Code Geass R3 Alter - Picture of the Start
A new project is on the way. It's a bit off the beaten path, in that it steps ahead of the curve, instead of redrafting it.
This project started as many of my past projects have; it was a simple idea that sort of snowballed into something more in the absence of a brake.
This project started as many of my past projects have; it was a simple idea that sort of snowballed into something more in the absence of a brake.
The original idea was a Nasuverse tie-in with my Cromwell Universe. I had recently decided that Semiramis from Fate/Apocrypha would be part of the pantheon of identities for Kali of the Two-Six. I commonly make odd-couple jokes in Cromwell about Drusilla meeting the alternate versions of those known to Anzu in other BotS main-line universes (First Moon, First Sun, etc.). I am going to do this again with Drusilla meeting Semiramis, being paired with her in a Holy Grail War. I then had the idea that I would incorporate alternate versions of the Two-Six as the other servants.
In picking out the servants to represent the rest of the Two-Six, which version of the Grail War to follow, and all the rest, some servant choices were easier than others - Ishtar as Rahzenshia Rose was an obvious sell. I arrived at a debate on the identity to attach to Hime, and the fact that there were several Servants that fit her. Particularly a problem was the fact that Kurokami was the first of the Two-Six to adopt one of the Fate universe servants, Red Saber/Nero specifically. But that idea matches very well with Hime's personality, and for good reason. After all, Hime and Kurokami were always meant to be very similar personalities.
I was skeptical about splitting servants too readily, noting the potential that Hime could be Red Saber and Kurokami could be Saber Bride. Considering alternate options, a compelling thought was Ruler/Jeanne d'Arc. I got very interested in drawing one of these concepts.
I started with the Hime and Saber Red idea, but paused partway through as I soured on the prospect of splitting up Saber Red and Saber Bride. I'll still finish that art project, but it will no longer have much, if any, canon value.
The Jeanne idea quickly took the lead. The biggest positive was the idea that I could use Jeanne Alter to portray the darker side of Hime that manifests in First Sun, and terrorizes Anzu and company in parts of Overture and Cromwell.
Given this was about the time I finished the Euphemia C(li)ne Britannia project, I was thinking I had done a series of bright and colorful pictures going back a little ways. Even the Monster Girl project for Hime, even with a dusk setting, was still a relatively bright one.
Still, thinking I'd start with Ruler Jeanne instead of Avenger Jeanne, I began planning the eventual image. But, Jeanne's outfit doesn't match Euphemia very well, in my view. That's not to say anything bad about Jeanne's outfit, just that it doesn't fit the general imagery of Euphemia's normal clothes.
Ironically, Saber/Altria Alter's does. Although I considered Altira too, her general demeanor, either as her Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay, or Heaven's Feel self, is generally too serious, brooding, and imposing a personality to work with Hime. Which works out too bad, being that there is so much Arthurian legend at play in Geass. But her dress is pretty much perfect for Hime.
So, you end up with what is basically a two-stage idea; Jeanne and Jeanne Alter as a part of Hime's pantheon, while she dresses like Saber Alter.
To make sense of that, I thought I might write a brief story for the image I was working on - a sort of accompanying short story. It was supposed to be super short; something like a couple paragraphs. But the idea started to branch out.
In turn, I ended up at the idea of merging the Orleans chapter of Fate/Grand Order, with the not-yet-in-existence story of the Code Geass R3 anime. Of the anime I knew little other than the fact that Lelouch has somehow supposed to have been revived.
My idea is simple. In place of a revived Lelouch, I have a revived Euphemia, who, like the "revived" Jeanne in F/GO, has come back as an agent of vengeance looking to cause a lot of death and destruction.
I've now designated this story as a Looking Glass series. In other words, it takes place outside the normal bounds of the main-line sagas. This one is mostly a series of questions and answers (if Euphemia were revived, would she be the same or different? Where would everyone else who survived be? How would they react?). I don't try to fit the story or characters neatly into a predetermined route, but instead try to determine how the characters I am limited to would react in the given circumstance.
For that reason, there isn't really going to be much surprise in terms of which characters appear, though the exact characterization may not be what you would expect.
Check the following posts for more info, including some of the characters and broader plot points that will be covered in the future of this story.
In picking out the servants to represent the rest of the Two-Six, which version of the Grail War to follow, and all the rest, some servant choices were easier than others - Ishtar as Rahzenshia Rose was an obvious sell. I arrived at a debate on the identity to attach to Hime, and the fact that there were several Servants that fit her. Particularly a problem was the fact that Kurokami was the first of the Two-Six to adopt one of the Fate universe servants, Red Saber/Nero specifically. But that idea matches very well with Hime's personality, and for good reason. After all, Hime and Kurokami were always meant to be very similar personalities.
I was skeptical about splitting servants too readily, noting the potential that Hime could be Red Saber and Kurokami could be Saber Bride. Considering alternate options, a compelling thought was Ruler/Jeanne d'Arc. I got very interested in drawing one of these concepts.
I started with the Hime and Saber Red idea, but paused partway through as I soured on the prospect of splitting up Saber Red and Saber Bride. I'll still finish that art project, but it will no longer have much, if any, canon value.
The Jeanne idea quickly took the lead. The biggest positive was the idea that I could use Jeanne Alter to portray the darker side of Hime that manifests in First Sun, and terrorizes Anzu and company in parts of Overture and Cromwell.
Given this was about the time I finished the Euphemia C(li)ne Britannia project, I was thinking I had done a series of bright and colorful pictures going back a little ways. Even the Monster Girl project for Hime, even with a dusk setting, was still a relatively bright one.
Still, thinking I'd start with Ruler Jeanne instead of Avenger Jeanne, I began planning the eventual image. But, Jeanne's outfit doesn't match Euphemia very well, in my view. That's not to say anything bad about Jeanne's outfit, just that it doesn't fit the general imagery of Euphemia's normal clothes.
Ironically, Saber/Altria Alter's does. Although I considered Altira too, her general demeanor, either as her Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay, or Heaven's Feel self, is generally too serious, brooding, and imposing a personality to work with Hime. Which works out too bad, being that there is so much Arthurian legend at play in Geass. But her dress is pretty much perfect for Hime.
So, you end up with what is basically a two-stage idea; Jeanne and Jeanne Alter as a part of Hime's pantheon, while she dresses like Saber Alter.
To make sense of that, I thought I might write a brief story for the image I was working on - a sort of accompanying short story. It was supposed to be super short; something like a couple paragraphs. But the idea started to branch out.
In turn, I ended up at the idea of merging the Orleans chapter of Fate/Grand Order, with the not-yet-in-existence story of the Code Geass R3 anime. Of the anime I knew little other than the fact that Lelouch has somehow supposed to have been revived.
My idea is simple. In place of a revived Lelouch, I have a revived Euphemia, who, like the "revived" Jeanne in F/GO, has come back as an agent of vengeance looking to cause a lot of death and destruction.
I've now designated this story as a Looking Glass series. In other words, it takes place outside the normal bounds of the main-line sagas. This one is mostly a series of questions and answers (if Euphemia were revived, would she be the same or different? Where would everyone else who survived be? How would they react?). I don't try to fit the story or characters neatly into a predetermined route, but instead try to determine how the characters I am limited to would react in the given circumstance.
For that reason, there isn't really going to be much surprise in terms of which characters appear, though the exact characterization may not be what you would expect.
Check the following posts for more info, including some of the characters and broader plot points that will be covered in the future of this story.
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