#(isnt it strange? the current iteration of 2016-now is longer than 2013-2015 when the old lore was written. over twice as long?)

[kvroii]

In one of the rare times I'm sharing my 2014 art (below), here is the artwork the winter outfit for chapter 11 (above) is based on! At this time, Kori's 'fancy' outfits all contained blue (a departure from the 2013 main outfit's red and black, the color scheme it would return to in 2016 onward). This was also the start of my 'hide the other eye behind hair' phase for art, and it wouldn't be until much later she would return to her first, rougher hairstyle. It was drawn in Paint Shop Pro 8.10 with a mouse.

This also was an outfit she wore in the 2014 manga I was working on before I switched to novels in 2016 and rebooted Kori's whole story. Below is a panel from the very first chapter of that, where she is wearing the same coat. It was drawn with a pencil on printer paper folded into signatures (and bound with hot glue dont make the same mistakes i did it ruins the paper after a decade TTwTT)

Kori's story has come a long way since this 2014 outfit was designed, but I wanted to have an homage to it in the illustrations, as I've done with other old details (such as chapter 9's ribbon) and as I plan to do yet (chapter 5 has some surprises in store -- did I ever post her first ever design?)! So, she has this coat once again in her false memory vision she witnesses in this chapter. She keeps the necklace accessory (I'll talk about it sometime), and the hairclips have been reimagined as earmuffs to suit the winter setting.

...I think my 2014 self would be happy to see that I still remember and think of the older design(s), even a decade later.