#or you can imagine palutena dressed them up for fun

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Happy 3 Year Anniversary to the Sonic Movie or whatever

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Hello!! I just wanted to say that I ADORE your KI ocs!!! they're all so detailed and interesting! I'd love to know if you have anything that goes more into depth about their designs and what influenced them, cause I can tell you put so much thought into them!

(also I feel I have to mention this, but I have an oc named Arethusa as well! so seeing that one of yours was named that as well was a bit of a surprise lol)

ohh thank you very much!! you’re very kind!!! it always means a lot that folks seem to like them all so much!!

i have this google doc explaining some of their personalities and in-universe origins, though that’s probably not what you’re asking for since there’s nothing in it about their influences and designs as characters, BUT i can still tell you what i remember thinking when i first made them!!

the concepts for asterie, linus, and raniris were just ‘i like stars, music, and rainbows. i’ll make kid icarus god ocs out of them’ and that was that. i think i was just so into my kiu kick at the time that my brain was ready to start spouting ocs at me i think asterie’s design was supposed to have a viridi-ish feel to it in the dress’ build? i actually don’t remember her inspiration too well sadly. linus’ design is based on an orchestra conductor, octavo from cadence of hyrule, and a bunch of music symbols i found online and just dotted onto his design. (i also originally concepted him as a villain, but that felt awkwardly written so i dropped it)

raniris is inspired by the actual greek goddess iris (her name is that + ‘rain’ without the I) and her design is based on wedding dresses, while the idea for dia came from iris’ golden wings, which i was inspired to turn into its own character as it would fit them being a sort of palutena & pit parallel. her design is also based on flower girls to go with raniris’ wedding dress!

the idea for zero came to me while listening to the kirby planet robobot ost and i just thought a digital pitthree clone would be a genius idea lol. his design is based on pit’s black alt from smash 4 (having silver and purple accents) while also looking somewhere in between pit and dark pit colour-wise, plus his outfit is sort of a modern/casual reinterpretation of pit and dark pit’s actual chitons.

arethusa literally came to me in 0.2 seconds while i was looking through the window one day watching the next door house which wasn’t finished yet getting soaked in the rain. i thought ‘what if there was a rain girl to go with phosphora being a lightning girl’ and then oops. HER design is based on phosphora’s with a more subdued, serious tone to it to go with her being the serious sister vs. phosphora being the energetic sister, and also minus the plants because i figure that’s probably just a viridi thing. there’s also their mother zephyra, goddess of storms, who i have not designed yet and god knows if i’ll ever get around to it

as for the skyworld angel citizens, they’re all from these separate characterisations i made up for fun imagining each of pit and dark pit’s alternate colours in smash being their own characters with their own history. those ideas went all over the place but arcis is green dark pit, leto is yellow pit, ethi is white dark pit, mynta is blue pit, and aui id purple dark pit. and i have more that never got past the scribble stage (but i’d like them to!!!)

apologies if that’s not as interesting or detailed as you were hoping, but it’s the best i’ve got!! especially in terms of their actual personalities because all i can say regarding that is they come to me in my dreams like a prophet receiving visions from an angry god. but thank you again for being interested enough to ask! ;w;