Artist's commentary
Ragnarok Online Anime - Maaya
I'll be posting some "old" desktop wallpapers I drew years ago.
So, over the years, I created a series of desktop images that commemorates some fond memories of characters that I have fond memories of and since my mind drifted off to olden times of Ragnarok Online, I also remembered the Anime based around the IP... although, it wasn't very good, to be honest.
But which (female) character should I draw? I disliked Yuufa... she was obnoxious, both as Acolyte and Priest. What about Takius? She was spewing all that good shit, uuuntil it turned out she had severe Stockholm syndrome and got herself kill. How about Judia? Huntress hype, right?! Nope... just a pair of tits and gluttony added for a sex scene. Sigh, I guess there were no cool female characters to draw from that series! ...can... anybody tell me, why this little sailormoon-lookin' zeny-pinching shite, was the BEST character in all of ROA?! It would take me too long to describe as to why that was, but alright, you win. On my Desktop Wall Slideshow you go! As to WHY she's in this configuration... RO once had a contest, where players could purchase 2 Trading Figures (sadly, I got a male Priest and male Alchemist, since they were random). I really wanted male Knight or female Hunter... can't recall if those were available, but there was also the SPECIAL character among the chances, which was Maaya. It was revealed that you could disassemble the characters and in Maaya's case, the team had actually gone out of their way to print a Poring on the back of her panties! ...so, here we are, I guess. I also gave her a "Zeny Axe" even though those don't seem to exist. :C On top of that, I gave her the BEST face that she had to offer in the show.
I did add a more recent background to this one... I did that too, with the recent (evil) Chen post, but I vomited that background out so fast and uninspired, that even I think it's a poor edit, from the no-background original, every time I see it. I wanted to practice backgrounds with this one and I even succeeded in making my own foliage custom animated brushes! I should have done this ages ago! It's incredibly helpful!!