Originally I had envisioned the "TBX" pilot as a male because, honestly, when you describe the concept of game like that to someone it just drips testosterone.  However, I've always had a soft spot for female lead characters, especially when bordering on the less conventional.

I'm not the most skilled concept artist; I'm a cartoonist at best. But I do enjoy drawing characters. For this particular character, I opted to put her in an action pose from the beginning instead of a just a standard "standing straight and looking at the camera" view because I still needed to get a sense of her mannerisms. She's crazy. No really, she's clinically insane.

I had imagined that the pilot, regardless of sex, was going to be a little "off." And this as-of-yet nameless character is definitely going to be that. I want to do a ridiculously over-the-top back story where she killed her step-father with a fondue fork and then somehow managed to murder an entire department worth of police when she was arrested. The idea is that the military needs a completely depraved mind to pilot the Mega Stratus Breaker Ultimatum, otherwise the machine just won't... work. Crazy likes crazy, I guess.

Of course, this is all just silly black humor that would only be mentioned in passing in the game.

Next up:  Finish this concept and do some expression sheets. Who knows? Maybe I'll make Japanese RPG-style dialogue boxes out of the expressions! Yeah... that sounds like fun.
 


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