like to match whichever outfit I was drawing her in.

Her outfits and hair changed greatly throughout 2014-16, too, for the most part becoming longer, but that is a drawing for another time.

Her wings changed, also. Initially they were much more pointed, with the core of them being black, and only the edges being rainbow. Since 2014, her wings have been entirely rainbow.

As the 24th of August marks 10 years since her first design was created, I thought I'd draw some of her earliest designs, alongside her current design (finalized as of 2017 for the publication of Rainbow) in the upper right corner.

And now, time for bed. It's five in the morning. I stayed up all night doing this.

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A few character designs redrawn from notebook margin drawings in the 2013 novella notebooks.

The first two characters are two of the main supporting cast members, the third is the protagonist (an early version of Rainbow's Mae Chouko, with an early version of one of her outfits from the book), and the fourth character here was the first antagonist.

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Mae Chouko from Rainbow :D

I seem to draw her wings a different size every time I draw her. After nearly ten and a half years, I still haven't sorted that out.

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WIP art of Mae Chouko. I am too tired to finish it tonight, and have work in the morning. But, I hope I will see that I've posted it here, and remember to finish it in a short while.

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@kvr0ii if you don't mind, I'm going to answer on this blog, since I want to keep it somewhat separate from my main blog so I can remain uh. employable. extremely dystopian world isn't it

(Context: I made a post on my secret personal blog something about how it's totally cool for my friends to message me at 1 AM to ask about what textiles my characters wear; I considered doing the same thing to some of my friends before getting nervous about it.)

Mae turns 20 just before mid-2016, though the year is never quite stated in the text because every year we move farther and farther away from 2016. She's 19 when she gets her wings at the start of Rainbow. She's not at the point of developing a professional wardrobe for a workplace, she's still able to afford the clothes she wants, and because of the year she's relatively uninfluenced by microtrends and tiktok aesthetics (in fact, if you asked her about Tik Tok, she'd probably think of the song). At this point, business casual was on the back end of having its moment, narrower pants were in style, and while people were talking about sustainable fashion, it wasn't as prevalent casually as discussion of it is now.

There are a few styles that are pretty popular around this time, which she probably gets at the shops. Specifically, we see her with items such as a blazer, a couple of dresses (including one full of glitter), a hoodie, and knit leggings. The blazer is never really something that the origin is revealed of, though it is something Mae hadn't seen in a few months at one point but was familiar enough with to recognise, so we can't be entirely sure if it's perhaps an old wool blazer, or one of the new polyester blazers that were so easy to find in just about any mall clothing store in the mid-2010s. She cut a hole in the arm of it, so it couldn't have been too expensive. She does wear it to go flying over a lake, which wouldn't be the ideal thing to do with wool. Still, I'm going to suggest this might not be completely a win for polyester, since Mae complains of the heat quite a lot, and wool would be more breathable than polyester would be. I'll suggest perhaps this is a secondhand wool blazer. It still holds its structure after being owned a while and also cut in the sleeve, which , having personally owned some of those 2010s mall blazers, I know they wouldn't really have done all that well. The blazer is long, so it might have been a vintage oversized.

Her glitter-covered periwinkle dress, however, is all polyester and plastic, and her knit leggings are probably acrylic and elastane. I think her white dress might be linen, because of its pairing with the azalea crown as a sort of counter to the deeply unnatural Deirdre and Mae's change since acquiring the wings. But, it would have to be quite fitted at the top, since it's strapless. She describes it as a flowing dress, so the bottom is probably quite loose; it's great for the weather since it's an excellent material for hot days, and it flows quite well when there's enough fabric. The sequins on her concert suit are plastic, and the velvet of her boots probably acetate or polyester. The shirt she wears with it is silver, which suggests a non-natural fibre to get that really shiny look, and it wouldn't be silk since she's buying it in a random mall store for one specific event.

(As an aside, when she borrows Kaio's clothes, those are cotton. He's a flannel and jeans and t-shirts sort of lad for his everyday outfits.)

Mae, for the safety of her wings, can get away with wearing whatever she feels like; she never really has scale troubles. Perhaps due to the engineered nature of her wings, physical limitations such as the permanence of scales or the weight of her bones for flight never really matter that much. She notices that the small wing she activates her own wings with is not subject to the whims of physics that regular butterfly wings would be:

And I imagine the same is mostly true for the wings she develops. She never mentions taking precaution (despite her nervous nature) to keep her scales from falling off, and perhaps they do not. As butterfly scales do not grow back, perhaps the solution was for Kaio to engineer the wings in such a way that the loss of scales would not be a factor in the first place. This lets Mae wear whatever she feels like, and she seems to prioritize cut and colour over fibre content, recognising articles of her own and other people's clothing by these features instead of by their fibre content, excepting Keiko's silk dress, something that others Keiko due to its anachronistic nature to the time they live in, and the leathers of Feris who is still apart from Mae and Kaio in the sense of how she gained her wings and her connection with Tornin, and Iron Filings for concert outfits, which are deviations from what she's used to seeing them wear. So, textiles are mostly important to Mae when they serve to mark the wearer as different.

Thank you so much for asking, this was so fun to answer! :D

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The mental image of Tornin climbing up to a bus roof while the vehicle is in motion telling himself it's going to be worth it when he can confront Mae (who can easily fly onto that bus, by the way) amuses me so much. We never get to see that as the reader because Mae has no idea how he got up there but you just know he was there hoping to hell his shirt doesn't get too wrinkled while climbing up like the bike rack or whatever

Mae bestie he's no acrobat he's just more than a little bit unhinged with the determination to scale a moving bus.