The victims: Drew Carey body from the mid-late 90's and a Devilock Char Aznable body from the mid 00's. (Idk why my phone camera makes the Devilock body look so much more yellow than Drew's body, they are slightly different shades but not by that much lol)
Man I love it when dolls and action figures are held together with screws. :3 Makes hybriding sooo much quicker when I don't have to saw off the bits I wanna use.
I took this pic mainly because I was amused that Devilock put some kind of wax in the tummy joint for added friction/stability. I mean honestly there are worse options! Whatever works XD
The hips had screws, but they seemed to also be glued together. No prob, I like the Devilock butt better anyway, so I'm just gonna trim Drew's butt off and stick his torso on top of the Devilock hips.
Armssssss. I shaved a slant into Drew's shoulder holes as evenly as possible and greenstuff puttied the Devilock shoulder joint pegs in place. (It's a sloppy job don't look too close XD but I managed to preserve as much shoulder articulation as I possibly could with the tools I had on hand.)
Test fit...
More greenstuff and he's all stuck together! \o/
As you might be able to tell from the leg stance, I came up against a small issue with actually joining Drew's belly to Char's hips: both bodies were made before 3d sculpting and printing was a common part of toy engineering, so they're not perfectly symmetrical and have little quirks and imperfections from the master mold having been made off of handsculpted pieces. (One of those quirks is Char's legs seem to be slightly different lengths, and his buttcheeks are two different sizes. XD)
So I prioritized lining up the front over the back...
Eh, so it goes. I can live with it.
Next I need to find where I stowed all my little sample sized jam and honey jars so I can mix up some acetone goop to smooth the transition and cover the greenstuff. :3c
Then I gotta find a head to mod into Ramus, or start sculpting one from scratch...
Ahahahaha. The dangerous part of konmari-ing stuff but not getting it out of your life fast enough; I pulled both these bodies from my destash bins. ^^;; I pulled a couple more for other Lunar character dolls at the same time, actually.... >:3c
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Caught myself thinking bout Lunar 2: Eternal Blue and the character arc of the Dancer character becoming a martial artist and that wildness of jrpgs has sadly calmed down a lot since console generation 7 (ps3/360) and we won't have characters just, dropping their skill sets and build mid game and change to a completely different character...
My sister (@camelpimp) and I were talking after I finished playing Lunar for the night, and I was lamenting over what we got for a third mainline Lunar game was Dragon Song. And that I either wanted a prequel about the Four Heroes, or a sequel. We started brainstorming a sequel, and boy does it sound very "Lunar" but 100% better than Dragon Song.
I came up with the idea that it's thousands of years in the future. Lucia has been terraforming the Blue Star ever since Hiro woke her up for good up there. She's slowly been taking more and more people up, and slowly releasing more and more of Althena's power into the Blue Star to make it habitable. Of course, she still keeps in touch with a now slightly more respectable Nall and a still wild Ruby, and now a blue dragon boy who has learned how to take a human form as well as his young black dragon best friend. This blue dragon and his best friend are of course the new protagonists. He of course knows Nall, who runs a legal orphanage now, and Ruby, Nall's on again/off again girlfriend who helps Nall with the orphanage and still likes adventure and treasure hunting. The beginning of the game would be Lunar stuff, doing things to help out and the such. Then Lucia mentions she needs help on the Blue Star and our protag offers to help.
Gameplay wise, you would be at mid-game level of power. You are overpowered for the location, but not end-game level. But once you get to the Blue Star, you're depowered because you're not surrounded by Althena's grace and power (aka the power of humanity). It's been thousands of years but much of the Blue Star is still uninhabitable. So our dragon boy has to start over from scratch.
There are just a lot of little things here and there that we thought of. My personal favourite is the fact that Lucia would name something after Hiro, and I came up with Hiro's Guard. A group that helps terraform the Blue Star and goes after any nasty monsters. Another is that the Blue Star isn't completely covered by Althena's power yet, and the big bad of the game hangs out in there. And I also liked putting Luna and Lucia's decisions next to each other, and how each of them handled being an immortal being with their mortal lover. Luna didn't want to return to being a goddess. She fell in love, and wanted to die in love. Lucia wanted to honour Hiro's memory, and commits herself fully to being a guide and guardian for Lunar and the Blue Star.
Also just imagine what the mythologies of Dyne, Alex, and Hiro are thousands and thousands of years in the future. The stories about Dragonmaster Alex must be fucking wild.
We didn't really come up with like. A full plot or more characters. But for a start, I would have really liked this. I've always wanted a Lunar game with a blue dragon companion, and I think a good twist would be having the main character be this blue dragon.