LAST EDITED ON Oct-01-20 AT 07:17 PM (EDT) by pjmoyer (moderator)
 
>First up, Remilia and Flandre
>looking ready for a fancy but not extravagant occasion (bonus
>related collection of the
>whole household.)

This one has a strong "household expedition to the New Avalon Opera" vibe to it. They must have been going to Tannhäuser, it's Remilia's favorite opera (even though she generally prefers Händel as a composer over Wagner).

>Next is a collection of modern looks
>on the whole SDM crew, though I think a few of them might opt
>for slightly more modest variations than Danbooru prefers to put them
>all in. A lot of personality in those designs too (and for once,
>that's not a euphemism!)

I like these a lot, especially Remi's. I feel like she might adopt that as a battle uniform if and when she formally joins the war effort. The skirt's quite short by her usual standards, but when in Rome...

(And Flan is scandalizing the witches with her blatant wearing of shorts, proving that they could too if they wanted to. :)

(The little details like the bat badge several of them are wearing, Flan's Lævatein brooch, Remi's boots, and, uh, everything about Koakuma are very nice touches, too.)

>Last in this experiment, a solo Flandre image in a more modern outfit, with one of the few examples
>of any actual physical connection between her gems and her wings
>(bonus, they are in ROYGBIV order starting from her body too.)

Pretty. I like it when artists depict Flandre as a snappy dresser, as opposed to the usual "she's insane and lives in a basement, how does she even manage to dress herself as well as she's dressed in the official art anyway?" approach.

That particular artist seems to be using the alternate "ROYGCBV" rainbow order one sees in some more recent textbooks (which omits indigo and inserts cyan between blue and violet so there can still be seven colors). I'm on the fence about that particular pedagogical innovation. On the one hand, it does make more sense as a description of the reality (since "indigo" is a nonsense color and the "seven colors" of a rainbow are arbitrary distinctions anyway, supposedly chosen by Newton because, being as much medieval alchemist as modern physicist, he believed seven was part of the Divine Plan); on the other, it's New-Fangled Revisionism and it screws up the acronym. :)

--G.
weirdly, in elementary school ca. 1980 I was taught it the other way around, starting at violet, even though VIBGYOR makes no sense as an acronym for anything.
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