Leena

Leena from the classic PSOne RPG Chrono Cross. Here she's wielding Serge's weapon, the Swallow, a fairly unique dual-oar type blade weapon, instead of her own arsenal of Kitchen Utensils.

I found myself playing the Chrono Cross Remaster recently released on PC. A classic JRPG that had beautiful presentation in the graphics and music (for the PSOne era), and a fairly fun variation on the turn-based battle system which I'm surprised wasn't replicated elsewhere. It was unfortunately hampered by a poorly realized main story, strained connections to its predecessor Chrono Trigger, and the decision to have a cast of dozens of playable characters with little to no depth, over having a smaller, stronger cast. Leena here is just one of many who gets shafted in the story, and joining early in the game, and then very quickly relegated to warming the bench like a quickly caught-and-forgotten Pokemon. Screw that, I say! My team needs its feisty red-head to bitch-slap the enemy into submission!

Y'know, I never really intended to do Fan Art of commercial properties, since I have so many goddamn characters of my own, and I also like just randomly designing new ones, but my designs are usually pretty simplistic. Which isn't a bad thing in principle, but I decided I wanted to draw a character that had a more complicated design than I usually go for. JRPG characters usually have some pretty elaborate costumes, and Chrono Cross was what happened to have my attention this week. I liked Leena's look as an unusual, but not-too-outlandish, fantasy outfit to try my hand at.