OKAY ik i posted this before but i keep going back to it and adding more stuff but the file got so big that it keeps killing my drawing program and computer so i have forced myself to stop. anyways. enjoy.
I went to Starlight a couple of days ago again!!! And I drew some of the current cast members! I think I wanna post one drawing per day bc I drew a few🥰
It had been awhile, but time for a brief reappearance of my Starlight Express animation attempts!
This time the idea was 'Pearl turning from coach into humanoid form' taken into a Mahou Shoujo direction. So here is the attempt: The Pearl Magical Girl Transformation (or we could say Magical Pearl Transformation)!
Nikki Belsher (Japan Australia Tour 1990, first cast); Angela Pupello (US Tour 1990, understudy)
Favourite Actor: Reva Rice I guess
Favourite Songs/Scenes: the original He whistled at me, Only He (UK Tour), Pearl, you’ve been honoured and Whistle for me
Favourite Costume: Broadway - I love that they had both pink/white and brown/black wigs for the actresses
Favourite Ship: Prusty 🎀
Headcanon: her actual hair colour is brown/black but she likes to dye it in pink, blonde or white
Unpopular Opinions: idk wether that’s unpopular but I actually like the idea of Pearl being introduced by Control in a separate scene (as in Bochum post 2018)
BEFORE i start absolutely dissing them i have to say:
THEY ARE CUTSIE POOTSIES!! THEY ARE GREAT TOGETHER! I LOVE THEM <33
Now. I think rusty deserved SO MUCH BETTER. From the beginning, Rusty wanted to win the race to prove the mean guys wrong, so he needs a COACH!!! Pearl is the only coach left, so Rusty is devoted to winning Pearl as a coach (again bc apparently they were already together), and falls in love with her☺️☺️. But unfortunately for him, Pearl is constantly making fun of him and disrespecting him. Soooo rusty does what anyone would do and decides to try to win her over.. by winning the race for her!!!(I KNOW HE DID NOT WIN THE RACE SOLELY FOR HER!!!)
As we know, rusty was treated very bad by his opposing teams, where they literally BEAT HIM UP in some productions. That, and the whole thing with CB holding him back in the race, the coaches making fun of him and saying he couldn't participate in the races, allat. Even while having this treatment, rusty continues to persist to win the race, now, not only to prove his opposing teams wrong, but to win pearl over!! (And then he sees god..?)
And this just PROVES HIS LOVE FOR HER!
BUT Pearl is also struggling. She cant find the right train to pull her!! she is in a predicament, and can't decide who to choose. Finally, once she is saved by Rusty, she realizes that only Rusty has the power to move her.
and yayaay they're together.
sooooo my opinion on this, is that i think Rusty may have gone a tad bit overboard to win her over, but it turned out well in the end xoxo<33