Astraea Helbourne

Taking some time to remove ideas from my head and put them into writing so that maybe I can have things on hand when artists open up commissions instead of just handing them a pile of random images and saying "please draw she, I am lomve her."

Ideas presented in no order whatsoever, just stream of consciousness.

Reference Ready

I try to write up a full reference post before commissioning an artist. Here's ideas I've got at the ready.

• Astraea in her Octoberfest glam
• Draw your OC in this (flower lingerie)

Commission Ideas

Astraea Now and Then/Haunted Memory

Tall Girl Memes

I need another blorbo for Astraea for maximum goofs and gaffs with these, but I'm sure I could pick out some NPC waifu in the meantime.

Newfound Adventures

Passage of Arms

Miscellaneous

• Astraea doing her makeup (spooky succubus in the mirror?)
• Astraea dressed down from full paladin gear (no overcoat, no armored gloves/boots. Yes to gold dress, skirt, leggings). Mostly just "Hmm, what would this gold dress look like without the overcoat?" (What the Astraea be doing?)
• Astraea just having summer time nice times (i.e. sunbathing like Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop, sipping pina colada's at Costa del Sol, beach volleyball? idk, what do people do in summer?)
• Astraea just having drinks and sharing (spicy?) stories with Mimodi at the Quicksand.
• Open business jacket and bra combo
• Any of those "Draw your character in this" outfits

Emotes

See Emote Commission Ideas

Completed Art

I use the tag artstraea for art of Astraea. Please check out the incredible work artists have done for which I'm forever grateful <3

WIP

These ideas are currently being commissioned.

• How to talk to short people

Commission Reference Template

I follow this template when commissioning artists. If you're an artist looking at this list instead of a specific reference post, I owe you proper reference.

General Reference

• Master Reference - All the Astraea info and images
• Figure Reference - Art by Dan Jones that nails my head cannon of Astraea's figure and proportions.

Brief

That one image of a very tall woman in fuck-me heels holding a very short woman up against the wall. Astraea is of course the tall woman in this situation.
Candidates for short woman:

• Tifa from FF7 (There's a 15" height difference, add in the 6" heels and we're looking at 21" height difference? Seems like enough for the proper lift, plus Tifa was my first videogame crush - and jfc she's so hot in the remake I simply cannot even.)
• Sadu from FF14 (About a 17" height difference before the heels, 23" difference with heels.)
• OC from the artist if they have a character we agree on (if I've contacted you for this idea, odds are you have a character I'd agree to)

Pose

Basically the right side of this image.

Outfit

I'm happy with this outfit and feel it fits the vibe/is close enough to the original meme above - though maybe favor the higher heels of the meme above.

• Full Outfit Reference
  

This is the reference was provided for this excellent piece by FlashBallad.

General Reference

• Master Reference - All the Astraea info and images
• Figure Reference - Art by Dan Jones that nails my head cannon of Astraea's figure and proportions.

Brief

Astraea is dressed in the gold dress of the Flames Lieutenant's Coat, having a great night out being the life of the party. She's giving a hearty cheers from her perch on the bar.

Pose

Here's a rough sketch of what I'm thinking. I'm hoping the pose is ultimately dynamic, mid cheers, really hitting that crescendo of the movement of thrusting the tankard skyward and kicking her leg up.

Outfit

Astraea's dressed down for a night out - lose the gauntlets, sollerets, coat from her usual paladin gear. That leaves the gold dress and what's underneath (which I've noted in the image below). Unfortunately the best reference of the gold dress is only what can be seen from the front pose of Astraea's paladin outfit. I suspect the gold dress is strapless and sleeveless, and as such it should be somewhat snug (if you want to play up cleavage/booba squish, please do).

• Full Paladin Reference
• Full Reaper Reference
  

Trying to brainstorm emote ideas of Astraea. Random general thoughts:

• her back horns are likely gonna get cropped out of anything remotely readable
• focus largely on her face, so hopefully will avoid any outfit complications. If outfits come into play at all, they'll get simplified to heck.
• Astraea gets my more "mature" emotes. Robot is a silly li'l guy, Astraea is an adult.
• Astraea Master Reference page here.

Emotes I Have

ReapWhatYouSow

Credit: Invisoguy

OhHaiEhehe

Credit: Invisoguy

Emote Ideas

Ohohoho / Anime lady laugh

The classic "Ohohohoho!" haughty anime lady laugh.

Dote / Kissy face

Just a li'l smooch a la the Dote emote.

Succubus Time / Temptation Vibes

Okay, putting a bit more thought into inspirations for this:

• Morrigan from Dark Stalkers has some great confident/sexy expressions.
  
• Something like this smirk from the Sorceress from Dragon's Crown.
  
• A fun take on this, like Lindada's Daddy emote
• Something like the smirk in this piece by Saane
• Go hard in the suggestive paint and do something like the Mega Milk meme

idk, but Astraea is a succubus and does embrace that from time to time.

Shock / Landmine / I Fucked Up

What I'd expect to use this for:

• I over-pulled while tanking
• I forgot I was healing
• I greeded too hard as dps
• I stepped on a landmine in a deep dungeon

What this would look like? Um... Err.... Hrm.