>>20479078>>20479536>>20480227What worked for me about the badgers was the personal connection. They're from Japanese myth, linking them to her shrine maiden work, and the way she welcomed them and drew their missing faces depicted a caring relationship between herself and her viewers. The new ones have similar surface level elements, connection to her new lore and a somewhat amorphous design, but don't have that personal link. Maybe there's something there with the hydrangeas but for now that feels like a stretch. I can't really tell what they're supposed to be either. Being a blueberry is fine but I wouldn't know they were supposed to be living magical darkness unless you told me directly. From a purely design perspective, that might be the issue, a general lack of direction. It's as if she's the one who asked us to explain what our relationship is through character design and all we could say was, "We don't know either." This whole thing about keeping the lore back until debut is also somewhat undermining on anyone's ability to make useful suggestions. I'd like to delay the mascot creation until the lore is ready but then she wants to use them for sub badges and emotes. I don't know. Maybe if someone can explain to me what we're supposed to be to Nade, we can come up with something.
