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Tonight's another work night, and I'm feeling pretty wretched tonight anyways, so I'll have to push back another day.
To try and make up for it, I have the first pair of rendered swimsuit images...from last year, but still. I wanted to wait until all of them were done and get them all out at once, but here we are.
Strossvald has no sea on its borders, and while rivers and lakes and ponds are held within, swimming is not a common skill. Bathhouses abound though, and are particularly popular luxury destinations for those with the coin to afford the exclusivity. Archduchy modesty precludes the nude bathing that, for example, mountainfolk would think little of, but bathing suits are still a matter of fashion- and by extension, potential titillation- in Archduchy Bathhouse Culture.
The white tone of Maddalyn's garb here is not so modest when wet, suffice it to say.
Meanwhile, though the Reich and Halmeggia both are both more nautical and less modest than the Archduchy, the popular Atom Suit was never designed for proportions such as the Queen of Halmeggia Edelina Von Halm-Auric. Her pale complexion and shy demeanor would mean that the scanty fashion of the beach would usually be never donned nor even thought about- but rumor has it that a specialist was hired to design a "royal harness" and to make some sacrifice towards the Queen's hesitancy, a sheer robe was allowed. Ostensibly to take advantage of the queen's youth and health to encourage support for her, alas, it is only a rumor, as the harness has never been seen, let alone worn by the young queen...
