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"I am a shadow ruin incarnate! The raging bull of carnage: SHADOW LABRYS"

Just a WP I did with assets from P4A

Enjoy

Little confession here: I'm not that fond of her design. I got my hands on the sprite sheets... and 60 if not 80% of her sprites are copied from Labrys. The only differences are:
- Yellow eyes
- Different Persona (duh)
- No chain knuckle special move and extensions
- Different Persona SP skills
- Different Instant Kill
- Different victory poses

The rest is the same as Labrys, same normals, same non-Persona special, same non-Persona SP skill, same auto-combo, same everything. I have kinda gotten allergic to that practice in fighting games, because I perfer diversity over clonage. Apparently, they went for something akin to how shadows were depicted in Persona 2, which had an evil human with an evil-looking Persona beside it. However, the build-up is very P4, even to the "You're not me" line by Labrys, but after the transformation, all you get is a huge bull and Shadow Labrys still looks the same, even though she was rejected.

I was hoping for mix between both P2's and P4's versions of shadows: have Shadow Labrys fights with Asterius, like in P2... but change her appearance completely to mimic a twisted version of the victim, like in P4.
- Give her a different stance, like hunched over, more bestial, more savage, more sadistic (seriously, she wants to kill everyone out of pleasure)
- Give her a new look, like smoking horns like Asterius, broken robot-like armor, cracks with seeping lava, hair that are red and flicker like fire, have secondary axe blades attached and merged with her back, have one of her arms merged with her axe with a chain, similar to Baiken's mecanical arm, have the other arm ends with redding claws, have chains dangling from her feet, have Ariadne's ribbons swirl around her at random intervals, etc...
- Give her a whole new moveset, with more brutal and careless strike, a chain-knuckle-like attack with the axe, a swinging attack similar to Hsien-Ko's pendulum move in UMvC3, a SP skill which she grabs the opponent and make a bloody explosion on the heart, etc...

Y'know, something that's gonna make me say: "Oh snap... something's gonna hit the fan..."

Ok, I know that some people like Shadow Labrys, but it just rubs me the wrong way that they recycled Labrys's moveset for her when they could have gotten wild, especially after how Atlus made the Shadows so demonic and menacing. Shadows in P4 were a twisted fusion of the victim and their future Persona; Shadow Labrys doesn't follow that artistic principle very well, even though she's gotten the P2 version instead. Like I said, they could have gotten the best of both worlds here, and beside, an opponent that fights like a savage animal is always more terrifying to beat.

I was hoping for something akin to characters like Orochi Iori, Rera, Oni, Evil Ryu and such twisted versions.

That's just my opinion though, feel free to speak your own in the comments.

Description
"I am a shadow ruin incarnate! The raging bull of carnage: SHADOW LABRYS"

Just a WP I did with assets from P4A

Enjoy

Little confession here: I'm not that fond of her design. I got my hands on the sprite sheets... and 60 if not 80% of her sprites are copied from Labrys. The only differences are:
- Yellow eyes
- Different Persona (duh)
- No chain knuckle special move and extensions
- Different Persona SP skills
- Different Instant Kill
- Different victory poses

The rest is the same as Labrys, same normals, same non-Persona special, same non-Persona SP skill, same auto-combo, same everything. I have kinda gotten allergic to that practice in fighting games, because I perfer diversity over clonage. Apparently, they went for something akin to how shadows were depicted in Persona 2, which had an evil human with an evil-looking Persona beside it. However, the build-up is very P4, even to the "You're not me" line by Labrys, but after the transformation, all you get is a huge bull and Shadow Labrys still looks the same, even though she was rejected.

I was hoping for mix between both P2's and P4's versions of shadows: have Shadow Labrys fights with Asterius, like in P2... but change her appearance completely to mimic a twisted version of the victim, like in P4.
- Give her a different stance, like hunched over, more bestial, more savage, more sadistic (seriously, she wants to kill everyone out of pleasure)
- Give her a new look, like smoking horns like Asterius, broken robot-like armor, cracks with seeping lava, hair that are red and flicker like fire, have secondary axe blades attached and merged with her back, have one of her arms merged with her axe with a chain, similar to Baiken's mecanical arm, have the other arm ends with redding claws, have chains dangling from her feet, have Ariadne's ribbons swirl around her at random intervals, etc...
- Give her a whole new moveset, with more brutal and careless strike, a chain-knuckle-like attack with the axe, a swinging attack similar to Hsien-Ko's pendulum move in UMvC3, a SP skill which she grabs the opponent and make a bloody explosion on the heart, etc...

Y'know, something that's gonna make me say: "Oh snap... something's gonna hit the fan..."

Ok, I know that some people like Shadow Labrys, but it just rubs me the wrong way that they recycled Labrys's moveset for her when they could have gotten wild, especially after how Atlus made the Shadows so demonic and menacing. Shadows in P4 were a twisted fusion of the victim and their future Persona; Shadow Labrys doesn't follow that artistic principle very well, even though she's gotten the P2 version instead. Like I said, they could have gotten the best of both worlds here, and beside, an opponent that fights like a savage animal is always more terrifying to beat.

I was hoping for something akin to characters like Orochi Iori, Rera, Oni, Evil Ryu and such twisted versions.

That's just my opinion though, feel free to speak your own in the comments.