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I believe this is the first time I actually have to leave something in a WIP state...
tl;dr: This is still shit and I should never clone stamp complex skies. But I thought I might as well leave it here since I said I'd complete it.
The main issue being that the artist of the original was very lax about the scenery to the left of the characters (there barely is any in the first place), which ends up in a very blurry blotch of random colors. (This is best noticable if you just zoom out a bit and compare left and right.)
There are two solutions to this, copy pasta the right scenery to the left or move the characters even further to the left essentially extending the image to the right only. I don't like either so I'm stopping here since there is no actual OR to this anymore anyway.
And then there is the sky which just gets worse the more I edit it.
Also thanks for reminding me of the rule of thirds, that's the reason the position of those two looked so off.