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Zaron — Slime Warrior
Published: 2014-02-23 11:54:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 2707; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 0
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More of my "wow I did this like a year ago and never posted it outside of Tumblr" catch-up game, this time a highlight from my stint with the 30 Day Monster Girl Challenge. That last week is garbage and I didn't do it. Actually, almost nobody does. It's sort of amazing.
I wanted to defy conventions a bit, and I actually really like the design I came up with. Slimes tend to fall into either the weakest mook category these days, though some instances still crop up where they're a bit more formidable. As for their monster girl depictions, it's frequently either straight loli or chestically-swollen as far as I've seen, neither of which particularly thrilled me.
So with the common depiction these days being helpless little girls, I decided to take the alternate route and whip up a blade-wielding femme fatale badass. There was a lot of layering experiments and such involved (Manga Studio 4 has no layer styles, which limits options a bit but makes for a decent learning experience), but in the end this ended up being possibly my favorite of the entire batch, and it's a design I wish I had more excuse to revisit, because she's a lot of fun.
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Okay, now this is something I really like. I'm always in favor of taking an idea everyone else is using one way and giving it a new twist. I've been toying around with the concept of amorphous creatures and even people in my flintlock fantasy setting (collectively called "Amorphs" for the time being) and this is definitely more in line with my thinking. I'm not sure what to call a sapient Amorph, though. "Changeling" was what I was going with originally, but then I found out that the term was used in Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for a shape changing, fluid alien species, so now I'm not so certain if that's the way to go or not. Regardless, a Changeling would be capable of doing something along the lines of the character in your picture. Indeed, it's the reason that other races in my setting are so mistrusting of them - some Changelings have worked as assassins, and very effective ones at that, so people tend to equate "Changeling" with "hitman." And, like this character, they are very difficult to hurt. All Amorphs have a solid (but very spongy) core that acts as their brain, heart, and stomach. Only damaging the core will kill them, but they're careful to avoid letting that happen. Stabbing a Changeling is just going to get your weapon taken away from you. I'm still not sure what their main weaknesses would be, though. They need to have some sort of vulnerability that people can exploit, or they'll be too overpowered.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, but your picture has inspired me way more than most of the other Slimes I've seen here on Deviant Art. She's really cute! Great job!
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whoa! this is awesome 
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Bad ass slime woman? Yes please X3 need more like that.
And from the looks of it..... yeah someone was stupid enough to strike her, striking a slime with a blade? Might as well try moving water with the sword, its not going to go over well.
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