"..."
Griseo looked at the comments about Kiana on Twitter, her expression unchanged. Setting aside the young lady from Honkai Impact 2nd, Kiana in the early stages of Honkai Impact 3rd really had not been very charming.
Even "She" herself had not liked her much at first.
She might have preferred Mei, Theresa, or Yae Sakura a little more.
Especially when She had first started playing, Kiana's lines had been rather strange. Things like wanting to drink Mei's "juice." Sometimes, when the sound was accidentally playing aloud and the people around her... or her family members gave her strange looks, it had been beyond embarrassing!
Of course, that was not to say Kiana was just a crude idiot. It was simply that with Mei and the others around, Kiana had gotten into the habit of not thinking things through and relying on them.
But later on, Kiana had no choice but to shoulder the responsibility of changing the world herself.
Like an ugly duckling becoming a swan, a chrysalis breaking open into a butterfly...
Once Kiana became Flamescion, her charm had increased by who knew how many times. She was so damn cute, invincible throughout the universe!
Yet by then, one would realize that Kiana had already lost that silly smile from back then. Everything she had once possessed was gone.
It made one think that they would rather Kiana had never gone through that growth.
—In short, cherish the present.
After finishing Kiana's character design sheets and CG illustrations, Griseo began drawing another protagonist, Raiden Mei.
To Griseo, Raiden Mei was comparatively familiar. Among the memories Griseo had inherited, she also knew what had happened in the Elysian Realm.
So drawing Mei's image was actually faster.
She had also been deeply influenced by Raiden Mei...
As for Raiden Mei's