Doll Maker's Diary, Part 19: Guy Fawkes Day Edition

Doll Maker's Diary, Part 19: Guy Fawkes' Day Edition

Since today is Guy Fawkes Day in Britain, I would like to showcase some fireworks... in the form of some artwork depicting CRASH Agents clad in full armor (specifically, the redesigned CRASH Suits), guns drawn, and with their special powers active, as if they were ready for battle (which they ought to be). I'll start off with the original four members: Claire Hayes, Ellie Watts, Kayla Brooks and Alexa Lowe.

Left to right: The four original CRASH Agents (Claire Hayes, Ellie Watts, Kayla Brooks and Alexa Lowe) in their redesigned CRASH Suits. Alexa now has dark brown rather than black hair as a result of having dyed it.

Next up is a draft for the designs of the newcomers which are to be introduced in a future chapter - specifically, one in which the CRASH Alpha Squad rescues some previously unknown superhumans from being exploited by a group of greedy arms dealers and smugglers. These potential victims of this scheme soon realize how dangerous the smugglers' plan would be had CRASH not intervened, and quickly decide to join the agency.

Here are four of CRASH's new recruits, all of whom are expected to be introduced later on in the CRASH Chronicles storyline.

Further down the line, I plan to expand the cast even further with yet another quartet of CRASH Agents, which will join the team in preparation for a story arc in which they are forced to enter a tournament against their will, culminating in a final round where the X-Girls have to fight each other. Here is a draft of the characters which will be introduced in this arc.

Another quartet of X-Girls, this time intended for a planned tournament arc.

Each of the newcomers will have their own set of special abilities, but also have a limited energy pool just like any other CRASH Agent. As such, they are also trained in melee combat and firearm usage, in keeping with CRASH Protocols.

Just to reinforce the fact that today is Guy Fawkes' Day, here are a few screenshots from Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars, which served as one of the inspirations for this series:

Above, from top: a Nova Cannon destroying an Urluquai Carrier; an Urluquai Deep Hunter exploding after being hit repeatedly by a Calatian Destroyer's Proton Blasters; and a Zorg helmsman using a Particle Vortex Cannon to provide assistance for a Garthan Frigate armed with cobalt torpedoes.

This concludes the rundown of my plans for CRASH Chronicles. Stay tuned for further updates on this series.