FINAL FANTASY IV
KARY PROJECT #601 CREATED: APRIL 2018 Kary is so very. She was an female warrior whom Cecil and his traveling companions would occasionally encounter during their journey to the Moon. She lived within the mysterious Cave Bahamut (frequently traveling with a Warlock), and could also be found on the path to the lunar core (teamed with her usual Warlock partner and also accompanied by a RedGiant for back-up). A more skilled swordfighter than her sister-in-arms, the terrestrial EpeeGirl, Kary was resistant to magical attacks and had to be defeated in melee combat. (In the Game Boy Advance remake of Final Fantasy IV, Kary was renamed Selene Guardian.) To build Kary as well as her identical sister, the EpeeGirl, I selected a Wonder Woman action figure since she was pretty close in design to what I was looking for. This project is actually a Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog figure from the waist down, though, since the Deirdre figure had better leg articulation and I wanted the best of both worlds. This allowed the figure to achieve the kneeling pose as seen in the game. I used extra Deirdre parts to build new shoulder armor and kneepads, and I armed her with an Usagi Yojimbo sword (with the handle grip shortened). Kary has darker hair and a darker skin tone than the fair EpeeGirl, in order to try to match the original game sprites as closely as possible. (The PlayStation Portable game sprites deviated from the original look, most notably when it came to the colors of the sword and shield, but my projects are a little more faithful to the original 16-bit color scheme.) |
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