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Description
Yo Mondo Grosso's Labyrinth is the jam.

-- Inspiration --

That song and its music video, even the colors take from the music video. 'Das it.

--- Process ---

Well, Kanberu was just meshed of two Dead or Alive models I got from this site, think the hair was sourced from the late MoogleOutFitters. (Gaw I miss them so much.) Recolored the skin as usual and made new eye textures (Which I needa update with my new ones) then colored in the hair. Easy as that really. Now looking at it, I needa update the model. Fak. Next time.

My boi Solo on the other hand is a huge overhaul of his original Year 5 outfit. I always wanted the Year 5 tunic to be red to kinda be akin to his hometown, Magnolia while representing who he has become: A valiant warrior that serves the Kingdom of Lyra.

I'm using the same model, mind you- I just created a new texture is all. xD Then applied a set of armor which is just the Voe Gerudo Set from Breath of the Wild, also gave him a cap to make him more royal like. Getting everything to fit together was the difficult part and the same can be said to the textures. Slapping on symbols to the armor was easy as heck, while creating a new patterns to the tunic was somewhat a pain. Although, in the end this has ended up my most detailed model. Which is pleasing cause it's royal gear, so royal wear is always fancy and detailed.

Putting the two models in the same scene was easy peasy. Getting my boi to hold Kanberu was hella hard. Took me like six attempts to get it right.

I did a few renders until I found everything just right.

Then I realized was smaller than usual. Had to re render it with my usual hi-resolution. Sigh.

Background work was the usual thing, find an image through Google, stretch it out, add a bit of filter to it, blur it. Boom. Now when it came to the render itself, added four lights of red and blue to give off a soft purple hue to the overall scene. Which came out wonderful, so I needed to apply the same to the background. With some play in colors, mixed a few layers of red and blue over each other and I got some depth with the colors. Super noticeable but it's there.

Border, text and signature. Boom, done.

Story time!

---- Story ----

Kanberu Caccia Notturna, an old acquaintance our Hero had met during the very beginning of his Five year Journey. Our Hero had just obtained his Squire garment and the Knightly round shield, now being able to call himself a 'Knight' As his Guardian was with discussion with the Castle Market Mayor, our young Hero was wondering off to the many booths of the the town had to offer.

While venturing through the town outskirt, suddenly encountering with a duo of friends, one the same age as him and another who was only a few years older. Her name was Kanberu while the other was Valerie.

Kanberu was quite an energetic tomboy. When they met, she noticed the Lyrian symbol on his tunic and jumped in glee, springinging herself onto him and observed his outfit and armaments. "What's a Knight doing here!?" Were the first few things that came out of her mouth with her face inches away from our nervous Hero. Solo couldn't help but feel rather important when she called him a knight, his confidence rose as well, which would make him a bit full of himself.

Fortunately, Kanberu didn't really seem to care about his attitude, if anything it made him seem cooler in her eyes. Until he brought out the Ferrum Angelus Dei (Originally dubbed as the Tenshi Sword but Latin sounds cooler than Broken Engrish.), that moment Kanberu knew this boy was far beyond than just a regular knight, especially after Solo explained this divine weapon's ability.

"Monsu!" She blurted out once our Hero introduced himself. It seemed that she believe he was a Monster Slayer by mashing the two words together the nickname came to be. Our Hero felt somewhat warm within him after she gave him a nickname, it was his first legitimate nickname someone had gave him in his fourteen years and a half of living, thus leaving a special little place within him.

"Don't worry, I'll slay a bunch of monsters and when I come back, I'll practically be a legend!" Solo boasted, assuring Kanberu that he'll do nothing but greatness within his journey.

And so, the two parted ways.

...We would now come midway through Year 5 of our Hero's Journey. Much had happened within those five years. He had liberated the Divine Temples that laid underneath four large scale villages, which were suffering from the climate changes the once dormant dungeons forced upon within Year 2. By Year 4, he had ended the Tyranny of the former King Duke of Lyra, thus appointing the new Princess of Lyra to take his mantle as ruler, a first within Lyrian history. Thus allowing the people of Lyra to live a more easier life thanks to our Hero's efforts. By the beginning of Year 5, Solo was tasked to slay a fabled Dragon that took over the home of the Yargians, little did he know this dragon was the Divine Wyrm Tera, a being that had unlimited knowledge. Thankfully within a day, the wyrm was slain and the Yargian home was returned to its people.

His deeds had been acknowledged and he would then be appointed by the Queen herself as a Royal Red Cross Knight of Lyra and Wielder of the divine sword Gladius ex Hylios. (The evolved form of the Ferrum Angelus Dei) With that, our Hero felt fit to return to his hometown and continue life there...

As he made his way home, on of the Lyrian Inn's so happen to have a boxing ring within its basement. It seemed to be a rather popular area to box as well, the moment Solo walked down the stairs, he was greeted with a few dozen people crowding the room. Fate was kind enough to have him enter the room at just the right moment as his old acquaintance Kanberu.

Apparently she grew into the life of a boxer, it seemed fitting for the young tomboy. Unfortunately for her, the match was becoming rather chaotic, her opponent seemed to have gone for the murder route of the path, which led to Kanberu to be practically pummeled to the floor with each strike. Our Hero couldn't stand to witness such thing and so he sprung into action. This man was trained to kill and martial arts played a large role within his training regimen in Year 3, allowing him to end this battle with no effort.

"Never would have thought this Knight would have to save you, m'lady..." He whispered, gently carrying out the woman out of the room and to the medical room. Kanberu was a bit out of focus, hence she barely knew who was talking to him, but she still had some sense in her to swing a fist at him and shout the following: "What the hell is wrong with you? I would've taken out that giant turtle hadn't you gotten in my way!" Solo laughed and simply placed a finger around her neck, and cupped her head with the other hand, quickly snapping it in one direction and easing the concussion.

"Looks like you didn't recognize me, Kanberu." he stated, lightly patting her cheek as he took a seat in front of her. Kanberu was rather shocked, losing what little energy she had to keep herself upward and fell back against the reclined bed. The nurse suggested that our Hero should leave and allow her to rest but he declined, instead he pulled out a remedy he crafted to relieve the pain, slowly pouring the liquid down her mouth.

"I can't just leave an injured woman all my herself, can't I?" Was his response, a subtle smile peering through his lips. Once the potion kicked in, Kanberu had regained her lost stamina and sat straight up, allowing her attain focus towards the male. "It really is you, Monsu... You got taller." She said, causing our Hero to laugh once again. Commenting how he gets that quite a lot. What surprised her the most was his newest title as a Knight, who our Hero explained the many deeds he accomplished to attain such title. Kanberu giggled some as she tapped her stomach, "I knew you were gonna become something great! You had that look in you. Glad I called it, Monsu!" Her small yet defined hands smacked against his shoulders, giving him a smile of glee.

Our Hero felt that same warmth he felt when they first met. He couldn't help but smile and nod to her response, lightly grasping her small hand within his large limb. Their first contact of affection would slowly lead them into a relationship as lovers and the best of friends...

...In time, their relationship grew deeper with the passing day. Kanberu volunteered herself to join him back to his hometown, thus allowing for numerous opportunities to getting to know one another, and of course these opportunities were taken without hesitant. One of those days, Solo learned that she enjoyed to dance whenever she wasn't practicing for the ring, which caught him off guard as she doesn't seem that type but remembered moments where she would occasionally throw a few hip sways here and there whenever they stayed at an inn. Our Hero felt the need to see her hobby put to the test and fortunately for them, a band was already playing within the town they were staying in.

Thus allowing Kanberu to show off her hidden skill to her dearest. To our Hero, it was a fascinating sight to behold, the way awaited for a beat to play, slowly allowing herself to enter a flow state where she and the music synchronized. In moments her body was snapping to the rhythm of the song, swaying her body to left then right as some form of warm up, but a sudden jerk would come to play as the it escalated within the beat, allowing her limbs to snap in nurmours directions whenever a quick drop was played.

She suddenly twirled herself towards the stoned walls, bouncing to the opposite side and back in a zig-zag like pattern. She was so spellbound within the tune that she practically forgot about her boyfriend, which left a smile on his face. He had never seen her act like this before, so it left him feeling rather happy. She took a pause as the piano would release its chords, having Kanberu simply swaying her hips left and right again, allowing Solo to embrace her from behind, taking a moment to give her a bit of affection. At the same time... He had realized something, this warmth he's been feeling from the day he met her those few years ago. It was resinatiing from her, it represented his feelings to her. He loves her...

"You're amazing, Kanberu..."

Solo stated, gently nuzzling his face within her lush purple locks of hair as he felt her arms slither around his neck. He didn't have the confidence to tell her his feelings, but this was the closest thing he could do. Even then, those words he had said meant the entire world for her.

These two loved each other ever so, had it not been for the accident. The possibility of these two bewedding would have been a reality. Unfortunately, things would never turn out that way. Instead, they grew distant and were reintroduced to each other as best friends, who would grow close but would remain as friends until the bastard that trained our Hero how to kill took her life...

----- Thoughts -----

Actually pretty happy with this one, the lighting, pose and overall setup for this scene were all perfect once the tweaks were adjusted.

Know it's been a while since I posted but do have a few things planned, so stay tuned for that. Thanks for lookin' and reading!

Description
Yo Mondo Grosso's Labyrinth is the jam.

-- Inspiration --

That song and its music video, even the colors take from the music video. 'Das it.

--- Process ---

Well, Kanberu was just meshed of two Dead or Alive models I got from this site, think the hair was sourced from the late MoogleOutFitters. (Gaw I miss them so much.) Recolored the skin as usual and made new eye textures (Which I needa update with my new ones) then colored in the hair. Easy as that really. Now looking at it, I needa update the model. Fak. Next time.

My boi Solo on the other hand is a huge overhaul of his original Year 5 outfit. I always wanted the Year 5 tunic to be red to kinda be akin to his hometown, Magnolia while representing who he has become: A valiant warrior that serves the Kingdom of Lyra.

I'm using the same model, mind you- I just created a new texture is all. xD Then applied a set of armor which is just the Voe Gerudo Set from Breath of the Wild, also gave him a cap to make him more royal like. Getting everything to fit together was the difficult part and the same can be said to the textures. Slapping on symbols to the armor was easy as heck, while creating a new patterns to the tunic was somewhat a pain. Although, in the end this has ended up my most detailed model. Which is pleasing cause it's royal gear, so royal wear is always fancy and detailed.

Putting the two models in the same scene was easy peasy. Getting my boi to hold Kanberu was hella hard. Took me like six attempts to get it right.

I did a few renders until I found everything just right.

Then I realized was smaller than usual. Had to re render it with my usual hi-resolution. Sigh.

Background work was the usual thing, find an image through Google, stretch it out, add a bit of filter to it, blur it. Boom. Now when it came to the render itself, added four lights of red and blue to give off a soft purple hue to the overall scene. Which came out wonderful, so I needed to apply the same to the background. With some play in colors, mixed a few layers of red and blue over each other and I got some depth with the colors. Super noticeable but it's there.

Border, text and signature. Boom, done.

Story time!

---- Story ----

Kanberu Caccia Notturna, an old acquaintance our Hero had met during the very beginning of his Five year Journey. Our Hero had just obtained his Squire garment and the Knightly round shield, now being able to call himself a 'Knight' As his Guardian was with discussion with the Castle Market Mayor, our young Hero was wondering off to the many booths of the the town had to offer.

While venturing through the town outskirt, suddenly encountering with a duo of friends, one the same age as him and another who was only a few years older. Her name was Kanberu while the other was Valerie.

Kanberu was quite an energetic tomboy. When they met, she noticed the Lyrian symbol on his tunic and jumped in glee, springinging herself onto him and observed his outfit and armaments. "What's a Knight doing here!?" Were the first few things that came out of her mouth with her face inches away from our nervous Hero. Solo couldn't help but feel rather important when she called him a knight, his confidence rose as well, which would make him a bit full of himself.

Fortunately, Kanberu didn't really seem to care about his attitude, if anything it made him seem cooler in her eyes. Until he brought out the Ferrum Angelus Dei (Originally dubbed as the Tenshi Sword but Latin sounds cooler than Broken Engrish.), that moment Kanberu knew this boy was far beyond than just a regular knight, especially after Solo explained this divine weapon's ability.

"Monsu!" She blurted out once our Hero introduced himself. It seemed that she believe he was a Monster Slayer by mashing the two words together the nickname came to be. Our Hero felt somewhat warm within him after she gave him a nickname, it was his first legitimate nickname someone had gave him in his fourteen years and a half of living, thus leaving a special little place within him.

"Don't worry, I'll slay a bunch of monsters and when I come back, I'll practically be a legend!" Solo boasted, assuring Kanberu that he'll do nothing but greatness within his journey.

And so, the two parted ways.

...We would now come midway through Year 5 of our Hero's Journey. Much had happened within those five years. He had liberated the Divine Temples that laid underneath four large scale villages, which were suffering from the climate changes the once dormant dungeons forced upon within Year 2. By Year 4, he had ended the Tyranny of the former King Duke of Lyra, thus appointing the new Princess of Lyra to take his mantle as ruler, a first within Lyrian history. Thus allowing the people of Lyra to live a more easier life thanks to our Hero's efforts. By the beginning of Year 5, Solo was tasked to slay a fabled Dragon that took over the home of the Yargians, little did he know this dragon was the Divine Wyrm Tera, a being that had unlimited knowledge. Thankfully within a day, the wyrm was slain and the Yargian home was returned to its people.

His deeds had been acknowledged and he would then be appointed by the Queen herself as a Royal Red Cross Knight of Lyra and Wielder of the divine sword Gladius ex Hylios. (The evolved form of the Ferrum Angelus Dei) With that, our Hero felt fit to return to his hometown and continue life there...

As he made his way home, on of the Lyrian Inn's so happen to have a boxing ring within its basement. It seemed to be a rather popular area to box as well, the moment Solo walked down the stairs, he was greeted with a few dozen people crowding the room. Fate was kind enough to have him enter the room at just the right moment as his old acquaintance Kanberu.

Apparently she grew into the life of a boxer, it seemed fitting for the young tomboy. Unfortunately for her, the match was becoming rather chaotic, her opponent seemed to have gone for the murder route of the path, which led to Kanberu to be practically pummeled to the floor with each strike. Our Hero couldn't stand to witness such thing and so he sprung into action. This man was trained to kill and martial arts played a large role within his training regimen in Year 3, allowing him to end this battle with no effort.

"Never would have thought this Knight would have to save you, m'lady..." He whispered, gently carrying out the woman out of the room and to the medical room. Kanberu was a bit out of focus, hence she barely knew who was talking to him, but she still had some sense in her to swing a fist at him and shout the following: "What the hell is wrong with you? I would've taken out that giant turtle hadn't you gotten in my way!" Solo laughed and simply placed a finger around her neck, and cupped her head with the other hand, quickly snapping it in one direction and easing the concussion.

"Looks like you didn't recognize me, Kanberu." he stated, lightly patting her cheek as he took a seat in front of her. Kanberu was rather shocked, losing what little energy she had to keep herself upward and fell back against the reclined bed. The nurse suggested that our Hero should leave and allow her to rest but he declined, instead he pulled out a remedy he crafted to relieve the pain, slowly pouring the liquid down her mouth.

"I can't just leave an injured woman all my herself, can't I?" Was his response, a subtle smile peering through his lips. Once the potion kicked in, Kanberu had regained her lost stamina and sat straight up, allowing her attain focus towards the male. "It really is you, Monsu... You got taller." She said, causing our Hero to laugh once again. Commenting how he gets that quite a lot. What surprised her the most was his newest title as a Knight, who our Hero explained the many deeds he accomplished to attain such title. Kanberu giggled some as she tapped her stomach, "I knew you were gonna become something great! You had that look in you. Glad I called it, Monsu!" Her small yet defined hands smacked against his shoulders, giving him a smile of glee.

Our Hero felt that same warmth he felt when they first met. He couldn't help but smile and nod to her response, lightly grasping her small hand within his large limb. Their first contact of affection would slowly lead them into a relationship as lovers and the best of friends...

...In time, their relationship grew deeper with the passing day. Kanberu volunteered herself to join him back to his hometown, thus allowing for numerous opportunities to getting to know one another, and of course these opportunities were taken without hesitant. One of those days, Solo learned that she enjoyed to dance whenever she wasn't practicing for the ring, which caught him off guard as she doesn't seem that type but remembered moments where she would occasionally throw a few hip sways here and there whenever they stayed at an inn. Our Hero felt the need to see her hobby put to the test and fortunately for them, a band was already playing within the town they were staying in.

Thus allowing Kanberu to show off her hidden skill to her dearest. To our Hero, it was a fascinating sight to behold, the way awaited for a beat to play, slowly allowing herself to enter a flow state where she and the music synchronized. In moments her body was snapping to the rhythm of the song, swaying her body to left then right as some form of warm up, but a sudden jerk would come to play as the it escalated within the beat, allowing her limbs to snap in nurmours directions whenever a quick drop was played.

She suddenly twirled herself towards the stoned walls, bouncing to the opposite side and back in a zig-zag like pattern. She was so spellbound within the tune that she practically forgot about her boyfriend, which left a smile on his face. He had never seen her act like this before, so it left him feeling rather happy. She took a pause as the piano would release its chords, having Kanberu simply swaying her hips left and right again, allowing Solo to embrace her from behind, taking a moment to give her a bit of affection. At the same time... He had realized something, this warmth he's been feeling from the day he met her those few years ago. It was resinatiing from her, it represented his feelings to her. He loves her...

"You're amazing, Kanberu..."

Solo stated, gently nuzzling his face within her lush purple locks of hair as he felt her arms slither around his neck. He didn't have the confidence to tell her his feelings, but this was the closest thing he could do. Even then, those words he had said meant the entire world for her.

These two loved each other ever so, had it not been for the accident. The possibility of these two bewedding would have been a reality. Unfortunately, things would never turn out that way. Instead, they grew distant and were reintroduced to each other as best friends, who would grow close but would remain as friends until the bastard that trained our Hero how to kill took her life...

----- Thoughts -----

Actually pretty happy with this one, the lighting, pose and overall setup for this scene were all perfect once the tweaks were adjusted.

Know it's been a while since I posted but do have a few things planned, so stay tuned for that. Thanks for lookin' and reading!