WK Fanart - Feudal Japan Sci-Fi AU Schuldig

[indelicateink]

Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Rating: G / Safe For Work
Summary:
bladderwrack and I have been collaborating on a sci-fi AU with Feudal Japan influences (collaboration includes both plot and character design). In this universe, Schuldig is a long-term hostage of damiyo!Takatori Reiji. Takatori keeps Schuldig subjugated through chemical and electrical means (the latter mainly being the headpiece he wears here... the leads thread into a port at the back of his neck; it dampens/influences his telepathy). I believe our story unfolded as Crawford, advisor to damiyo!Fujimiya Ran, arrived on Takatori's home planet to negotiate a hostage exchange--Schuldig for Takatori Ouka. From there it goes on to intrigue, sex, violence, betrayal! And possibly Schuldig being slinky in kimono in his private quarters at some point:

 



Comments

[indelicateink]

I could not resist the glowing wires. XD

Thanks! It's mostly all a section of this vintage kimono that I had, used in different resolutions and tweaked for color. There's an umbrella-shaped patterning going on in the background--that's just drawn by hand and filtered (the tree-shape-looking thing is riffing off a diagram of a neuron). The teeny sliver of patterning you see on his innermost pinkish kimono is a private joke/obscure reference; it's scanned from this little book--Designer's Guide to Japanese Patterns, Vol. 2 by Jeanne Allen--and it's "kikko (tortise shells)," apparently a popular design that was briefly stenciled on battle gear before the peaceful Edo period.