A little prologue to my piece for the Special Gala this year…Hau’s outfit has a bit

A little prologue to my piece for the Special Gala this year…Hau’s outfit has a bit of history behind it. ✨Two years ago, I signed up to participate in Specord’s first-ever gala, and I was assigned to draw an outfit for Hau. The thing was, the gala that year was running concurrently with a Specord writing event, which I also wanted to participate in. I thought I could juggle both of them at the same time, but I only got as far as designing Hau’s outfit before I realized that I couldn’t handle that. So, I decided to drop out of the gala and focus on my piece for the writing event - a fic about Sun and Moon going to prom together in which Hau played a minor role. Still, the fact that I had a perfectly good design for a formal outfit for Hau that went completely unused hung over my head for a long time - I always intended to go back and finish it someday, but I wound up never doing anything with it aside from refining the design a bit a few months ago. So, fast forward to this year’s gala, which is announced to have a theme of signature Pokémon. I had a handful of characters in mind that I’d be happy to design an outfit for based on one of their signature Pokémon, but in the back of my mind I knew that being assigned Hau for this gala was the perfect - and possibly the only - opportunity for me to bring this design back, since it’s already heavily themed around one of Hau’s signature Pokémon. So when I saw that I was assigned Hau, I immediately - just like Moon does in the comic - looked at Hau’s old gala outfit and said to myself, “I can make him a pretty awesome outfit out of this”. Taking a look at this old design and the new one, I think it’s pretty obvious to see how I incorporated it.(I actually considered at one point having Hau be completely shirtless in his outfit, since Primarina is based on sirens and mermaids which are typically depicted without shirts on. But I decided against it precisely because I wanted to keep the bubble-patterned shirt from the original gala design.) -- source link

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