This is Euro, and he’s one of those cases where the old anime look was both repulsive and iconic to me and it was hard to reconcile. I have so many things no one gives a shit about to say about this guy, damn.
Euro is Silvana’s second child with the giant snake alien man, who has ‘genetically kind of fucked up for his species’ red hair. Normal hair colors for that species is black, which was how I justified Lydia, who is Euro’s older sister mostly because I was 13 and I said so. They’re all a big stack of un-aging supernatural alien creatures and some shit, so they’re all just going about their business living forever young and what not, hence no one bothering to look proportionally aged at this point in things.
Anyway, Euro was my favorite gothy trash disaster character back in the day, definitely eclipsing my prior enjoyment of his sister, and he got a significantly large amount of character ‘up-time’ in comparison to many of my characters, not just his sister. Lydia was something I enjoyed in my own time and in my own brain, but Euro interacted with the whole story, which was a collaboration with my friend. So he often feels like the real oldest child to us, because Lydia was just some aesthetic fun I was having and hadn’t reconciled with the actual narrative. Anyway, whatever, we fixed that.
Euro was highly influenced by the gothy dress up dolls I was downloading at the time, and one of the images I included here is the one I actually made of him. His look is both ridiculous and appealing in a revealing 2002 Hot Topic kind of way. Most of the time in current visions of the thing, he’s wearing a lot of extravagantly fancy nonsense, and the insertion of some lace inside the bell sleeves is kind of a call to that, but in my head, he always looks like some hazy version of the full body thing from 2002. Part of his character is enjoying a lot of over the top or expensive historically gothy bitch fashion, so this isn’t totally out of line, haha. And so, since I knew I was going to have to change the other largest thing about him, I let the outfit stay with the minorest of adjustments.
Because the palm tree hair. It’s like an iconic shape for him. We made stick figure drawings making fun of our own overdramatic plots and Euro was so easily just like palm tree shape with a pony tail that, even if it’s embarrassing to look at and not really in line with the look I was going for, I was looking for a way to translate it. I ended up with these layers in this hair, and length he can definitely still pony tail, which I pulled a piece forward for in this drawing. Because I couldn’t draw a piece of it just floating out from behind him like I used to, haha.
dress like the goth bitch you desperately wanted to be when you were 13 and then let all the characters you made then stay that way too
