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It's getting to that time of year again, and I figure now is a good a time as any to give off some teasers. I don't have a whole lot to ramble about these days, at least nothing I feel like rambling about, so I can't mix in teasers with something else. But I can ramble about my thoughts and decisions. I'll be splitting this up into three posts, with this one being the first. I won't be teasing everything, but I'll be teasing some things. Two of these posts will be pertaining to the upcoming polls, with one being about some of the actual content I'll be releasing. For this first one, I'll talk about the first supporter poll - the duo poll - and next time I'll talk about the public poll - the 'returning' poll. I've spent far too long deciding on who will be featured in these polls, especially when both are a 'three pick' selection. Unlike last year, where I had that poll that featured twenty characters, this year I'm keeping it subdued. At least in terms of options. The amount of animations I do for the poll this year is probably gonna be more than I ultimately did last year, but that's fine. I mostly just didn't have the ideas of drive to get twenty or so costumes for a bunch of different characters. It's also why stuff is returning.


Anyway, let's get into the characters featured in the duo poll. First off, I had many ideas for this poll. Some I threw out just because I didn't feel like the ideas after a certain point, others because I felt they were a shoe-in for victory(and that's saying something considering who will be featured), or just because it required too much work to make. To start with, this one is kind of a returning idea, but it's something I want to return to and I think introducing the duo aspect is decent for it.

The Commander and Operator 21 as pinup girls, with the Commander having gotten the chance to make an appearance last year from getting top four in the polls. If I had the time, I'd honestly make this a pack of its own, but I didn't want to go overboard and start a bunch of different projects and stretch myself thin. My goal was three sets, and so far I managed to make four. I may have the time for a fifth, but I'm not gonna promise anything on that front. Still, if I didn't have an idea that is more in line with what I normally do, I'd have gone for this as my fifth set. Next is a duo that I've been asked to do for years now.

Not quite in the way I've been asked, but yeah. There's plenty of art of these two as nurses/doctors, and I figured "why not throw my own hat into bunch". I know what you're thinking. These two are the obvious shoe-ins for victory, and I'd agree normally, but last year their performances in all the polls was... disappointing to say the least. In the supporter poll, Aerith was 2nd to last of the four I had(Luna, Nyotengu, and Marie Rose being her competitors, and Marie Rose ended up losing which was winning in a way for that poll, as she got an animation). In the public version of the poll, Aerith got last place and Tifa second to last against the same three mentioned prior. Their chances of winning are lower here than they might be otherwise. They obviously have a chance to completely dominate, but I wouldn't say it's a guarantee.


Now, for the last duo, I spent a lot of time going back and forth on what should be done. My first choice was vampire Gentiana and Lunafreya, even started working on setting that up, but I ultimately lost interest in the idea. Also felt it was too strong of an option and probably would have won, even against Aerith and Tifa. Same deal with the other idea I had of just using those DMC Trish and Iris things I did earlier in the year for the Anniversary, but that one also falls into the category of being too likely to win around these parts. So that one also got scrapped. Especially since, well... I'll talk about that in another post. Regardless, with these two ideas scrapped, I was more or less stumped. Most of my ideas were too likely to win, or too likely to lose, and I did eventually decide on something about a week ago... but after a week of procrastinating, nothing got done on that front. See, the idea I had was gonna be Morrigan and Lilith, since I already have a custom Morrigan model. It would mean the only thing I'd have to do was make a custom Lilith model, but I was ultimately too damn lazy for that. It was a good idea, but too much effort for me at this point in time. Maybe it'll see the light of day at some point, but not right now.

Instead, I had a dumb idea while in the shower one day, and it's what I ultimately settled on.

This is probably the most out there duo of the bunch, but I just had the idea of a 'cat' and a 'dog' as a duo, and my mind went to my 'kitsune' OC and Y'shtola. Y'shtola being the cat obviously, and my OC being the dog. It's kind of an odd duo, since one is an established character and the other is a rando made by me, but it's what popped into my head at the time. Considered changing Y'shtola to a cat OC, or the OC to someone else, but I just kinda liked it so I left it. Do I expect them to win? No. But I think they've got a small chance. People like Y'shtola, after all. Plus, the image I had in my mind, which I translated into the picture above, was funny enough for me to not scrap it along with all the other ideas I've had.


Anyway, I've also changed my pfp and banner to prepare. And no, it doesn't have anything to do with upcoming Halloween content. I was just trying to figure out what to do and this is what I came up with. I was also gonna post this tomorrow, but I had it all written up and everything prepped, got my animation work done for the day and figured why not. Next post will probably be on Friday, but could be earlier or later. Depends. Again, it'll be over the public poll which might not be the most interesting or exciting of the polls, but it's also something of an experiment? A test? Something like that. I am curious how it'll go.

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