It is extremely difficult to design modern outfits for Alfonse though idk what it is. Sharena will look good in anything from flannel docs lesbian outfit to cute overalls to something sporty to high femme dresses (tbh I still wanna draw her in one of my fave old dresses ..) but Alfonse. There are def a few routes you can take keeping his character/personality in mind and I think they look good/are super cute and make sense but like... esp for me personally, thinking of the v specific way I draw/stylize him...
AH. MAYBE. MAYBE I FIGURED IT OUT BC I HAVE NO PROBLEM DESIGNING OUTFITS FOR HIM IN FEH CONTEXT...... it's cause that bitch is always wearing tights and long shirts that (esp depending on how you draw it) border on being dress-like to straight up robes/skirt-like garments WHICH makes sense for him in universe bc that's p standard wear for men in Askr, in the Order of Heroes specifically. Like
Seliph's resplendent stands out to me as a huge example of this, and you can kinda see it in Corrin's too! Though I do think resplendents often take a lot from the chara's base outfit (both standard and resplendent Seliph having tunics, both Corrins having leggings ect). But speaking of Corrin, espp the lengthening of that bit of fabric at Corrin's hip, looks a lot like Gustav's garments!
Who may be a better measure for men's dress in Askr (normal attire, for a king anyway, and a cultural festival outfit). But I do also think you can glean some details off of resplendent designs too!
Also actually.
This Day of the Life comic that acknowledged Sharena's absence from the DoD banner (BITE BITE KILL KILL SO MUCH HATRED IN THE WORLD‼️‼️‼️) implies that their outfits may have been identical, just in their respective signature colors (blue and pink). And even looking at Alfonse and Sharena's base art, they have a lot in common!
And looking at Seliph and Corrin again, the puffy sleeves seen on Sharena and Henriette aren't necessarily gendered traits. ACTUALLY.... GUSTAV HAS THEM TOO! Alfonse's outfit is an outlier sleeve design wise!
Which is to say, there aren't actually a lot of strict gender differences in attire here. A lot of the clothing looks/feels androgynous esp when viewed through a modern lense (like I'm sure there's a lot of real-world historical inspo that goes into the designs, I just know fuck all about that LMFAO 😅). And esppp the way I've come to draw Alfonse a lot, I do emphasize what reads as femme -- giving him longer shirts, simplifying the strappy armor on his thighs into. Over the knee socks. Over the leggings/tights. 🫣 And that's not even getting into the knee high boots and heels!!!!
WHICH IS. Actually SO FUCKING DIFFICULT. To translate into modern fashion esp typical standard men's fashion, in a way that still feels true to him as well... bc I do believe in femme/androgynous Alfonse supremacy 😤 But he is ALSO. SO IMPORTANTLY. He is VERY MUCH just some guy who is heavily defined by the role he's been put in. Which is also kind of difficult to sort out, what Would he wear, if the standards were completely different and also if he was choosing for himself?
SINCE. I'M CERTAIN idk if I wanna dig for it but -- I'm CERTAIN all his outfits have been picked For him to some degree. The Order of Heroes outfit is a uniform, the bunny outfit is implied/stated to be picked by Sharena. The yukatas in their duo are 1) Hoshidan and 2) I think Anna was the one who picked them? Might be wrong on that, but I do feel like there's a castle dialogue about it. And of course, the DoD outfits are implied to be cultural Askran wear, and going back to that comic -- it seems neither Alfonse OR Sharena have much of a say in what it looks like (her being uncomfortable "showing that much leg" -- that, if given a choice, she may have wanted something more modest).
So like. There is. So much going on here actually.
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colored fated threads AU tho
every human has countless threads on their fingers, unseen, of different colors and thickness
humans can’t see them, S ranks can but barely, mostly on their own fingers without knowing where or to whom they lead
Jinwoo, being a monarch, becomes able to see his own and others’ threads if he desires so
Jinwoo’s fingers are wrapped in orange or warm yellow colors that show friendship of different strength, familiar bonds are pleasant green-teal, light romance attraction is a cherry pink (if it’s one sided it looks like a a thread of two colors, one is what person on other end feels and other is what person themselves feel towards that person, jinwoo’s connection with Juhee is a mix of pink and orange), gray means indifference or passing meetings, blue or violet means that people are in bad relationships but there’s nothing violent or cruel about them, dirty red with thread being unkept and barely keeping together means extreme hate up to desire to harm or kill and severed black means that other person is dead but feelings and connections are still strong.
jinwoo keeps checking out of curiosity, even checks his own and happy to find that he doesn’t posses black threads so far, has couple of dirty red ones, and others but he’s surprised to find pure white thread that leads somewhere. then out of curiosity jinwoo checks Gunhee and Jinchul’s and is surprised by amount of Jinchul’s black severed threads mixed in with grays, occasional yellows and even rarer orange, two green-teal one of which leads to gunhee and jinwoo’s white thread.
jinwoo literally has no idea what white means and what it even supposed to mean at all. even worse is that that thread is tied on their ring fingers and apparently slightly glows when they’re near. jinwoo sometimes sees jinchul touching his ring finger unconsciously because it sometimes becomes warm for some reason.
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since i first made arcturus and wrote their fic (which you should totally check out) they've become increasingly more of a Robot Freak™. they have a dedicated robotsona that they regularly wish they could simultaneously become and hold hands with 24/7. they believe they are a tool to be used in service to whomever chooses to use them. they would be really really disturbingly excited about the prospect of becoming a mindless hunk of metal. they wish they could simply turn themself off at any time and not have to experience the thoughts in their own brain. they daydream about being infected with viruses. they yearn for a world wherein their entire life, memory, and identity could be wiped away in an instant with just a click of a button. they kinda wanna fuck the computer
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