Fred Herriot <gorgo@kwangju.net>


Hi, everyone,

        Here yet again is another of my UY-TSY fanfic picture, this time
depicting Nokoko's life-mate and Lum's adopted sister Mal.

        In "Together The Outland," I stated that when Mal becomes human,
she starts wearing a tiger-striped French maid's uniform.  That is going
to be changed in the Version 2.0 of "TTO."  Mal will only wear her French
maid's uniform when she is alone with Nokoko (her attempt at learning
Terran sexual habits). In normal circumstances, she will wear more
discreet Terran clothing.

        The dress she is depicted in the picture is based on a dress I saw
used on Ranma-chan in the "Ranma 1/2 Memorial Album" series anthology,
which I picked up here in Seoul.  I say the best colours for her would be
a red background, natural colouring for the tiger's head and light pink
for the roses.  Mal, of course, is green-haired and eyed.

        Last night, I just did the bodyguards.  They may look a little off
to some of you; I didn't have proper enough picture references to get
their faces right.  (All I had were the album covers for the third and
fourth movie BGM CDs, plus a picture from a book reviewing Mamoru Oshii's
work [he was involved in some of the early TV series, plus Only You and
Beautiful Dreamer]).

        Tomorrow will be Benten's turn, which should make all you space
biker-babe fans happy.  After that in order will be the Munchkin Brigade,
Nagaiwakai, Dakejinzou and the Cyborg.

        I'm trying to get in contact with several websites and asked if
they could depict my stuff.  So far, I've got no replies.  Thanks a
million to Patrick for posting the pictures to r-a-a-c.

        I think I'm going to take a break from pictures so I can finish up
on Part IV and the Epilogue of "The Return of Koosei Ryooki," then launch
into version 2.0 of "Spirit-War Tomobiki."  Once that and "TTO" are done,
that should clear up as many of the problems people've had with the series
(including myself; I seem to be always finding ways to improve my stuff)
as we can, given that certain plots (revolving around Shinobu and her
future)  are set in stone and cannot change.  Please be patient; you will
see Shinobu mature, but not in the exact same direction as everyone else
has over the series.  (Here's a hint:  think of what's going to happen to
Shinobu as her version of the Spirit War).

        Well, that should do it for today.  Until next time,

Fred
<gorgo@net.co.kr>