We always start with teams but it usually devolves into a free for all by the end of the day. Hoppy wants to get us all...that's all that matters to her, heh.
Kickin tried to catch Bubba off guard with the SuperFlooder9000tm, since Bubba always gets the better of him.
Hee! Bubba still does.
Crafty has gotten better with her magic! For better or worse! Picky thought she'd be an easy target.
We lost track of CatNap pretty early on. I don't think he enjoys water balloon fights very much. But he is an expert at hide n seek!
A/N: I've struggled with how I want to draw Catnap for a while and even now I'm still not sure if I like it. But eh, I'm already guilty of changing how they all look in the middle of drawing them. Consistency? What's that??
Probably can't tell but Hoppy is yelling 'booyakasha!'.
So a good while ago I got a balloon sword and thought wouldn't it be funny If the duels were fought with balloon swords then I got serious about it
So besides the swords being balloons, the roses are too
The first idea in regards to this was the duelists using what is essentially a toy in battle, a childish imitation of a sword fight
The second had to do with empty desires, what motivates them to fight. They have swords, but they're filled with nothing but air, merely a shell to hold almost nothing at all
Coming to the roses I thought Anthys blowing up the balloons is in a way the inflation of the duelists desire and them then being molded into motivation to battle, folding the balloon into the form of a rose
It'd also make a very nice sound when the balloon is popped, literally exploding on their chests
I had imagined that around the black rose arc we could possibly switch over to real swords
Visually I Imagine the sword pulls of the arc as a balloon floating out of their chests on a string to then be exploded by the sword inside piercing the balloon
From then on out real swords would be used, the roses remain balloons
Not entirely sure what to do with the Sword of Dios, it could either be replaced by a real one once Utena gets hers pulled out of her chest, it stays a balloon sword forever or it only turns into a real sword in the very last episodes
every time someone calls lightning “M*nty” a part of me dies. that is NOT HIS NAME. just immediately assume he came out of the womb and his parents looked at each other and his mother said “i literally dont give af. name him lightning or something.” and his dad was like yo hear me out… thats a banger name… and boom they named their baby after a weather event that people would eventually stop thinking about as a weather event when they hear it because they think about cars so often that the word “lightning” stands for cringe ass redhead 18 year old racer boy and not “electricity that comes from the sky”
clarifying this by saying i adore lightning and i call him a cringe ass racer boy because if you google the word cringefail his face is the first result (affectionately)