SkunkyArt | DokiDokiTsuna — Gijinka- Fecto Elfilis

As you can probably tell, the biggest change I made (besides the clothes and the humanoid legs) was the ear design.

I knew at a glance that F/E’s canon ear-pattern would NOT look good if I tried to draw it. Its strengths are its intricate construction and complex color blending– two of my biggest artistic weaknesses. Sweating a little...

So yeah, I needed a workaround…and I decided to come up with something totally new and make an eye-mimic pattern.
Given how oddly natural this looks, and the prevalence of evil-eye imagery in the Kirby series, I’m willing to bet that something like this may have been one of the rough draft designs for the character. Of course, if that were true, I could also understand why they didn’t go with it: it’s too noisy for canon F/E’s elegant design, and distracts from the heart-silhouette thing they have going on. But I think it works in this context~

Of course, choosing the colors for the eye-mimics was a long battle. Sweating a little...

; I still don’t even know if I like this…I feel like maybe the coloration should be a little less crazy? But then, the point of eye-mimics in real life is to stand out and scare off enemies…idk, we’ll stick with this for now

You wanna know something? I sympathize with Fecto Elfilis, I really do. :T I mean, obviously I don’t agree with the whole planet-killing thing they have going on, but given all that happened to them during the timeline of the game, I feel like it makes sense that they’d be really pissed off by end of it.
Just imagine: you arrive at some random planet, probably intending to have some fun, wreck shop and go on with your day; only to get captured and imprisoned by the primitive creatures who live there for decades, possibly centuries.
Listening to that stupid song/pre-recorded announcement over and over again, getting experimented on and treated like a sideshow, watching your captors profit off of your abilities and then just…leave you stuck there, dead to the world and missing half of your soul.
Fast-forward through the actual plot, and after several setbacks and frustrations, you finally become whole again and have your chance for revenge…aaaaand then you get hit by a truck and die. Sweating a little...

Heck, at that point I’d be out for blood too, even from beyond the grave. There’s only so much ignominy a galaxy-level threat can take…