#Rivals of Aether

[jeff-the-landshark]

Hey Jeff have you been compared to Orcane from Rivals of Aether before? (I'm not sure if you heard of Rivals of Aether)

mrrrrr, mrrrr!

[Jeff says he has not heard of that before, but he sees the similarities!]

[s-milesart]

clairen comm i did

[patricia-taxxon]

i like her

[the-hydroxian-artblog]

Nicole Bogard (design by MikeMurdock, and other stuff)

[the-giik]

tbh mollo being a trans guy was kind of a happy accident. when i was first designing him i went with the visual pun of his antennae being little fuses

then i remembered that a big part of sexual dimorphism in moths is that males have big fluffy antennae while females have thin antennae. i'd already been using he/him for mollo so rather than changing to she/her i just decided yeah sure he's trans. why not, it kicks ass. if you're enough of a moth nerd you could probably clock that but passing isn't really high on his priority list anyway.

i wasn't accustomed to making nb/trans characters back then either so i was a little worried that making a rare-for-the-series trans character a mean ol' punk rioter was too "on the nose" but i was *quickly* reassured that i had nothing to worry about on that front. he's still the only canonical trans character across the series and i think the rest of Aether studios is doing a fantastic job with his other appearances so far. (in both Tales and Creatures.)

also as a little bonus here's his very first design draft

[bielbunny]

there's a joke about Clairen's big hitboxes here somewhere

have a happy rivals of aether 2 all y'all

[fungiderg]

Ranno hours (but im a Kragg main)

[captyns]

various Clairens for you today! comms for ItIsWingman on twitter~

[murksou]

have a drawing of Clairen

[thekirb23]

Crossbones Rivals concepts ive been workin on

I actually dont know how to make rivals of aether mods atm so dont expect more of this lol

[beezii]

Storyboard animatic for Clairen's Results Screen in Rivals 2! 🔥

Collaborative effort with Garrett Hanna and El Ranno who created the initial concept!

[killer-outlet]

My bubbly boy

[pawberri]

🦊💖

[elusivetranscendent]

video game bug enjoyers rise up

[koko2unite]

november poll is up! help me pick

[bielbunny]

not so fleet now

Fleet is going to lose her float by next patch at this rate... sketch for

@/stuffaduff over on BlueSky