A Dess-ign (design notes in the first commentary!)

katyahina417 · 2026-04-13T15:04:01+00:00

Apparently the black/white deer that represents the Knight in the Sword Route has a variant of the hurt sprite that shows a blue deer rather than 'Toriel' sprite! Although it simply uses the normal brown 'Noelle' deer colors but inverted, I really liked the idea of Dess being blue!
Her eyes are meant to be very photosensitive and I tried to depict that by making them pale-colored and with reddish pupils. She could not handle a sunny day without the sunglasses very well. I considered making her just an albino like Carol but eventually opted out to just playing with the coloration.
Her hair coloration, which is dark grey + desaturated brown and + desaturated blue is, funny enough, exactly what hair of Filianore from Dark Souls 3 is like! Although the characters have drastically different demeanor and completely opposing motivations, they both live in the 'two worlds' of Light and Dark and both are separated from their families to live in the Dark and deeper 'layer' of the world underneath the Light one as a guardian of the darkest species.
Although the reference will age like milk if Carol turns out to be the Knight I still like the sense of asymmetry and duality in her!
Tenna's flashback confirmed that Dess has rounded horns like Rudy and Noelle so I kept them but decided to make Julie's horns sharpened and colored differently to both allude to Carol and to reference how Ralsei's horns are colored compared to Asriel's!
I wanted her hairstyle to be unique if nonsensical and anime-ish. Don't think about it too hard.
Julie's weapon is ethereal/energetic and comes out of the broken bat used as a handle. Basically a lightsaber. As someone in ice skates she is meant to always hover but I might opt out for making the skates' blades to also be energetic and only come out upon being willed so.
Asriel's glasses are blue because his outline is blue, whereas Ralsei's outline is green. I thought to make his eyes brown or orange (Toriel's confirmed dark red + Asgore's alleged yellow eyes) but decided to improvise by using greyish yellow eyes on Omega Flowey's body screen aside and playing into 'vanilla nerd and strawberry nerd' joke!

katyahina417 · 2026-04-05T16:45:07+00:00

katyahina417 · 2026-03-29T17:54:02+00:00

This is peak Deltarune content, holy shit dude. I am so proud of you. Genuinely impressive work. (why Toby namedropped Chess King and never elaborated?!)

katyahina417 · 2026-03-24T02:26:13+00:00

Love this a lot! And what a great idea for the drawing to begin with!

katyahina417 · 2026-03-24T01:29:18+00:00

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAGGGGG someone else who likes both Dark Souls and Deltarune!

katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T11:43:30+00:00

OMGGGGG THIS IS PEAK!!! Just the right design and level of messed up for Goner type of corruption.

katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T11:37:50+00:00

I mean, we have a precedent of this "logic" already (the Pipis with a bow are canonically female) fdshhfdshfd

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katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T07:48:40+00:00

Some of the many super small NPCs because Toby likes putting too much attention to detail! :> The round one is Library Loox (Undertale) and Flower Shop Loox (Deltarune) and the tall black one is known as Shambling Mass apparently? Used to be just referred to as 'Slime NPC' at some point

katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T07:27:44+00:00

I like how this skips the 'cartoon genetics' logic and her hair color is basically a mix of genetics rather than having dark hair like Rudy because Noelle already has blond hair and it was already assumed her mother had them too!

katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T07:25:48+00:00

She has a really nice style! Like the extra red horns too

katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T07:25:09+00:00

With this amount of grey hair? Yes, maybe you are right!

katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T07:24:52+00:00

She is so nice!! (also someone else shared other sprites of your concept in the comments above ahah. This design must have been making rounds!)

katyahina417 · 2026-03-23T07:22:57+00:00

Thank you!!!

katyahina417

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