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Ninjago OC: Estrella, Master of Starlight (part 3/3)

Part 1

Part 2

More about Estrella, my Ninjago OC! In her introductory post, I showed off a few different outfits, but the truth is, I have more. A lot more. So I thought I’d complete her introduction with a post that was just going through the different outfits I’ve designed and talking about what’s going on in her life during each look.

Part 1: Pre-Wildbrain

Stiix look: This is her outfit before she becomes the Master of Starlight, so it’s meant to be a pretty basic civilian outfit. I looked at some of the background characters in scenes set in Stiix to get an idea for what the fashion was like there. The colors here are what I refer to as her “civilian palette.”

Ninjago City look: A bit of a change in aesthetics now that she’s moved to Ninjago City and (unbeknownst to her) become the Master of Starlight. The change from the jeans to the flowy skirt and the inclusion of more accessories are her expressing more of her personal style, and the addition of stars as a motif and some of the colors from her “starlight palette” are a nod to her new powers. 

Avery’s Teammate look: While she’s not much of a fighter herself, helping Avery on her adventures is still a more active/athletic lifestyle than she had before, so she had her hair tied up now (albeit loosely). The pants she’s wearing are styled after hakama, and will become a staple of her wardrobe during the more active periods of her life.

Fan-season look: @destinysbounty and I came up with an idea for an as-of-yet-unnamed fanseason set between Hands of Time and Sons of Garmadon that would focus on Avery and Estrella. Avery’s backstory would be revealed at the start, and Estrella’s true potential would be unlocked at the end. Similar to how the ninja get new gi variants at least once a season, this is a variant on her “Avery’s teammate” outfit specifically for this “season”.

True Potential look: This becomes her default look once she’s unlocked her true potential and become aware that she’s an Elemental Master. Her hair has gone from just being tied up in a ponytail to being tucked away in a braid, which will continue to be her hairstyle when she gets more serious about fighting later on. For the first time, her color scheme is fully her “starlight palette”.

Part 2: Wildbrain Era

Retired look: This one technically straddles the line between Pre-Wildbrain and Wildbrain, because it would actually first show up in season 10. But since season 10 is 4 episodes and it continues to be her default look through every Wildbrain season except Prime Empire and Crystalized, I feel comfortable including it here. I’ll probably elaborate in the future, but Estrella goes through some stuff in Hunted that makes her feel uncomfortable about her powers. At the same time, Avery officially joins the ninja after Hunted. So with her own stuff to deal with and her teammate having new people to rely on, Estrella “retires” from the adventures she’d been doing with Avery and goes back to civilian life. She then pretty much stays a civilian until Nya merges with the sea, not being part of the ninja’s adventures…with one exception.

Prime Empire avatar: A good chunk of Ninjago City’s populace got sucked inside Prime Empire, and there’s no reason she couldn’t be one of them! Plus, since fighting with cool video game abilities doesn’t bring up the baggage she now has around her powers, she’s willing to help the ninja out when she runs into them. (Look, I’ve been wanting to design a Prime Empire avatar for her since before I had anything more fleshed out than “Master of Starlight”; her being “retired” is not gonna stop me from including her in this season.)

Kai’s Student look: Losing Nya causes Estrella to have a worldview shift. She’s no longer content to just sit out of fighting in case she messes up, or even come in and heal people after the fact. Instead, she decides she wants to be more proactive about protecting the people she loves, so when she finds out that Kai is teaching students, she approaches him about getting some private training in actual fighting. Her outfit during this time period is very simple and meant to be more functional than fashionable. After this training period, once the ninja regroup, she officially joins the team. 

Crystalized looks: And since, starting with Crystalized, she’s now a ninja, that means I finally get to design gi for her! During the early episodes of Crystalized, the ninja have their standard Wilbrain gi on, so I designed a version for her in addition to the Crystalized-specific looks.

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[Image Description: Regional variant designs of the Pokemon Oddish and Gloom, as well as a new regional evolution, based around bluegrass both in terms of the plant and the musical genre.

The first Pokemon is the Pokemon Oddish, with an altered design based around the bluegrass plant. It has a round green body resembling an onion with legs, five large green leaves sprouting from its head, and red beady eyes. Mingling with its leaves are two blue seed pod-like growths. Green text outlined in pink to the right of the image reads "Oddish (Cantessy Regional Variant)".

The second Pokemon is the Pokemon Gloom, with an altered design based around the bluegrass plant. It has a green body with stumpy nub-like arms and large feet, and it keeps its eyes closed while it drools out of its green-lipped smiling mouth. A large mess of leaves are growing from its head, all of them blue with blue-violet tips. Green text outlined in pink to the right of the image reads "Gloom (Cantessy Regional Variant)".

The third Pokemon is a green humanoid made of thick grass stalks and leaves. Its forearms are a darker green than its body, and its large calves are a lighter green and covered in fibers resembling a stringed instrument that converge to a yellow disk. It has purple leaves on its lower body that resemble a skirt, and blue and purple leaves on its head that resemble a bob-cut hairstyle. It has tired-looking purple eyes, and it is sitting down with its legs crossed somewhat so that it can pluck at its leg fibers like a dulcimer, an instrument typically found in Bluegrass music. Green text outlined in pink to the right of the image reads "Blossimer".

End ID.]

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Oddish (Cantessian regional variant) - Weed Pokemon - grass/fairy Originally brought over by Kantonian immigrants, over time it has lost some of its toxic qualities to better fit in with the native grasses. / They seem to sparkle in the moonlight from the pollen surrounding their foliage. When they notice a full moon overhead, they sit and stare at it for hours on end.

Gloom (Cantessian regional variant) - Bluegrass Pokemon - grass/fairy This Cantessian variant has a neutral or pleasant smell, and is instead known to hum to communicate with others. They are particularly fond of musical instruments. / It enjoys sitting in the moonlight and humming to itself. The reasons behind its connection to the moon are a mystery.

Blossimer - Dulcimer Pokemon - grass/fairy When initially trying to evolve a Cantessian Gloom, its Trainer was surprised to find that neither a Leaf Stone nor a Sun Stone would work. Whatever Blossimer’s connection to the moon may be is a mystery. / This Pokemon plucks on the fibers on its legs to play music, both for its own entertainment and to communicate with others. Bluegrass musicians love this Pokemon and compare its sounds to that of a dulcimer, though it seems more likely to play closer to a full moon.

And here we are, guys, the reason I started the Cantessy project in the first place. I'd been getting inspiration for an Oddish variant based on bluegrass (the plant) for some years, possibly even before regional variants were an official thing. Once I was getting further inspiration to make my own region due to watching Lockstin's Kaskade videos, I decided making a fan-region based on places around where I live would give a bluegrass (plant) Oddish a fitting home. Originally I was going to make these guys pure grass, but once I decided to put in lunar connections in the dex entries I figured adding fairy-type would be a good idea. Yes, even though I already had Hedeomadon. Look, grass/fairy is just a good combo okay XD

Anyway, as you can see with the regional exclusive evolution, which is obtained by giving Gloom a Moon Stone, I took the line from just being themed around the bluegrass plant and incorporated elements of the musical genre that shares its name. Specifically, Blossimer's leg fibers are inspired by the dulcimer. And let me just say, be glad I went with this look for Blossimer. Their draft look had their whole body be the dulcimer, and it um...it did not look good, hehe. Besides, it was based on just the look of dulcimers themselves without me knowing how dulcimers were played, which is usually with the instrument laying in the musician's lap as they're seated. I like that seated musician look better even without taking all that into account, anyway. And if you're wondering why there's so much mention of the moon in these dex entries and the evo method, even taking into account Kantonian Oddish's minor moon connections alongside that, well...there's that classic Bluegrass song "Blue Moon of Kentucky"...

Reminder that if anyone wants to suggest moves for any Cantessy Fakemon to learn and some physical stats where I haven’t yet figured them out, feel free to throw ‘em at me :3 Links to their info pages will be provided in the replies!

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Kantonian Oddish, Kantonian Gloom, and other Pokemon concepts © Nintendo/GameFreak Cantessian Oddish, Cantessian Gloom, Blossimer, the Cantessy region, and artwork © PuppyLuver Studios