The final form of Steph is finally with us!

I didn't get an illustration of human Steph because she never was supposed to be with us for long.

Here she is again:

Overall, I immediately fell in love with her design, but the eyes were a bit of work. I think I played around with like 30 different combinations before settling on 3 final ideas I had fully illustrated.

Alternative 1:

Alternative 2:

I liked both ones a lot, especially the yellow alternative. Still, the blue one was slightly too boring, and the yellow clashed with her hair too much. The pink looked nice, complimented her colors, and matched Chloe, so that was my winner~

Some alternative sketches:

And that's one of the first sketches I got that made me instantly fall in love with her:

I really loved the yellow eyes, but they made her look a little scary, and again, it didn't really work with her color scheme.

I'm sure that some probably prefer a different version of her from the choices I had, but I am REALLY happy with what I went with!

Now to some trivia~

THERE WERE SO MANY HINTS FOR HER I HID IN THE STORY xD

I'll skip all the dog/fox references because I forgot where I put most of them myself, but let me show you some pictures with plushies that might look familiar:

From around chapter 300:

And then all the way back to the background of the illustration in chapter 183!!! Yeah, over 150 chapters back!

It was really fun hiding them... I had done the same with Chloe, as well. Might there be others, too?

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Anyway, I hope you like the new design of Steph. In a way, it's kinda simple, but she is sooo darn adorable that I will accept no complaints about anything regarding her design. Again, people often say it's okay to be wrong or have their own opinion, but in this case, that's simply not the truth.