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G3 Clawdeen and Lagoona redesign thoughts 👀✨

I wanted to stay in the spirit of the new designs, but change some things to make them a bit more aesthetically cohesive !

April x Clawdeen Wolf for the (late) halloween series 🫶

Working on a Monster High repaint :3c

I love BOTH gorlies

missing these silly little goobers

come get your crumbs cleuce girlies

No one on tumblrs talkin about this so

Before I continue ass creed posting here’s my take on a Jinafire redesign!

Elements of her writing and design really bothered me in the original stuff (despite still liking Jinafire bc she was the only Chinese girl I could look up to in the cast lmao), so I decided it’d be a fun challenge to make a version for myself??

I put in extra concept sketches and my reference board under the cut if anyone’s interested!

Design choices

Her outfit is based on sleek Shanghai silhouettes in fashion (both during the 1920’s and more modern street wear) with textiles inspired by Qing Dynasty art and stitching. I picked the Qing dynasty specifically, since it’s the last/most recent dynasty in china’s history, and would serve as a bridge between her past and her future.

Jin has lotus and water elements in her design, to reference how her lineage of dragon royalty live and thrive with water (she’s the daughter of one of the four dragon kings who rule over the oceans of China, each having their own undersea palace). I also prefer lotus over chrysanthemum as well, since while chrysanthemums are popular in Chinese culture and represent longevity, my mother said if you wore one someone else would assume you’d be going to a funeral since those are offered for grievers to honor the departed’s memory

Her hairpiece is also late Qing dynasty inspired, and her earrings are based on ‘one ear, three rings’ sensibilities for royalty. She has a fondness for pearls also, since pearls are connected to the ocean and are important symbols for dragons.

Abilities

I wanted to compromise and retain the ‘heat’ element of the original Jinafire design, since traditionally they don’t have much to do with fire (that idea is more western). So she can summon small patches of rain and manipulate/produce water, but has the ability to raise the water’s temperature to a gentle warmth or to boiling degrees. By extension, she could manipulate temperature, which allows her to work with metals.

She is a shapeshifter, and has a full-dragon form! Shapeshifting is extremely common in Chinese folklore, and the dragon kings do it all the time.

She can fly! The silky translucent ribbon she wears sometimes is a reference to 飞天, heavenly spirits that could fly using the ribbon.

Character

She still grew up in nobility with a big family of brothers, but she was rather sheltered and was home-schooled by tutors, living in the ocean. When she decides to attend monster high, her family is reluctant, but decides that the experience would do her well. It took time to adjust, and it took a toll on her at first since the difference in processing time is a bit of a shock. Jin has poor time management issues as a result, since assignments she was used to taking time on would now feel faster and more pressing since everything around her goes much quicker, and this in addition to personal competitiveness and projected pressure could lead to burnout. Luckily, she would find a supportive friend group that would help her adjust and ground herself in the present. She’s still very young for a dragon, so she has a lot to learn.

Hope you guys like it! I probably won’t do redesigns of anyone else for a while since I have other larger priorities and interests though

reminder that saying clawdeen is a canon lesbian gives credit to a multi millon dollar company who actively pushed for there to not be any queer characters in mh related media (and that garret is no longer affiliated in mattel and their projects, including mh and has no say on what happens), the idea of lesbian clawdeen is amazing and im on board but mattel seemingly isnt gonna act on it in any form, u guys are queerbaiting urselves

Monster High's most iconic moments in no particular order because I want to remember the good times

- "Frankie FINE, don't lEeEeAve me HeeEEre"

- The narration Frankie does after they fuck up so terribly that Cupid and Clawd end up in love

- "Go get him little fish guy"

- Garrot INVENTING a flower for Rochelle and also being locked in a basement for an unknown amount of time

- Clawd getting Operetta to give the fake SKREAM plan to Toralei, and their pretend fight

- Just Valentine and Whisp like in general, best villains in the franchise

- The shadow versions of the ghouls

- The speech Clawd and Robecca give the ghouls before the final match

- Empire by Nefera and Ramses De Nile

- Regrettably, Freshwater! Lagoona chugging water and crushing cups with her forehead, because it was so weird

- The snake forehead kiss

- Frankie Stein dying, ACTUALLY DYING and getting brought back to unlife

- The Trick or Treatment

- Robecca having the vampire's heart, and her connection to Elissabat

- Operetta using her voice to push Draculaura (that might just be me but it just hits the spot)

redraw of my Howleen redesign 🕺

Made a quick lil redesign of the MH girls, tried to mix the original designs with the new ones :^)

♡* ｡.Draculaura.｡*♡

Hugging💞