This is another old character of mine I decided to give a much needed update, this is Yuki.

Yuki started out as a character I made for a Mega Man X rpg I ran years ago, she was a dragon reploid and the sister of Bahamut. She was a victim of 'reploid slavery', something that happened after the Eurasia Incident in the rpg storyline before she became a Maverick Hunter.

I'm not too sure how it happened, but Yuki seemed to be influenced by the character Leona Heidern from the King of Fighter series, many of her attacks were based off of Leona's attacks in the game, Yuki even suffered from the 'Blood Riot', going into a crazed killing rage.

For her update, I decided to make her a dragon/gargoyle: her dragon form for my own projects while her gargoyle form is meant for an idea I have based on Disney's Gargoyle series that I may play with.
Since she was influenced by Leona, I decided to design her clothing and hair based on Leona as sort of a tribute to the character.

Yuki is a kind, if not shy being, being very kind and tries to be helpful and useful for her family and friends.
Like before, Yuki suffered from being a captive, she was beaten and whipped when she was younger, leaving scars all over her body, her back, tail and feet being the worse. However, she was rescued and she trained to be a proper fighter and defender, but it wasn't long until the 'Blood Riot' was discovered, whenever she faced too much fighting or too much stress she would loose herself and go into an uncontrollable rage, something that hangs heavily over her.

Overall I'm very happy with the final result, Yuki needed some love so I'm glad the design worked out.
The sketch in the background was her original design, done back around 2003/2004.

Photoshop 7.


Yuki and artwork are mine.