Week 35! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 4/12-4/18. Alright, so, here's a face you probably either haven't seen in a long time or haven't ever seen. This is Felicia, who was one of the main-ish antagonistic characters in the Old Canon of Furthia High. This is the start of a new series of payment marker pictures that'll have me redraw old characters from the Old Canon and give you a bit of info about them, maybe. It'll also be embarrassing to me since, y'know, old works and not-nearly-trying-as-much-to-be-creative/original. So Felicia here was supposed to be a parallel "bully" like Lupin, but for Ashley instead of Kale. Basically she filled the traditional high school stereotype role of a manipulative mean girl who filled out faster and used it to her advantage, which infuriated Ashley who hated to see people abused and used by Felicia. Hence, they had a big rivalry and hatred for one another. The last arc of the Old Canon, which was cut off very quickly due to wanting the reboot to happen, was gonna focus around this rivalry, catching Kale in the middle. I've never really acknowledged Felicia nor put her back into the comic... mostly because she's rather unnecessary and, well, a bit embarrassing now. Lupin maintained his role at first mainly to try and retread familiar ground, which at the time was being done at a quicker pace to try and get to new material faster, but at least he could be expanded upon later. With Felicia though, I just... didn't see any potential. The character was rather shallow and obvious and stereotypical, and I'm not sure if I was then, but I'd be kind of uncomfortable introducing a character like this nowadays. Nothing about pressure from outside forces, I just personally feel she's just, well, manipulative man-using boobs, which isn't the greatest of character foundations. So this is the first time I've drawn her in many years, even really talked about her in this amount of detail. I have felt kind of bad for not doing anything with her since rebooting Furthia High, but... eh.