Player 4 is ready, this here is Marion Carey!
Based off the two to three girls that Emily is based off of, I was trying to think of someone from their friend groups I could use, but I don't know most of them that well, and wanted a character that stands out from the other three. I began to think of character traits I needed, as well as someone with a different hair and eye color from Emily, Stacy, and Kalina. What I came up with was Marion, who's largely based off of a college classmate I had in multiple classes, but combined with some of the personality of Emilys' friends. My college classmate was kind of serious and boring, but I had concepts about a singer magician, so this mix of reserved loudness ended up forming a new personality for this character to use. She's now someone of a Xena and Sailor Mars type of personality. On the astrological level, she's more Uranus than Mars though. My college classmate had an Irish name, so Marion is supposed to be mostly Irish-German since her appearance is based off of her.
I do want more playable characters, but I think 4 is that common expected number of players on screen at one. I'd really like 6 instead to be possible and multiplayer able on Steam. But I have to start small, see if I can even get 2 players to work properly. Player 5 and 6 will likely be from the character collage I posted earlier. In some ways, Marion kind of reminds me of Kairi from KH2, so this is really fitting as Namine and Xion remind me of Emily and Stacy, which I guess leaves Kalina to fill the roll of Aqua.
The artwork on the right is really nice but Kalina's hair looks better in the left image.
