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I have been doing some work with MidJourney to imagine what a particular character in my next novel looks like. She is a sukeban, or "bad girl", which is a trope like gyaru but sort of diametrically-opposed. Sukeban tend to wear what looks like an old-fashioned "sailor suit" school uniform, but with a longer skirt that you might think, usually cut below the knee. They carry bokken, wooden practice swords, and congregate in gangs. If you watched the anime Rokudo's Bad Girls, Ranna is pretty much the archetype of a sukeban.

This one had some re-work in Photoshop; she had three arms/hands, one which was up and touching her face. I tried leaving that one and taking out her other left arm, but that didn't work as well as this one, with both hands on the sword.

Description

I have been doing some work with MidJourney to imagine what a particular character in my next novel looks like. She is a sukeban, or "bad girl", which is a trope like gyaru but sort of diametrically-opposed. Sukeban tend to wear what looks like an old-fashioned "sailor suit" school uniform, but with a longer skirt that you might think, usually cut below the knee. They carry bokken, wooden practice swords, and congregate in gangs. If you watched the anime Rokudo's Bad Girls, Ranna is pretty much the archetype of a sukeban.

This one had some re-work in Photoshop; she had three arms/hands, one which was up and touching her face. I tried leaving that one and taking out her other left arm, but that didn't work as well as this one, with both hands on the sword.