reference page commission for a dnd character i did recently !

OC Musings

So, I've been seeing all kinds of OCs lately, and I feel like I need to tweak one of mine. Mostly because the two I have been focusing on of late (outside Akagi, as I ramble through Eorzea), are Marshall and Rav. These two dorks here:

(Art by @/Pehrelli on Twitter) And the one I wonder if I need to tweak is actually Marshall. This picture, and the others I have of her are of her in her "civilian mode". She and Rav do have powersets and armor and fun stuff, but I need to nail down a solid design for their armor (I have an old armored Rav pic, but it's just his torso), and Marshall has had a few visual design tweaks as well. She has a bitchin' sword that is an energy blade that is a mash-up of the Tenchi-ken and a lightsaber, but the blade is flat/two dimensional instead of being a cylindrical beam. And her sword had been in kind of design limbo until my latest comm of her, where I sat down and fleshed it out.

(Art by @/AlieLerArt, on tumblr and Twitter)

Lookit that beauty (and Marshall's nice, too. ^_~). But yea, feels like I need to add... I dunno some gimmicks or something to her. Like, Rav has a couple gimmicks to him (hell, for a bit Marshall technically IS one of those LOL, and they DO have a combination mode), and visually he has the eyepiece and the gold stripes (Which was a neat little tweak from another commission from the original and I love it) and he also has a tattoo that glows, but it's covered at the moment. But aside from her choker and her sidebraid, I wonder if she's just too...plain? Like, I see all these crazy out there OCs that are like hybrid human-something else, or other beings entirely and I'm like...do I need to do more?

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE these two. Absolutely fell back in love with them after getting some more recent art, and they have been in my consciousness, flitting about story snippets (some hastily scribbled down, some just notes connected to a song) for *literal years*. But, I dunno. What I probably need to do is save up and get some honest-to-goodness ref sheets down for them, to show off their other cool stuff. Armor design is tough, though.

But yea, I think I just needed to vent and get this off my chest, and maybe get some second opinions, should anyone have some insight. And also an excuse to talk about my OCs and show off arts. xD