Cool outfits dude!
Keep it up!
Thanks!
Just having fun with some more re-imaginings in this post. My design aesthetic isn't necessarily what others would have gone for, but I looked at Mender Ramiel and then the rest of Ouroboros and how dated they looked in comparison. I took cues from Ramiel's look and extended that retroactively across all of the Menders, making up a bunch of yet-to-be-named Menders, in addition to remakes for most of the existing ones. I also tweaked the color palette a bit to be more neutral, not as high contrast for the most part. Still recognizable as Menders, just a slightly different take on them.
Mender Silos had the most extensive makeover, which I really felt was necessary to bring him to the fore as an important piece of the puzzle for both the past and the future. And that super-tall spiky hair just had to go. I chose to use the Elemental Order bits to give a hint of Nemesis in the look, as the jacket/robe especially reminds me of old-school military uniforms. I went with the Elemental Order backpack as though he actually had an Ouro crystal on his back, harnessing the power of the timestream to move forward and backward through time as needed. All that power is represented in part by the fact that he gets the glowie bits from different sets to set him apart slightly. Was just an idea, one that not everyone will agree with, I'm sure, but I liked it, so I went with it.
Silos actually was not the first one I did. I rolled through a series of generic, unnamed Menders first, to get a feel for the look I wanted. I had fun making them all, trying to keep a cohesive look that still had individuality for each.
So as to make sure there were some female Menders this time around as well (did we ever see more than just Tesseract?), I put together a few ideas here. Not sure about the last one, but the first few came together pretty well, I think.
After I had those ideas established, I went ahead and updated some of the contacts we dealt with in-game already. All should be recognizable, as I kept them mostly true to form, just with a few tweaks to bring them in line with everything else I'd played with.
Curious what others will think about these, so by all means tell me if you like them, hate them, think I'm obviously a clone of Ray Charles, or whatever.
Eventually I'll post another batch of stuff, either way.
