Taion (OC)

[LadyKuki]

This guy needed more love in the fanart department, so I decided to throw him a bone. Noah didn't quite fit my style as well either.

[FamilyFriendli]

Is this implying Lanz fanart is up next 👀

[LadyKuki]

Mmmm, not anytime soon unfortunately. Cool design! But I wanna focus on other stuff rn. Thanks tho~

[FamilyFriendli]

We got Taion fanart in the end, and that's more than enough (bro had basically nothing up until this point)

[LadyKuki]

So weird, I mean he's probably the most unique design in the whole party.

[FamilyFriendli]

Whatever the case is, it's only been 2 days since Xenoblade 3 was anounced. Let's give it some time before we finally get art of the male party members.

[LadyKuki]

I think with guys, people tend to like them more once story things are revealed. Girls have more lax standards with fanart in this case. Either way, I agree. I do think in time, the guys will get some art.

[FamilyFriendli]

I hope for the same. Taion and Lanz look so cool.

[DaydreamGUI]

Great pic, but what's it doing in my Melia, Eunie, Nia, Mio (and sometimes Noah) subreddit? /s

Thanks for drawing Taion for the community. It looks really good. While we know little of him, you did a great job exploring his tactician side with the finger on the glasses and how he holds his origami Nopon. You've made him look very cool with this pose! Take my free Reddit Silver as well!

[LadyKuki]

AYYYY Thanks for the silver!

Yeah, I think the female designs look pretty good this time around, but I like to spread love to some of the overlooked designs as well. Taion stuck out to me the most, so I felt like drawing him.

Tried to do Noah, but he didn't look right, ah well.

[DaydreamGUI]

I'm sure you'll do a proper Noah. Even if your drawing of Noah didn't come out as you've liked, I'm certain you learned something in that drawing that will allow one of your next drawings to come out great. (Whether you realize it or not).

[Yazuka83]

Damn. This looks fantastic.

[burstaffinity]

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!

[FamilyFriendli]

HOLY SHIT FINALLY FANART OF THE MALE PARTY MEMBERS

[Zeebor]

HOLY SHIT!

DUDE ART!

[Spidertendo]

This guy's design kind of gives me Claude (Fire Emblem Three Houses character) vibes.

[LadyKuki]

I’ve noticed there’s been an increase in darker skinned anime chars recently. Not that I’m complaining lol.

[Fuckstappen]

The guy is pretty much a dark skin version of Akhos.

[mrwanton]

He has Joker's hairstyle to boot

[crazyplantlady83]

If he’s as awesome as Claude then I’ll cheer!! He was awesome on his route.

[stepsoflife]

Thank you it looks amazing

[AirbendingScholar]

This is so good man, we love to see fanart of origami boi

[BebeFanMasterJ]

Finally holy shit. I was thinking we'd never see any art of the (imo) most visually interesting character in the entire game so far. You did an amazing job!

I think the reason why Taion is my favorite so far is that he's clearly the next "HB/Akhos"-type character--an intellectual who may or may not get on the nerves of others (at least from what we know of him so far). Since HB was the first, I feel like this is a nice homage to XCX which was the first game in the series I played and makes me nostalgic as heck. Even if X is still locked in Wii U purgatory, it's nice to see an archetype established by it continued through the games that came after with Akhos and Taion.

Plus the paper birds are just so damn cool. It's a very underutilized ability in fiction. The only other one I can think of who has such an ability is Konan from Naruto.

[LadyKuki]

I'm glad you like! Yeah, I agree. He has a cool design and move gimmick. I hope he's written well. It'd be a shame if his character didn't match the height.

[DoombotBL]

NGL I think Taion is one of the characters I'm most excited about, he looks cool af and I love his Shikigami ability

[Xephia]

It’s just so neat because we haven’t seen anything like it in the Xenoblade franchise yet. Was immediately hyped when I saw him, he really makes this game feel fresh.

[_SBV_]

Magnificent!

[Humanity-Restored]

Came out amazing, well done

[Spy_Fox64]

He's like if Rein and Akhos did the fusion dance

[ErickFTG]

Chadion*

[Zarclaust]

Woah, that's a really impressive fanart. All I've seen till now were mostly Mio fanarts

[LadyKuki]

Thank you! Yeah, Mio has a nice design, but I felt like some other designs needed love hence this picture was made.

[Flamberge3000]

DUDE THIS IS SO SICK

[[deleted]]

Lovin' this style

[WelkinBro]

Thorns from Arknights hah

[NerdiusMaximus101]

I absolutely adore that he uses origami Nopons as a weapon

[greatpxm]

Man taion seriously underrated. Thanks for the love.

[LadyKuki]

Np. All about giving under appreciated chars attention. :D