In The Autumn of Our Discontent

[mark_asphodel]

After a weird winter, spring and summer, the vagaries of weather are falling in sync with the calendar this autumn.  The first true autumnal chill blew in right on September 1st, and come November 1st I found the first sheen of frost on my car.  I guess we can schedule that first true snow for December 1st, right?

Serenes Forest has some FE12 art now, and some honest-to-Pete FE1 art, at last.

FE1!Midia.  Awww.  And here's FE BS Midia for comparison-- gives a totally different sense of the character, no?

FE1!Linda.  Something is lacking, methinks.

FE1!Nina.  This is what I mean about old-school Nina being an adult while new!Nyna looks like a girl dressed up in adult clothes.  

I love the FE12 art-- not the character designs so much (though I do like many of them), but the CGs and such.  They are beautiful and evocative and, to me, communicate a great deal.

This breaks my heart.  It's called "Acension."

So does this, but for entirely different reasons.  He's so damned pretty... what wasted potential.

 Haven't touched 'fic in many days.  Too much garbage going on.

Comments

[shimizu-hitomi.livejournal.com]

Ohhh BS art. This makes me happy because I've been curious about that for so long. *amused that Camus apparently had long hair, not so amused at all the helpless fainting Nina. Oh and the Minerva/Hardin/Palla illustrations are awesome*

Gosh Nina's had so many different designs. She definitely looks the most mature in FE1. I actually like the FE3 design best though, especially as drawn in the artbook -- that one has my favorite balance between "adult" and naive/"still has growing up to do", while some of the earlier depictions seem to focus on the weight of sadness/tragedy surrounding her which is probably what ages her in those. Updated Nyna I like too though for the reasons stated.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Longhair!Camus is a trip, yeah. I think I definitely prefer the FE11!Camus to the earlier versions (dark eyes ftw).