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Welp, looks like I haven't done anything since the holiday greetings - 2019 (well, other than Aki-chan's Life on my page, of course ) But here's finally something new that I worked on and off for some time now.

So a while ago, I stumbled upon this in a sub-section on the T2t TV Tropes page : "Teri and Aki have met in some side of The Multiverse". And made me think, why not do a (very much non-canon, so don't grind your theory gears too hard ) pic of that? And while we're at it, why limit it to those two? So I added two more Asuka/Shinji kids that also were influential (at least to me), also giving me the possibility to, well, at least try myself on other styles.

I was also thinking of mixing the coloring styles, like Teri being cell-shaded, the others in their respective styles. But I don't think my coloring is up to a task like that without looking just too off, so it's samey on all in that regard.

Background might be a bit iffy - I'm far from a professional level anyway, but my landscape game is certainly still rather weak, and I feel it might cheapen the whole thing to the extend that I was tempted to throw it out entirely and just replace it with something simple. But I kinda liked the idea of them having a bit of a play date out in some park. Not sure if it fits anywhere in "Avalon" as put in that TV Tropes page though - sorry, Stryp, still haven't gotten around to properly read ACoS.

So for those not aware, from left to right, we have:

Teri Ikari, from "The Child of Love" by Axel Terizaki:

Given that the artwork used for her in the fic (that I'm aware of) re-used art of young Asuka (as such, she also kinda works here as stand-in for all the other clone-kids ), it seemed easy enough at first... until I go to the coloring.
Well, for the hair, it was actually a good thing that Anime Asuka already has somewhat darker hair than otherwise often depicted, so color-picking that at least gave some variation. The outfit though... personally, I always had her dress in mind as dark green, but I don't remember where I got that from. The series at least always has young Asuka in grayscale, so no color. Then I finally got to EoE that has a short scene with her, in a red (duh?) dress, but it's hard to tell if it's even supposed to be the same one (she's actually quite off-model in that bit).
And then there's the beads for her hair - sometimes they seem lighter than it, sometimes darker. I also figured they'd be red (duh?), but then we get to the artwork used by CoL, that has them as bright as the ribbon. Speaking of, I also thought the ribbon to be red (duh?), but aside from that making her a bit too Christmas themed in my imaginary original green color scheme, the series also has it clearly quite bright, if not white, so I was clearly wrong in that regard (though in the series it's also sometimes there, sometimes not (and most of the time not visible, since she's often clutching her stuffed monkey)).
Then I did what I should probably have done first and re-checked the fic itself if there was some description. And the only thing I saw was a "dark blue dress with a white ribbon around the collar". Granted, that might have been supposed to be a nightdress, since that scene is early in the morning. But even if it wasn't and it doesn't match actual young Asuka's dress - well, in the end, she's not supposed to be young Asuka, so I went with that.

"God" (or "Kami-chan", as I prefer ) from "RE-TAKE" by Studio Kimigabuchi:

She looked a bit older than the rest to me, so I guess she'd be the big sis of the group? I originally had her in a more haughty pose, flipping her hair back – but checking again, that didn't really seem to fit her character as depicted.
I guess she also kinda covers some other section of clone-kids? She's actually modeled after the Manga variant of young Asuka, but I guess due to not being quite as familiar with that, combined with Kimigabuchi's distinct, more "pointy" art style, it wasn't quite as noticeable (to me at least ).
I guess the color scheme was technically a similar issue as with Teri (it's all b/w as well, after all, and I don't recall seeing any "official" coloring for her) - but not as many sources tugging in different directions, so I just went with what seemed most obvious to me (I just swayed a bit whether her ribbon would be black or dark red).

Aki Ikari from "The 2nd try/Aki-chan's Life" by... me :

Well, colors certainly weren't a problem here (other than I can seemingly never decide on the saturation) and not much new to say design-wise. XD
Though I guess for those who see this as the first pic of mine and don't know of her: I purposely wanted to swim a bit against the clone trend, so I mixed a bit more of Shinji's traits in, making her hair not only closer to his color, but having it be a bit more messy like his as well. She also has a preference for oversized clothes (and even if not visible, going barefoot), but going into details there would be spoilers.
I was a bit concerned that her overlapping pose could be seen as me pushing my own creation too much to the front, but let's face it, she's a energetic one, she'd definitely do some wild waving like this. And I didn't want to push them too far apart either (also, I admittedly didn't mind not having to draw Kami-chan's hands in too much detail ).

Mai Ikari from "Happy End of Evangelion" by Pengel:

A bit of an odd one out, her being more of a red-haired Rei with (sometimes) visible ears. The one instance we see her colored on the book's cover even has her with red eyes (at least to my color-impaired eyes) - but so does Shinji, so I guess the intent was for it to be Manga-Shinji's brown.
Originally, I wanted to go with a cute (＾▽＾) face for her that she sported a few times - but I kinda wanted to show her vastly differently styled eyes for the extra variation.
So a more timid smile it was, which should still fit, I think. After all, personality-wise - well, she's not quite "Rei-ish" in that regard, but she's definitely the most quiet-type of the bunch, barely speaking at all in the (unfortunately only two) chapters we see her in (I think there's only a "Mama").
She might also be the least known, at least she seems the least mentioned of these four. But as said, Pengel's works were also somewhat influential to me (even if it was mostly untranslated at the time), enough that I even had a scene of Aki seeking Shinji to hide from her mother in T2t as homage to Mai's first entrance in her book.

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Welp, looks like I haven't done anything since the holiday greetings - 2019 (well, other than Aki-chan's Life on my page, of course ) But here's finally something new that I worked on and off for some time now.

So a while ago, I stumbled upon this in a sub-section on the T2t TV Tropes page : "Teri and Aki have met in some side of The Multiverse". And made me think, why not do a (very much non-canon, so don't grind your theory gears too hard ) pic of that? And while we're at it, why limit it to those two? So I added two more Asuka/Shinji kids that also were influential (at least to me), also giving me the possibility to, well, at least try myself on other styles.

I was also thinking of mixing the coloring styles, like Teri being cell-shaded, the others in their respective styles. But I don't think my coloring is up to a task like that without looking just too off, so it's samey on all in that regard.

Background might be a bit iffy - I'm far from a professional level anyway, but my landscape game is certainly still rather weak, and I feel it might cheapen the whole thing to the extend that I was tempted to throw it out entirely and just replace it with something simple. But I kinda liked the idea of them having a bit of a play date out in some park. Not sure if it fits anywhere in "Avalon" as put in that TV Tropes page though - sorry, Stryp, still haven't gotten around to properly read ACoS.

So for those not aware, from left to right, we have:

Teri Ikari, from "The Child of Love" by Axel Terizaki:

Given that the artwork used for her in the fic (that I'm aware of) re-used art of young Asuka (as such, she also kinda works here as stand-in for all the other clone-kids ), it seemed easy enough at first... until I go to the coloring.
Well, for the hair, it was actually a good thing that Anime Asuka already has somewhat darker hair than otherwise often depicted, so color-picking that at least gave some variation. The outfit though... personally, I always had her dress in mind as dark green, but I don't remember where I got that from. The series at least always has young Asuka in grayscale, so no color. Then I finally got to EoE that has a short scene with her, in a red (duh?) dress, but it's hard to tell if it's even supposed to be the same one (she's actually quite off-model in that bit).
And then there's the beads for her hair - sometimes they seem lighter than it, sometimes darker. I also figured they'd be red (duh?), but then we get to the artwork used by CoL, that has them as bright as the ribbon. Speaking of, I also thought the ribbon to be red (duh?), but aside from that making her a bit too Christmas themed in my imaginary original green color scheme, the series also has it clearly quite bright, if not white, so I was clearly wrong in that regard (though in the series it's also sometimes there, sometimes not (and most of the time not visible, since she's often clutching her stuffed monkey)).
Then I did what I should probably have done first and re-checked the fic itself if there was some description. And the only thing I saw was a "dark blue dress with a white ribbon around the collar". Granted, that might have been supposed to be a nightdress, since that scene is early in the morning. But even if it wasn't and it doesn't match actual young Asuka's dress - well, in the end, she's not supposed to be young Asuka, so I went with that.

"God" (or "Kami-chan", as I prefer ) from "RE-TAKE" by Studio Kimigabuchi:

She looked a bit older than the rest to me, so I guess she'd be the big sis of the group? I originally had her in a more haughty pose, flipping her hair back – but checking again, that didn't really seem to fit her character as depicted.
I guess she also kinda covers some other section of clone-kids? She's actually modeled after the Manga variant of young Asuka, but I guess due to not being quite as familiar with that, combined with Kimigabuchi's distinct, more "pointy" art style, it wasn't quite as noticeable (to me at least ).
I guess the color scheme was technically a similar issue as with Teri (it's all b/w as well, after all, and I don't recall seeing any "official" coloring for her) - but not as many sources tugging in different directions, so I just went with what seemed most obvious to me (I just swayed a bit whether her ribbon would be black or dark red).

Aki Ikari from "The 2nd try/Aki-chan's Life" by... me :

Well, colors certainly weren't a problem here (other than I can seemingly never decide on the saturation) and not much new to say design-wise. XD
Though I guess for those who see this as the first pic of mine and don't know of her: I purposely wanted to swim a bit against the clone trend, so I mixed a bit more of Shinji's traits in, making her hair not only closer to his color, but having it be a bit more messy like his as well. She also has a preference for oversized clothes (and even if not visible, going barefoot), but going into details there would be spoilers.
I was a bit concerned that her overlapping pose could be seen as me pushing my own creation too much to the front, but let's face it, she's a energetic one, she'd definitely do some wild waving like this. And I didn't want to push them too far apart either (also, I admittedly didn't mind not having to draw Kami-chan's hands in too much detail ).

Mai Ikari from "Happy End of Evangelion" by Pengel:

A bit of an odd one out, her being more of a red-haired Rei with (sometimes) visible ears. The one instance we see her colored on the book's cover even has her with red eyes (at least to my color-impaired eyes) - but so does Shinji, so I guess the intent was for it to be Manga-Shinji's brown.
Originally, I wanted to go with a cute (＾▽＾) face for her that she sported a few times - but I kinda wanted to show her vastly differently styled eyes for the extra variation.
So a more timid smile it was, which should still fit, I think. After all, personality-wise - well, she's not quite "Rei-ish" in that regard, but she's definitely the most quiet-type of the bunch, barely speaking at all in the (unfortunately only two) chapters we see her in (I think there's only a "Mama").
She might also be the least known, at least she seems the least mentioned of these four. But as said, Pengel's works were also somewhat influential to me (even if it was mostly untranslated at the time), enough that I even had a scene of Aki seeking Shinji to hide from her mother in T2t as homage to Mai's first entrance in her book.