#plz click the link. the art this is based off of is so so adorable

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Oh and a related cool trivia I just discovered! In the rather criminally underrated sci fi spinoff Breath Of Fire Dragon Quarter, the rival character inexplicably shares the japanese name of Bo. (Bosch) And (very depressingly) there’s concept art of him being a badass buff dog-man instead of an ordinary human teenager. The one complaint I do agree about for this game is that it sucks they removed pretty much all the animal people and monster people and stuff. It being a sci fi story would have completely justified them, geez! I actually kinda like human-Bosch’s final design, but looking at Lin in the artbook is so depressing. She’s the only remaining animal person character and she just has a hat that might be cat-shaped or might hide actual ears. But her beta designs had like a million actual cat person ones, as well as she used to be like the one dark-skinned person in the entire plot! Cmon, why did you have to change that bit?? It seems the beast clan would have had a Gerudo-esque arabian inspired culture or something, and they not only binned all of those amazing designs but binned every single damn character except Lin :P Anyway, like, if you don’t mind getting spoilers for this game then plz look below the cut for AMAZING BETA DESIGNS. Man, these inspire me so much! I wanna try and make ocs based on some of them, just so the idea doesnt go wasted. And I can link people to the beta art and repeat this rant every time someone likes my oc!! MWAHAHA THE ULTIMATE EVIL PLAN

Ok, so probably a lot of people clicked on this without playing the game or having any intention to. Its the most hated one in the series cos of the genre change and some badly handled gameplay, yeah. But I do really like the worldbuilding and art style even if it was kinda wasted. And the beta ideas look even more wasted... ANYWAY LETS STOP RANTING Here’s links to the characters’s wiki pages if you wanna know the designs they actually got in the final version: Ryu, Lin, Nina, Bosch

I’m gonna start with Bosch cos he had the biggest changes. DOG BOSCH HOLY SHIT YO

Bonus other fun fact: apparantly the latest dog man in the upcoming BoF6 iphone game is named Gilliam again, which is what Bo was in Bof1 japanese version. So now every name has appeared twice, lol!

Nina also had some radically different designs! Mostly her concept art is just different ideas for how her sci fi wings would look, but then there’s one page of her being this entirely different thiefy looking kid in steampunk goggles. maybe she was meant to have Lin’s role at one point?

The protagonist Ryu didn’t get quite as many interesting changes but I may as well post it anyway.

But LETS GET TO THE MEAT OF THIS Just look at the DOZEN designs for Lin that are all uniquely different and far more interesting than the one we got! I feel like ive been spoiled, I actually used to like it before I saw what could have been...

I think my favourite is actually the most human one, that badass wide shouldered hijabi lady at the very bottom of the page. Like WOW, I love you! And it would have spiced the smaller cast up a bit if we had one older adult character instead of everyone being smol teenagerz. But then again I can see it being a problem that the ‘terrorist’ character is the only one with a an ambiguously middle eastern design. Even if she only starts off as a villain for the prologue and it turns out the protagonist’s group were the bad guys all along, leading to the big ol team up. I mean if they wrote things to emphasize that a bit more, it would have honestly worked REALLY well if her character had a ‘stereotypical terrorist’ design. Kick that trope to the curb! Gimme my badass hijabi rebellion leader!! Kicking the ass of all them privilaged nobleman assholes! I mean seriously imagine HOW MUCH the plot would have resonated more if they took the ‘D-ratio equals discrimination metaphor’ thing and intertwined it with actual real life themes of discrimination! That whole plot is the big reason I have a soft spot for this game even as I can admit how flawed it is. Throw away all the dragon blablabla and slow gameplay, just give me more focus on this classism war in an underground city!! With this badass Lin!! Please!!

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...Man sorry I had a bit of a moment there.

Also apparantly the big scary dragon dude who kickstarts the whole plot was meant to get stuck in some sort of cute mini form instead of Ryu simply getting cursed with his powers. I cant imagine how the plot would have changed in this version, but the designs are adorable!